VWES PTA

10/22/2026

Wishing a very Happy Birthday to Ms. Needham! 🎂

We are so incredibly grateful for her dedication, enthusiasm, and the wonderful environment she creates for our 3rd-grade students every day. Please join us in wishing her a fantastic day and a wonderful year ahead! 🎉🍎"

10/21/2026

🎃 Here are all of our entries for our pumpkin contest! We have SO many creative entries, and with 42 pumpkins it's going to be a tough competition!

📢 The rules are simple, please read them all!

1. ‼️‼️Starting now, each "like" on a photo will count as one vote. ‼️‼️‼️

2. You may share & tag as much as you like for your friends, family, business, or whoever to vote for your favorite pumpkin!

3. The students will be voting with their teachers sometime during the next week while at school so they can each have a chance to look at the pumpkins in person. Their votes will be counted on paper and added to the likes on each photo at the end of the voting period.

4. ‼️‼️If you share, make sure everyone is liking the original photo posted by us or we won't be able to see the votes to count them!‼️‼️‼️‼️

On October 30th at 12:00pm voting will end and we will announce our top three winners here on Facebook and at school so we can give them their prizes before the school day ends! 🎉

Happy voting and thank you to everyone participating! 🎃

10/20/2026

🚨 EMERGENCY! OUR CANDY MONSTER IS OUT OF CONTROL! 👹🍬

He has a bottomless pit for a stomach, and right now... he is starving!!!

We are collecting candy donations to feed him before Halloween 🎃

Drop off a bag and help us keep this monster happy—and our little ghosts and goblins stocked with loot! 👻🍫

🔗Or click on the link below - donate money -💰💲
And WE WILL SHOP FOR YOU!!!

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10/20/2026

🎃 We got a lot of AMAZING pumpkin submissions this morning! Our stingrays are so so so talented!

‼️If you would still like to enter a pumpkin please bring it in by tomorrow (Wednesday 10.21) morning before 9:30am with your $3 entry fee, so we can begin our voting! After tomorrow any late entries will not be included in the voting portion, only displayed in the lobby for everyone to see.

We will be posting individually numbered photos of each entry tomorrow so you can vote for your favorites! At the end of the week, all votes both online and in person will be tallied and the winner will be declared! 🎉

10/19/2026

Happy Birthday to the absolute kindest teacher, Mrs. Huggins! 📝✨

Thank you for always being so patient and encouraging, and for making your classroom feel like a second home. You don't just teach lessons from a book; you teach us how to be better people through your incredible kindness. We hope you have the most amazing day! 🎂

10/17/2026

🌧️ Happy Rainy Saturday, VWES Families! 🌧️

Today is a great day to organize our thoughts for the upcoming weeks, so we wanted to make sure we brought you all along with us!

There is SO much exciting stuff coming up, and we want to keep you completely in the loop. Here is everything you need to know:

📚 Scholastic Book Fair & Fall Festival: Our Scholastic homepage is now open! Set up your Stingray’s eWallet and easily add funds or make a donation here:

👉 https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/virginiawilliamsonelemsch

👾 Feed the Monster: Don't forget to bring in candy donations to feed our monster for the Fall Festival! There is a link on Givebacks for candy donations specifically. If you don't have time to shop we will shop for you! 🍬

🎃 Pumpkin Contest (Oct 20): Bring pumpkins and any unpaid entry fees on Tuesday! PTA will collect them for display. Voting runs Oct 20–30.

👻 Boo Grams (Going home this week): Students can write notes to friends, and we’ll deliver them with a candy treat on Oct 30!

🛍️ House Merch Pre-Orders: Check out our Givebacks Shop for House shirts, socks, pins, pop-its, and more:

👉 https://www.givebacks.com/causes/vwesstingrays/shop

💌 Questions? Reach out to us at [email protected]. Stay warm today! ☕✨

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10/16/2026

Stingray families, the Book Fair is coming in less than a month! 🎉 Here are all the details you need to know.

Visit our official Scholastic Book Fair Homepage https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/virginiawilliamsonelemsch to check out our fair schedule, set up your child's e-wallet, or make a donation to support our school!

💳 E-Wallets
Loading up your child's e-wallet is quick and easy—just follow the link on our webpage to add funds. We strongly prefer e-wallets because they help cut down on lost cash. Losing money happens so easily at school, so using an e-wallet allows your child to come in and shop stress-free without any worry of misplacing their funds!

📚 Donate to Support Our Students
The donation option on our homepage is a fantastic way to give back to our school through books. Oftentimes, children come in to shop and fall just a little short of their total due to sales tax. This bucket of money also helps cover those remaining balances for students who come up short, and it allows us to provide books to students who might not get them otherwise!

10/16/2026

🍂 Fall in Love with Reading with us at the Fall Festival! 🍂

📚We cannot wait to see everyone at the festival with us next month! Along with all the fun games and activities the school will be organizing, our PTA will be hosting our annual Fall Book Fair that entire week with after school hours during the festival! It's the perfect time to browse for a new book and further instill that love of reading with your kiddos.

🧁Bake Sale 🧁
Be sure to stop by our bake sale table filled with freshly baked goodies for a nice snack as you play games together!

✨️Fairy Hair ✨️
Our wonderful friends over at Pretty Plum Beauty will be doing fairy hair from a minimum of 2 strands up to 10 strands maximum. The best part? You can pre-pay for your child to get theirs done on our Givebacks site that is linked below and then save yourself some time on the night of the festival!

🥨🍔Food Trucks🍦🥤
Ice cream, hot cocoa, dirty sodas, hot dogs, funnel cakes, and more! We have a variety of food trucks coming, so bring your appetite and grab a delicious bite for dinner while you are here!

🍬Candy Monster🍫 Remember our super cool candy monster? Well, THIS is what he has been collecting for! He is very very very hungry right now so please remember you have until November 12th to bring in candy and FEED THAT MONSTER! 🍭
Don't have time to shop for candy? That's no problem! If you'd rather donate monetarily, we will absolutely do the candy shopping for you! Just use the link below to donate and help us keep filling up our candy monster before the big day!

https://www.givebacks.com/causes/vwesstingrays/shop

10/15/2026

🐚🦀 Big shoutout & THANK YOU to our friends at Crab Catchers🌊✨

We are so excited and incredibly grateful to announce that Crab Catchers has chosen to be a sponsor for Virginia Williamson Elementary School 🩵💜
Not only do they serve up the best fresh seafood, scenic views, and local favorites in Little River, but they also have a massive heart for our community and the education of our students. Seeing our local businesses invest directly back into our classrooms and the future of our kids is truly amazing.
🦀 Make sure to show them some love and thank them for supporting our school! 🐚

10/14/2026

An Enormous Shout-Out & Heartfelt THANK YOU to Supply Baptist Church! ❤️

We want to send a massive, deeply personal shout-out to Supply Baptist Church for their incredible sponsorship of Virginia Williamson Elementary School 💜🩵

Saying "thank you" hardly feels like enough. Not only do they financially sponsor our school, but they also continuously volunteer their time and pour so much genuine love into our students and staff. Whether they are lending a helping hand, showing up for events, or simply brightening our hallways, their presence makes a world of difference.

To everyone at Supply Baptist Church: Thank you for being the hands and feet of our community, for investing in our children, and for loving our staff so beautifully. We are profoundly grateful for your partnership and your hearts! 🎒🌟