Valley Ridge Elementary

09/06/2026

📣•Sunday Staff Spotlight!•📣
Please help us in celebrating our amazing specials team! 🐆

This week, we’re excited to shine our Staff Spotlight on our amazing Specials Team!
Our Specials teachers do an incredible job providing enriching opportunities that allow our Jaguars to explore their interests, discover new talents, build confidence, and have fun while learning! Their creativity, energy, and dedication help make VRE a place where every student has an opportunity to shine.

Bottom Row from Left to Right:
Ms. Dawson, Mrs. Patton

Top Row from Left to Right:
Ms. Kennedy, Coach Arroyo, Mr. Carrillo, Coach Downs

09/06/2026

Hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend- see you Tuesday!

09/04/2026

Check out the newest edition of •What's Happening At VRE• 🩵🐆

The Weekly Update #4

09/04/2026

🔬Science + Engineering in Action! ⚙️

Our 3rd grade Jaguars in Ms. Gillin's class have been busy learning, creating, and experimenting! Students put their engineering skills to work by designing inventions to solve real-world problems AND explored the properties of matter with a hands-on experiment using baking soda and vinegar to create a gas and inflate balloons! 🎈

We love seeing our Jaguars think like scientists and engineers! 💡🐆🩵

09/02/2026

The Great Mrs. Gray Hunt was ON! 🔎😂💜

Our amazing PTA moms (with the help of a few sneaky helpers 👀) hid Mrs. Gray’s face ALLLLL over the school, and today our staff had one mission: find as many Mrs. Grays as possible! 🤣

And our official Mrs. Gray Hunting Champion is… 🥁🥁🥁

🏆 Ms. Lindsey with a whopping 53 Mrs. Grays found!!! 🏆

Nothing says “Happy Birthday, Mrs. Gray!” quite like seeing your own face hiding around every corner of the school. 😂💜🎉

Huge thank you to our PTA and everyone who helped make today so much fun!

09/02/2026

Help us wish the happiest birthday to the BEST principal, Mrs. Gray! 🎉💜🐆

Our Jags had a little something they wanted to say… 🥹 We are all so thankful for the love, joy, and heart Mrs. Gray brings to our school every single day. We hope you feel EXTRA celebrated today!

Happy Birthday, Mrs. Gray! Your VRE fam 💜s you BIG! 🎂🎉🐆

08/30/2026

📣•Sunday Staff Spotlight!•📣
Please help us in celebrating our amazing SDI team! 🐆

This incredible group brings so much heart, experience, patience, and passion to VRE. They work together each day to ensure our students feel supported, included, challenged, and successful.
We are incredibly lucky to have such a dedicated team serving our students and partnering with our staff and families. We can’t wait to see the impact they make this year. 🩵

Front Row:
- Lacey Holland - 5th Grade
-Terra Tallas - Kinder & 1st Grade
-Shyamali Roy - 3rd Grade
-J'Vonia Stewart - Paraprofessional

Back Row:
- Taylor Zagrzecki - 3rd Grade & 5th Grade
- Kathryn Laubacher - 2nd Grade
- Monique Brown - 4th Grade
- Attallah Goings - Paraprofessional

08/28/2026

We have the BEST Valley Ridge Families! 🩵Handmade Homemades is owned by one of our parents and she made sure our staff was going to have the SWEETEST Friday! 🍪