Whitehall-Coplay School District students and staff are encouraged to wear their patriotic colors of red, white and blue on Patriot Day, Sept. 11, to honor and show remembrance and respect to 9/11.

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Attention, Whitehall High School seniors: A representative from DeSales University, Autumn Fichter, will be doing a virtual visit 3 p.m. Sept. 24. See the counseling website on the district website, whitehallcoplay.org, under College Visits for the link to attend this visit on the scheduled day.

Also, East Stroudsburg University is holding a virtual visit with representative Sean Wright 3 p.m. Oct. 1. See the Zoom link on the counseling website under College Visits.

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Stay in touch with Whitehall-Coplay Middle School via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. In an effort to keep parents and students more informed about WCMS, the school has established social media sites for the public to follow. The addresses are facebook.com/wcmszephyrs, twitter.com/WCMSZephyrs and instagram.com/wcmszephyrs.

If you like to search hashtags, check out two they will be using to help people find them - #zephyrtough and #webelongatwhitehall.

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Parents and guardians are reminded all medicine - inhalers, EpiPens, various medications, etc. - should not be brought to school with your child.

This is for safety reasons. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Please make sure your elementary child wears socks and sneakers on the days they have gym class.

Wearing proper footwear ensures full participation and safety in the class. It also allows your child to play safely during outside activities and recess.

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Gockley Elementary School is offering a gym app for parents. Mr. Berg, the physical education teacher, has added every class to the Seesaw app, so families can see their children having fun and exercising in physical education class. He has also been taking pictures of the computer classes hard at work in the Dance Mat Typing program.

The families have already started responding about their children’s pictures and how cool it is.

Berg hopes to receive videos back of the students exercising at home, which will result in the students receiving train tickets as a reward.

Berg also created PowerPoint slides of target objects the students threw dodgeballs at.

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Do you have any WCSD news? Teachers, administrators, parents, students, coaches, PTAs, club advisers and any other community members are invited to share their upcoming activities. Email me at jamb87@hotmail.com with WCSD NEWS in the subject line at least a week before an event.