Yesterday, Mr. Atkin took all of the students to Payson to see the movie "Bad Guys". The kids all had a great time, seeing a funny movie. It was a GREAT way to close this year out! Thanks Mr. Atkin!

A couple of weeks ago, Goshen PTA put together our Health & Safety Week, which included a culminating event filled with fire trucks, helicopters and dizzy goggles. The PTA, along with the Utah County Sheriff's office put together a first responders event where our students were able to visit with different first responders and learn about their jobs. We had Utah County S.W.A.T with their armored truck, the Sheriff's Motorcycle team, the Utah County K-9 officers and their handlers, along with Goshen and Genola fire departments and the Wildfire team with their firetrucks.

Goshen has had a great year. We have enjoyed so many fun activities that have brought us closer together as a community and family. We want to highlight our amazing PTA and their contributions to our school. At the beginning of the year, we made phone calls to invite parents to be a part of our PTA committee, and those parents really stepped up. We have had one of the most successful PTAs ever this year. Parents did all kinds of amazing things. They provided dinner for teachers during Parent-Teacher Conferences and During Teacher Appreciation Week. They decorated teacher doors.

Goshen's PTA is looking for some new Board Members! If you are interested, the next meeting will be Wednesday, May 11th at 3:00 pm in Room 1 (the faculty room at the top right of the stairs). Come see what being a part of the PTA is all about! If being a board member isn't something that you can commit to, that okay! You can still sign up to help.

Come help us celebrate the retirement of Mrs. Marie Mitchell, our wonderful Kindergarten teacher and Mrs. Brenda Burgess, a member of our awesome custodial staff. We will be having an open house in their honor on Thursday May 19th from 3:30-5:00 here at the school. Please help spread the word so we can show these ladies how much they are loved and appreciated!

A HUGE thanks goes out to our awesome PTA that threw a great Teacher Appreciation week for our school last week. It started out on Monday morning with a yummy breakfast of fruit and muffins. It continued to Tuesday where we had a fiesta for lunch, where the PTA provided the staff with tacos for lunch. On Wednesday they provided us with a drink bar where we could mix our favorite sodas to get us through the afternoon. On Thursday we were treated with delicious cookies and Friday they capped it off with a popcorn and treat bar where we all got our fill of our favorite candy.

Next week, Goshen Elementary will be celebrating College and Career Week. We will be having dress up days throughout the week. Please see the attached flier for more information.

Next year (2022-2023 school year), breakfast and lunch will no longer be free for every student. Below, you will find information from a press release from the Utah State Board of Education about a new program to help families that may NOT be eligible for free or reduced meals but may need help to buy food for their kids' lunches. In order to even qualify for this new program (called P-EBT) you MUST apply for free or reduced lunch NOT LATER THAN MAY 6th.  

This week is Health & Safety Week at Goshen School, and we had an awesome opportunity to meet one of Utah County's K-9 officers, Chaos and his handler, Deputy Provstgaard. Mr. Atkin was able to meet Chaos up close and personal though, by donning the bite suit and sacrificing his arm for our entertainment (no worries...his arm was a little red afterwards, but otherwise fine). He was a great sport, and the kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves. 

Earth Day was April 22nd and the kindergarten classes did such a great job picking up the entire kindergarten playground.  We gathered about 20 grocery bags full of garbage that had blown by the fence and into the playground.  Way to go Goshen kindergarten!