School Services
School Nurse
The School Nurse is responsible for promoting good health throughout the school so that students may be successful learners. In addition to administering first aid to the minor scrapes, bumps and aches of WES students, the School Nurse is also responsible for the following tasks:
- Performing vision and hearing assessments
- Monitoring student compliance with state immunization laws
- Dispensing all medication, both prescription and over the counter
- Responding to any health issues that should arise
- Cooordinating communications between home, school, and the school community concerning communicable illnesses and diseases
- Acting as a resource to the school community on issues concerning healthy living, nutrition, and disease prevention
- Teaching Middle School health
For Health Resources and Health Forms, click here.
Chaplain
The school Chaplain is responsible for leading our weekly chapel services and for teaching religion to WES students in Grades 1 through 8. In addition, the Chaplain is available for pastoral counseling to any WES student, family, or staff member who desires such care. Pastoral counseling can be helpful to individuals who are seeking a deeper relationship with God, who are struggling with a particular spiritual issue, or who desire spiritual help in the midst of a life crisis (such as a serious illness, a death in the family, or a significant personal problem). In addition, the Chaplain welcomes inquiries about baptism or confirmation from families who are interested in these sacraments, but who may not have an existing relationship with a church. Appointments can be made by calling the Chaplain at ext. 260 or by dropping by the Chaplain's Office on the second floor.
School Counselor
The role of the School Counselor is to offer support to students, families, teachers, and staff to help facilitate a successful academic year. The School Counselor works with a multidisciplinary team to provide students with support for social, emotional, and behavioral issues to maximize their academic achievement and personal growth and development. The responsibilities of the School Counselor include:
- Consulting with teachers, administrators, staff, and families to meet the social, emotional, and academic needs of students
- Facilitating parent workshops, including grade level informational meetings in the fall, book club meetings, and requested meetings on topics of interest
- Working with students individually, in small groups, or as a classroom to discuss specifically identified concerns
- Coordinating and participating in parent conferences as needed
- Maintaining a list of auxiliary service providers and making referrals to outside professionals when appropriate
- Providing information on other community services
School Learning Specialist
To ensure that all students benefit fully from the school's enriched curriculum, the School Learning Specialist works with students, teachers, staff, and families to provide support for students with learning differences. The responsibilities of the School Learning Specialist include:
- Coordinating and monitoring academic accommodation plans for students whose families have submitted testing reports
- Observing and assessing students upon request of parents, teachers, or other WES professional staff
- Coordinating discussion among parents, teachers, and other professionals regarding observational findings and other evaluative means, including recommendations for further testing
- Maintaining a list of auxiliary service providers (i.e., academic tutors, speech and language specialists, etc.) and facilitating matches when appropriate
- Conducting classroom mini-units, grade level meetings in the fall with the school Counselor and Division Heads, and parent workshops
- Assisting administration of standardized testing and evaluation
- Meeting regularly with Division Heads, School Counselor, and teachers
School Speech/Language and Reading Specialist
The School Speech/Language and Reading Specialist works with parents, teachers and students to identify and address language-based student needs. Specific speech difficulties may include articulation, fluency, and voice, while broader language concerns include comprehension and oral and written expression, language processing, phonological awareness, and the complex process of learning to read. The responsibilities of the School Speech/Language and Reading Specialist include:
- Performing speech/language and reading screenings for all new students in Grades 1-8, as well as for any student referred by a classroom teachers suspecting a language based difficulty
- Providing informal speech and language assessments and pre-reading assessments to students in Transition and Kindergarten during the Winter term
- Providing small group instructional support, as well as one-on-one intervention, for recommended Early Childhood students
- Consulting with all faculty regarding specific student needs and suggesting classroom strategies to enhance student performance as well as one-on-one intervention therapy when necessary
- Ensuring the provision of speech, language, and/or reading
- Providing specific reading resource support to Grade 1
