17160 Van Gogh St.

Granada Hills, CA 91344

Phone: 818.360.2141

Fax: 818.831.9081

Office hours: 7:30am-4:30pm

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Principal: Pamela Merloni

SAA: Raquel Acosta

Office Tech: Nancy Zweben

 

Title lX Complaint Manager:  Pamela Merloni

pmerloni@lausd.net

http://bit.ly/TitleIXRequiredNotices

2019

08/20: School Starts

08/30: Admissions Day

09/02: Labor Day

09/30: Unassigned Holiday

10/09: Unassigned Holiday

11/11: Veteran's Day

11/25-27: Unassigned Days

11/28-29: Thanksgiving Break

2020

12/23/19-01/10/20: Winter Break

01/13/20 - Second Semester Begins

01/20: M.L.King Jr. Day

02/17: President's Day

04/03: Unassigned Day - Cesar E. Chavez Day

04/06-04/10-Spring Break

05/25: Memorial Day

06/12: Last Day of School

 

 

Click here to view Principal Merloni's newsletter message for the opening school year.

Welcome to the 2019-2020 School Year!  We are committed to make this an outstanding year for all of our students, parents, teachers, staff, and our community!! We need 100% of our parents to register for the Parent Portal and to complete a More than a Meal Application (whether you will eat at the cafeteria or not).  This is your assigned parent homework for the first week of school.  You will positively contribute to Van Gogh’s parent participation rates and towards 100% classroom participation which will enable the entire class to be rewarded.  Each parent has been given an individual PIN number to register.  Both parents must register separately to achieve 100% participation. PINs will be sent home or you can get yours in the office to register at: http://parentportal.lausd.net

 

Parents and guardians can submit a meal application online. The online application will be processed within 24 hours, and you will not have to fill out a paper application and mail it or hand it over to the Food Services Manager at your child's school. By clicking on the link you can access the online meal application. https://www.myschoolapps.com/Home/PickDistrict

 

Good Evening Van Gogh Staff and Families,
     Thank you parents for following the safety guidelines at drop-off and dismissal.   On Tuesday, September 10th our Standing Committees will be meeting at 1:40 p.m..  We are still looking for parent representation on these committees as well as our School Site/Governance Council.  We have 2 openings and our Orientation/Election is scheduled for Thursday, September 12th at 2:30 in the auditorium. A flyer went home explaining the role and commitment and a nomination form.  Please consider being a candidate for this decision making council.  We meet 7 times a year and the commitment is for two years.  Enrichment begins next week so be sure to register for our exciting classes and Orchestra.  Please be sure to limit absences to no more than 1 for the first 25 days which is Sept. 25th.  If you adhere to this every 25 days you will meet the goal of 96% attendance. We are 30% short of 100% Parent Portal registration so get on it parents!! All classrooms with 100% registration by Wed. 9/11 will be rewarded.  Wednesday is also Picture Day so bring your smiling faces to school. Remember to wear your Van Gogh T-Shirts on Fridays to show your Van Gogh spirit.  Have a wonderful evening!  I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

Sincerely,
Ms. Merloni

Van Gogh Master Calendar 2019-20

Affiliated Charter Schools will be included in the 2020-2021 Choices Brochure, paper application and online application platform, GoTo.Lausd.Net.

 

All non-resident students interested in attending an L.A. Unified Affiliated Charter school for the 2020-2021 school year must apply through Unified Enrollment at GoTo.Lausd.Net or submit a paper

application found in the Choices Brochure. Resident students will follow the current enrollment procedures and do not need to apply through Unified Enrollment.

Van Gogh expresses a HUGE THANKS to:

 

The Patriot Oil Community Benefit Trust Fund for their generous donation to support ALL of our technological needs for the 2019-20 School Year!!!

 

Our Friends of Van Gogh PTO for their hard work and commitment to fundraising to meet the needs of Van Gogh. We appreciate their support in funding teacher assistants, computer lab assistant, library aide, psychiatric social worker, and the YMCA Play program for the 2019-20 School Year!!!

 

Our Van Gogh volunteers are an important part of our school's success!!!  Volunteers help with Breakfast in the Classroom, classroom support, PTO Events, and our Safety Valet.  Please review the requirements for all volunteers for 2019-20.

 

 

Volunteer Application Process

 

Please label your student's jackets, backpacks, and lunch boxes with their name.  This will help ensure that lost items may be found.  Our collection of unclaimed items grows rapidly and is donated to charity at the end of each month.

 

Please support us......Due to students with severe peanut allergies, we request that snacks and lunches stay PEANUT FREE! 

We would appreciate your support in avoiding sending foods that contain peanuts or any other form of tree nuts, such as sandwich crackers filled with peanut butter, granola bars, and trail mix.

Some healthy & nutritional alternatives include: ham, roast beef, tuna, egg salad, cream cheese and jelly sandwiches, hard-boiled eggs, fruit salad, yogurt & fruit, fruit rollups, apples with caramel, hummus, celery & carrot sticks, animal crackers, popcorn, pudding or Jell-o, and Rice Krispie Treats. Thank you for your cooperation!

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