When you are dropping off your child in the morning please stay in your vehicle and let one of us come get them out of the car for you. We’re glad to help in this way! Staying in your vehicle and letting us get your child is safer and keeps the line moving.

If your child usually rides the bus home in the afternoon and you decide to pick them up, please call the school and let us know.  We’ll have them all ready for you when you get here!

Our front office team is always ready to welcome and assist you with a smile! When you call the school, you’ll often be greeted by Ms. Jenny, who is happy to help answer your questions or direct your call. Mrs. Jen handles attendance and transportation to ensure everything is accurate and up to date, while Mrs. Krista, our registrar and assistant to the administrators, makes sure students are enrolled correctly and placed in the right classes. Ms. Ashley, our bookkeeper, keeps everything running smoothly behind the scenes. No matter the reason for your call or visit, our office staff is always glad to help and looks forward to supporting you throughout the school year.

My hours are from 7:30- 3:30 daily. Feel free to call me here at the school any time about anything you need or any concerns, or I can always be reached by email at rbranner@rockingham.k12.va.us.

If you would like your student to receive medication at school, please reach out to me and I will send home a consent form to be signed with your student. Please be sure to list any allergies to medications that your child has on that form. If your child has their own personal preference, please feel free to bring that medication in and I will have a space just for them.

Any students with food allergies, asthma, or any prescription medication that needs to be here at school, please be sure to bring that medication in and sign proper paperwork as soon as possible.

And just one other quick reminder: Students are not allowed to bring medications to school due to safety concerns, including cough drops .

As the year rolls on it is highly likely that your child will leave a jacket or some other article of clothing behind here at school.  When found, staff will save the clothing in our Lost and Found.  Howerver, if we know who the item belongs to we can get it to them right away.  So please take a few moments this week to label all of the items you think might be left behind at some point during the school year!

At different times throughout the year, when the Lost and Found is especially full, items are donated to local charities.  We will alway give you plenty of warning before this happens, so please watch-out for notifications in the Jaguar Jiggy Journal.

Our parent/student handbook has a ton of great information about our school, as well as some important guidance on how to be involved with things at John Wayland.  There is always a link on our school's website, but in case you need it we're including a link below.

Link to the Parent/Student Handbook:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xiO4kYsS4u7KrmjAzAGa887nH6vYOBnP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106323339686680961158&rtpof=true&sd=true

Information from the Food and Nutrition Services

RCPS Food and Nutrition Services is excited to welcome your student back to the cafeteria this school year! Please read below for information on the 2026-2027 school year.

Free and Reduced-Price Meal Applications are now available. Online meal applications may be completed at www.myschoolapps.com. If a paper application is needed, forms will be available to complete at your child's back-to-school night. In order to qualify for free or reduced-price meals at all RCPS schools, families must submit a free and reduced-price meal application, or qualify automatically through participation in certain programs such as SNAP. If your family automatically qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, you will receive notification by mail prior to the start of the school year.

Reminder - If your child qualified for free or reduced-price meals in previous years by application, a new application is needed each school year. Don't miss out - apply early!

Online Meal Payments - Payments for meals may be made online or by cash or check at your child’s school. Payments may be made online at www.myschoolbucks.com. If paying by cash or check, please send payment in an envelope with your child to school with the child’s name, grade, and PIN number.

For the 2026-2027 school year, a student breakfast costs $2.00, and a student lunch costs $3.25.

Menus – School menus are shared on a monthly basis by individual schools and shared on the main RCPS Food and Nutrition Services website.

Additional Pricing Information and A La Carte Guidelines – can be found by clicking here. Please note changes to elementary a la carte/“extras” purchasing.

Quick Links

o   Online Free and Reduced-Price Meal Applications

o   Online Meal Payments

o   Parent-Student Handbook Information

o   Meal and A La Carte Guidelines and Pricing Information

o   RCPS Food and Nutrition Services Website

Questions? Call 540-434-7783 or email foodservice@rockingham.k12.va.us

Need a new t-shirt?  Looking for a nice fitting hoodie?  Wondering where all those great looking John Wayland clothes come from?  Look no further.  The University Outpost has created a site you can use to order a number of great items that not only look great, but support the school as well.  The University Outpost will donate 15% of every purchase back to the school.

You can find t-shirts, hoodies, polos and more at this site: https://stores.inksoft.com/john_wayland_elementary_school/shop/products/all?page=1