Welcome Military Families

Welcome to West Navarre Intermediate!  We are honored to have you and your family as part of our community.  We want to express our deepest gratitude for your service and sacrifice, and we recognize the important role our military families play.  Our school is here to support you and your student every step of the way.  On this page, you will find helpful resources and information to make your transition and experience as smooth as possible.  Thank you for your service and welcome to the Navigator Family.

Academic Planning

For assistance with academic planning, please contact:

Kim Alexander, School Counselor, at AlexanderK@santarosa.k12.fl.us or 850-936-6060

Transition Planning

Anchored4Life Program

WNIS has an exciting transition and resiliency program called Anchored4Life. This program develops leadership skills, enhances life skills, builds confidence, and reinforces team building for all youth who attend WNIS. Anchored4Life Team Leaders are students trained to welcome new students to West Navarre Intermediate and set a good example for other WNIS students. Team Leaders provide welcome backpacks, give school tours, and lead monthly activity groups to develop peer connections, aid in school adjustment and encourage healthy, positive choices from all of the student body. Anchored4Life Kits are distributed for those students who are coping with a geographical military move, military deployment, separation, return from deployment or has a returning wounded military family member. Kits are also available for any student whose family is working through a divorce or lost a loved one. These awesome its include situation specific information, a video, a journal and other information for the student to share with the family. For more information about this program, please contact Kim Alexander, School Counselor, at AlexanderK@santarosa.k12.fl.us or 850-936-6060.

Other resources include:

NAS WHITING FIELD SCHOOL LIAISON

Chris Hendrix NAS Whiting Field School Liaison; 7180 Langley Street, Milton, Florida 23570 Building 1417 Room 163 Office: 850.665.6105 Cell: 850.736.0338 Email: christopher.p.hendrix2.nas@us.navy.mil Site: Whiting Field School Liaison Officer

HURLBURT FIELD SCHOOL LIAISON

Lacy Allen School Liaison Specialist, Hurlburt Field School Liaison Program 1 SOFSS/SLP, Hurlburt Field, FL Commercial: 850.884.6938 Cell: 850.280.5766 Email: lacey.allen.1@us.af.mil Website: HURLBURT FIELD SCHOOL LIAISON PROGRAM and MyHulburt.com/school-liaison/

NAS PENSACOLA SCHOOL LIAISON

Carissa Bergosh School Liaison for NAS Pensacola 4119 Children's Lane Pensacola, FL 32511 Cell: 850.712.4105 Work: 850.458.6588 Email: carissa.f.bergosh.naf@us.navy.mil

EGLIN AFB SCHOOL; EGLIN AFB SCHOOL LIAISON

Elaine LaJeunesse 96 MSG/SLO 310 W. Van Matre Ave. STE 252B Bld 210 Eglin AFB, FL 32542 Phone: 850.882.4219 (DSN) 872.4319 Email: Elaine.LaJeunesse@us.af.mil Website: Eglin Life

MFLC Program (Military Point of Contact)

Our school offers the Military and Family Life Counseling Program (MFLC).  Our school based MFLC provides short term, non-medical counseling support to military children, service members, family members, and staff. She is available Monday through Friday during school hours. Services are at no cost and confidential with the exception of child abuse, domestic abuse, and other duty to warn situations. In addition, she can assist with issues such as school adjustment, deployment and separation, reunion adjustment, sibling and parent-child communication, behavioral concerns, and fear, grief and loss. The MFLC may also provide psycho educational groups, deployment groups, classroom presentations, behavioral interventions, parent or staff consultations, resource/referral information, and special outreach events for Veterans Day or Month of The Military Child.

For more information about this program or to speak to our MFLC please call the school at 850-936-6060.

District Resources for Educational Opportunities

Rapid Identity "How To" - Santa Rosa County Schools (santarosaschools.org)

24-25 Start, Dismissal, Early Release Times - Santa Rosa County Schools (santarosaschools.org)

Code of Student Conduct - Santa Rosa County Schools (santarosaschools.org)

Santa Rosa Family Guide - Santa Rosa County Schools (santarosaschools.org)

SchoolStatus Connect - Santa Rosa County Schools (santarosaschools.org)

For quick, how-to video instructions, please review the links below: - Santa Rosa County Schools (santarosaschools.org)

Copy of Pear Deck Tutor - Flyer (8.5 x 14 in)

https://santarosaschools.org/en-US/military-families/district-resources-6c2ae0ce

Student Led Transition Programs

WNIS has an exciting transition and resiliency program called Anchored4Life. This program develops leadership skills, enhances life skills, builds confidence, and reinforces team building for all youth who attend WNIS. Anchored4Life Team Leaders are students trained to welcome new students to West Navarre Intermediate and set a good example for other WNIS students. Team Leaders provide welcome backpacks, give school tours, and lead monthly activity groups to develop peer connections, aid in school adjustment and encourage healthy, positive choices from all of the student body. Anchored4Life Kits are distributed for those students who are coping with a geographical military move, military deployment, separation, return from deployment or has a returning wounded military family member. Kits are also available for any student whose family is working through a divorce or lost a loved one. These awesome its include situation specific information, a video, a journal and other information for the student to share with the family. For more information about this program, please contact Kim Alexander, School Counselor, at AlexanderK@santarosa.k12.fl.us or 850-936-6060.

Student Government Association

WNIS is proud to have a Student Government Association (SGA )program! WNIS SGA students learn to develop their leadership skills and continue to grow in character as they practice teamwork, perseverance, cooperation, responsibility, commitment, dependability and self-discipline.  Our SGA leaders serve as mentors to incoming students as well as current students.  All of our SGA leaders (Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Mallory, Ms. Brothers, Mrs. Adams, and Mrs. Brown) hope to instill the positive character traits in each SGA rep throughout the year.  Some of the SGA activitie include guest speakers who present on various leadership/mentoring topics, team building activities, sponsoring school spirit days to build a school community, and multiple SGA projects to support our school and community. We are so excited about our future leaders in SGA.

Other After School Enrichment Activities

Navigator Choir

Running Club

Newspaper Club

Yearbook Club

Upcoming Military Events

November 7, 2024 – Veteran’s Day Chorus Concert @ 6:00 PM – Cafeteria

November 8, 2024 - Veteran's Day Luncheon

April 15, 2025 – Purple up Day for Military Kids

April is the Month of the Military Child

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