Summer Information for VCS Families

VCES Summer Information

*indicates your student's 2025-26 school year grade level.

VCMS Summer Information

Information for TK/Kindergarten families

The first day for TK/Kindergarten students is a short day from 8:05-9:30 (TK), or 8:05-9:45 (Kindergarten).
Drop off is between 7:30-8:05.
Parents are invited to walk their child on to campus and stay for a classroom visit beginning at 8:05.
After parents have visited classrooms:
- Stay and meet other TK/Kindergarten parents in the courtyard from 8:30-9:30
- OR leave and come back to pick up your student by 9:30 (TK) or 9:45 (Kindergarten) at the classroom doors.

There is no back-to-school supply list at Valley Charter! Our generous yearly family support enables us to provide all supplies that students will need in each classroom.
Please send your student to school every day with a water bottle and a snack.
Hot lunch will be provided to students OR they can bring lunch from home. Here is the link to the monthly school menus.

At Meet the Teachers, VCES families will receive their student’s 2025-26 teacher and room assignments. VCES teachers will be there to meet families, and we will also provide information and sign-ups for future school events.
If you are unable to attend this event, please drop by the office for your student’s teacher/room assignment anytime between 8:00am-4pm on August 12th or 13th.

Our orientation event will be held on Tuesday, August 12th.
All students (new & returning) must attend orientation and students need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
- 6th grade orientation
  - This event will be held at our Sherman Way Campus (14646 Sherman Way) between 9:00am and 11:00am.
  - Parking information: please park in the Sherman Way parking lot and make sure to make a right as you enter the parking lot; it is one way driving.

- 7th and 8th grade orientation
  - This event will be held at the Van Nuys Boulevard Campus (6952 Van Nuys Boulevard) between 10:00am-12:00pm.
  - Parking Information: There is VERY limited parking on the VNB campus and we will be closing the parking lot once full, so please make plans to come early or park on the street either on Van Nuys Boulevard or in the neighborhood behind the school.
Because we have families with students at both campuses, arrival and departure time from each orientation is flexible within the two hours allotted at each campus, but please make sure that you are able to be at each orientation for about an hour.

VCES school start time is 8:05am, early dismissal at 1:00pm.
VCMS school start time is 8:30am (SW), 8:25am (VNB), early dismissal at 1:25 (SW), 1:20 (VNB).

Please send your child to school on the first day with a backpack, water bottle, snack and lunch (if they'd like to bring them from home, otherwise the school will provide these items). Yearly fundraising covers the costs of school supplies for each student.