Happy Friday to All of You and Happy Valentines Day!
New Items:
Canned Food Drive
Today marked the end of our canned food drive. Leadership did a great job with
the organization of the activities within the short week. Bringing in canned goods earned students opportunities to wear hats, get large candy bars, be eligible for raffle prizes, and to wear pajamas. All food will be donated to Newberg Fish. Thank you to everyone who donated this week.
5th Grade Parent Night
Our parent night for incoming 5th grade families will be Wednesday, February 19th at 6:30 PM. 5th grade parent night is a great opportunity to learn about how we do things here at CV. Parents will learn about many things including core classes, elective offerings, and lockers.
Schedule Change Next Year
Next school year we will have a change within our bell schedule which will add 30 minutes of instructional time to the school day. This new bell schedule will also be consistent with Mountain View. Within the new schedule each period will be 53 minutes in length as opposed to the 47 minutes which we currently have. We will still operate on a 7-period day which will allow more opportunities for our kids to have electives and PE everyday. I will send out more information as we get closer to the end of the school year. Our proposed schedule would mean a start time of 7:40 AM and end time at 2:45 PM.
One call home for missing work
In efforts to effectively enforce the importance of work ethic, a one-call will go home to families of students who have 3 or more missing assignments. These calls will go out on a daily basis. Please see below for our policy on missing work.
Missing Homework Policy beginning this semester:
3 Missing assignments in any ONE class=Minor Incident Report and one call home.
5 Missing assignments in any ONE class=Behavior Referral to Mr. Hampton or Dr. Franco.
Missing work will be a part of our incentive criteria for activities and the incentive sticker each quarter. Our incentive criteria will be:
-Less than 3 missing assignments in any one class (3 missing assignments in any one class will mean an MIR)
-No behavior referrals
-Less that 4 unexcused absences for the quarter
Upcoming:
-Valentines Day-Today!
-No School 2/17
-5th grade parent night 2/19
Positive Behavior Referrals from this week:
Terrah Kelley
Gerardo Mendez Garcia
Dulce Calderon
PTO Meeting
Thank you to Andy Byerly the district's Science Teacher on Special Assignment (TOSA) for presenting on our STEM integration. Andy reviewed our lego robotics units which all of our kids have and/or will experience this year within their Science classes. He also presented on the importance of community partnerships. The other big topic was our 2nd annual 5K walk/run which will take place on Saturday, April 26th!
CVMS Volunteer Opportunities
If you are interested in volunteering for CV contact our volunteer coordinator, Stephanie Carstensen, home 503-538-6102 or stephaniec@c-ware.com.
Teachers actively looking for parent volunteers include Mrs. Brower for Read 180 and Mrs. Childs for Math Lab.
http://www.newberg.k12.or.us/chehalemvalley/chehalem-valley-middle-schoo...
Reminders:
Student-Parent handbook
Please see the attached link: http://www.newberg.k12.or.us/chehalemvalley/chehalem-valley-parent-handbook
School Improvement Plan
If you are interested in reading about what our school improvements goals are as a school and the strategies we will utilized please feel free to peruse our school improvement plan for this year.
http://www.newberg.k12.or.us/chehalemvalley/school-improvement-plan-cvms
Homework Club
We are offering HW club to students every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 2:30-3:30 PM. We do have a late bus that will pick the kids up. The late bus does not go to the Ewing Young area. Throughout the year we encourage students to stay after school to work with their teacher or to receive assistance from Mrs. Blanchard and Mrs. Wolfe in HW club.
Absences
Every year we see more absences for trips and personal vacations. Although I understand that vacations do happen during the year, we ask that if at all possible you look to schedule extended vacations during our regular school breaks. Students can always make up work, however it is difficult to replace the loss of instruction.
Please be cognizant that we are extremely vigilant in regards to attendance. The following is the list of reasons the state provides as excusable absences:
-Student illness
-Illness of an immediate family member
-Emergency
-Doctor/Dental Appointment
-Death of an immediate family member
-Court summons
-Satisfactory arrangements, made in advance with the school for other reasons
*Absences for reasons not noted on this list will be marked unexcused.
FAQ's about standards/proficiency based grading
As all of you know we are a standards/proficiency based grading school. To gain further information, I encourage all of you to read the material on the attached link if you haven't yet . The link includes FAQs about our new grading, a rationale, and a summary of our plan. This year we are in year two, and students will be required to re-take any summative assessment in which they score less than 70%. If you have further questions please do not hesitate to call the office. I would be happy to sit down with any one of you or to speak with you on the phone if you have questions.
http://www.newberg.k12.or.us/chehalemvalley/graduation-starts-today
Facebook
You can now "Like us" on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ChehalemValleyMS
Twitter
You can now follow us on Twitter: cvmsmiddleschool @cvmswolves
Have a great 3-day weekend!
