Happy Friday to All of You!
New Items:
5th Grade Parent Night
On Wednesday we began the transition process for our incoming 5th graders. As always it is great to see the new faces of our new kids and to meet the parents. Our presentation consisted of an overview of our bell schedule, classes offered, 6th grade staff, PTO, and ultimately a question and answer session with two of our students. Big thanks to Dave Sanders and the Jazz Band, Diana Takahashi (PTO President), Martha SantaMaria (translator), and students Truman Connelly and Gage Wright for providing us a student perspective. Soon our counselors and Mr. Hampton will be making visits to the elementary schools to forecast for elective classes.
Wolf Buck Mini-Incentive
We had our 3 week mini-incentive today. Students with no missing work received Wolf Bucks. Students had opportunities to earn up to 7 Wolf Bucks today.
Positive Behavior Referrals
Gabby Rodriguez
Schedule Change Next Year
I mentioned this last week, but 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.
Spread the Word to End the Word
On March 5th during Wolf Reading we will engage our kids in our Spread the Word to End the Word lesson plan. March 5th is National Spread the Word to End the Word day which is a very powerful day in which we remember the importance in treating all people with respect. Please see the attached link if you would like more information.
HS Forecasting
Next Friday, 2/28, we will be visited by the HS principals and counselors and our 8th graders will forecast for their HS classes. This is always an exciting time for our 8th grade group. 8th grade parents, please be expecting HS forecasting sheets being brought home by your 8th grader next Friday.
Run with the Wolves!
We are excited to be offering our 2nd annual 5K run/walk on April 26th. Please see the attached link for more details.
Upcoming:
-8th graders forecast-2/28
-Site Council-3/5
-Spread the Word to End the Word Day-3/5
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:
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
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
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