LS Weekly Memo
Week 32 & 33: March 24 - April 4
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I hope you have all enjoyed your Spring Break and are returning well rested and healthy for the final 10 week of school. We pack a lot into those weeks so pace yourself. I look forward to seeing you all at the IC training on Monday. Thank you Dori, Kiah, Jenny and Lara for all your work preparing for the day. FLGer’s, enjoy the day pursuing your affinities.
COMMUNITY
Deborah Bridgnell
Enjoy your sabbatical.
Kathie Kimmy
Welcome back and enjoy your new Kindergarten class.
ICC Training
The training is scheduled from 9:00 am – 3:30 pm on Monday, March 31. On the list below you will find your name, group number, and room. All rooms are off of the Great Hall in the Upper School.
FLG Meeting
FLG participants will be meeting on 3/31. See communication from John Holloran for details.
EC Provided on 3/31 for Faculty/ Staff Children
Contact Kathy Finn-Brennan for details.
Student Incident Report
- Please submit a report if you supervise children making unkind, unsafe inappropriate choices.
- We review reports every week and follow up with teachers.
- Click on the link above.
- Please review to determine when you are needed. Classroom teachers, please let us know who is representing your team at each coffee. We want to start scheduling planning meetings after break, before Spring Trips and Class Placement.
Supervision and Evaluation of Assistant Teachers
- Return your completed forms asap after Spring break
- Assistant Teachers, if you are planning on not returning next year, please write a letter of intent and submit it to David or Chris know asap after Spring break.
Supervision During Explorations
As you look to take advantage of the opportunities for exploration around campus, be sure you maintain good supervision of your students, especially considering the recent police issue below.
Police Incident 3/13/14
The following article appeared in the Oregonian on 3/13/14
A Portland Police detective said that the man who was shot and killed last week was stalking several girls from OES. In fact, he had 5 license plates numbers in his pocket when he was killed, 4 of them were female students at OES. Though the chances of such an event recurring are remote, we need to be vigilant.
OES is looking to bring in an outside expert to provide safety training for students and faculty. See me if you have questions.
PROGRAM
Faculty Meeting - 3-3-14
FLG meeting is optional - FLG groups will determine on 3-31
Team Meeting - optional. See Team Leader for details.
Expectations Review
We discussed our expectations for student behavior at the LSLT meeting. After Spring Break we want to renew our commitment to the items below. See your LSLT member for details.
- Chapel
- be on time
- step through door, step into Chapel behavior
- sing or be quiet
- pray or be quiet
- transition quietly
- Recess
- Put equipment away at end of recess
Lunch BS
• eat the rainbow
• use utensils
• If children have special dietary needs, you can serve food
from the adult buffet
• bus your plate, compost your food waste, tidy up your
table afterward
- Lunch - 1st - 5th
- eat the rainbow
- eat at table -
- use utensils -
- Clear off, wipe off, wait to be dismissed
Transitions
• Children will escorted to and from special classes by
an adult
• Students will move through buildings quietly and
respectfully
• Students will walk or skip under the covered walkway
• Remind students to wait at the top of the stairs until an
adult is officially on recess duty
- Uniform Policy - review to remind
- consequences -
- 1st time - reminder,
- 2nd - Rm 10 to change into uniforms,
- 3rd - note home
Canoe Training with Tom Handel
Tom will offer another Canoe Training, Tuesday, April 8th at 3:15. Gather at the Fanno Creek pond where the canoes are stored.
Spring Trips
Thanks to those who have stepped up. 4th grade still needs help. See Jenny Futrell for details. Specialist teachers who teach 4th grade, please consider being a chaperone.
Character Education Conference at OES on 4/14
OES is hosting this conference here on campus so a limited number of OES faculty can attend for free. Let me know if you are interested. This looks like a good companion conference to the Social Emotional Learning conference in Seattle.
Sign Up for Professional Growth and Development with Louise Cadwell, Wednesday, June 18th
Last Chance to Record Break Throughs and Challenges Around Inquiry
We will share this doc with Louise before we go out on break. If you haven’t done so, record your thoughts...it will be most helpful plotting out our work with Louise.
OPERATIONS
Rocks
We had three rock-related injuries this week.
- Heavy rock fell on a child's finger- caused a hairline fracture
- Heavy rock fell on a child's finger- caused a bad bruise, and possible finger nail loss
- Child threw a rock up into the air, then whacked it with a jacket, causing it to go flying into another child's face, caused a small cut by his eye
Please remind your children that they are not to lift, dig up or remove large rocks from ACP and they are DEFINITELY not to hurl, pitch or throw rocks around.
Children are fascinated with rocks! They want to crack them open to find their hidden treasures. Not safe on a playground!
Lacrosse
The 4th and 5th graders have requested time to practice lacrosse skills during recess. THis is a great opportunity for them to practice basic skills. They will be provided with a supervised opportunity with the following guidelines:
- Monday and Wednesday Lunch Recess ONLY
- Adult supervision required.
- On the designated area of the turf field ONLY
- Passing and shooting ONLY
- Tennis balls ONLY (bucket of tennis balls in the recess shed)
- Goalies are NOT allowed
- Checking in NOT allowed
- Lacrosse sticks will be stored in the recess shed after recess
The guidelines are for safety purposes. Students who do not follow the guidelines will lose the privilege for the week.
If You Have First through Third Grade Lunch Recess Duty Please Read This!
I understand that there have been occasions where no one is posted at the top of the covered walkway supervising children as they walk down from lunch.
One person from lunch recess duty should be there until the last First through Third Grade students leave the lunch room. Afterward, the duty person takes his or her post down on Aardvark Community Park. Please decide who will take the upper walkway post for each recess.
Once you decide, let me know who will do it each day, and I’ll record it on the duty schedule, just as we do the people on field duty.
Personal Days (From the Employee Handbook)
I am seeing a few request for personal days and want to remind you of OES’ policy about Personal Days:
Personal days are to be used for personal business or unforeseen circumstances such as weather, and not for illness or vacation. The employee is asked to provide as much advance notice as possible to their supervisor if they need to use a personal day. Personal days may be taken in two-hour increments. Personal days may not be combined with paid vacation days and may not be taken on the last week of school or work, or immediately before or after a school vacation or paid holiday, except with the permission of the employee’s supervisor.
Custodial Notebook
See Lyn’s email for location of the log in each wing. Record current needs and any future needs that custodians should be aware of.
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