LS Weekly Memo
Week 11: October 20-25
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Two great Chapels opened and closed the week, blessing agreements and showcasing student service. In between we hosted another successful Open House for prospective parents. As they left many commented on your enthusiasm for teaching and learning and the wonderful learning spaces. With conferences coming up next week, let SST or me know if we can be of any support.
COMMUNITY
Mix It Up Day - Wednesday, October 29
See Melanie’s email for details.
Metal Recess Bin
Be sure to lock the lid of the metal recess equipment bin open so it cannot accidentally close on someone. It was left unlocked twice last week.
Lunch When Late
Know that food is available until 1:30 in case a student or you misses the regular meal time.
Parent Volunteer Clarification
I met with the PAL Grade Representatives last week and checked in about volunteering:
- Generally, volunteering is going very well. We seem to be closer to offering the right number of opportunities. Far fewer opportunities are being left unfilled.
- If you find you need additional volunteers, be sure to coordinate posting in Volunteer Spot with your Room Parent.
- Know that each class may offer different opportunities, partly based on talents/ availability of the parents
- Having one the adjustment this year, next year’s volunteer process will be much simplified
Stay on the Paths in the OES Woods
Peter Langley recently visited the OES woods behind the Chapel and was dismayed to see how overrun the woods are with plants trampled by visitors not staying on paths. This is most evident at the base of the woods down by the Loop Road parking area.
When you go out on treks exploring, please respect the woods and memorial garden by staying on established paths. Leave the woods and garden the way you found them!
COT as Problem Solver
If you have a student(s) who have ongoing behavior challenges, please contact Chris. Together you can come up with intervention strategies to support your student(s)!
Lunch Inquiry
At LSLT we discussed our use of common areas. Lunch came up as a concern; loudy, chaotic, needing guidance and structure.
- Between now and Conferences please collect observations
- What is working? what is not during 1st - 3rd and 4th & 5th lunches
- Let em know if you are interested on working on this problem so we can review observations and begin working on solutions.
Birthday Celebrations on 10/30 - for August, September, October
Welcome New 2nd Grade Student - Victoria Bonar to Tonya Griffin’s class
Jim Blumenthal
Memorial from Jim Blumenthal, 1:30, 10/26 @ World Forestry Center
See email from Phillip Craig.
Students to Watch on the Playground
PG, 5th - difficult in social situations
AW-3rd - testing boundaries of appropriateness
It will be important to document any issues in an Incident Report. We are working closely with these students’ families. See their photo in PCR if you don’t know what they look like.
BK- 2nd Continues to have challenges in competitive games. PE team, please supervise the games he participates in. Document any large frustrations in a Student Incident Report.
Fill Someone’s Bucket - One more Week
The Green Bucket is awaiting your students’ ideas about how to fill one another’s buckets. See Jenny Cleveland, Sylvie Bissel or Ellie Riser if you have questions.
OES Fund - Congratulations - 100% Participation
Parent Partnership Coffees
We got very positive feedback from parents about these well-attended coffees. Our thanks to all who participated. In the next round, in January and February, there will be three coffees: Beginning School Parents, First and Second Grade Parents and Third through Fifth Grade parents.
Agreements on Your Website
Great to see all the agreements. Parents appreciate knowing them too so they can use similar language at home.
PROGRAM
Open House
As you heard from Susie and Sarah, last week’s Open House was a huge success! Our thanks for sharing your time, talents and passion for your craft.
UBD Check-in
Asha and Angela met to share a HAC concern about the UBD process and meeting time. The Division Heads are meeting about this on Tuesday. Let me know if you would like me to come by you common planning time to discuss.
Recess Reminders
- Students should not be playing on or around the outdoor bleachers.
- The second tether ball pole will be installed soon, and it will again be a “Specials court”. This will be a “Specials court” only, everyone playing must understand the specials chosen by the server, and after three consecutive wins they must rotate to the end of the line.
Technology Reminders
Reminders about being a good caretaker of your technology tools:
- Install critical security patch. See email from Angela. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1769?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US)
- Restart your laptop at least once a week! How about thinking of Monday morning as (to paraphrase Anne Shirley) “a whole new week… with no mistakes in it yet.” Your machine will stay more “mistake-free” if you just restart it regularly.
- Always restart your laptop and open only the necessary applications before giving a presentation.
- When was the last time you cleaned the keyboard or screen?
- Have you just been pushing the “Remind me later” button or have you taken the time and responsibility to install those updates it keeps reminding you about?
Field Trip Guidelines Please read!
There are two documents to review: a field trip check list and medical field trip info. Please be sure to post your dates on the Faculty Events Google Calendar and Anne Weston’s calendar (without the destination).
Faculty Meetings
- All School Benefits- Open Enrollment Meeting - Monday, 10/20/14, 3:15 - 4:30, Dining Hall - Optional
- Benefits Fair - 12:30-4:00, Platt Global Classroom - Optional
- FLG or Curriculum Design Work - Thursday, 10/23 - TBD
- Student Support Team - Thursday, 10/23/14 @10:50 Dori and 3:10 (contact Ari)
Benefits Meeting
Benefits Renewal meeting on the afternoon of October 20 and the Benefits Fair on October 21st.
- If you use our medical benefits, you should attend as you will learn more about benefits, and it is not feasible for everyone to get a one on one with HR so the general, the all school meeting is really important.
- Supervisors will completely support employees in attending by accommodating schedules and workload. We feel it is really important for you to attend.
Team Leader Notes
No Meeting last week.
LSLT Meeting
- Appreciations
- Common practices to build citizenship in class
- Common experiences to building citizenship in common areas
OPERATIONS
Great Pumpkin Display, Friday, October 24th
Remind your students and parents that large pumpkins need to be delivered and picked up by adults. If that is not possible, pumpkins should be the right size for students to manage themselves. We could use extra help on the walkway at drop-off and dismissal. Come out if you can.
Spooktacular, Saturday, October 25th
This fun family event is a great community building event. If you choose to come doning a costume, know there is a prize for the most popular faculty costume...usually a Powell’s gift card! What fun!
Fire Drill, Thursday, October 23rd at 10:20
While this is advanced notice for you, First through Fifth Grade students should not have advanced notice. Beginning School teachers, you use your judgement on this. Remember:
•Leave the building quietly. No talking, children and adults!
•Line up in order by grade level, with Beginning School lining up on the far left side.
•Sit quietly until notified to re-enter the building.
Call Maintenance for Clean Up
If a student vomits or has an accident involving bodily fluids or waste, call maintenance to clean it up and disinfect the area.
OES Book Sale - Wish List
- Thank to the grade levels who submitted Wish Lists
- If you have questions or ideas, please direct them to Margueritte Kim at kimfamilypdx@mac.com.
- Need some help with books - ask Lara
Missed Meals
- Missed meals apply to students only – your head count should exclude Faculty/Staff/Chaperones
- Information you need to email the personnel involved for missed meals:
- Date of missed meals
- Number of students
- Personnel you need to notify/email for missed meals:
- Kim Sparkenbaugh: sparkenbaughk@oes.edu – business office
- Kelly Cowing: bonappetit@oes.edu – for approval
- Lyn: zenisekl@oes.edu – will provide the account number to be credited for missed meals
- Time line: 72 hours before the missed meals
- There is no online form to fill out for missed meals
- The “missed meals” information can also be found in the “LS Important Docs”.
Lunch Recess Duty Reminder
A friendly reminder that one person on lunch recess duty should wait up at the top of the covered walkway until the last students have come down from the dining hall. As I understand it, that same person then goes to the field. Let Chris know if you have any questions.
Please talk with each other and decide who will play this important duty role.
Your Announcements
Send any announcements you have for faculty to Chris or me by Thursday each week and we will include them in the Weekly memo. This should help reduce the number of emails we are receiving, and to maximize our time to collaborate during meetings.
