Farnham Elementary School
October 31, 2019
The Farnham FLASH With Falcon Pride
15711 Woodard Road
San Jose, CA 95124
Farnham Elementary School Website
Principal: Mrs. Amy O'Hehir
Main Office: 408-377-3321 Fax: 408-377-7237
24 Hour Attendance Line: 408-377-3321 Ext. 4102
principal corner
Dear Farnham Families,
While October is wrapping up, we have many things happening on our Farnham campus. The Pumpkin Walk was a fabulous community event! A HUGE thank-you to all of the volunteers who worked so hard to put this event on. This is especially true for the HSC Pumpkin Walk Planning Committee, Katie D’Amico, Shelby MacKay, and Dani Neves. This team started meeting months ago to plan and organize this event, and we all appreciate you. Also, thank you to the dedicated volunteers who returned on Saturday to support the cleanup process after the fun!
From one event to the next! Come and see some amazing third, fourth, and fifth graders shine on our Farnham Stage with the production of Annie Jr. on Friday, November 8th and Saturday, November 9th!
Parent/teacher conferences are scheduled for November 6th through November 15th. These days will be minimum days with a dismissal time of 1:05 PM (TK/K dismissed at 12:50PM). Your teacher will soon (if they have not already done so) reach out to you to schedule a time for your child’s conference. Conferences are an important part of the home-school partnership. Prior to the meeting, I encourage you to take some time and consider any questions you have regarding your child’s school experience.
Also in November, we have the Scholastic Book Fair coming to Farnham during the week of November 12th. The book fair is an excellent way to support your child’s classroom, support Farnham, and get your child excited about reading. Money raised from the book fair goes into buying books for our classrooms and our library!
Enjoy the extra long weekend as Friday, November 1st is a teacher in-service day. While you are home with your candy-filled kiddos, the teachers will be hard at work learning more information about the new Benchmark Language Arts curriculum. These teacher workdays (without students) are scheduled throughout the year to provide opportunities for continuous growth by our amazing staff to continue to provide the outstanding education which your children receive. The teachers will spend the day learning about the assessment tools as well as have time to work with their grade-level teams to plan and prepare.
Thank you,
Amy O’Hehir
Principal
October 31st
Play Rehearsal 2:05-4:30pm
Basketball 2:05-3:05pm
Coding 2:10-3:35pm
November 1st
Teacher In Service NO SCHOOL
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November 3rd
Daylight Savings Clocks back 1 hour
November 4th
Annie Jr. Tech Week 2:05-6 pm
Soccer 2:05-3:05pm
One Warm Coat Drive Begins
November 5th
Annie Jr. Tech Week 2:05-6 pm
Legos 2:05-3:35pm
Robotics 2:15-3:15pm
November 6th
Parent/Teacher Conferences Minimum Day
Annie Jr. Tech Week 1:05-5 pm
H&SC Meeting 6:30pm Library
November 7th
Annie Jr. Tech Week 2:05-6 pm
Board Meeting 7pm District Office
November 8th
Spirit Wear Sales 7:45am
Parent/Teacher Conferences Minimum Day
Book Fair Begins 11:30-4pm
Annie Jr. Play Billionaire Cast @ 5pm
Annie Jr. Play Hooverville Cast @ 7:30pm
November 9th
Annie Jr. Play Hooverville Cast @ 2pm
Annie Jr. Play Billionaire Caste @ 5 pm
Spirit Wear Sales 30 min. before & 30 min. after Play
November 11th
Veterans Day NO School
November 12th
Parent/Teacher Conferences Minimum Day
Book Fair 11:30-4pm
November 13th
Parent/Teacher Conferences Minimum Day
Book Fair 11:30-4pm
November 14th
Parent/Teacher Conferences Minimum Day
Book Fair 11:30-4pm
Girl Scout Meeting 3:30-5pm
Communication with teachers
The best form of communication with teachers is through email. All staff have the following email address format: last name then the first letter of the first name @cambriansd.com (i.e. Mrs. Amy O’Hehir’s email address is ohehira@cambriansd.com). If there is an event that will impact your child or something you feel the teacher needs to be aware of, please email ahead of time. Teachers often do not have the time to check emails or have phone conversations during the school day. Thank you for respecting their time.
During school hours, we do not allow parents on campus or stopping by classrooms in order to minimize disruptions to the classroom. If you are dropping something off for your child or bringing your child in late, please stop by the office with him or her, and the office staff will call down to the classroom or escort your child to the classroom. Thank you for helping us respect all our students’ valuable learning time.
Cambrians Budget Advisory Committee
Are you interested in helping shape the future of the Cambrian
School District? Cambrian School District (CSD) is launching a Budget Advisory Committee (BAC) in December 2019 that will be led by CSD’s Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Penny Timboe. The primary purpose of the Budget Advisory Committee will be to understand the District’s budget cycle, assumptions used for budget development, calculation of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) process as a means to make recommendations to the Superintendent as to how CSD can develop financial strategies to ensure a long term sustainable funding model that supports Cambrian’s mission and vision.
The recommendations will focus on ways to increase various sources of funding from the community, nonprofit, businesses, state and federal sources and how to work collaboratively with Home and School Clubs and the Cambrian Education Foundation to achieve the mission and vision of the CSD. Recommendations will also include ways to grow community-wide communication that will help with the overall understanding of the Cambrian School District’s
financial outlook.
Annie JR Tickets are now on sale!
AnnieJR is coming to Farnham on November 8 & 9! Our 3-5 grade cast has been working hard to bring this classic show to our school! This is a great chance for parents of K-2 to see the production and get excited for the spring Show and for everyone to support our Falcons! This year, all the seats are reserved, so no more waiting in line! Please see the Farnham HSC website for tickets & showtimes:
Donations needed
Parent/Teacher Conferences are coming
(Remember, Monday the 11th is Veterans day and there is NO School)
TK & Kinder dismiss at 12:50pm
1st - 5th grade dismiss at 1:05pm
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Box Tops - Submit Box Top Labels in the collection box in the office. For more information check out the website: www.boxtops4education.com. Contact Christy with questions at mcdawson@pacbell.net
Recycle Ink Cartridges - Drop off your used printer ink cartridges from your personal printers in the office. Contact Christy with questions at, mcdawson@pacbell.net.