During emergency situations, the Beaverton School District and our schools will use text messaging via SchoolMessenger, our website and social media as our primary modes of communication with parents. We can push text messages out much more quickly than phone calls. SchoolMessenger is the only approved messaging service for emergency communications. The District and schools will not be using other messaging services during emergency communications.

Due to FCC regulations, parents, guardians, students and staff are required to opt-in for texts. We currently have 28,000 students who have at least one person in their household opted in for text messages. We need to increase that number.

School and District report cards for the 2018-19 school year are available at https://www.ode.state.or.us/data/reportcard/reports.aspx. (Select Beaverton in the school or district search bar). We welcome the opportunity to share this information with you on the progress we are making to improve academic achievement for each student in the Beaverton School District. We are making progress.

In 1999, the Oregon Legislature enacted ORS 329.105 requiring that the Oregon Department of Education produce and issue annual report cards for all schools and districts. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed by President Obama on December 10, 2015, encourages schools and educators to innovate and create systems that address local needs.

As a part of this work, the Oregon Department of Education redesigned the School and District report cards to engage and inform families about their school’s approach to learning, academic and extracurricular offerings, and student performance.

The School At-A-Glance Profiles include graphics showing how a school or district compares to the statewide average in categories like chronic absenteeism, graduation rates, average class size and more. The profiles were developed with extensive input from Oregon families, including families of historically underserved students.

The data points represent a more comprehensive approach to evaluating and measuring a school’s impact on students. In five minutes or less parents can get the comprehensive look at their school or district that they’ve been requesting. All of these changes are part of Oregon’s Plan which is the state of Oregon’s plan for meeting federal requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act.

The Scholls Heights PTO sends out a newsletter the third weekend of each month with reminders of what's coming up at school and opportunities for you to help out. If you'd like to stay in the know, click here and sign up for the SHPTO newsletter! Thanks!

Youth Access Card:

We are just starting to create cards to distribute to schools. We will be going school by school. We will be notified 3 to 4 weeks before your cards will be delivered. More information will be coming.

Teen Art Show

We are very excited to host the 17th annual Teen Art Show! I’d like to invite you and all the Scholls Heights families to see art from local students in grades 6-12—many of whom may be graduates from Scholls Heights! The show kicks off with an opening gala featuring light refreshments on Wednesday Nov. 6 from 4-5 p.m., and the art show remains open for public viewing during normal library hours through Sunday Nov. 10.

November-December Programs for K-5 at both locations in English and Spanish:

Just a few November programs at Main:

· Kindness Rocks

· Seussical Party

· Frozen Singalong

Just a few November Programs at Murray Scholls:

· Jazz Painting

· Princess in Black party

· Everything Narwhal

It's normal for children to get sick from time to time. But when should a parent keep a child home? Please visit the Washington County Health & Human Services Department School Exclusion webpage for guidance, rules and communicable disease facts.

Below are some guidelines to help you make the decision about when to keep your child home from school. The recommendations are based on the guidelines provided by the Communicable Disease Program of the Washington County Department of Health and Human Services. They were developed to help prevent the spread of potentially contagious disease.

• Fever: With fever greater than 100.5° F; student may return when fever-free for 24 hours (WITHOUT use of fever-reducing medicine).
• Vomiting/Diarrhea: Any unexplained vomiting episode. May return 24 hours after last episode. Diarrhea equals three or more unexplained episodes of watery or loose stools in 24 hours OR sudden onset of loose stools. May return 24 hours after last episode.
• Cough: Serious, sustained coughing, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing.
• Rash: Any new rash accompanied by a fever. May return after rash goes away or clearance given by a health care provider.
• Skin Lesions/Sores: Drainage from a sore that cannot be contained within a bandage OR sores are increasing in size OR new sores are developing day-to-day.
• Other: Symptoms that prevent the student from active participation in usual school activities OR student is requiring more care than school can safely provide.

Home is the best place for a child who is ill. If your child is sick with a diagnosed communicable disease, please notify the school as soon as possible. This notification will greatly assist others who, due to medical reasons and/or treatments, have weakened immune systems and may require immediate and specialized care.

https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/departments/communications-community-involvement/after-school-activitiesflyers.