Parking lot safety is a priority. As we work to welcome students to school and connect students with their families at the end of the day, we ask for support in ensuring that car traffic runs safely and efficiently.

One way to ensure a safe and efficient arrival and dismissal is through the use of Driveline. We ask that families dropping off children in the morning and picking up children in the afternoon please remain in line rather than parking and walking up to the building. This helps reduce the pedestrian traffic walking within the lanes of traffic and between moving cars that might be pulling out.

As a reminder, the right lane (closest to the building) is for loading and unloading only. The left lane (further from the building) is for through traffic exiting the parking lot. Please use care when merging from one lane to the other.

Thank you for your ongoing partnership in helping keep our parking lot safe!

Oak Hills Fall Conferences will be held on Wednesday, November 2nd and Thursday, November 3rd by appointment. Families will have the option to choose a meeting in person on site or via zoom.

Currently, our bilingual liaisons are securing interpreters for families at the middle school level and will be shortly secure interpreters for families at Oak Hills. Our goal is to open up the appointments two weeks before conferences. Please stay tuned.

Oak Hills Fall Conference Schedule:

• Wednesday, 11/2- School is in session; Evening Conferences (3:40-7:40pm)
  
• Thursday, 11/3- No School for Students, Day time/Evening conferences
• Friday, 11/4- No School for Students

Nominations for TAG

Every year students are considered for Talented and Gifted services in the Beaverton School District. These services are provided by your child's classroom teacher(s). Academic, intellectual, behavioral, learning, and/or performance information is considered before a student is identified for TAG services.

If you think your child might qualify for TAG services, you may wish to complete the Parent Information Form that is available in our school’s office or linked here. Completing this form gives our school TAG Committee more information about your child, but it is not required. All qualified students will be considered regardless of the form’s completion.

Please complete and return the Parent Information Form to your child’s teacher.

Nomination forms are available on the TAG Website.

COGAT Assessment

In October, all 3rd grade students, new 4th graders, and nominated 5th grade students in Beaverton will be administered the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) Screener. This 30-minute test measures students’ learned reasoning abilities through verbal/picture analogies, number analogies and figure matrices.

Currently the main purpose for administering the CogAT is to identify students for TAG in the area of intellectual ability. Students who score at the 97th percentile or above on the CogAT screener will be invited to test with the full version of the CogAT that is used for potential TAG identification. The full version of the CogAT will be given in late October. For more information about testing, please contact your school’s TAG facilitator.

COGAT Screener Dates

Wednesday, October 18 and Thursday, October 19

TAG Family Information Night

Please attend if you are interested in nominating your child for TAG or if your child is currently served by TAG.

Wednesday, October 12

Oak Hills Gym: 5-6pm

Jog-A-Thon Kicked off on September 30th!

Fundraising Goal: $35,000

*Set up your Pledgestart account. More Information on flyer was sent home on Friday.

*Ask your family, friends, and neighbors for pledges through Pledgestar.

*Jog-A-Thon event is on Friday, October 21st!

*Fundraising ends one week after the Jog-A-Thon

*Volunteer Opportunities

If you would like to contribute in any way, big or small, please review the link below for the background check application. A reminder to volunteers who have volunteered in the past to please recheck to see if you are still active in the system.

Seeking Donations for Oak Hills

The Snack Pantry needs to be restocked. Please donate snacks to the school office throughout the school year when you can. Items such as granola bars, crackers, fruit snacks, apple sauce, fruit bars are greatly appreciated.

Kleenex/tissue are also items that are needed in the classrooms and the office. Thank you for your generosity!

International Walk + Roll to School Day is October 12th this year.

Every elementary, middle school, and option school has received a scooter/helmet grand prize and six reflective drawstring bags with smaller prizes to raffle off to students! K-5 teachers and will receive a checklist of students to mark how they traveled to school that day. Students who walk, bike, scooter, skate, roll, bus, or carpool to school on Oct. 12th are eligible to enter the raffle.

Friday, October 14: NO SCHOOL--Staff Development Workday

Wednesday, October 19: PTO meeting 7pm (in-person and zoom option available)

Friday, October 21: Jog-a-Thon

Monday, October 31: Spirit Day (Hats and Headbands)

Wednesday, November 2: Parent-Teacher Conferences 3:30-7:30pm

Thursday, November 3: NO SCHOOL- Parent Teacher Conferences AM and PM options available

Friday, November 4: NO SCHOOL

Tuesday, November 8: Picture Retakes

Thursday, November 10: NO SCHOOL-Grading Day

Friday, November 11: NO SCHOOL-In observance of Veterans Day

Wednesday, November 12: TAG Family Information Night 5-6pm

Friday, November 18: PTO Popcorn Friday

Friday, November 18: PTO Family Movie Night (6-8pm)

Wednesday-Friday, November 23-25: NO SCHOOL-Thanksgiving Holiday Break

Monday, November 28: NO SCHOOL-Staff Development Day

Wednesday, December 7: Winter Music Showcase (Grades 4 & 5) 4-5pm

Wednesday, December 7: Kickoff to Scholastic Book Fair; Book Fair Family Night 5:15-6:15pm

December 7-December 13: Book Fair

As we welcome students back for the 2022-23 school year, we are revisiting the ways we want our school feel each day from the perspectives of our students and staff alike. Care is the word that keeps coming up in conversations. We want students to feel cared for by our staff and their peers. We want students to practice showing care to themselves, to their classmates, to our school and the wider community. We want to celebrate all efforts in making our school community one where everyone feels cared for and connected.

We have collectively developed a set of Oak Hills Agreements to guide our work this year. These are the ways we have agreed to show care throughout the day. We hope that you will find these agreements helpful this year.

Absences and dismissal changes can be reported to us via the Oak Hills website. There are buttons where you can click and report an absence or changes to how your child will be going home. For dismissal, please report the changes before 1:30 PM since this is when we will be delivering the information to our teachers and students. Thank you in advance for utilizing this communication tool. It will free up our phone lines for families, staff, and community members who urgently need to get in touch with the office.

Oak Hills website:

As we move into the coming school year, we continue to work closely with Washington County, using their guidelines and protocols to ensure the safety of our students and staff. During times of high transmission, we will communicate with our school community so you remain informed. You may choose to send your child to school with a mask or without. We will have a separate isolation room to care for students exhibiting symptoms of Covid-19, minimizing the risk of exposure to classmates who may be accessing the health room for an ice pack. In the event that we reach levels of higher transmission, we will also look closely as large-scale events to determine if an outdoor setting, mask recommendations, distancing reminders, etc. would be more appropriate.

We will need your continued partnership throughout the coming year. Please pay close attention to possible symptoms of Covid-19. Communicate with the school office if your child will remain at home due to illness with any Covid-19 related symptoms or if your child tests positive. We appreciate your shared concern for the health and well-being of our students and staff.

District message: Please consider applying if you feel your family may qualify for free or reduced price meal benefits. It is confidential, school staff have no way of knowing which students receive meal benefits and which students do not. Beyond meals, there are MANY benefits to students, families, and school funding.

The household income requirements have changed: As an example, a family of four can have a total household income of up to $83,249 and qualify for meal benefits.

A meal benefits application can be completed online on our app SCHOOL CAFE, an account will need to be set up. Make sure to apply during summer since applications expire at the end of June each school year. We highly recommend that families apply! For more information on meal benefits, please visit the Meal Benefits webpage.

More information here: https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/departments/nutrition-services/meal-benefits