October Scholls Heights Knights
Parent/Guardian Newsletter
Parent/Teacher Conferences
https://www.ptcfast.com/schools/Scholls_Heights_Elementary
Reminder: Students have an Early Release day on Oct. 17th and conferences are that day from 4PM-8PM. Students do not have school on Thursday, October 18th but teachers will be conferencing from 8 AM-8PM. There is no school on Friday, October 19.
There is a Fun PTO Event on Thursday, October 18th! The PTO is hosting a family movie day during our Parent Teacher Conferences on Thursday, October 18 at 2 PM. All students are welcome to enjoy the movie with their adult. If you have a conference scheduled during the movie, you may leave your school aged child while you attend your conference and return to the movie after. The movie chosen by the students is Hotel Transylvania 3.
Walk and Roll
All students will receive a sticker. Staff will be cheering students on as they enter the building. This is a great way to promote either exercise or less pollution through riding the bus.
Students at Passport Check-Out
Thank you to our Passport Volunteers!
Next Passport Check is October 30th.
Dining for Dollars
Book Fair
CogAT Screener
In October, all 3rd and 5th grade students in the Beaverton School District 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 November. For more information, please contact (our building TAG Facilitators) Nate Aaberg or Anna Turman.
Missing 10% (or about 18 days) can make it harder to learn to read. #EveryDayMatters #Attendance
Calendar Survey
The Beaverton School District staff and community are invited to assist with the selection of the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 District calendars by selecting their preferred calendar option for each of the two years. The survey will be open through October 14, 2018. The final calendars will be announced and posted on the District’s website following the October 22, 2018 School Board meeting.
The calendar committee, comprised of parents, association leadership, school administrators and central administrators, considered the following factors when developing the various calendar options:
- Contractual requirements: District calendars must include 184 student days, 198 licensed employee days, 5 paid holidays (Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, Presidents Day and Memorial Day), 3 August pre-service days, 2 August professional development days and 4 grading days.
- Instructional and historical considerations: Calendar committees typically try to distribute semesters as evenly as possible, place grading days on Mondays or Fridays for parent convenience and provide as many full weeks of school as possible. Winter break has historically been ten days and spring break follows the Oregon University System (OUS) calendar.
- Starting before/after Labor Day: Over the past three years, an additional nine instructional days have been added to the calendar. Adding these days to the beginning of the year are considered more instructionally consequential for students, prompting school to begin before Labor Day in 2018 rather than going later in June.
Parent Resources
https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/PS/Pages/Parent-Bookmarks.aspx