Dear Athey Creek Community,

It was wonderful seeing so many familiar faces at Curriculum night last Thursday. I appreciate all the positive messages from families who were able to attend the event and connect with their child’s teachers. Welcome back to school!

The school year is fully underway. Club sign ups will be happening soon as well as our first “Home” Cross Country Running Meet this Thursday. This week also features the 6th grade Game Night hosted by our PTSA with keynote speaker, Dennis Dixson (former Duck and NFL professional QuarterBack)!

Thursday will be our first school wide assembly. Each advisory class has been creating demonstration videos that feature our school expectations in various locations across the school. The winning videos will be presented at the Athey Creek Student Expectations Film Festival. We’ll see which advisory classes ‘bring home’ the Gold Cougar Award for their category.

Keep reading Athey Notes to learn more about events and happenings. We look forward to seeing you at Athey Creek!

Sincerely,

Joel Sebastian

ACMS Principal

New Information:

1. Introducing Kerry Svode as our new Bookkeeper!

2. Food Delivery Information

3. Parent- Teacher Conferences

4. Cougar Counselor Corner

5. Back to School Dance Information

6. PTSA Update!

Important Information From Last Week

1. PTSA 6th Game Night information

2. Robotics Sign Up

3. How to Help your Student be Successful with Technology

4. Become a Paraeducator! We Need You!

5. More Information about the New Riverside High!

Hello! I’m Kerry and I’m new to the Athey Creek team this year. I’m very excited to work one on one with our amazing students and our learning specialists as a paraeducator. I previously worked in a middle school in Oregon City. I live in the district with my husband and our two children who are twins. The kids are off to college so it’s quieter around the house these days. When I’m not at school, you can often find me walking the hills, paddling on the river or enjoying a hike in the beautiful pnw!

Meet our Counselors! Ms. Alisa Doll and Ms. Snapp are our amazing counselors and they have provided us with a slideshow that will introduce them and share how they support students in a variety of ways!

Please reach out if you have any questions.

Alisa and Toni

Click here to read more about them!

Welcome back to our school dances! Our first one is Glow in the dark/Neon themed.

Athey Creek Students (all grades!) are welcome to come October, 7, 2022 from 6:30pm-8:00pm. $5 at the door gets them a glow stick, dancing in the commons with DJ, use of a photo booth and an open Gym. There will be concessions available for an extra charge. Please join us for this sure to be fun first dance! (Athey Creek Students Only.)

Volunteers needed please sign up with the district here:

https://www.wlwv.k12.or.us/volunteer

And with our Dance Coordinator here:

https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10c0c48a8ab2ea7f49-athey

Athey Creek Middle School will host its new Game Night to celebrate 6th graders (in place of Turning Point if you had students here pre-Covid) and allow them to get to know each other as they come together to create a new community. The events will include group activities, games including Game Truck, prizes, food and drinks and lots of laughs!

The event is on Tuesday, September 27, 2022 from 3:45 – 6:30pm with check-in right after school. Please pick up students by 6:30pm. We will provide snacks and dinner.

Please review this packet, complete the forms and return the following to the Game Night box in the front office by next Wednesday, September 21, 2022.

• Contract: Required – Both Child and Parent need to read, complete and sign this form.

• Emergency Form: Required – Parent needs to complete and sign this form.

• Photo Exemption Form: Optional – If you don’t want your child photographed during this event, please complete and sign this form.

• $20.00: Include cash or a check payable to Athey Creek PTSA (Scholarships are available for qualified students – please check at office.) *Please note: This will need to be a separate check from any other PTSA expenses.

To create a safe environment, there will be adult chaperones at this event. No one will be allowed to enter or leave the building without passing through a monitored check point. Please make sure your child knows there are to be no electronics at the event, including cell phones (which must be silenced and left in their backpack.) Questions? Contact Krista Oswald kristajoswald@gmail.com or Barbara Stratte barbarastratte@gmail.com.

We need volunteers to help this night run smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering please contact: Kristajoswald@gmail.com

Our long awaited start to our ACMS Robotics club has arrived! Is your student interested in joining us? If so, here's a bit of information about our Robotics Club.

For 6th graders, we partake in the FIRST Lego League program (FLL website: https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/fll).

For 7th and 8th graders, we follow the First Tech Challenge (FTC website: https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/ftc)

If your student is interested in participating in the program as listed above, please fill out this Google Form so I know to keep in contact with you.

Our teams are contingent on our amazing parents to volunteer as coaches and support. Meeting days will depend on volunteer availability. I am currently looking for coaches for both the FLL and FTC programs. In that same Google Form for the student sign-up, you may specify if you are interested and available to coach/volunteer for our super teams!

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Heidi Goldstrom