The Panther Post
November 2022
Letter from the Principal
March/April 2024
Happy Spring to our awesome CAM Families! It is hard to believe we are now in the home stretch for the last part of our school year. I am so happy and excited that we are settled into our new campus and the final upgrades and touches are being placed on our campus. Thank you to our families for all of your support and kindness during the past couple of years of transitions. It has been challenging but we have worked through this.
After we come back from spring break students in grades 3-8 will be completing their spring I-ready assessments. This gives us a good idea of the level of growth in English Language Arts and Math during the course of the year (fall, winter and spring). That will occur April 8-19. Following, students will be participating in the Smarter Balance State Assessment. Students in grades 3-8 and 10 will participate in English Language Arts and Math Assessments. Grades 5, 8 and 11 will also take the Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science. In addition, high school students that have signed up will be participating in Advanced Placement Testing in May. Click here for CAM Assessment Calendar 2024. It will be critical that students get a good night’s rest, eat a good breakfast and bring in wired earbuds for testing. We will have a limited supply of headphones for some of the testing.
One of the things that we will be doing this spring is reaching out to our families of students that have struggled during the course of the school year with multiple unsatisfactory monthly progress reviews. We will determine if having them continue at CAM is in their best interest. There are other factors that have been observed this year that may have resulted in students' struggles. This includes a high level of absences and student tardiness. Part of the parent partnered agreement is that students will be at school regularly and on time to their classes. We want all of our students to be successful and not to feel overwhelmed, frustrated or that the placement is too difficult for them. We will need more help from our parents of those students that struggle in order to make the experience at CAM successful.
Enrollment for the 2024-25 school year is in full swing. We have received over 150 applications up to this point. To know how many seats we will have available for new students, our registrar sent out a forecasting survey in early March to provide current CAM families the opportunity to inform us of their student's plans for the next school year. If you were not able to submit that, and your student will not be returning to CAM next year, please complete the Intent to Withdrawal Form. This will allow us to inform applicants on the waitlist of seat availability.
Finally, I want to share some important events that are coming up as we move further into the school year. Grades 3-6 will be having monthly Character Assemblies and recognizing students that have demonstrated the monthly character trait. In addition, several field trips are coming up in April-June. If you want to volunteer please be sure you are cleared by the district. If you would like to volunteer please go to the link: https://www.battlegroundps.org/volunteer/ You can also access the form by going to the CAM Website under Family Resources and click on BGPS Volunteer process. We appreciate all of the support that is given. We know without the parent partnership we would not be able to provide the level of support to all of our students.
Ryan Cowl, Principal
Supporting and promoting the academic success, positive character development and acquisition of marketplace skills for our students by building strong partnerships with families.
406 NW 5th Avenue, Battle Ground WA
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