Mark Your Calendar
1/17 - MLK Jr. Holiday, NO SCHOOL
1/18 PTC Virtual Meeting 6:30 p.m.
1/24 Winter SUN Session Begins
1/28 C&I Day, NO SCHOOL
Principal's Message
Dear North Gresham Families,
As we see Covid-19 cases rise across the county, and are well into the cold and flu season, I want to encourage our families to continue to make the health and safety of all a priority.
How can you help?
- Keep your child home when sick, regardless of whether it's Covid-related or not. We still exclude for symptoms such as: a fever of 100.5 or greater, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, etc. If you're unsure if your student's symptoms are excludable, please keep your student home as a precaution and call the office for further direction.
- If your student or anyone in your household has a pending Covid-19 test, we encourage you to keep your student home until you get the results. This will reduce the spread to others at school in case the results are positive.
- If anyone in your household tests positive, please keep your student home even if they test negative, or aren't showing any symptoms and contact the school.
Guidelines change rapidly. When there are changes that affect our families, we will notify you as soon as possible. Thank you again for your continued support and flexibility as we navigate this challenging time together. We sincerely appreciate the efforts of our families to keep our staff and students healthy and safe!
Sincerely,
Shawnda Sewell
Principal
Inclement Weather & Emergency School Closure Information
If school closes early while students are already here, we will send a message to families to notify you of the early school closure. Please note that we send students home as you directed on the blue emergency transportation form you filled out in the beginning of the year. We do not have the ability to call all families and ask how students will get home in the event of an early closure, or to receive a high call volume for last-minute changes. In order to get students home safely and quickly, we rely on advance planning and the information from the emergency transportation form. If you didn't fill out a blue emergency transportation form at the beginning of the year, or need to make a change to your form, please contact the office as soon as possible.
PBIS with Mrs. Reed
For the month of January, we are practicing Happy Habit 3 - Put First Things First. Put First Things First means to decide what is most important and to take care of that first. Thinking about what needs to be done tomorrow or by the end of the week can be overwhelming, especially for children. Learning to think of which things are the most important and taking care of them first allows children (and adults) to be less stressed.
If your child uses a planner at school, then he or she has a great organizational tool to Put First Things First in writing. By writing down his or her responsibilities and planning ahead, last-minute trips to the store, missed events, or missed homework are avoided. If your child does not use a planner, having a weekly log would also be helpful. This could simply be a piece of paper that is used each week. Modeling this behavior is one of the best ways to teach children.
One activity you might try with your child is to create a list of things your child needs to accomplish throughout the week. With your child, rank the tasks in importance. Then rewrite the list in order of importance. You can also use a calendar or a planner to schedule time so that the important things are done first.
North Gresham Elementary School
