Weekly Newsletter 4/25/25
April 25th, 2025
A heartfelt thank you to all who attended our parent-teacher conferences! It was truly inspiring to see our Middle School students leading their own conferences with confidence and reflection. Likewise, our 4th and 5th graders did an amazing job sharing their goals and progress with their people.
Your partnership in this journey is invaluable, as growth happens best when we work together to support our students. Thank you for being such an integral part of their success!
As we look ahead, we hope everyone enjoys the upcoming three-day weekend. It's hard to believe May is just around the corner!
Announcements:
- PBIS Theme: Organization & Time Management
- Goals:
- I can stay focused on a task with break if needed.
- I can complete my work
- I can keep my school materials and personal items organized in my backpack and/or desk.
- The last day for our April Attendance challenge will be Monday 4/26, the class with the most points will get to go to the Movie Theaters on Friday 5/2 to see the Minecraft Movie and they will get a kids pack!
- We are looking at FULL capacity in all of our classrooms next year! This is exciting, all students are REQUIRED to turn in a new attendance Exception form if you would like for your student to continue to go to school here. We give priority for current students but you need to turn in the form. Please see it here. Please do this as soon as possible!
- Mrs. Hannah put together a Dorena SWAG order using Eugene Silkscreen. Order forms are in the office, coming home with kids or you can download it here. Forms and funds are due May 16th so that we can get them in before the end of the year! Thanks!
- It is time for our annual fundraiser! Each year we raise funds to boost the extracurriculars available to our students such as art, music, theater, etc. We are having a Read-A-Thon to raise money this year! Our Read-A-Thon officially starts Monday 4/14/25, forms are coming home in Friday Folders. The Read-a-Thon ends May 9th with forms and funds due the week of May 12th. This year the class with the most read minutes will earn an ice cream sundae party AND if our school reads a total of 5000 minutes as a whole Mrs. Pixton and Ms. Marcia will spend the night on the roof of the school!
- 4 of our Middle School student leaders were invited to speak on the KNND radio show, catch their awesome interviews on the KNND Facebook page!
- Free Event Coming Up! See Flier HERE
- Need some compost for your garden? We are giving away 1/2 a yard of free compost to Dorena Families, sponsored by our Garden Club. It is located at the rear end of our bus round about, and free for the taking. You load and haul, thank you Dorena Garden club for this generous donation!
- We have various illnesses going around and families asking about when to keep students home, HERE is the Oregon guidelines for symptoms to stay home for.
- Current Afterschool program schedules:
- Garden Club Tuesday and Thursdays 2:30-3:30pm
- Theater (4th-8th) Monday, Tues, Thurs 3:00-4:30pm
- Robotics/Stem Wed 12:30-2:30pm
Data-
Every year, we do a big data review with the School District and wanted to share it some of it with you.
Reading
- According to our latest DIBELS reading data, 50% of our Dorena students are reading on grade level or scoring at grade level on the composite. In the fall, 41% of students were meeting grade level, so we have made some progress!
Social Emotional Skills
- 16% of all students have reported or measured as having a strength in all SEL areas. 36% report or measure having strength in more than half of the SEL areas. 22% of students report or measure having a strength in less than half of the SEL areas, and 11% of students show no SEL strengths.
- The areas we measure are Persistence, Growth Mindset, Grit, Self-management, Social awareness, and Emotion Regulation.
Attendance
- Our attendance has slowly been increasing! We have gone from 66% regular attenders to currently at 70% regular attenders. Our school goal is 75% of students attending school at least 90% of the time!
- Currently 3rd grade has the highest attendance rate for the last 90 days, Kindergarten has the lowest attendance rate for the last 90 days.
- Dorena School has the lowest attendance rate compared to all of the other SLSD elementary schools! We still have time to change this!
Behavior
- We have a total of 937 total office referrals so far this year! Last year we had a total of 293 total office referrals for the year. 52.1% of all referrals are from our Kindergarten Class, 17.2% of all referrals are from 1st grade and 10.1% are from 4th grade.
Volunteers
- WE ARE SO GRATEFUL for our Volunteers!
- We are always looking for more volunteers to help in our school. This year we have a new math curriculum and it requires a lot of prep! We also send home snack packs weeks and need help with assembly. If the activities listed below are something that you are interested in, please stop by our office and pick up a volunteer packet. Processing applications takes about 2 weeks so please get your forms in quickly.
- Helping in the classroom
- Attending and assisting on field trips
- Helping with school events such as assemblies, field day, etc.
On the Radar:
- 4/23 & 4/24 Conference Day
- 4/25 No School
- 5/1 National Principal's Day
- 5/2 Lunch Hero Day
- 5/12 Read-A-Thon Ends
- 5/16 Wildlife Safari Trip 2nd-8th grades
- 5/16 &5/17 Theater Performances
- 5/17 Dorena Night at the Ems game!
Week of School 4/28-5/2
We are so happy that you and your students are members of our Dorena School family! We will partner together to have a fantastic school year. Thank you for all that you do. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you ever have questions or concerns.
Four of our Middle School student leaders were invited to talk on the KNND radio show about student leadership! They did amazing we are so proud of them!
Smokey the bear came to visit K/1 and 4th/5th to teach them about Fire safety!
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