Weekly Newsletter 10/3/25

 

October 3rd, 2025

It's October!

I want to take a moment to express how incredibly proud I am of the important work you do every single day as parents.

We see our students working hard to show up every day ready to learn, and we know that dedication and hard work starts at home. Thank you for cultivating that environment for your children.

I am grateful for all of our families and guardians, for the space we hold for one another, and for the deep conversations we can have as a community to better support our children and our families.

Thank you for your commitment and trust.

Announcements:

• Swimming starts this week for 2nd/3rd grade and 4th/5th grades! Students will swim for 2 weeks. The school will help track swim gear and towels while they are here at school and will dry the equipment each day. 
• We have our bi-annual WALK AND ROLL to school event on Wednesday, 8/8. We encourage all students to walk or roll to school to help promote safe routes to school.

• We will have our dental clinic on Wednesday Oct 8th in the morning. 
• We will be sending home sign up forms for our Wednesday STEM/Robotics afterschool program next week, we are hoping to start the second-third week in October. If you are interested in volunteering with this program please reach out to the office, we would love to have you! 
• We have started our first attendance challenge off with a BANG! So far 2nd/3rd and 4th/5th have earned 3 points each, MS has earned 4 points, and we are still waiting for K/1 to earn their first point.  For every school day that a class has no more than 1 student absent and/or 1 student tardy, they will earn a point. The class with the most points by the end of the month will earn a privilege. This month's privilege is an extra fun recess with popsicles, games, sidewalk chalk, and a bubble dance party. 
• First week of Middle School Campout, points are tallied up, and students are quickly realizing that they can't earn points if they do not do their work, do not follow directions, and/or get an office referral. Some students earned well over the goal of 167 points this first week for stepping up as leaders and working hard! We know they can all do it! 
• We are looking for pumpkin donations for our Dorena students for 10/31, if anyone has a lead on about 120 pumpkins that could be donated to our school, we would greatly appreciate it! 

Data Update  

We have completed our first round of assessments and wanted to share some of our school wide data thus far.

Reading

Dibels Assessment

• Kindergarten 33% of students are currently on grade level
• First grade 18% on grade level
• 2nd grade 58% on grade level
• 3rd grade 72% on grade level
• 4th grade 69% on grade level
• 5th grade 44% on grade level
• 6th grade 64% on grade level
• 7th grade 50% on grade level
• As an entire school we have 51% of all students meeting grade level standards for reading! 

MAP Growth Assessment 

• As a school our reading achievement score was that 45% of students are on grade level. 

Math

MAP Growth Assessment

• As a school our math acheivement score was that 40% of students are on grade level. 

Attendance 

A regular attender is defined as a student who is present for 90% or higher of instructional time during the school day. 

• Kindergarten has 100% regular attenders!
• First grade has 72% of students regularly attending
• Second grade has 91% of students regularly attending 
• Third grade has 75% of students regularly attending
• Fourth grade has 75% of students regularly attending
• Fifth grade has 94% of students regularly attending
• Sixth grade has 71% of students regularly attending
• 7th grade has 90% of students regularly attending
• 8th grade has 75% of students who regularly attend
• As an whole school our attendance is currently at 84% of students attending regularly our school goal by the end of the year is 85% of students attending regularly. 

Behavior 

• Currently, we have 112 office disciplinary referrals as a school. 
• 72% of those referrals are from First grade
• 16% of those referrals are from 2nd grade
• 40% of all referrals are for eloping.
• 21% of all referrals are for disruption to the learning environment
• 13% of all referrals are for physical aggression. 
• 50% of referrals are occurring in the classroom
• 18% of referrals are occurring on the playground.

• Week 10/6-10/10Character Trait: Emotion Regulation/Impulse Control 

  4th/5th Swimming 2nd/3rd Swimming

  4th/5th Swimming K/1 Field Trip to the Fire Station 9:10am  2nd/3rd Swimming

  Walk and Roll To School!  Early Release for all 12:30pm Dental Screenings 8:30am 4th/5th Swimming 2nd/3rd Swimming Sticker Store

  4th/5th Swimming 2nd/3rd Swimming

  No School

On the Radar:

• 10/15 School Picture Day 
• 10/17 DORENA NIGHT at the CGHS Football Game! 
• 10/20-10/31 K/1 and Middle School Swimming 
• 10/31- PBIS Halloween Event
• 10/31 Attendance Challenge ends

We Love Panther Pride Day!