SHS Weekly Newsletter

I hope this message finds you well after a week of inclement weather. As we returned to our regular routine this week, I want to extend a warm welcome back to each and every one of you.

Yesterday the district sent out important updates to our calendar for the 2023-2024 school year as a result of last week's inclement weather days. As a result of the inclement weather days, our district will need to make up one day. Please note that this makeup day will occur on Monday, February 19 (Presidents’ Day), which had already been identified on the 2023-2024 academic calendar as one of our inclement weather makeup days. This means that February 19 will be a regular school day.

Additionally, we will need to adjust the length of the 2nd trimester to rebalance the trimesters for the year. 2nd trimester will now end on Thursday, March 14, and the teacher work day (no school day) will move from Monday, March 11 to Friday, March 15. This means that March 11 will be a regular school day, and March 15 will be a no school day. Thank you for your flexibility and understanding with these changes.

In addition to our calendar updates, I wanted to highlight a couple of important reminders as we move into early February. Course selection for the upcoming academic year began this Tuesday and will continue through Sunday February 4th. This is a crucial time for you to consider your academic path, and our staff is here to assist you in making informed choices. Counselors will be available to students in the Commons at lunch every day next week, and will also be running Flex support periods Tuesday and Thursday to assist students with course selection.

Winter Conferences are now scheduled for Thursday, February 8th, from 4:30 pm to 8:00 pm. This is an excellent opportunity for parents and guardians to engage with teachers, discuss current progress in classes, and make connections with SHS staff. We hope to see you there!

Go Bowmen! Have a wonderful weekend!

Mr. Stead

• 1/27 - Bowmen Pageant Staff vs. Student Basketball Game
  
• 2/4 - Course Selection Closes
• 2/5-2/9 - Staff Appreciation Week
• 2/8- Winter Conferences
• 2/24 - Bowmen Pageant
  

This week students in 9th-11th grade began the process of selecting courses for the 2024-2025 school year in their homeroom period. They will have the opportunity over the next two weeks to review their transcript, go over the 2024-2025 Academic Planning Guide, and meet with their counselors to ask questions. Please check in with your students about their selections.

Students need to select courses using StudentVUE. If students have questions about this process, they should check in with their Homeroom teacher, or with a counselor during lunch or sign up for one of the Flex sessions offered by their counselor on Tuesday, January 30th or Thursday, February 1st.

Course selection will close on Sunday, February 4th.

As you may have heard, the Sherwood School District is engaged in many activities to Celebrate our schools, our students, our staff, and our community. At Sherwood High School, we would love your help in recognizing our staff members who are doing amazing things for our students and families. When you have any positive and exceptional experienced or interactions with our staff, please use the button below to share those with us! We will share that information with the staff member, as well as use any submissions to help identify a staff member of the month that we will recognize at our staff meetings! Bring on those great stories, thank you!

All Sherwood schools will be participating in our second round of lockdown drills for this school year January 29 - February 9. Lockdown drills are an essential part of our emergency preparedness, and help students and staff to practice specific actions that would occur in an emergency situation. Practice drills such as these are also an opportunity for our administrators and staff to collaborate with the Sherwood Police Department to continue improving our safety plans. You may notice increased police presence if you are on/near our campus during a lockdown drill, as our SROs do participate in checking our building security during the drill.

During drills, staff and students are secured within their individual classrooms/offices, and there is no movement in the building. No one will be allowed to enter or exit the campus until the drill has been completed.

For more information on District emergency response protocols and communication, please visit the SSD website here.

Our 9th Grade Success Team has been focusing on learning from our students how we as adults can best influence their first year at SHS. One step in doing this was to have 11th Grade mentors simply ask current 9th Grade students what was going well for them, what were some struggles they were having and what they wished to see or experience at SHS their first year.

The information that we received was insightful and encouraging. There were two common themes: a majority of our 9th grade students are having a positive experience at SHS and that the transition from Middle School to High School was much more difficult than many anticipated.

With the information gathered by students coupled with Trimester 1 and current Trimester 2 data for grades and attendance, the 9th Grade Success Team (NGS) is working to identify interventions and supports to bolster the academic and social success for our 9th Graders this year and for years to come.

If you have a story or experience that you as a student or parent would like to share that you feel could help influence the work we are doing please reach out so that we can learn and grow together.

In July of 2015, the Oregon Legislature passed SB 856, also known as Erin’s Law, which requires schools to provide child sexual abuse prevention instruction for kindergarten through grade 12. In order to meet the requirements in the law and school board policy, Sherwood High School will implement four sexual abuse prevention lessons each year. These lessons will be taught during Homeroom in order to provide this required instruction to all students. All high school teaching staff participate in professional training required by Erin’s Law before teaching these lessons.

The lessons will address the following topics and skills:

Topics Addressed:

• Healthy/Unhealthy Relationships

• Teen Dating Violence

• Sexual Assault/Abuse

Skills Addressed:

• Techniques to Recognize Sexual Abuse

• Communication Skills to Establish Boundaries

• Skills to Tell a Trusted Adult

The lessons will take place on Mondays and Fridays during homeroom between Monday, February, 5 and Friday, March 8, 2024.

In all areas, parents and guardians are a child’s first and most influential teachers. Families and schools share a common goal: we want students of all ages to be valued, respected, and safe in all aspects of their lives. We want to ensure that families have the opportunity to view the content before instruction takes place. Additional information on Erin’s Law and lesson content can be found on the high school’s website linked here. After you have reviewed the lesson content, you may choose to opt your student out of instruction by filling out the opt-out form: [English] [Espanol]

If you have further questions regarding all or part of the Erin’s Law lessons, please inquire with the high school administration.

Visit yearbook’s new website! On it you will find information about ordering, dates, links to submit senior content, and more!

Senior Tributes
All senior tributes are due February 24, 2024.
Senior Tributes are a great way to commemorate your student’s high school experience. Just send in a photo and personalized message and we’ll print it in the yearbook. Pictures might include a baby photo, family photos, artwork, or other image that will commemorate your student. Space is limited, and will be sold on a first come, first serve basis until sold out. Tributes need to be submitted via Google Form on the Yearbook Website.

Hello again from your SHS counseling team! We have been hard at work meeting with all of our freshmen and seniors through flex throughout tri 1 to discuss different grade-specific topics. We are now meeting with all sophomores in the coming weeks regarding attendance and course selection reminders. We have loved being able to connect with each of the students on our caseload.

With course selection quickly approaching, we wanted to share some times that students could check in with their counselor to get some individual support and guidance. The course selection window will be open for students in StudentVUE from Jan 23 - February 4.

Counselors will be available to answer course selection questions:

• During BOTH lunches from January 23-31 in the commons

• During flex on January 25 and 30

This is a very busy time of year for the counseling department and it is challenging to do individual appointments outside of these times. Please utilize the above times to come see us!

Oregon State University Application Reminder:
The OSU priority application deadline is February 1st. Make sure you have requested transcripts in Naviance and complete your application by next Thursday!
*From OSU: “Students wishing to have access to the greatest set of scholarship opportunities should apply by this date. Admission and scholarships may be awarded after this date are offered on a space and funds available basis.”

Career Talks:
Sign up for Flex in the Career Center to listen to guest speakers from a number of industries talk about their careers and how they got them.

Here are some of our upcoming speakers:

January 30th: Physical Therapist - Legacy
January 30th: PCC Future Connect - learn about a scholarship & mentorship program for first generation or low income college students at PCC. https://www.pcc.edu/future-connect/
February 1st: Auto Mechanic - Sherwood Auto Repair
February 6th: HVAC - A-Temp Heating and Cooling
February 8th: Engineering/CNC - Machine Sciences

Sign up for Flex with Ms. Barrett in order to attend!

FAFSA Reminders:
The 2024-2025 FAFSA is now open! Visit StudentAid.gov to start your application. Contact the Career Center if you have questions or need assistance with your FAFSA.

Career Center Calendar

Spring Sports are coming fast! If you are planning on participating in a spring sport (track & field, lacrosse, baseball, softball, tennis, or golf), please register HERE. Spring sports registration ends Feb. 23, 2024.

Athletes must have a current cleared physical on file in order to participate. Physicals must be on the OSAA form linked HERE.

Questions? Email Connie at cpollock@sherwood.k12.or.us

The SHS Baseball program is hosting it's annual Crab Feed & Silent Auction on Saturday, February 3rd from 5:00-9:00pm.

Tickets/Online Auction registration can be found at auctria.events/CrabFeed2024.

PLAYER MEETING (New and Returning)
February 7 @ 2:20 pm (after early release)

PARENT MEETING
February 21 @ 6:30 pm (players not required to attend)

Both meetings will be held in the SHS Community Room.

Contact Coach Greg at bowmengirlsgolf@yahoo.com with any questions.

January 27, 6:00-9:00PM, Sherwood High School’s Youth Activism Club is hosting the Voices for Change: Art Exhibit & Open Mic Night, which is dedicated to supporting the voices of young POC artists and performers within our community. Our organization’s mission is to uplift traditionally underrepresented voices and create paths to equity for all people. Our art exhibit provides a welcoming space for people from all walks of life to enjoy beautiful art and music together. The exhibit will be displayed throughout February in the Sherwood Center for the Arts lobby. Stop by to support local artists and the diversity of our community.

This is our Annual Broadway Bits show! It is an exciting performance of Broadway songs performed by Sherwood High School choir students. Vote for your favorite acts and help the students raise money for the choir. The show will be performed Thursday, February 1st at 7:00pm in the Sherwood High School auditorium. A judges panel will be giving various awards and an Audience Choice award will be awarded to the act with the most votes. Voting tickets will be sold separately online and at the show for $1 each.

Pre-buy your tickets here!

Tickets go on sale now for Bowmen Theatre's production of You Can't Take It With You! Tickets can be purchased at http://bowmentheatre.com/tickets

One of the most popular and successful plays of modern times, You Can't Take It With You is a hilarious, delightful portrait of a charmingly eccentric family. Their hobbies include collecting snakes, building fireworks in the basement, writing a myriad of plays that never get published, and taking ballet lessons. But when practical young Alice Sycamore becomes engaged to her company’s Vice President Tony Kirby, the Vanderhof/Sycamore clan must straighten up to meet the new in-laws.

Show Dates & Times:
Friday 2/9 @ 7pm
Saturday 2/10 @ 7pm
Friday 2/16 @ 7pm
Saturday 2/17 @ 7pm

What is Bowmen Pageant?

Bowmen Pageant is a fundraiser put on by Sherwood High School to raise money for the Kids Making Miracles program through Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. The pageant is available to seniors who meet the requirements. There are 16 pairs that will compete to raise the most money for children in need. This year, Bowmen Pageant will be held Saturday, February 24th in the SHS Auditorium at 6 pm.

To kick off our fundraising season, all our Bowmen Pageant contestants are participating in a basketball game against SHS staff on January 27th at 3pm! There will be multiple challenges for the players per quarter. This is a great way for our contestants to get connected with our school community. Admission to get into the game is $5. The game is open to the Sherwood community and all the proceeds go to Bowmen Pageant for Doernbecher Children's Hospital!

The lunch menu for February has been updated to reflect the weather makeup day on February 19. To view or print the updated menu, please click the link below.

Join us for the next Student Services Parent Partnership meeting on Wednesday, January 31st from 6:30pm- 8:00pm at the District Office! These meetings provide an opportunity to build positive connections and learn more about special education and Section 504. Please RSVP to Angela Thiemann at 503-825-5035 or athiemann@sherwood.k12.or.us.

Our topics this month include:

• Meaningful progress for students with disabilities

• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act definition

• Data collection- how educators track progress

• Ensuring access for students with disabilities

• Accommodations and modifications

Upcoming 2023-2024 Student Services Parent Partnership Dates:

• Wednesday, February 28th 4:30pm-6:00pm
• Friday, March 22nd- 9:00am-10:30am
• Wednesday, April 24th 6:30pm-8:00pm
• Wednesday, May 29th 4:30pm-6:00pm

Child Care ~ Enrichment ~ Preschool options for all Sherwood families with children 0-5 years old. Come explore the many options available in Sherwood tomorrow, January 27th, 9:00-11:00am at the SSD District Office.

Class of 2024 Family:

Please join us for two great fundraising events this weekend!

Join us for a very special date night.

Grab your love, and your pals to dance the night away.

Your ticket includes entry, appetizers, and drink tickets.

January 27th

Vine and Sparrow

7pm – 10 pm

$50 each

Buy a Raffle Ticket – Time to Get Away! Got the wintertime blues? Now’s your chance to find some sun! In support of Gradnight2024 events, we are offering a chance to win 4 airline tickets for SW Airlines*. Winners will have 1 year to execute, take your time to plan a fun vacation to get away! A winner will be announced on January 29th.

Don’t wait!

* AIRLINE TICKETS ARE REDEEMABLE TO USE IN US ONLY.

Got Mail? Are you signed up on our mailing list? We are sending email regularly from Gradnight 2024. If you are not receiving these, please check your junk mail, or reach out at SHSGradnight2024@gmail.com

Interested in helping at Grad Night? Check out our website for additional information or reach out at shsgradnight2024@gmail.com.

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