GOLDEN HILLS SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

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Hello Golden Hills Families,

On March 6th we will have our STEAM night! This is happening at Golden Hills from 4:30-6 pm. All classrooms will be open with hands-on STEAM ( Science, technology, engineering, art and music) activities. A community resource fair will be in the Wellness Center. Students will have a passport, if they get their passport stamped and filled by completing the activities they earn a free hot dog meal: hot dog, chips, cookies. The meals can be purchased for family members for $2.00.

Congratulations to all the students who participated in the Golden Hills Spelling Bee on February 28th!! We are proud of you! Our winners will represent our school in the county wide spelling bee. Good luck!

Report cards will go home on Friday, March 14th., Please take some time to go over your student’s report card with them. We are so proud of our students' growth!

On March 21st, Golden Hills will have a growth parade at 11:15 am . Families are invited to attend. We will line up and students will parade through with posters they have made of a growth they are proud of. Weather permitting we will have a Family Picnic after the Growth Parade. Bring a blanket, chairs and lunch to eat with your student.

Golden Hills Before & After School Clubs in March:

• Student Advisory Club with Ms. Rainbow

• Math Tutoring/ Club with Ms. T

• Before School Cub with Mrs. Russell

• Girls on the Run with Ms. Dailey

• Dance Club with Ms. Zarzynski ( 3/10 -4/18)

• Reading Tutoring with Ms. Chapman ( 3/10 - 5/30)

• Band with Mr Grigorik

• Soccer Team with Ms. Pierce ( Coming soon!)

• Flag Football team with Coach G (Coming soon!)

• Gold Dust or Bust Play- Fourth Grade only (end of March)

Please join us for our School Site Council and Parent Teacher Group Meeting on April 17th from 3-4 pm in the STEAM room.

Mrs. Napoli

Thank you to the families who attended our Coffee & Conversations in February. At this meeting we discussed what is going well at Golden Hills and areas of growth! We appreciate the families who joined us! It is so nice to get to know our families better and for families to get to know each other!

Save the Date for our next one: April 10th!

Soccer:

Golden Hills Soccer Team tryouts will be on March 10th ! The team will be multi grade and coed. A permission slip needs to be signed to try out and is due by March 7th. These are available in the office. The season runs from 3/31-5/14.

Flag Football: Golden Hills Flag Football Team tryouts coming soon! The team will be multi grade. A permission slip needs to be signed to try out. The season runs from 4/7- 5/12.

Basketball: Our fourth and fifth grade boys basketball teams did amazing this year. They played against older students and they kept a positive attitude and did their best! Great Job Boys!

February School wide Attendance: 94%, our goal is 95%

Congratulations to Ms. Russell class for having the best attendance in February! They won a lego party!

The Attendance Reward for the 2nd Trimester is almost here!

We have a STEAM arcade coming to Golden Hills. Every student who met the attendance challenge for the 2nd trimester will attend a 40 minute session.

To be invited to participate the challenge is to:

Less than 11 absences (excused or unexcused) for the entire school year

OR

Less than 6 (excused or unexcused) absences from 11/27-2/27/25.

If you have any questions, please contact the office.

Our Ironman Winners (class with the best attendance) for the month of February:

4th Grade:

1. Smith
2. Langone

5th Grade:

1. Russell
2. Corkin

If your child is absent please call the school office to let them know the reason so that your child can possibly be excused. Also, if your child will be absent you can request independent study. Your child will receive work to do and if the work is completed, your child will receive credit for attendance and will not be counted as absent. If you have questions, please call the school office.

Third Trimester Attendance Challenge is a field trip to the movies:

Students must have less than 17 absences for the entire year or less than 6 absences for the third trimester 3/7/25-5/20/25. Our field trip is planned for May 27th at 9 am!

Attendance is very important, if your student is not at school, they cannot learn. Thank you for your support!

Shady Creek is a three night, four day environmental camp. Our fourth grade class will be attending next year. In order to attend we must have parent volunteers to stay in the cabins with the students. These parents must be cleared through our district through the volunteer process. We will need to have the parents cleared before the end of this school year to commit to going! The reserved dates for Shady Creek are the week before our October intercession. Please begin the process so we can be sure we have enough parent volunteers.

Fourth Grade families, we will need you for next year! We need around 10 females and 10 male chaperones for the cabins. So far we have 11 volunteers. We have nine females and 1 male. At this time we will add females on a waitlist to go but we NEED males. We will need 7 males. We have requested the date of Sept. 30th- October 3rd, this will be confirmed before the end of the year.

Please click the link below to sign up to volunteer:

25-26 Shady Creek Sign ups

Our school-wide spelling bee was held on February 26 in the Golden Hills cafeteria. Congratulations to and! Our winners will represent Golden Hills in a county wide spelling bee at the end of the month!

Congratulations to our students who were chosen to receive the Positive Eagle Award for the month of October: Our Positive EAGLE Award is for following TEAM expectations: families receive an email that their student is receiving the award and they are invited to attend. The award winners are called up and given a certificate for following our TEAM expectations.. They got pizza for them and a friend and a brag tag. , they are VIP and are able to be front in line and get to choose which lunch period and table they sit at.

Golden Hills yearbooks are for sale in the school office for the low price of $15.00. Students that purchase a yearbook will receive their copy the last week of school. If you have any questions, please contact the school office at 532-6000.

Students should not be dropped off before 7:45 am, We do not have supervision until 7:45 am.

We have minimum days on Friday’s and school gets out at 1:45.

Students should not bring items from home. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen or broken items.

All students who are on campus must be supervised by an adult. Students should not be on campus after school unless they are in a club, tutoring, a sports team or after school program. Please be on time to pick up your student.

3/3: Jump for Fitness

3/6 STEAM Night at Golden Hills 4:30-6 pm

3/6 STEAM Arcade Attendance Challenge Reward!

3/7 : Fifth Grade Field Trip to Oroville State Theater

3/12: Line Dancing Club: Wed and Thur (permission slips available in the office)

3/ 14 Report Cards Go Home

3/21 :Growth Parade at 11:15 am , Family Picnic

4/16 Golden Hills Talent Show

4/17: Parent Teacher Group/ School Site Council Meeting 3-4 pm.

4/21-4/25 Spring Break

5/5- 5/16; CAASPP Testing

5/14 Fourth Grade Gold Dust or Bust Play at the Oroville State Theater

5/15: 4th Grade Bike Lesson Safety Assembly ( Butte County Public Health)

5/16: Walk to School Event - Butte County: Families are invited to walk 8-8:30am!

5/16: Coffee & Conversations: Join us for coffee and conversations after the Walk to School Event 8:30-9:00 am

5/16: 5th Grade Pedestrian Safety Lesson ( Butte County Public Health)

5/19- 6/3 : Golden Hills Olympics

5/22 Golden Hills Open House 5-6 pm

5/22 Bike Rodeo

5/26 Memorial Day- No School

5/27: Attendance Movie Field trip

5/29: Attendance Movie Field trip

6/5 : Last Day of School