Oak Hills Newsletter

This form will come home in your child's backpack on Wednesday. Look for a neon yellow form.

Forms are due back on Wednesday, May 29. If you need another copy, there will be extras in the front office.

Purpose of Input Form

There are many factors that are considered when placing students in classrooms. As placements are made for the 2024-2025 school year, information you provide about your child will be carefully considered. At Oak Hills, we take great effort to consider each individual child’s needs while maintaining an equitable class configuration. Classroom teachers, specialists, support staff, and admin work together to place each child in a class that will best meet their needs. Please do not use the form as a chance to request a specific teacher, but as an opportunity to share information useful in meeting the needs of your child.

Here are the questions on the form:

*Describe your child’s strength as a learner:

*Describe your child’s challenges as a learner:

*Describe the learning environment in which your child thrives.

PTO News

This Friday, May 17th, from 6-8pm will be the third annual Otterfest! See the attached flyer for additional details. This is a great event to help celebrate the year. We hope you and your family can join us!

We really need volunteers to run this event. Without enough volunteers, we will need to cancel some of the activities. There are multiple shifts available. Please sign up to volunteer on MyImpact.

This week:

Mon. 5/13 Rose City Chess - PE Portable

Mon. 5/13 Little Otterbots - SEL Portable

Mon. 5/13 Girls Running Club - Gym

Tues. 5/14 Lunch Art Club Grades 2-5th

Tues. 5/14 Math Club Grades 3rd-5th (First Session)

Wed. 5/15 RecTennis - Gym

Thurs. 5/16 Kids Yoga - Portable

Next week:

Mon. 5/20 Rose City Chess - PE Portable (last week)

Mon. 5/20 Little Otterbots - SEL Portable (last week)

Mon. 5/20 Girls Running Club - Gym (last week)

Tues. 5/21 Lunch Art Club Grades 2-5th (last week)

Tues. 5/21 Math Club Grades 3rd-5th

Wed. 5/22 RecTennis - Gym

Thurs. 5/23 Kids Yoga - Portable

Oak Hills staff would like to invite our volunteers to join us in the gym for cookies and coffee on Friday, May 31st at 8:15am. We have some sweet surprises planned for you! We will send an invitation to all families in two weeks.

Water sampling was conducted at Oak Hills Elementary School recently by an independent consultant. Lead in water testing is required per Oregon Department of Education (ODE) and Oregon Health Authority (OHA). This was planned follow-up testing to a district-wide program which was initiated in 2016.

Fifty-seven sample locations were collected, and one (a workroom sink with no student access) had a concentration above the action level (15 parts per billion). We are taking actions to reduce the concentrations of lead in this location and access will be restricted until mitigation and follow-up testing can take place to verify concentrations are below the criteria set by OHA.

Data results are provided on the BSD Healthy and Safe Schools website under “Programs” and “Lead in Drinking Water Testing” and the current school year. Further information and where to direct questions also can be found on this website. If you have further concerns about these results, please contact kathryn_ewing@beaverton.k12.or.us

According to OHA, when considering your child’s exposure to lead, it is most valuable to review potential sources of lead in your home. The OHA’s lead resources website has more information on this topic.

SEND IN YOUR PHOTOS for our Get Caught Reading Celebration - May 6-24th

Our school is celebrating reading in May! We would love to involve families! Please email photos of your children getting caught reading in fun places to Mrs. Vallee at anna_vallee@beaverton.k12.or.us by May 17th for an all school video to be shown before the author visit on May 24th.

ORDER BOOKS before our Author Visit - We will welcome poetry author Kenn Nesbitt on May 24th.

PURCHASE AUTHOR BOOKS on Amazon using this LINK.

Your child can enjoy reading the books then bring them to school on May 24th to be autographed!

OBOB 2025

The full list is out now! Students interested in doing OBOB next year can start to read the books now! We will be making teams in October, so please hold off on talking about making teams. Much changes over the summer. Just enjoy reading the books and talking about them.

OBOB Hall of Fame

If your 3rd - 5th grade child is interested in reading all 16 OBOB books and becoming a part of the OBOB Hall of Fame, here is a LINK to the website page with where you will find the OBOB Hall of Fame link to complete and submit. Once submitted, your child will get a certificate, a free book and their picture in the newsletter! Submissions are accepted all school year!

End of Year

All Library Books are due May 30th. Overdue notices will go out to emails. Look for emails from BSD Library Services with details. If a book is not returned before the end of the school year, the district will mark the book(s) as Lost and a fine will be assessed on your child’s library account to be paid for a replacement copy. Currently we have over 150 overdue library books.

Questions about the happenings in Library? Check out the LIBRARY WEBSITE for:

• Helpful Library Links for students and parents

• How to View Your Library Account (Slides 1-7), View the Library Catalog (slide 8), Putting Books on Hold (Slides 9-10), Renewing books (slides 11-12), Paying Library Fines (Slide 13)

• OBOB Information

• Ordering Books From Scholastic for your home collection

• Donation

If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to Ms. Larsen at leilani_larsen@beaverton.k12.or.us

PTO Board & Last Meeting of the Year

Are you interested in being more involved with the school and events? If so, we are looking for some new PTO board members (multiple officer positions available). Please email pto@oakhillspto.org if you are interested.

The last PTO meeting of the year will be on Wednesday, May 29th at 7pm. We will be discussing the budget for next year and voting in new board members.

2024 Annual Parent/Guardian Survey

Sent on May 6, 2024

Dear BSD Families,

The 2024 Annual Parent/Guardian Survey is now open. Your feedback helps us measure how we as a school district are doing and how we can improve. Everyone who has a student in the Beaverton School District is welcome to participate.

This survey is voluntary. You may opt out of completing the survey at any time. You can go back and change your answer to a previous question, but you must finish the survey in one sitting. The survey should take about 10 minutes to complete.

The survey results are shared with school and district leaders, the School Board and the community each year. Results of the survey will be available at the end of June on our Research & Reports webpage under Annual Surveys. You also will find results of past parent and student surveys on this webpage.

The survey closes on Monday, May 20.

Thank you in advance for participating in the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2024_PG_Survey

Friday, May 17 Spirit Day: Creative Hair

Friday, May 17 PTO Otterfest 6-8pm

Monday, May 20 Kindergarten Field Trip

Wednesday, May 22 3rd Grade Field Trip (2 classes)

Thursday, May 23 3rd Grade Field Trip (2 classes)

Friday, May 24 Author's Visit Assembly; Schoolwide Read-In

Monday, May 27 No school for staff and students--Memorial Day

Friday, May 31 Volunteer Appreciation Event 8:15am

Friday, May 31 PTO Board Game Night 6-8pm

Wednesday, June 5 3rd Grade Field Trip

Friday, June 7 5th Grade End-of-Year Celebration --Oak Hills Rec Center

Wednesday, June 12 Last day of school! Field Day (Volunteer info coming out soon!)

Wednesday, June 12 5th Grade Clap Out--More information to follow

Change to School Start and End Times in 2024-2025

Our district has shifted start and end times for preK-12 starting next year. Please note the changes at Oak Hills. We will be starting earlier and ending earlier. Doors and morning mix areas will be open at 7:30am due to school starting at 7:45am. Bus information will be shared later in the summer. Feel free to email/call/wave me down on campus if you have questions about the new schedule.

• Early Elementary 7:45 - 2:20
• Middle School 9:30 -4:05
• Comprehensive High Schools 8:45 - 3:30
• Options Schools 8:15 - 3:00

Absences and dismissal changes can be reported to us via the Oak Hills website. There are buttons where you can click and report an absence or changes to how your child will be going home.

For dismissal, please do your best to report the changes before 1:00pm since this is when we will be delivering the information to our teachers and students. If it is after 1pm, please call the main office to report the change and not the website button.

Thank you in advance for utilizing this communication tool. It will free up our phone lines for families, staff, and community members who urgently need to get in touch with the office.

Oak Hills website:

https://oakhills.beaverton.k12.or.us/

Email: thao_do_gwilliam@beaverton.k12.or.us
Website: https://oakhills.beaverton.k12.or.us
Location: 2625 Northwest 153rd Avenue, Beaverton, OR, USA
Phone: 503.356.2410