Worthington Hills Weekly Update

Worthington Hills Families,

Thank you for all of your donations to the Ronald McDonald House! It's great to see our students eager and excited to give back to our community.

Make it a great weekend!

Warmly,

Tiena Miller

Principal

tmiller1@wscloud.org

Third Grade Girl Scouts from Troop #6903 who have volunteered to help organize, sort and reunite lost items with their owners! We are SO excited about this!

WoHills Digital Lost & Found

We thank you and your family for being our valued partners as we work together to educate the children in our district. As you may already be aware, building our well-being and social-emotional learning skills is an important goal for our school this year and every year. Over the next few weeks, students will participate in several exercises to better understand these concepts and to reflect on how they perceive these skills in themselves.

As we have done for the last four years, we will be asking for your child to reflect on his/her own mindsets and approaches to learning via an online survey. The survey shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes to complete and will be administered during a two-week window from 11/4-11/15.

We are partnering with Panorama Education, a third-party vendor, to support us in administering these surveys. The survey content will ask students in grades 3-12 to self-reflect on Sense of Belonging, Self Management, Emotion Regulation, Social Awareness, and Supportive Relationships. Our students in grades 6-12 will also be asked to self-reflect on an additional topic, Cultural Awareness and Action.

During the 2023-2024 school year our District partnered with Battelle for Kids and a community design team consisting of students, families, community members, support staff, teachers, and administrators to create a Worthington Schools Portrait of a Learner. The Design Team worked to answer the following questions during that process, which led to our District Portrait of a Learner:

• What are the hopes, dreams, and aspirations that our community has for its students?

• What are the skills and mindsets our children need for success in this rapidly changing, and complex world?

• What are the implications for the design of the learning experiences and equitable access to those experiences we provide in our school system?

Aligning our survey topics with our Portrait of a Learner Competencies and elementary and middle school Learner Profiles will help to support our work in building these competencies.

Student voice matters to us, and their responses will provide invaluable insights into their experiences in how we can improve and adapt our instruction to meet their needs. If a student doesn’t feel like they have enough information to answer a question, they will be able to skip the item altogether.

If you have any questions about the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) survey, please don’t hesitate to contact me at tmiller1@wscloud.org

We are excited to celebrate Halloween as a school on Thursday, October 31st! The parade begins at 2:00 p.m. and classroom parties are immediately afterwards at 2:15 p.m. The children will file out of their classrooms and, weather permitting, circle around the playground so they can show off their costumes.

You are welcome to come to school to join in the fun for the parade. For classroom parties, we are limiting adult visitors to our room parents only.

As you are preparing your child’s costume, please remember that we cannot allow pretend weapons at school or masks/costumes that cover the face. Be sure your child can either wear the costume to school, or is able to put it on without help.

Parking will not be permitted in our parking lot as busses will be arriving during this time. Please park on Clubview or walk over.

Thank you for your partnership and support in celebrating this day safely!

Please use the link below to share information about an American Veteran that is in your family! This will be included in a school-wide slideshow to honor Veteran's on Veteran's Day. You should fill out a seperate form for each Veteran you would like to recognize. This form must be completed by November 6, 2024 to be included in the slideshow.

If you have a Veteran in your family who is currently deployed, please email Ms. Miller at tmiller1@wscloud.org.

If you are a Veteran or if your student has a Veteran family member or friend, who would like to attend out school-wide Veteran's Day Assembly on November 11, 2024 @ 8:20 am , please RSVP for them below. Due to space constraints only Veteran's will be able to attend this assembly.

Veteran’s Day Slideshow & RSVP

It’s time to get creative and show our appreciation for our Veterans!

Please write a poem showing your appreciation for our Veterans and submit it to the office by November 6, 2024. The winning poems will be shared during our Veteran’s Day Assembly on November 11th!

The Worthington Hills Elementary Spirit Wear sale is live! You can purchase t-shirts, sweatshirts, baseball caps, and beanies through October 27th. Items can be delivered to the attention of your child at school for free, or shipped to your home with a shipping fee.

https://http-theawesome-com.printavo.com/merch/worthington-hills-elementary-spiritwear-fall-2024/

Every year a parent or guardian must confirm or update your child’s emergency information, give permission for field trips, tech usage and the release of directory information. This process is also how you can make changes to other information on the data sheets.

Please log into “Portal Login” and update your emergency data information for your family. If you have any problems logging in, you can use the password recovery link. And as always, feel free to reach out to us.

Your quick attention to this matter is greatly appreciated!!

The PTA needs your help. Please consider volunteering for the following:

Library Volunteering:

Mrs. Steele needs help shelving books on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for an hour, at most.

Please sign up here:

https://bit.ly/wheslibraryvolunteer2425

Please contact Karli Hill (karli.hill22@gmail.com) with any questions related to Library volunteering.

This serves as a reminder that there may be some students in your child’s school who have peanut and/or tree nut allergies. As the safety of our children is paramount to all, we need your support to make our cafeteria “nut free”. A child with a nut allergy can suffer a serious reaction merely by touching a food containing a peanut or tree nut. Therefore, we ask that you adhere to the following safety guidelines:

• Please do not send in any peanuts, peanut butter or foods containing peanuts or peanut butter to be eaten during lunch.

• Read ingredient labels carefully to ensure that the snacks sent in with your child are peanut and tree nut-free.

Please do not hesitate to contact our Health Office Assistant, Liz Martin, RN @ lmartin@wscloud.org or our School Nurse, Beth Laflumboise RN @ elaflumboise@wscloud.org with any questions or concerns about food allergies. They can also be reached at 614-450-4015.

If your child has a change in dismissal - we need to know! Please use the form below or email your child's teacher and our office staff so we can ensure they are where they need to be at dismissal.

Erin Neville - eneville@wscloud.org

Linda Watts - lwatts@wscloud.org

Lori Kallas - lkallas@wscloud.org

Dismissal Changes Form

Here are some guidelines for when to keep your child home from school:

The protocol for management of communicable disease in Worthington City Schools is based upon the Ohio Department of Health’s guidelines and recommendations. Your child is too ill to go to school if any of the following symptoms are present:

● Temperature of 100 F or above by mouth (Student must stay home until fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medication. In most cases this means the student will miss the following school day. Please understand fevers can reoccur within a 24 hour time period and this policy is in the best interest of all students.)

● Vomiting or diarrhea within the past 24 hours (Student must stay home for 24 hours to ensure these symptoms are gone before returning to school.)

● Shortness of breath or increased wheezing during normal activity

● Has a cough that interrupts normal activity

● Pain from an earache, headache, sore throat or recent injury

● Has yellow or green drainage from nose or eye(s)

● Rash over body or localized to one area of the body (A student who shows signs of a communicable disease exhibiting as a rash may return to school once the rash is gone or a doctor’s note is presented stating the student may return to school.)

● Fatigue that requires bed rest (common with flu-like symptoms)

● Signs of conjunctivitis such as red, crusty or swollen eyes (Student may return once symptoms have been treated and are gone or a doctor’s note is presented stating the student may return to school .)

If your child is ill, please do not send them to school to be checked by the school nurse. Such exposure may be harmful to the child as well as to the children with whom they come in contact. Please report all contagious diseases to the school office in order that the proper steps may be taken within the school to prevent the spread of disease. If your child becomes ill, or is injured at school, you will be called and expected to come to school to pick-up the child. We will be guided by information on the “Health Services” portion of your student’s Online Registration Summary. You are asked to supply that information on or before the start of school. If there are ever any changes to this information during the school year, please notify the school office immediately and make those changes online.

Please click here to learn about lice protocols. Please note that Worthington Hills appropriately handles lice cases as outlined in the link above. For more information on head lice visit:

ODH Brochure

CDC

KidsHealth.org

Arrival occurs between 7:55am and 8:10am. The tardy bell rings at 8:10am and classes will begin promptly at 8:10 am

Dismissal is at 2:50 pm

Want information about PTA meetings and other PTA sponsored events?

• Sign up at Givebacks, the hub for all PTA things. There is no fee to sign up to receive information on events, meetings, and volunteer opportunities. The link to sign up is https://wohills.givebacks.com/join/fc83d8
• Join our Facebook Group. You can find it by searching for Worthington Hills PTA or click on the link below. Please make sure to answer the questions for approval. https://www.facebook.com/groups/141468395941390
• Check out our PTA page on the school district page, or click on the link below. There you will find meeting minutes, who your board members are, and how to get in touch with us. https://hills.worthington.k12.oh.us/studentsparents/departments

Looking for ways to support the PTA?

• Become a voting member of the PTA. Your donation of $10 allows you to have a vote at the PTA meeting as well as give to the PTA fund for school programming, school events, and curriculum needs. Click on the link below to become a voting member: https://wohills.givebacks.com/store
• Attend the monthly PTA meetings. Your input is crucial to the success of our school community. See ways to access the calendar above.

• Volunteer at PTA events. Volunteers are what make our PTA such a success. See links above for upcoming volunteer opportunities.
• Join one of our many committees to help plan PTA events for students and staff.
• Email Janet Glazier (jglazier928@gmail.com) for a list of committees.

How do I contact the PTA committee chairs or the board?

Please send an email to worthingtonhillspta@gmail.com, or jglazier928@gmail.com.

10/31 - Halloween Parade & Parties

11/5 - No School (Teacher Work Day)

11/27 - 11/29 - No school (Thanksgiving Break)