Principal's Message
Dear Golden Hills Families,
At Golden Hills we really are working towards a strong partnership with families. Family engagement refers to what families do at home and in the community to support their children’s learning. There is a lot of research that shows that when families are involved and engaged students do better. We would love this partnership with you.
Join Golden Hills Parent Teacher Group! Only 4-6 meetings a year to plan fun activities for our students and staff!
Our first event we will be planning and are hoping the Parent Teacher Group will help is a Color Run! Please join us at this meeting to help plan this new, fun event!
First Meeting will be on September 5th from 3-4! ( This is a new date from previously advertised).
Join our Golden Hills School Site Council. SSC is made up of parents, principal, teachers and other school school personnel. The primary responsibility is to identify common goals and assist the leadership team in establishing a plan to achieve the goals. We will address any questions you may have about Golden Hills.
First Meeting will be on September 5th from 3-4! ( This is a new date from previously advertised).
We blend the PTG and School Site Council meetings into one!
Our Student Advisory Club will be presenting and working with our Parent Teacher Group and School Site Council . The club has already met and is interviewing students to learn what they like most about Golden Hills and what they would like. This information will be shared by the students at the meeting on September 5th ! It is not too late for students to join!
Attendance matters for our students. Our goal is to have 95% or above of our students at school. We are currently at 95.52 %. Yay we are making our goal, let’s keep it that way! Please let us know if we can support your students' attendance in any way! We do not want any student to miss out on our fun activities planned based around attendance. Independent Study is available for all absences, please ask the office if your student needs to miss school!
Shady Creek Environmental Camp is September 24-September 27th for fifth grade students. We are still in need of male volunteers, it takes time to go through the process to be cleared, please reach out if you can join us! HELP!! We are one male volunteer short! Please reach out ASAP if you can help.
We have been working with students to learn our TEAM expectations:
Take Responsibility
Earn Respect
Act Safely
Make a Difference
Please help us by speaking with your students about what these would look like at school, including keeping hands to self and using kind school appropriate words. If your student is having any issues there is a link on our Golden Hills website to report issues: https://goldenhills.palermoschools.org/ This is a great place to make a report if they share with you something that you would like to have looked into. The report comes straight to me and I will look into it and communicate with you about the situation.
Please feel free to reach out to me anytime you have a question or concern,
Thank you,
Kristi Napoli
Golden Hills Principal
Attendance Matters:
Attending school regularly helps children feel better about school—and themselves. Students can still fall behind if they miss just 1 or 2 days every few weeks.
If students are going to be absent they can do independent study.
Lego Party for the class with the highest percentage for attendance for the month September on September 23rd!!
Trimester 1: LASER show called Lasermania! Students who attend 90% or more school days from August to November 20th (absent less than 6 days, excused or unexcused) will be invited!
Ironman awards will be handed out to classes with the best overall attendance.
PBIS: Positive Behavior Interventions & Support
Did you know that Golden Hills has received the following PBIS awards?
2024: Platinum
2023: Platinum
2022 Gold Award
2021: Platinum Award
2019: SIlver Award
What is a PBIS award? Golden Hills received the awards for creating a school environment where all students succeed. We have a foundation of being proactive to provide support to prevent behaviors that disrupt the classroom/ playground. Using data to design and provide interventions for students who need the extra support to prevent problem behaviors.
Every Monday students have an opportunity to win our PBIS TEAM ticket raffle for them and a friend for a popsicle or hot chocolate. Students earn the TEAM tickets for following the TEAM expectations. Congratulations to the following students: Ximena S., Abby R., Nadia M.
