Bridlemile Friday Flyer

1/31: TODAY! Office Hours with Principal Hu, 3:30 - 4:30pm, Google Meet: http://meet.google.com/tjn-ocof-fvw

1/31: TODAY! Missoula Permission Slips Available in Today's Flyer- Permission Slips Due Back NO LATER than 2/7

1/31: TONIGHT! PTA Movie Night, Bridlemile Cafeteria, 6:30pm

2/10-2/13: Missoula Theater Rehearsals

2/14: Missoula Play Evening Performance

2/15: Missoula Play Matinee Performance

Remind is the platform the District uses to send out information to families, including any weather alerts or school closure information. You can select whether you receive text messages, emails, or both.

If you need directions, click here or call the Bridlemile Main Office at (503) 916-6292.

PPS has moved to paperless report cards this year, but we are choosing to take a little more time in the paper lane. We will print report cards for all students and send them home via student backpacks on Wednesday, February 5th.

Also coming home are individual student reports from our WINTER iReady Diagnostic Assessment. This report shares your student’s MATH growth target (what will we need to make one year’s worth of growth) and Fall-Winter progress towards that growth target. Students’ individualized MyPath lessons are also re-calibrated based on these winter assessments.

Draft calendar for 25-26: Here is the 25-26 Draft Calendar that was sent to the Board of Education on January 7, 2025.

It’s an attendance team effort! Students are working together to help our Beagle get to the top of the mountain. They’ll do it with 95% attendance! When you miss school, you miss out and we miss you!

We are officially in the Alevin stage! Salmon are doing a great job growing. We try to broadcast our live stream during lunchtime for viewing fun. Go to Bridlemile Beagles YouTube Channel to watch the livestream.

We conduct monthly fire drills to practice exiting the building safely, quickly, and in an organized manner. Ask your Beagle about this month’s fire drill which we practiced on Wednesday, right after our all-school assembly in the cafeteria!

We shared with students that we practice leaving the building during different times of the day and different places. Students did a great job being safe and responsible.

In our most recent counseling lessons in K-2, we’ve been diving into kindness and empathy. Through stories, discussions, and fun activities, students have been learning what it means to step into someone else’s shoes and understand how others might feel. We’ve also talked about simple but powerful ways to show kindness, like inviting someone to play, helping out in the classroom or at home, and kind words.

Our Beagles have been thinking about how kindness spreads—when one person is kind, it encourages others to do the same, creating a ripple effect throughout our school and beyond!

Thanks for being part of our caring school community and continuing the conversation with your child at home about what it means to be kind!

The 5th Grade Leadership is bringing awareness to National No One Eats Alone Day.

No One Eats Alone Day is a national Positive Prevention Initiative that takes place in schools across the nation. NOEA Day is a lunchtime special event where students engage in simple acts of inclusion during lunch and work together to end social isolation.

5th Grade Leadership will be positive role models during lunch and take the first step making sure that no one is eating alone.

For more information on National No One Eats Alone Day click: HERE

So many things are happening in the art room: mixed media jungles, exquisite creatures drawings, "snow globes", pinch pots, surprise pop-out drawings, visual journals, and more. Every grade created colorful paper lanterns for the Lunar New Year. Please stop by our main lobby and hallway to take a peek. Updates coming to our Instagram page soon. Follow us at @bridlemile_art.

Immunization Exclusion Day is on February 19, 2025. By February 5, immunization packets containing a document to track exclusions will be sent to school nurses. If a family is on the list and submits the required vaccination documentation, the student will be "cleared" from the exclusion list.

Exclusion letters, translated resources, and information about vaccination locations will be distributed to excluded families by February 5.

We will have ALL lost & found items, including the small items, trinkets, etc. by the front entrance tonight at the PTA Movie Night event. After movie night, PTA will donate all remaining items to the PPS Clothing Closet.

This week’s PTA Newsletter includes details about:

• Our commitment to our community
• Movie Night tonight: Wild Robot (1/31)
• Lost & Found donated after tonight (1/31)
• Freaky Friday is a go! (5/9)
• Winter Walk & Roll to School Day (2/5)
• PPS Clothing Center volunteers needed (2/27)
• Ida B. Wells Softball Clinic (3/2)

A note from your Missoula Theatre Coordinator:

Please take a moment to prepare your child for the audition by explaining that, while we’d love to cast every child, there are a limited number of roles available for the play. Bridlemile usually has more than twice the number of students auditioning than we have roles to fill. We understand this can be disappointing, and while we can’t completely prevent any tears, having this conversation in advance may help set expectations and ease the experience.

Tell your children to go out there and give it their best, and that if they aren’t chosen this year, it doesn’t mean they’re not great actors or singers, it just means that there simply wasn’t a role for them this year

The Missoula Children’s Theater Auditions are taking place ONE WEEK FROM MONDAY on February 10th at 2:30pm and this year the play is Hercules! Permission slips for auditions can be found below and are due back BY February 7th. Reminder that your student cannot audition for the play without a permission slip being completed and sent back via the link below. Additional details about the play can also be found below:

Permission Slip: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDO4hcjjQ28isAowhRx1GaaFesgviU4MyYgXVcB-abtO9h1w/viewform

Audiences of all ages will get a fresh look at an age-old favorite when the Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) and roughly 60 local Bridlemile students present Hercules. MCT is a performing arts organization that brings theater to children across the country and around the world. MCT's mission is to provide children with an immersive theater experience that helps them develop life skills.

Questions? Contact:

Mikelle Yoakum mikelle.yoakum@gmail.com

Sadie Durante SadieDurante@gmail.com

SW Portland Little League (SWPLL) is a non-profit provider of baseball and softball programs in SW Portland. The league boundaries are the entire Ida B. Wells High School feeder areas. SWPLL welcomes players who either live within our boundaries or go to school within our boundaries.

Financial assistance is available for any player needing help covering part or ALL of the registration and uniform fee. Equipment is also available for loan.

There are two remaining indoor softball clinics on 2/2 and 2/9.

Visit www.swpll.org for more information.

Questions, comments or feedback about this newsletter? Email us at

Bridlemile-Office@pps.net.