Hidden River Newsletter
Week of September 9 - 13, 2024
Weekly Reminders
SAVE THE DATES:
Next Week (9/16-9/20)
Wed., Sept. 18th - Coffee with the Principal 8:15-9:00am
School Information
Office Information
- School Address: 631 Albert St. N, St. Paul, MN 55104
- School opens at 8:15am each day, office hours are 8:00 am - 3:30 pm
- Parent/Guardian Pick & Drop off is on Blair Ave
- Office phone 651-293-8860
- If your child will be absent please call the school and leave a message with Sue Roach 651-744-4750
Transporation
Parent/Guardian Drop-off & Pick-up
Buses
The Bus Status app reports buses greater than 10 minutes late and displays up-to-date bus information for SPPS families and students.
Notice: Bus Status has a new and improved app just in time for the new school year! The Bus Status app currently installed on your phone will not update automatically to the new app, and will end notifications after September 29. Download the new Bus Status app for free at the Apple App Store and via Google Play.
Personal Electronics Commitment
Dear Parents/Guardians,
As an IB school we have been reflecting on how we can continue to improve our practices to support student learning, alongside this letter you will find the Hidden River Middle School’s personal electronics commitment for the 24-25 school year.
We are working to be clear and consistent as we work with students and the possession and use of personal electronic devices. Students are expected to put ALL personal electronic devices in their backpack upon entering campus. All backpacks and personal materials will be stored in the student’s locker.
Please take some time to read through the commitment next to this letter. If a student is seen with a personal electronic device (i.e. cell phone, smart watch, headphones, tablet, etc.) on their body or within their belongings (outside of the backpack/locker), the student will be asked to give the device to the staff person and it will be turned over to the assistant principals and/or principal.
Parents/guardians will always be able to come and pick up the device from the assistant principals or principal, should it get taken from the student.
Any time a parent/guardian is in need of contacting their child between the hours of 8:30AM-3:00PM, please call the office number, 651-293-8860. If it is an emergency, a parent/guardian will be connected to their child. If it is not an emergency, a message will be delivered to your child.
Thank you,
Teresa Vibar
Principal
Classroom Updates
Ms. Kaufenberg
Healthy Living (7th grade) and Kaufenberg P.E. (6th grade hour 1, A days) will be using the district bike fleet from September 16 - September 27. Students will need a waiver signed by a guardian in order to participate. Students must wear a helmet. The district will provide helmets, though students may feel more comfortable bringing in a helmet from home. Please ask your student for the waiver to sign or download the attached waiver. Thank you!
Athletics
How to register for sports
Registration link >> https://spps-ar.rschooltoday.com/viewmyaccount
How to step-by-step slides>>https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mZKh2qor4Zw567rVYvm_mHPHQ_-Wep9TQ-OGTMf1F1A/edit?usp=sharing
Contact Ms. Nell at lenell.binford@spps.org for questions
Family-Staff Organization (FSO)
Save the dates for our first events of the year - our morning "Coffee With The Principal" on Wednesday, September 18th from 8:15 - 9:00 AM, and our first evening meeting on Thursday, September 26th from 5:30 - 7:00 PM in the library. See the attached flyer for other ways to become involved. Email HiddenRiverFSO@gmail.com with any questions!
St. Paul Alpine Ski Team
Building Community - Grade Level Assemblies
Each grade level came together during the first 2 days of school to meet their teachers, go over school-wide expectations, and compete in fun community building challenges. Above is the 6th grade assembly, Ms. Thorson's Foundations (far right photo) won the first challenge. Each class and grade level did a great job at the assemblies and challenges, more fun to come!
Newsletter translations
ENGLISH
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KAREN
ကျိာ်ဂုၤဂၤတခါလၢနအဲၣ်ဒိးအီၤ လၢအတမ့ၢ် အဲကလံးကျိာ်န့ၣ်အိၣ်ဧါ. နအိးထီၣ်ကွၢ်လံာ်တၢ်ကစီၣ်ပှာ်ဘျးစဲ ဒီးစံၢ်လီၤဖဲ ပှာ်ဘျးစဲအဖီခိၣ်ဖဲစုထွဲတကပၤ(လၢခီၣ်ဖၠူထၢၣ်ဖီခိၣ်) မ့တမ့ၢ် စံၢ်လီၤဖဲတၢ်ဖီလာ် (လၢနလီတဲစိ ဖီခိၣ်) ဒ်သိး တၢ်ကကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤလၢကျိာ်အဂုၤအဂၤအဂီၢ်သ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဝံသးစူၤသ့ၣ်ညါလၢ လံာ်လၢ တၢ်ကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤန့ၣ် ကအိၣ်ဝဲဒီး တၢ်အကမၣ် မ့တမ့ၢ် တၢ်တလၢတပှဲၤသ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. နမ့ၢ်အိၣ်ဒီး တၢ်သံကွၢ်တဖၣ်န့ၣ်, ဝံသးစူၤကိးပှၤဖဲ 651-293-8860 န့ၣ်တက့ၢ်.
SOMALI
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HMONG
Puas xav tau ua lwm hom lus? Nej qhib txoj kab mus rau hauv daim ntawv xov xwm thiab nias lub pob ntawm sab xis hauv lub koos pis tawj, los sis yog lwm hom twj no ces nyob hauv qab, ces yuav muaj txhais ua ntau hom lus. Nco ntsoov tias cov lus txhais no yuav tsis raug txhua lo los sis txhais tiav tiav. Yog nej muaj lus nug, thov hu rau peb ntawm 651-293-8860.
SPANISH
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