GOLDEN HILLS NEWSLETTER

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Dear Golden Hills Families,

March was a great month at Golden Hills.

• We had our second trimester awards assemblies for both grade levels in person with our families!

• The Golden Hills soccer team has begun! Good luck Eagles!

• The Growth Parade on March 15th was so much fun celebrating our students' successes! We loved seeing our families on campus to celebrate all the students' hard work!

• A magic show on March 6th to celebrate our students' attendance!

• March Madness Attendance Brackets to find out who has the best March attendance: Congratulations to This also included an Oreo Challenge to find which type of Oreo students think are the best. As classes moved forward in the attendance bracket they were able to judge the oreo. The overall winner was Mr. Benson class.

• Lego Parties for attendance, Congratulations to Ms. Zarzynski class.

• Jog-A-Thon for our monthly school wide physical fitness activity!

• A School -Wide Game Day: Students participated in an Escape rooms to celebrate meeting our PBIS goal (Positive Behavior Interventions Supports)

• Great Job Sam and Kaeden for representing Golden HIlls in the County Wide Spelling Bee!

We are in the third trimester and have so much learning to do before the end of the year. We have been visiting classrooms and discussing the importance of respect and kindness to each other. Please talk to your student about the importance of kindness. Thank you!

Both grade levels have an end of the year contract for fun field trips.These field trips are privileges and students must follow the expectations of the contracts to be able to attend.

The last two months of school we are adding Positive Rewards Recess for all students who do not receive a verbal warning, apink, slip, referral or suspension. This will be a bonus recess on Friday, April and Friday, May 5th. All playground equipment will be outside and treats for all students! We appreciate our students following the TEAM expectations.

Thank you,

Kristi Napoli

Yearbooks are for sale in the school office for the low price of $14.00. The yearbook features a soft cover, color pages, and contains pictures of all the students, teachers, staff, and fun memories at GH. Students who purchase a yearbook will receive their copy the last week of school.

Popcorn Fundraising from are due April 12th. Thank you for supporting Golden Hills!

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Due to the nature of our program at Golden Hills, where students may have several teachers in a given day, we don’t take teacher requests. Instead, we value your input on the specific needs your child may have that will assist us in making appropriate placements. Please feel free to pick up a form in the Main Office at Golden Hills between April 1st and May 15th. Forms are due May 15th.

Shady Creek is a three night, four day environmental camp. Our fourth grade class will be attending next year. In order to attend we must have parent volunteers to stay in the cabins with the students. These parents must be cleared through our district through the volunteer process. We will need to have the parents cleared before the end of this school year to commit to going! The reserved dates for Shady Creek are the week before our October intercession. Please begin the process so we can be sure we have enough parent volunteers.

In March we had a record setting day of only 4 absences for the entire school! Our goal is to have 95% average daily attendance. In March we had .9651.

The class in the month of April with the best attendance will win a LEGO party!

Our Ironman Winners (class with the best attendance) for the month of March

4th Grade:

1.Langone .9639

2. Dailey .9639

5th Grade:

1. Benson .9651

2. Sharp .9571

If your child is absent please call the school office to let them know the reason so that your child can possibly be excused. Also, if your child will be absent for 3 or more days you can request independent study. Your child will receive work to do and if the work is completed, your child will receive credit for attendance and will not be counted as absent. If you have questions, please call the school office.

Third Trimester Attendance Challenge is a field trip to the movies:

Students must have less than 17 absences for the entire year or less than 6 absences for the third trimester 3/11/24-6/3/24.

Attendance is very important, if your student is not at school, they cannot learn. Thank you for your support!

Fun in the Sun Day Camps

We are very excited to announce that PUESD will be providing opportunities for students to participate in summer learning and enrichment activities!

Fun in the Sun Session 1: June 10-28 (not in session on Wednesday, 6/19). Make up day is Saturday, 6/15.

TK-5 grades at Helen Wilcox

6-8 grades at Palermo School

Any student who has completed TK through 7th grade during the 2023/2024 school year. (8th grade graduates may attend if space is available.)

Limited bus routes will be available

8:00-12:00/12:15

We will provide student supervision beginning at 7:30

Breakfast and lunch will be provided

BCOE EXPLORE PROGRAM will operate from 12:00 to 5:00 (for any student who also enrolls in this program.) This program will not be in session on Wednesday 6/19, but will be in session on Saturday, 6/15.

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Fun in the Sun Session 2: July 8-26

TK-8 at Helen Wilcox

Any student who has completed TK through 7th grade during the 2023/2024 school year. (8th grade graduates may attend if space is available.)

Limited bus routes will be available

8:00-12:00/12:15

We will provide student supervision beginning at 7:30

Breakfast and lunch will be provided

BCOE EXPLORE PROGRAM will operate from 12:00 to 5:00 (for any student who has completed TK-5th grade during the 2023/2024 school year and also enrolls in this program.)

Please complete the following registration form(s) and return them to your student's school office by April 19th at 3:00pm!

Applications are in the school office and/or ask your student's teacher to send home an application.

Students should not be dropped off before 7:45 am, We do not have supervision until 7:45 am.

We have minimum days on Friday’s and school gets out at 1:45.

Students should not bring items from home. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen or broken items.

All students who are on campus must be supervised by an adult. Students should not be on campus after school unless they are in a club, tutoring, a sports team or after school program. Please be on time to pick up your student.

Thank you to Sammy L. and Kaeden C.for representing Golden Hills

Thank you to the families who attended our Growth Parade! The students had so much fun showing off their growth parade poster!

Social media is impacting our students at home and their social circles at school. We are gearing up for a night of learning the ins and outs of social media, and want to invite you to be a part of the discussion led by two detectives that focus heavily on the concerns of social media and its impact on our youth. You will leave with a deeper understanding of:

THE PROS AND CONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA.

SOCIAL MEDIA CONCERNS THAT ARE PRESENT AMONGST OUR TEENS IN BUTTE COUNTY.

LEAVE WITH STRATEGIES TO PROTECT, SUPPORT, AND EDUCATE YOUR STUDENT ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA.

Dinner and child care will be provided. The social media discussion will be for parents and guardians.

Please place this important discussion on your calendar and invite your friends!

April 11th 6-7:30 at Palermo Middle School

Staff Appreciation Week in May!

Please join us in celebrating National Teacher/ Staff Appreciation week the week of May 6th-10th! Our staff works very hard all year long for your student’s success!

May 6th-10th: Stock the Staff Room! It would be very appreciated if fourth grade families donated drinks and fifth grade families donated snacks!

For Staff Appreciation Week we want to stock the Staff Room to show appreciation to our staff members. If we all pitch in this makes a light load for all and not a heavy load of work for a few.

We are asking fourth grade families to “Stock the Fridge” with drinks for our staff for the week of May 6-10th. Drinks could be soda, teas, sparkling water, gatorades etc. Help us by donating drinks for the staff. These can be dropped off anytime to the office.

We are asking fifth grade families to “Stock up the Snacks” for our staff members. These snacks could be pretzels, granola bars, protein bars, string cheese etc.. These can be dropped off anytime at the office.

We appreciate your support!

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4/1-4/5: Spring Break

4/10 ELPAC Speaking Test

4/11: Social Media Parent Night at Palermo School

4/15-4/19- ELPAC Testing

4/19-Third Trimester Progress Report Go Home

April 24th: Field trip to Palermo to watch Wizard of Oz & 6th grade Orientaiton

4/25- Books Field Trip -5th Grade

5/2-5/3 5th Grade Lake Oroville Visitor Center Field Trip

May 6-May 10th - Staff Appreciation Week!

May 7-May 8th Empire Mine - 4th grade field trip

5/13-5/17- CAASSP Testing

5/20-5/24- CAASSP Make Up & I Ready

5/21-Golden HIlls Olympic Begin!

5/23- Open House 5-6pm : Gold Dust or Bust Play

5/28- 5th Grade Attendance Movie Field Trip

5/29- Cal Skate Field Trip

6/4- 4th Grade Attendance Movie Field Trip