Bridlemile Friday Flyer

1/27: Teacher Grading Day, NO SCHOOL for Students

1/28: Teacher Professional Development/Planning Day, NO SCHOOL for Students

1/29: OBOB Pool Battles- all teams, 2:45pm-5:00pm

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

1/31: PTA Movie Night, Bridlemile cafeteria, 6:30pm

1/31: Missoula Permission Slips come out in the Friday Flyer

Remember that there is no school Monday and Tuesday!

We will see Beagles back to school on Wednesday, January 29th!

Dear Bridlemile Families,

Bridlemile PTA hosted a forum last night engaging families, educators, housing advocates, small business owners, and community partners in a call to action regarding securing funding for Oregon public schools. School Board members Julia Brim-Edwards and Christy Splitt were among the many in attendance.

Last night’s ask was a pledge to do the following:

Your dedication to standing together on behalf of our schools makes all the difference. When Bridlemile hosted legislators to visit our classrooms, it was clear that our legislators respond to what we show and tell them.

Our very own Bridlemile families are championing this campaign to tell the story and advocate for funding change. You can learn more about the Quality Education Model, mandating full funding for education by the legislature, and how to get involved at www.qualityeducationoregon.org

Thank you for your advocacy and commitment to our community. It is seen and felt every day.

Sincerely,
Katherine

Quarter 2 Report Cards will be available on ParentVue on Monday, February 3rd. 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.

Dr. Renard Adams, PPS Chief Accountability and Equity Officer, overviewed assessment tools and results at PPS for Bridlemile families. He answered questions about equitable school practices, benchmarks, and how results drive decisions about resources for academic interventions.

When asked what parents should take away from our school’s 23-24 report card, Dr. Adams noted Bridlemile’s performance overall is strong and that we have gaps to address in order to raise achievement for all students.

This year, to support all learners, Bridlemile is:

✔ Focusing on literacy and implementing literacy curricula with fidelity

✔ Assigning educational assistants to tutor individual students or small groups who need additional support

Dr. Adams emphasized that the goal should always be 100% proficiency: that all students are at or exceeding grade level standards. It is also important to point out that standardized tests and proficiency scores never tell the entire story of a student’s personal and academic journey.

Bridlemile’s at-a-glance report card is available from ODE. The Oregonian provides year-to-year data in a more convenient format.

Students have been hard at work in music class. The younger grades have been learning about the instruments of the orchestra, long and short sounds (rhythm) as well as singing our favorite songs. The older grades have been studying rhythm, folk dancing and continuing to sing rounds and canons.

The Bridlemile Band and Orchestra has had a lot of fun learning famous tunes like Mary Had a Little Lamb, Ode to Joy, French Folk Song, and many others. I have been challenging the students and they are rising to meet the challenge head on!

Lost and found will be rolled out to the playground for kids and parents to claim found items for the next two Fridays. We will also have found items available for pick up at the PTA Movie Night event. After movie night, PTA will donate all remaining items to the PPS Clothing Closet.

Bundle up and join Safe Routes to School as we walk and roll to school on National Winter Walk & Roll to School Day, February 5th, 2024. On this day, students all over the country put on their cold weather gear and brave the elements as a community.

This week’s PTA Newsletter includes details about:

• Movie Night: Wild Robot (1/31)
• Critical Need: Sign-up For Freaky Friday Committee by 1/31
• Kindergarten Connect Volunteers Needed
• West Sylvan Info Night (1/27 and 2/19)
• Winter Walk & Roll to School Day (2/5)
• PPS Clothing Center Volunteers Needed (2/27)
• Reading Tutor Available

Pool Battles start on Wednesday, January 29th, after school!

We still need several volunteers to make this happen, so PLEASE sign up if you can: https://signup.com/go/sROuZdV We are expecting almost 90 kids and cannot do this without help!

Families are welcome to come and observe the battles. Can’t make it to the battles? Follow along with our digital scoreboard! Bridlemile OBOB Scoreboard 2025

IMPORTANT: To ensure a safe and smooth dismissal on Wednesday-please notify the Bridlemile Office and Champions (if your student attends aftercare) if your Beagles’ dismissal plans are different for this day. School buses can only leave campus once all students are accounted for and are where they need to be. Thanks for helping Bridlemile keep systems running smoothly and on time.

Missoula Children’s Theater Auditions are taking place February 10th and this year the play is Hercules! Permission slips for auditions will be sent one week from today, on January 31st in the Friday Flyer. Please keep your eyes peeled for it and submit as soon as you’re able if your child is interested in auditioning this year. Additional details about the play:

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

New Player Orientation Clinic

Rieke Elementary School Field

Sun, Feb 2nd, 2pm

New parents & boys, grades 1-6th, are all invited

All equipment provided.

Dress for weather

https://www.wellslax.com

Multnomah County Student Health Center Immunization Catch-Up Reminder

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

Bridlemile-Office@pps.net.