Golden Hills Newsletter

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Dear Golden Hills Families,

At Golden Hills we really want 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 want 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! New PTG members will be acknowledged in our monthly newsletter!

First Meeting will be on September 20th from 3-4!

Join our Golden Hills School Site Council. SSC is made up of parents, principal, teachers and other 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 20th from 3-4!

This year 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 20th! 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.

Shady Creek Environmental Camp is September 25-September 28th for fifth grade students. We are still in need of volunteers, it takes time to go through the process to be cleared, please reach out if you can join us!

Please feel free to reach out to me anytime you have a question or concern,

Thank you,

Kristi Napoli

Golden Hills Principal

Reading For Education is a year-long fundraiser. The school earns money when families and friends shop online at Reading For Education.com. Information will be sent home on September 11th.

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 for 3 or more days they can do independent study.

Students who miss 2 or less days from September 5th-19th will get an otter pop on Friday, September 20th!

Lego Party for the class with the highest percentage for attendance for the month of August and September on September 20th!

Trimester 1: LASER show called Lasermania! Students who attend 90% or more school days from August to November 17th (absent less than 6 days, excused or unexcused) will be invited!

Ironman awards will be handed out to classes with the best overall attendance.

Fourth Grade Attendance winner for the month of August is Mrs. Dailey's class

Fifth Grade Attendance winner for the month of August is Ms. Russell's class

Did you know that Golden Hills has received the following PBIS awards?

2023: Applied for 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.

What is Motivating Monday?

Motivating Monday is the last Monday of the month. At our whole school meeting at 8:35 in the EAGLES Nest we will be recognizing students for various reasons.

Our Positive EAGLE Award is for following TEAM expectations: families will receive an email that their student is receiving the award and they are invited to attend. The award winners are called up and given a certificate for following our TEAM expectations. They will wear a VIP pass for the day. They will get donuts (for themselves & a friend) , wear the VIP pass to be front in line and get to choose which lunch period and table they sit at.

The first VIP day is September 18th.

Every Monday students have an opportunity to win our PBIS TEAM ticket raffle for them and a friend for ice cream sandwiches or hot chocolate. Students earn the TEAM tickets for following the TEAM expectations. Congratulations to the following students:

Grandparents are invited to join their Golden Hills students on Friday, September 8th from 8:00-8:30 for breakfast in the Golden Hills cafeteria! Come visit your students' classroom and join your students for breakfast!

Adult breakfast price is $4.00

Students eat free

Wear your best smile for picture day on Thursday, October 12th .

Forms were passed out on September 5th, the first 20 students to turn in forms will be on the team. The first practice is September 11th from 2:45-3:45.

Golden Hills Band has begun but it is not too late to join. Students will need to get their own instrument to join and band is held before school. Please contact the office for more information.

Cross Country: Golden Hills is having their first cross country team! The team is open to fourth and fifth grade students. The practices will be held at Golden Hills. The meets will be off campus and students will need to have transportation. The fourth graders will run one mile in the meets and fifth grade will run 1.5 miles. Mrs. Dailey is the coach and will be sharing more information soon!

Fourth Grade Volleyball Try-Outs: Try-outs will be on September 7th at 2:45 in the Golden Hills Eagles Nest. A permission slip must be filled out to try-out.

Fifth Grade Volleyball Try-Outs: Try-outs will be on September 6th at 2:45 in the Golden Hills Eagles Nest. A permission slip must be filled out to try-out.

Shady Creek is a three night, four day environmental camp. Our fifth grade class is hoping to attend September 25th-September 28th. The camps goal is to developing a feeling of personal responsibility to help preserve, conserve, and enhance our environment; developing heightened observation skills to appreciate the beauty and diversity of the natural world; and developing a feeling of self-confidence and self-acceptance while also instilling the ability to cooperate with and appreciate the diversity of others.

The students will stay the night in cabins and attend the following classes:

• Birds

• Communities

• Creek Ecology

• Earth Processes

• Forest Ecology

• Garden

• Nature Awareness

• Nature Investigation & exploration

• Survival

The students cannot attend without 6 adult male and 10 adult female chaperones. The chaperones must be fingerprinted, Tb tested and complete the volunteer application. This takes time so if you are interested please reach out to your students teacher or call the office ASAP. If we do not get enough volunteers we cannot attend.

• We do not share food, students may have allergies and food needs to be eaten in the cafeteria for breakfast & lunch or at the snack tables for snack recess. Food is not allowed on the playground so students do not choke while playing.

• We do not have supervision before 7:45 am, do not drop off students before then

• Students should not bring items from home, Golden HIlls is not responsible for lost , broken or stolen items

• Students need to check the lost & found!

September 1 : No school Palermo District Professional Development Day

September 4th: No School, Labor Day

September 6: Fifth Grade Volleyball Try-Outs

September 7th: Fourth Grade Volleyball Try Outs

September 8th: Grandparents Day from 8:00-8:30 am

September 11th: Jump for Fitness, wear comfy clothes to be ready to exercise

September 15th at 15th: Principal/ Superintendent Awards at Helen Wilcox 9 am

September 15th: Progress Reports Go home

September 18th: Motivating Monday: Positive Eagles Awards handed out at Eagles Nest

September 20th: Shady Creek Cabin Leaders training at 2:45

Sept 25th-28th: Shady Creek Fifth Grade only

October 2-6th: October Intercession

October 12th: Picture Day

November: 17th Lasershow ( attendance)