February Newsletter - Bend La Pine Schools

All Aboard
Upcoming Events
February 24th
11:45 Dismissal
February 2016
February 27th
PTA Applebee’s Pancake Breakfast
Silver Rail Elementary
See’s Candy Orders Due
March 2nd, 3rd, 4th
61530 SE Stone Creek Street
Bend, OR 97702
www.bend.k12.or.us/silverrail
March 2nd
541-355-2900
Parent Teacher Conferences 3/2 & 3/3
No School 3/3 & 3/4
March 9th
Hello Families and Friends,
The next few weeks here at Silver Rail are going to be busy ones, with
preparation for Spring Conferences on March 2nd and 3rd and our first Dr.
Seuss Family Night, with lots of fun reading themed activities for the whole
family to enjoy on Wednesday, March 9. Be sure to mark your calendars for
these events.
All the schools in the Bend-La Pine Schools are currently working on our
long range school design plans (next 3-5 years), with the focus on preparing
our students for their future, thriving in all aspects of life, and achieving
academic success. We are excited about the direction we will be taking with
Service Project Based Learning, mathematics, and building community
connections within the school family to name a few things on which we will
be focusing our work. In early spring, we will be giving parents an
opportunity to be involved in the process as well. Look for more information
about this great opportunity.
We want to remind parents how important school attendance is for your
child. If a child is here less than 90% of the time, h/she is considered
chronically absent. At this time of the year, chronically absent students have
missed about 9 days of school. Currently, 14% of our students are
chronically absent. When they are not here, they are missing out on
important class discussions, questions, and opportunities for practice. I know
that illness play a factor, but many absences do not. Please support your
child’s education and seeing that they are here on time every day. Thank you
for your support!
Important Contact
Information
Cheers!
Tammy Doty
School Closure (SNOW) line
541-323-7669
Cat in the Hat Family Night 6:00
March 10th
Camp Tamarack Parent Mtg (5th Gr)
March 21st – 25th
Spring Break – No School
Tammy Doty, Principal
541-355-2900
Office / Attendance
541-355-2900
silverrail.attendance@bend.k12.or.us
Transportation / Bus Information
541-355-5700
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More Important News
Resources
Is your child’s information up to date? If your phone number,
address, place of employment or emergency contacts has
changed, please let us know. Accurate information helps us
contact you if your child is sick or injured or if the teacher needs
to get a hold of you quickly. Call 541-355-2900 or stop by the office to update
your information!
As of the end of 2015 our volunteers have logged a
total of 615 hours assisting in our school! Thank-you,
thank-you, thank-you! From the classroom to the
office, from the book fair to classroom parties you
have helped so much! The staff at Silver Rail wants to express our gratitude to
all of you that have logged hours so far this year! We appreciate you! If you
are interested in volunteering, please complete the background check at
https://volunteer.bend.k12.or.us/. We LOVE the support!
If your student is attending Silver Rail on an area change
request, you will need to complete a new area change request
for next school year to remain at Silver Rail. Please stop by
the office and complete this prior to March 1st. If you have
any questions regarding boundaries, or area change requests,
please see Angie in the front office.
Speaking of next school year. Kindergarten
registration is right around the corner. To register
for kindergarten, children must be 5 years old on or
before Sept 1, 2016. Parents will need child’s birth
certificate, proof of address and immunization information to enroll their
student. If you are planning on having your kindergartener attend a school
outside of their boundary area, again you will need to complete an area change
request prior to March 1st.
Additional Resources
Our school has a new website that is mobile-friendly
and easy to search. We will be using this new tool to
highlight events and celebrate our students. The site
features handy tools for parents on a Parent
Dashboard and a Student Dashboard for students.
We hope you will check it out:
www.bend.k12.or.us/silverrail
Girls on the Run meets 2x/week
for 10 weeks with a team of girls
and coaches. At each practice, the
girls receive a healthy snack
before participating in the daily
lesson that consists of a warmup,
workout and cool down activity.
Girls on the Run participants learn
about self-respect, bullying, and
healthy habits while building team
skills.
The program will take place on
Tuesdays and Thursday from
3:45-5:00 pm at Silver rail from
3/29/16-5/28/16 culminating at the
Happy Girls Half – Bend 5K
Registration opens on January 25th
at http://www.gotrcentral.org/registration
Financial assistance is available as
needed. For more information
about GOTR, contact Emily
Usselman at 541-617-2877 x4, or
email at eusselman@bgcbend.org
Our lost & Found is FULL.
Please make time to come in and
check and see if any of your
student’s belongings are in there.
From lunch boxes to jackets,
shoes to socks we’ve got it all.
We will lay out everything during
conferences. Anything not
claimed by Monday March 7th will
be donated to charity. Thanks!
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News from the PTA
Hi Families,
PTA has been hard at work fundraising to support our school. Our recent fundraiser at Pappy's Pizza helped
raise over $500! Thank you for attending and supporting our school.
We are also excited to host our first Applebee's pancake breakfast tickets are on-sale after school. Parents and
Teachers can sign up to help serve families at the event.
PTA was able to support the recent drumming sessions for all Silver Rail Students with Dale Largent. Hopefully
you had the opportunity to come hear your children or enjoyed them sharing about their experience during the
segment. We look forward to supporting more events like this for the school.
Please like us on Facebook at Silver Rail PTA, join our email list at SilverRailPTA@gmail.com and join us for
our next PTA meeting on February 10th at 6pm. We also encourage all families to join PTA, the cost is $10 and
helps us grow the support at our school. Forms are in the front office.
PTA wishes to THANK our generous business donations
during our 2015-2016 Fill our Box Cars campaign
Box Car A
JR’s Auto Body Shop
Kirby Nagelhout Construction
Quality Cars of Bend
Box Car B
Thuren Fabrication
Brian's Cabinets
Box Car C
Bend Heating & Sheet Metal Inc
Struble Orthodontics
Ramirez Aparicio Const
Banners will be up this month for our Box Car A&B supporters.
If you have a business that would like to support our campaign please email silverrailpta@gmail.com
Please support the businesses that support our school!
Thanks!
Michelle Calvillo
Silver Rail PTA President
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