Stafford Primary School Newsletter

WEST LINN-WILSONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT

19875 SW STAFFORD RD., WEST LINN, OREGON 97068

(503) 673-7150 - www.stafford.wlwv.k12.or.us December 18, 2014

ANDERSON’S ANECDOTES OBOB Practice Questions

With the battles in late January, many teams are ready to start practicing the types of questions that will be asked during the battles. We now have some great practice question resources on our OBOB website. Simply go to the Stafford website, and see our Oregon Battle of the Books menu option under the “library” menu. Rosetta Stone As a school, we have logged an astounding 436 hours in Rosetta Stone working on Mandarin. Thanks to all third through fifth grade students for their hard work! Many students have shown interest in practicing out-side of the classroom. If you are interested in learning about how to access this powerful language acquisi-tion tool, please see our website for the Rosetta Stone login, or contact Phil Anderson at andersop@wlwv.k12.or.us. Science Fair The Stafford Science Fair will be here before you know it! All Stafford Primary students, individually, as a group, or an entire class are encouraged to enter a project in the Science Inquiry Fair which will be held on February 19th from 8:00-11:00 in the MPR for students and 6:30-7:30 p.m. for families. Parents are encour-aged to attend one or both of these display times. The Science Inquiry Fair is non-competitive and is a forum to highlight student inquiry projects. Watch for forms to come home in early January, or visit our “Science Fair” section of our website located under “Programs.”

Philip Anderson Instructional Coordinator andersop@wlwv.k12.or.us

Counseling Corner

I want to take this opportunity to express my deep gratitude to all of our Stafford families! It is a blessing for me to be part of such a fine school and a fine community. Our school has a strong culture of kindness, care and compassion which is truly a reflection of our families. I am blessed to witness the spirit of giving as our community provides for families within and outside our school community during the holidays. Thank you for the blessings you share with one another.

It is a joy knowing you and your children! Thank you for all you do to support our school community!

Warm Winter wishes to you and your family! Enjoy the holidays and this special time together!

Laura Barbour

Stafford School Counselor

Messages From The Office

RECYCLING AT LAMB’S MARKET

At Stafford School in the MPR and at Lamb’s Market Palisades in Lake Oswego there is a box for recyclable glass, cans and plastic for deposit. Lamb’s will donate the deposit money back to us which will be used for P.E. equip-ment at Stafford. Thank you in advance for recycling your items!

WINTER WEATHER

Snow routes are now avail-able on the district website. School closure information will be available on the web-site as well. Please sign up for the flash alerts so you are informed of changes that can take place quickly.

LAST DAY TO CLAIM LOST AND FOUND!

Please check the rack when you are in the building and claim your items. Unclaimed items will be donated over the winter break.

STAFFORD ROBOTIC TEAM TAKES HOME TROPHIES!

A BIG congratulations to the Stafford G.E.A.R.S. (Girls Engineering and Robotics Superstars)! Our Stafford robotics team competed in the regional competition on December 13th and did a fantastic job. They won 1st place for Robot Performance and the 2nd place Champions Award. They now ad-vance to the State Robotics competition which will be in January. Way to go Lily, Melinda, Cynthia and Katelyn!

ENRICHMENT BROCHURE COMING SOON! Brochure and registration will be available on line January 8th–13th! Enrichment classes will begin on January 20th. We look forward to sharing a variety of classes with your child.

Parent Requested Vision Screening Grades 2-5

On January 12, 2015 Nursing Services will be offering distance vision screening for students in grades 2-5 by parent request.

To request a distance vision screening for your child, please contact Brenda Hogan before Thursday, January 8, 2015 at Hoganb@wlwv.k12.or.us or 503-673-7041

STAFFORD CALENDARS: To keep up with all that goes on at Stafford please check our website. http://www.stafps.wlwv.k12.or.us/ and click on Calendar.

Dear Parents, 

Please take time this holiday season to check your child for head lice.  “Schools often see a spike in cases after a school break.  This is often falsely attributed to a return to the school environment, but is actually due to being in the community for an extended period of time." (Pediatric Nursing Sept­Oct 2014).  “These break times are commonly when children have sleepovers, go to camp, or visit relatives.  Then they return to school, and the teacher or school nurse who is familiar with the symptoms identifies the infestation.  The school, rather than being the approximate cause of infestation, is the location of its identification”. 

(We are no longer sending home letters to parents in a class when a case of lice is reported as we have found  that these letters don’t appear to help lessen the occurrence of lice, but may lead to a greater sense of concern.)  Thank you for your diligence in checking your student before January 5th. Enjoy your holiday!  

 Head Lice Protocol  The West Linn Wilsonville School District supports a “No Live Lice” protocol. The US Centers for Disease Control, Harvard School of Public Health, The American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Association of School Nurses and Oregon Public Health Department all support this as well.  

The focus of this protocol is to keep kids in school and support families.  

Guidelines for Exclusion:  

1. Students found with live lice shall be excluded from school.  

2. Students who present with nits only should not be excluded from school. Parents should be notified that nits have been identified.  

3. Parents need to notify school when live lice are found.  

 

Guidelines for readmission to school:  

1. Students found with live lice shall be excluded from school.  

2. Students who present with no live lice may return to school even if nits are present.  

3. Students will be rechecked at 7 and 14 days. If live lice are present, the student will be excluded again.  

4. After 14 days, if live lice remain, absence of lice and nits is required for readmission.  

5. Students with nits only should not be excluded from school but should be rechecked in 7 and 14 days for the presence of live lice.  

6. It is expected that parents will check student’s hair routinely.  

 

Screenings for head lice:  

Criteria for screening an individual lice are persistent itching or scratching, known exposure to sibling or other close contact with lice, self‐referral.  

A classroom check will be performed when there have been three non‐related cases of head lice in a class‐room within ten consecutive school days.  

 

Parents are to return to school with the student for re‐admission in the event that the student may still have live lice present and will need to be excluded again.  

From a medical perspective, infestation with head lice is a mild health condition without serious health conse‐quences for a child, and should not be considered a major health threat to those infested or potentially exposed. No convincing data exists that demonstrates that enforced exclusion policies are effective in reducing the trans‐mission of lice.  

Dec. 19-Jan. 2 Winter Break

Jan. 5 School Resumes

Scrip Order Week

Jan. 7 PTSA Meeting MPR 9:30 a.m.

Jan. 8 Technology Parent Night at WLHS 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Jan. 12 Family Night at OMSI

Jan. 14 Early Release 12:10 p.m. “Professional Growth Wednesday”

Jan. 19 No School/Holiday

Jan. 20 Enrichment Classes Begin

Scrip Order Week

Jan. 30 Spirit Day

Feb. 2 Scrip Order Week

Feb. 4 Early Release 12:10 p.m. “Professional Growth Wednesday”

Feb. 11 PTSA Meeting MPR 9:30 a.m.

Feb. 16 No School/Holiday

Feb. 19 Science Fair 6:30-7:30 p.m. MPR

Feb. 27 Spirit Day

CREST-Jane Goodall Science Symposium 5:30 - 9:30 p.m. Wilsonville High School.

Check your child’s lunch account balance on the Schoolmaster PASS system

for your school, or on mymealtime.com.

LUNCH MENU LINK

http://www.wlwv.k12.or.us/cms/lib5/OR01001812/Centricity/Domain/42/primary_lunch_menu.pdf

Please join us in a presentation by Dr. Doreen Dodgen-Magee titled:

Plugged In: How Technology Shapes Brains, Relationships, and

the Sense of Self

Who: West Linn Parents and Primary School Faculty When: 6:30-8:30 pm Thursday, January 8, 2015 Where: West Linn High School Auditorium Sponsored By: The Wonderful Parent Organizations and PTAs at Bolton,

Cedaroak Park, Stafford, Sunset, Trillium Creek, and Willamette Primary Schools.

Let's face it, gone are the days where kids passed notes in class in order to communicate. Today there are 100s, if not 1000s, of social media sites that are vying for our kids’ attention. We, parents, thought we were cool by getting on Facebook, but the kids are passing us by with Tumbler, Kik, Hot or Not, Instagram, Flickr, and so many more. While technology is helpful and needed in today’s world, we need to understand and support our children in learning how to use and access it responsibly. It's time for parents to catch up! Not only will you be well informed after the 2 hours, but the event is FREE!

Here’s what she’ll talk about: • The importance of technology in our daily lives • Norm setting around technology and media • The current digital landscape • Modeling and making contracts around technology with our children • Keeping life diverse so kids don’t habituate on technology

Doreen Dodgen Magee is a psychologist based in Lake Oswego and is on the national lecture circuit. She does a two hour, fast paced, witty, extremely up to date, fun talk to parents about what technology our kids are seeing, what's coming down the road, alternative ways to tell our kids to put down the ipod/phone, and reasons to have them pick up technology. She's both cautious and encouraging. For more information on Doreen and her services go to http://doreendm.com/.

This is a parent only event. Childcare will not be provided.

December 18, 2014

S t a f f o r d P T S A

NEWSLETTER

Stafford Primary

PTSA

everychild. onevoice.

Stafford Giving Tree Thank you for helping our community by donating to The Giving Tree at Stafford!

The PTSA sponsored the Stafford Giving Tree and the kids made sure it was a success!

This year, 207 toys and gifts were donated to the Clackamas County Department of Human Services foster

care program. They have over 430 children in this program, many of these children do not have their own

belongings with them at their foster home.

Clackamas County Department of Human Services was so appreciative of all the gifts and thanked us for giv-

ing these children a wonderful holiday season.

Thank you to all our supportive families who gave so generously to the tree! This wonderful Stafford tradi-

tion would not be possible without the support of our families!

A big thank you to our Community Service Chair, Ivana Tence, for coordinating the Giving Tree.

Thank you to Dr. Yip of The Kids’ Dentist for donating the two trees; Mrs. Jones and her class for taking

care of the trees and ensuring the gifts safely reached Ms. Freeborn’s office; and Krista Oswald for helping to

drive the gifts to Clackamas County Department of Human Services.

Still need to purchase your 2014-2015 Staf-

ford Primary School Directory?

There are still directories available! Please

see Lisa Alexander in the front office to

purchase one today!

Have pictures of Stafford Kids? We would love to include them in the yearbook!

Simply visit www.picasaweb.google.com to download your photos!

username: staffordtigers2015

password: tigers2015

We have folders for different classes or by event.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact

any one of us:

Julia Henry: juliahenry2@hotmail.com

Alaina Kuehn: alainakuehn@gmail.com

Ivana Tence: ditence@gmail.com

Calling all volunteers!! One of our all time favorite events, the Stafford Stampede, needs 1 new chair for the 2015 and 2016 school years. Eric Tuecke and Charrisse Reents have done a fantastic job the

last several years organizing such an amazing and memorable event. However, they are ready to pass the reigns to new chairs (and they promise to be available to answer ques-

tions during the planning stage for the 2015 Stampede).

Also needed are several chairs to help organize Bingo night on February 20, 2015.

Please contact Dardee Layne at president1@staffordptsa.com or Clarissa Aoyama at presi-

dent2@staffordptsa.com if you are interested in these amazing volunteer opportunities.

Are your children missing jackets, sweatshirts or other important

items? Please come check the Stafford lost and found. All items not

claimed will be donated to Clackamas County in January.

Budget Highlights

Do you enjoy going shopping? Yes, of course you do!

Since July 2014, eScrip has brought in $665.69 for Stafford!

With so much holiday shopping in the month of December, let’s see how much we can increase that figure! By

registering your credit cards with eScrip, when you swipe your card at certain vendors, a percentage of your pur-

chase is automatically donated to Stafford. Simply go to www.escrip.com and use our school name and our sup-

porter ID number 8567018.

Please take a moment to double check that your Safeway Club card is also registered with eScrip. Ask your rela-

tives to do the same!

For more information, please contact Rachel Stevenson at stafford.scrip@gmail.com.

Want More Information Regarding PTSA?

Stafford Primary's PTSA (Parent Teacher Student Association) mission is to strengthen

parent/teacher/student communication and education through newsletters, workshops, events, and activi-

ties. The PTSA's goal is to enrich the educational environment in order to assist the school in stimulating

our students into becoming creative thinkers and problem solvers who strive to reach their maximum po-

tential now and throughout their lives.

For more information contact:

Stafford PTSA Website: www.staffordptsa.com

Co-Presidents: Dardee Layne (503) 709-6295 / president1@staffordptsa.com

Clarissa Aoyama (503) 819-0400 / president2@staffordptsa.com

Vice President: Charrisse Reents (503) 548-7326 / vicepresident@staffordptsa.com

Volunteers Inquiries: Ginger Highland (503) 804-5005 / bghighland@comcast.net

Newsletter Inquiries: Kristine Cox (503) 407-3158 / kristineacox@gmail.com

PTSA Meetings!

Can’t make a PTSA meeting? Keep up with the meeting minutes available on the Stafford PTSA website at:

www.staffordptsa.com—click on minutes.

Our next meeting is 9:30 am on Wednesday, January 7th in the staff lounge at Stafford. Hope to see you there!

“Gift of SCRIP” Update

Thank you to all of the families that contributed to the “Gift of SCRIP” for our amazing teachers!

Thanks to your generosity, our teachers will be receiving gift cards totaling $5230 for the holidays!

Order SCRIP today to help support our students at Stafford!!

SCRIP is gift cards for stores and restaurants. Think about where you like to buy groceries, shop, eat and go for en-

tertainment — check out the SCRIP order form for the these places! Then, place your order and help earn money for

our school. Here is a great sample order:

Store & Percent Earned Back: You Pay: Stafford Earns:

Safeway (4%) $200 $8.00

Kaady Car Wash (26%) $30 $7.80

Old Spaghetti Factory (8%) $30 $2.40

Starbucks (6%) $25 $1.50

McMenamins (12%) $25 $3.00

Total $310 $22.70

This year we have already earned $1500 for our school! Every order helps as the proceeds benefit our science teacher

in residence, art literature, visiting authors, grants for classrooms and much more! If you have not ordered before,

we encourage you to try it! Please contact Rachel Stevenson at stafford.scrip@gmail.com with any questions.

Next order dates: January 6th with delivery on January 8th

January 20th with delivery on January 22nd

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Yes, we would like to visit OMSI privately with Stafford Primary! I understand that I am responsible for my student and/or other family members for the duration of the evening, including transportation to and from the museum.

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Stafford students and families have the unique opportunity to visit OMSI For two hours, OMSI and it’s interactive and nationally acclaimed exhibits will be open exclusively to Stafford families!

Students will be able to experience any exhibit, hall or lab during this event. This fun evening will allow Stafford families to explore the nature of human growth and development, the structure and function of the human body as well as experiment with technology and physical sciences! Please see more details below and contact Dardee Layne with any questions at: dardinel@hotmail.com

: Monday, January 12th, 2015 | 6:00pm—8:00pm

: OMSI Museum | 1945 SE Water Avenue, Portland

: $5.00 Per Family (Please note this is NOT per person)

Transportation is not provided, students and their families will be able to arrive and depart at their convenience.

OMSI night