Loose Ends:
- Transitions – who walks where and when…???? Please take some time to read the tab labeled transitions to understand the different routines for transitioning between recess, lunch, music & PE etc.
- Lining up – When you do look at the transitions tab you will notice students are to line up when they return from recess. I know this is not everyone’s desire, however, I do believe this is the safest way to make these transitions happen. With the doors being locked at all times, there will be too many opportunities for collisions at the doors that we need to avoid. (This is specific to students returning from recess, not the morning arrival.)
- Morning Arrival Routine – if you plan to ask your students to wait outside for you please be aware of any students riding the bus so they will not be unintentionally excluded from your class routine. Also, since we do not have supervision, it is imperative you meet your students promptly at 7:35.
- Recess Rodeo – As we mentioned in the past, the pandemic gave us an opportunity to move away from this ineffective practice of large group instruction outside. From our observations, this practice did not truly teach students the expectations. Most students were not attentive, could not hear and even many adults could not remember all the instructions and rules being explained. Utilizing video and demonstrating the expectations via acting out the behavior is much more effective for learning. It’s also a great way to re-teach when they “forget”. So our new Recess Rodeo is ongoing and occurring in a different format.
- Lunch buckets – lunch buckets should reside in the downstairs hall outside the cafeteria (except for Alicia and Amber – we need a slightly different plan for your classes due to PE & Music).
- Standard Response Protocol (SRP) posters and evacuation routes – these need to be posted in every room. Please check to see to see your room has them. Send an email to all 3 of us in the office if yours is missing.
- Kids, Inc – FYI Bend Parks and Rec has the gym, cafeteria, and room 14 reserved each day after school. Michael is the lead again and he is aware that they need to keep students out of the rest of the school.
- EA schedules are close t0 being finished. EAs will be given their individual schedules and grade level teams will be given their specific EA support time frames.
- Classroom PE minutes: Congrats to the 4/5 team for getting their movement break times on the master schedule! Please get me your movement break times for your grade levels.
Bus: If you have students who are riding the bus in the morning, they will be dropped off at 7:35. Hailey will meet them at the bus and walk them into the building. At this point, the kids will walk straight to their classrooms. PM bus kids will meet Hailey in the hall outside of her room and she walk them to the bus. Maybe send them a minute or two early if you are located downstairs or towards the back of the building. Brian and Heidi will be at the Harmon and Nashville gates.
PM Recess Coverage: Please create a schedule that includes two members of your grade level team for your PM recess time. Once this is created, share it with Brian so it can be added to the calendar. Thank you! Recess Rules are linked here.
Assemblies: Assemblies will be on the first Friday of each month. Our first assembly will be on 9/9 at 1:30. A seating arrangement will be sent out by Heidi Thomas before the assembly. This will be a quick welcome back or welcome to Highland and introduce our staff.
We would like to continue with school-wide spirit days starting in October again this year! Please use this Padlet to share ideas. The list of character traits can be found in the staff handbook if you are curious.
One more link to our assembly plan. If you can, I’d love to do class videos again! Please sign up as a class or team or buddy class or ????
Fall Culmination Planning: Linked here is the form for inputting your requests for dates, locations, etc. We will leave this open until 9/17 (unless we have everyone entered sooner) before making the final decisions, so please hold off on communicating to parents until we sync everything until giving the final approval. The gym is already in high demand from outside users, so we need to get our own events planned and blocked out on the calendar.
Quiz – If you want to test your knowledge of the 2022-2023 Master Schedule document click here and show what you know. It’s a 15-point quiz. I will cover a recess supervision for the first and 15/15 score submitted.
Key Links:
Week Preview: Please note the changes compared to the earlier version.
- Monday 9/5
- Labor Day
- Tuesday 9/6
- Work Day – Classrooms / Flex day
- 2:00 Leadership Meeting
- Wednesday 9/7
- First Day of School
- Full Day – No SIW
- Thursday 9/8
- Friday 9/10
- First day Full
- 1:30 1st Assembly
Highland Staff Calendar – back by popular demand!! This link takes you straight to the google calendar. Although we have a week preview at a glance above, a quick check of the calendar each week helps with planning and preparation.