Village Voice - Volume 24, Issue 28
- Chrissy Barry
- Apr 9
- 5 min read
Updated: Apr 14
Upcoming Events
Thursday, April 10th, 7th Grade Field Trip to the Museum of Natural History
Friday, April 11th, 1st Grade Field Trip to Mt Pisgah Arboretum
Friday, April 11th, Sewing Enrichment Field Trip to Piece by Piece
Monday, April 14th, 6:00pm, Parent Council Meeting (Zoom Link)
Tuesday, April 15th, 5:30pm, Board Meeting in library
Wednesday, April 16th, 6 - 8th Grade Field Trip to the Hult Center
Friday, April 18th, Talent Show, Dinner starts at 5:30pm, Show starts at 6pm
Monday, April 21st, 9:00am, West African Dance Assembly
Wednesday, April 30th, 1st Grade Field Trip to Nearby Nature
Wednesday, April 30th, 10:15am & 6:30pm, 5th Grade Play
Thursday, May 1st, May Day Celebration
Thursday, May 1st, After Drop Off, Communi-tea (Coffee & Tea)
Monday, May 5th, After Drop off, Volunteer Appreciation Coffee Time
Quick Links
In the interest of reducing the sheer length of the Village Voice, we have replaced several repeating items with links to shortcuts:
Village Vine This is the Village School Facebook Community.
Administrator's Message
Greetings Village School Community!
Welcome back from break! We had a great time this break and went all over the place, from the Oregon Coast, to Belize, to Mexico City.
Parking
We’d like to take a moment to remind folks that the back parking lots are NOT a place for dropping off students. The spots are tight, there are children moving around back there, and those spots are reserved for staff parking. Please refrain from pulling in those spaces to drop off or pick up students! Thank you!
RSVP!
In preparation for our 25th Anniversary Celebration on Saturday May 31st, please RSVP here to let us know whether you plan to come. Admission is free. The Celebration includes music by Skeletons from the Closet (a local Grateful Dead cover band with two alumni) and alumni marimba bands, dancing, tributes to our 25 years, and dinner and drinks (for sale). We hope you can join us!
In other news, the Chinese moon mission Chang’e 6 successfully collected 4.27 pounds of lunar basaltic regolith (unconsolidated rock) from the Apollo crater on the dark side of the Moon and returned it to Earth for collection. Geologists and geophysicists examined the collection and announced that their findings support the hypothesis that the Moon formed when a Mars sized protoplanet collided with Earth and sent earth bits flying into space. The flying bits formed into a sphere over the next gajillion years, becoming our glorious moon. Two thumbs up to the Chang’e 6!
Ten weeks to go until summer break!
Sincerely,
Roz, Shannon, and Andy
Volunteering
Please reach out to chrissy@eugenevillageschool.org with any questions about volunteering! We ask families to contribute 40 hours of volunteer hours per year, and single parent households to contribute 20 hours.
May Day is coming up! Please sign up to volunteer at this wonderful school day event.
Our Handwork teachers are looking for some parent volunteers to read stories to the kids while they sew and knit their creations. Please email Chrissy at chrissy@eugenevillageschool.org if interested.
Brett is looking for a couple of adults to help with digging holes to install a couple of pet waste stations.
Ms Frédérique is looking for one or two volunteers to help hem a set of small tablecloths for the art room. Please email frederique@eugenevillageschool.org if interested.
Author's Night
Thank you to students, teachers, and families for an extra sweet Author's Night!
Commemorative Tiles for Our Courtyard Mural!
Check out our commemorative tiles to help fundraise for our courtyard mural. The tiles offer a great opportunity to share a legacy with our school. The tiles come in two sizes and businesses can upload their logos. They will be situated under the roof by the entrance to the Commons, right next to the location of the mural.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
April Birthdays
April Menus
Lost & Found
Please take a moment to browse through our Lost & Found. This is located in the breezeway outside of the office. We will be donating or repurposing any left over items to the Village School lending library at the end of the school day on 4/18. Thank you!
State Testing
Under Oregon law, a parent or student age 18+ may opt out of Oregon’s annual statewide math and language arts assessments by filling out an annual opt-out form, which starting this year can be submitted online. Exemptions from the English language proficiency (for students whose primary language is not English) or science tests may also be requested based on a student’s disability or religious beliefs. We will only be accepting online opt-out forms for English and Math until we return from spring break. If you would like your 5th or 8th grader to opt-out of the Science testing, you must fill out a paper form and return that to us. The template for this and the online opt-out form for English & Math can be found below, along with some other helpful information:
Student Educational Equity Development Survey (SEED)
Starting in 2023-24, The state of Oregon requires (HB 2656) school districts to make the Student Educational Equity Development Survey (SEED) available to all enrolled students in grades 3-11. The content of the survey varies by grade level. The survey takes approximately 15 minutes to complete and measures student perceptions in four core constructs:
Access to learning resources
Opportunity to learn
Self-efficacy and
Sense of belonging
The middle and high school versions of the survey also include questions about extracurricular engagement and career and technical education. A full list of survey items is available online.
Parents or guardians can opt their student out of taking the SEED Survey by completing this form: SEED Survey Opt-Out Form OR SEED OPT-OUT Spanish and turning it into the office.
Students may decline, at any time before or during the survey, to participate in the SEED Survey via their answer to the first SEED Survey question.
In August, the Oregon Department of Education will release aggregated and suppressed SEED survey results to schools and districts through the Achievement Data Insight (ADI) application, and on ODE’s public website. Though not a test, the survey is distributed via the OSAS (state testing) portal, and it's open during the testing window.
Village School 25th Anniversary - Please RSVP!
Village School Lunch Diaries
What a joy it was to get to have our delicious Village School Kitchen lunches again!
Community Bulletin Board
Contact Kira Rafuse for more information.
Kira is a former Waldorf preschool teacher and Mom of a 4th grader at Village School.
Weeks offering camp for children 6 and up
June 23-26, July 7-10, July 21-24, Aug 4-7, Aug 18-21
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