Village Voice - Volume 24, Issue 30
- Chrissy Barry
- Apr 23
- 6 min read
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, April 29th, 6:30pm, 6th Grade Parent Meeting
Wednesday, April 30th, 1st Grade Field Trip to Nearby Nature
Wednesday, April 30th, 4th Grade Field Trip to the Raptor Center
Wednesday, April 30th, 10:15am & 6:30pm, 5th Grade Play
Thursday, May 1st, May Day Celebration, Sign up to volunteer here!
Thursday, May 1st, After Drop off, Village Community Council Coffee
Saturday, May 3, 5th Grade Greek Games
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!
The first three-quarters of the school year have come and gone and we officially have 7.5 weeks left until summer break! This week will be unusual, in that we have six staff members heading off to Portland for the Positive Behavior Intervention Systems conference, which is being held on Thursday and Friday. We’re hoping to learn a lot and bring it all back to make our Village School even better.
Please know that Parent Council is seeking input on a few projects. Please reach out to your class parent coordinator and let them know your thoughts on whether to approve the following projects:
$800 - Yearbook printing and paper fees. The school absorbs the cost of staff time to print and assemble the yearbooks. With this project, all students get a yearbook.
Up to $4000 - Install a new water fountain and bottle filler in the courtyard. Estimates are about $1300 for the cost of the equipment, $500-$1000 for electrical, $0-$800 for plumbing, and up to $500 for a protective housing. There's a margin of $400 to account for unforeseen installation costs.
Please also be sure to sign up to help with May Day.
Thank you for being a part of our community! We are ever grateful,
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.
Talent Show
The 2025 Village School Talent Show & 8th Grade Fundraiser was a smashing success! Thank you to all the fabulous performers and to the 8th grade families for putting it together!
May Day
Our annual May Day celebration is next week! We will need plenty of flowers to make Flower Crowns and to adorn the Maypole. Please share the bounty of your gardens - we will have buckets placed outside to the office on the morning of May 1st.
We are still in need of volunteers for this sweet celebration, and get your name down for a shift that looks good to you! It's an easy and fun way to meet your volunteer hours. We are also calling all 4th grade families to sign up for ivy crown making on Wednesday, 4/30 after school behind the 4th grade classroom. Thank you all for coming together to make this beautiful event happen!
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.
Village School 25th Anniversary - Please RSVP!
Village School Kitchen
We are excited to have a new partnership with Laughing Stock Farm. They have started taking our food waste (minus citrus and onions) every Wednesday to feed their farm animals. Big thanks to 5th grade student Aeon for making the connection!
On Monday we had our second day of taste testing hot sauces from Crossroads Farm. Students and staff sampled 11 different varieties from No-Heat Habaño Orange to knock-your-socks off Pomegranate Scorpion. We encourage you to visit the Crossroads stand at the Lane County Farmers Market any Saturday this growing season. They have an amazing selection of fermented hot sauces and dry pepper powders as well.
Maya's favorites were the No-Heat Jalapeño Lime and the Chocolate Habaño!
We are in need of laundry folding volunteers on Wednesdays and Fridays. If you can swing by the Commons after drop off to help for a bit with some napkin, apron and dishcloth folding, please text or email me.
Con cariño,
Toña Aguilar
541-510-8604
Handwork Happenings
Check out these beautiful finished Handwork projects!
Assembly
Thank you so much to our Village Community Council, and to parent and VCC head extraordinaire Cory Byers for arranging a wonderful assembly for our students! Performers from the West African Cultural Arts Institute came to visit.
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. 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 are only accepting paper opt-out forms at this time. If you would like your 5th or 8th grader to opt-out of the Science testing, you must fill out a separate paper form and return that to us. The template for this and the English & Math can be found in the office or the link below:
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 Lunch Diaries
Another yummy week of Village School lunches!
Community Bulletin Board
Come support our Village School students!
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
From Garden to Fabric: An Adventure in Natural Dyeing
Parent & Child Class | Ages 8–12
Sunday, July 27, 2025 | 1–5 PM
Long Table Farm | $100–$110
Join artist Kate Hirst (Village School Mom) for a fun, hands-on natural dye workshop using Japanese Indigo and garden-grown plants! Learn the traditional techniques of Shibori and Tatakazome to create vibrant patterns on fabric and paper. Families will harvest from the garden, experiment with color, and explore nature through art.
Tickets:
• Parent + Child (ages 8–12): $110
• Individual: $100
• Add’l child: $15
Register at: www.longtable.farm
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