Loma Heights Twister News

Just like that August is done and we begin our 7th week of school!

Parent teacher conferences are on September 2nd. If you have not scheduled a conference please contact your child's teacher.

What is the Green Team program? It is a leadership program, where 5th grade students will help with recycling, cleaning up the school and community projects. They will be doing these projects 1-3 times per week, as deemed appropriate by mental health and admin staff. They will also attend leadership meetings every Friday with a mental health staff to learn and gain evidence-based leadership skills and interventions.

What is the Extreme Team program? It is a peer mentorship program run by the school’s mental health team to include the Counselor, Tera Uhl, Social Worker, Karrie Killgore, 5th grade students, along with any interns associated with the mental health team. It is designed to encourage positive self-worth, build relationships with each other as well as develop leadership skills that will carry on with them throughout their school career. We use evidenced based interventions to support social emotional learning in the classrooms.

What does it mean to be a mentor? The mentors will be paired with a younger student who has struggled with academics, behaviors or social emotional responses in class. The mentor will go to the younger child’s class 1-3 times per week to assist in individualized interventions the mental health team deems appropriate for that chosen child. The mentors will also have mentorship meetings every Friday with a mental health staff in order to collaborate ideas and strategies with each other.

Marangely De Leon is our new Health Assistant at Loma Heights. She will be working along side our nurse, Biviana Cadena. She comes to our school with lots of experience in health care. She is also fluent in Spanish. She will be taking great care of your kids. We welcome her to our school.

September 1st - Medical Emergency Drill

September 2nd- No School Parent Teacher Conferences

September 5th - No School Labor Day

September 12th- Roadrunner Foodbank @ 9:00 am

September 14th - Enrichment Day

• 4th Grade Field Trip Dripping Springs

September 15th - STEAM Night 5:30pm - 7:00pm

@ Arrowhead Park Early College High School

September 16th - 5th Grade Field Trip

September 21st- DAC (District Advisory Council) 5:30 pm@ Arrowhead Park Early College High School

• All parents are invited to attend to learn and provide input for district initiatives

September 23rd- End of quarter 1

September 26th - October 7th - Fall Break / Intersession

Walk 'N' Roll EVERY FRIDAY meet at Apodaca Park