Timber Talks
River Mill Elementary - October, 3 2025
Dear River Mill Families,
Thank you for your support with our Jog-a-thon fundraiser! We are incredibly grateful to all of the amazing parent volunteers who helped make this year's Jog-a-thon a huge success! Your time, effort, and enthusiasm made the event run smoothly, and we couldn't have done it without you. A big thank you also goes out to all of our families and community members for your generosity and support. Together, we raised over $10,000 for our classrooms so far! These funds will go directly toward enhancing our students' learning experiences and providing essential resources. Your continued involvement and support make a tremendous difference in our school community. We can still continue to raise and collect money with our school Jog-a-thon pledge page, located at https://app.99pledges.com/fund/rmejogathon2026 . Thank you again for making this event a success!
Third and Fourth Grade Family Breakfast on Wednesday, October 8th!
We warmly invite you to come and enjoy breakfast with your 3rd or 4th grade student. This is a wonderful opportunity to spend quality time together, and we look forward to sharing this special moment with you. Breakfast will be served from 7:30 AM to 8:15 AM in our cafeteria. While you enjoy breakfast with your 3rd or 4th grader, siblings will have their breakfast in the classroom on this day and will have their own designated family breakfast event at a later time.
We can’t wait to see you there!
Lindsey Fullenwider, Principal
Trevor Syring, Vice Principal
Please Complete the Experience Survey
At River Mill, we are committed to providing a positive and enriching experience for all our families. Your feedback is invaluable in helping us understand what we are doing well and where we can improve. By sharing your thoughts, you will help us enhance the school experience for your child. As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, we are conducting a survey in partnership with Studer Education to monitor our progress in creating a positive school experience for you and your child(ren). Your feedback is crucial in helping us identify areas for recognition and improvement.
The survey will ask you to select the school your child(ren) attends. Once you complete the survey for one school, you will have the option to provide feedback on another school, if you have a child at another school in the district. Providing feedback to each school should take approximately 10 minutes to complete. We encourage you to complete it in one sitting, as your responses will be saved once you click submit.
Note: On some mobile phones, the survey may display better if you switch to "desktop site" mode in your browser.
The Parent/Caregiver Experience Survey can be accessed here:
The survey is scheduled to open from Friday, October 3rd, to Friday, October 17th.
To maintain confidentiality of the Parent/Caregiver Survey, our partners at Studer Education will be administering the survey, managing the data collection, and aggregating the data to provide results reports to leaders.
Thank you for your partnership!
FOR ALL FAMILIES: TO BE COMPLETED BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
To ensure the safety of all our students, we ask that all families use the PickUp Patrol app to inform us of their child's daily transportation plans. Please make sure you have set up your child's plans for the first day of school and for the rest of the school year. This is an essential step for the first day of school. You can update these plans at any time! Registration emails were sent earlier this week.
If you need any help or support, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. We're here and happy to assist!
Meal Prices for the 2025-2026 School Year
Great news! This year, ALL students will receive free breakfast and lunch — and that includes meals on REID days too!
Hello Families!
Since 2000, Todos Juntos has been a leading non-profit in Clackamas County, bringing the capacity and expertise needed to improve outcomes for rural communities. They have developed after-school programs that provide leadership development and pro-social opportunities for historically underserved populations, and have expanded their reach to offer community-based, comprehensive, and integrated programs in four Clackamas County communities.
Todos Juntos is proud to make a positive difference in the lives of many families — and we are proud to partner with them here at River Mill!
Please take a moment to check out their Early Learning Newsletter — it’s filled with helpful information and great resources for families! Just click the green link below to view it.
Cell phones and personal electronic devices need to be put in student’s backpack bell to bell. A personal electronic device—commonly referred to as a ‘cell phone’—is any device capable of making and receiving calls, sending text messages, or accessing the internet independently from the school’s network. This includes, but is not limited to, smartphones, flip phones, tablets, e-readers, smartwatches, smart glasses, and other web-capable devices, as well as the headphones or earbuds connected to them. In alignment with Executive Order 25-09 from the Oregon Governor’s Office (and ESD policy JFCEB), we will be following the guidance that electronic devices not be used during the school day. Students who disobey this rule or are in noncompliance with this rule, will have a conversation with the staff member to be reminded of the expectations on their first offense. For a second offense, the cell phone will be taken to the office until the end of the day. Parents will be notified and a meeting with school administration will be set up. If there is a third offense, the device will again be temporarily held, parents will be informed, and another meeting will be set up. Beyond a third instance of noncompliance, the school will determine appropriate consequences, always prioritizing keeping students in class and engaged in learning. The Elementary Schools will not be responsible for loss or damage to students’ cell phones or personal electronic devices brought to school.
