Spring Mills Shark Nation Notes

3/3/2023

Important Upcoming Dates

March 13th: PTA Meeting

March 14th: No School for Students - Staff Professional Development Day

March 16th Parent Junior Kindergarten and Kindergarten Orientation @ 6:00pm

March 27th - 31st: No school - Spring Break

Shark Families:

We've had a great entry into March is Reading Month! Our assemblies with Science Alive were so exciting. It was fascinating to be able to see and interact with many different animals such a chinchilla, a python, an armadillo, and so many more! Thank you to our PTA for providing this experience for our students.

The excitement is in the air as classrooms compete with our door decorating contest! What makes it even more special is that this is the first time that we could actually do this because we just got doors on our rooms! Look for pictures and/or videos soon of the finished products. Our centrums are being transformed into every animal you could imagine!

This coming Monday, March 6th, Spring Mills will be the building featured at the school board meeting! We have some students who will be sharing some wonderful things happening at Spring Mills Elementary. The meeting is at 6pm at Milford High School for anyone interested in attending.

Don't forget to check your March is Reading Month calendar for all of the fun dress up days ahead this week!

Stay safe this weekend as the snow rolls in!

Take care,

Sarah Bentley, SM Principal

New Mental Health Resource for Families

We are pleased to share that Huron Valley Schools is offering a new resource to support mental health and wellness. ParentGuidance.org is free to all staff, parents, and families in our district.

ParentGuidance.org is a service developed by licensed therapists that provides trusted and specialized courses, professional support, and a safe community to learn how to support our children and get answers to mental health questions.

HVS is inviting all our families and staff to take part in a Mental Health Night hosted by ParentGuidance.org. This virtual event will inform our families about the online resource and help them understand the ParentGuidance.org tools and resources. The Family Mental Health Night virtual event will be held on Wednesday, March 8 from 8:00pm – 9:00pm. Use this link to register: https://CookCenter.info/March8

This virtual event will be hosted by ParentGuidance.org clinical director, Dr. Kevin Skinner. Dr. Skinner is a Marriage and Family Therapist and will be answering questions from participants.

Our hope is that ParentGuidance.org will give concerned parents an additional place to go for answers to support and help their children struggling with depression, anxiety, self-harm, bullying, grief and family strife, just to name a few, as well as provide tools for forming stronger bonds between parents and their children.

We have flyers to send home with all the details. If you have parents who seem to be struggling or overwhelmed, please remind them of this site where they can get trusted resources. ParentGuidance.org is free and confidential.

Look for this logo on our Health and Wellness page under the For Parents navigation bar on our website www.hvs.org, to learn more about this free service available to our district.