GOLDEN HILLS SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Golden Eagles grow together, learn with passion, act with kindness, and change the world!

Students who received 90% and above average for Math & Language Arts PLUS scored at Grade Level I-Ready in Reading.

Fifth Grade

Hugh

Evan

Holden

Jaxton

Isaac

Axel

Giada

Morgan

Annabelle

Colten

Kenley

Yareli

Elena

Fourth Grade:

Kenslee

Brynlee

Gabby

Lane

Paige

Avery

Angelli

Emily

Brook

Mason

Phineas

Georgina

Luz

Miguel

Sayi

Chandler

Duaa

Emma

Preslie

Brinlee

Kamber

Jase

Due to the nature of our program at Golden Hills, where students may have several teachers in a given day, we don’t take teacher requests. Instead, we value your input on the specific needs your child may have that will assist us in making appropriate placements. Please feel free to pick up a form in the Main Office at Golden Hills between April 1st and May 15th.

Shady Creek is a three night, four day environmental camp. Our fourth grade class will be attending next year. In order to attend we must have parent volunteers to stay in the cabins with the students. These parents must be cleared through our district through the volunteer process. We will need to have the parents cleared before the end of this school year to commit to going! The reserved dates for Shady Creek are the week before our October intercession. Please begin the process so we can be sure we have enough parent volunteers.

Fourth Grade families, we will need you for next year! We need around 10 females and 10 male chaperones for the cabins. So far we have 11 volunteers. We have nine females and 1 male. At this time we will add females on a waitlist to go but we NEED males. We will need 7 males. We have requested the date of Sept. 30th- October 3rd, this will be confirmed before the end of the year.

Please click the link below to sign up to volunteer:

25-26 Shady Creek Sign ups

Our goal is to have 95% average daily attendance.

The class in the month of April with the best attendance will win a VR party!

We had a March Madness Attendance Challenge! Congratulations to Mrs. Langone’s! They win a pizza party and are the first class to use our new GAGA Ball pit!

If your child is absent please call the school office to let them know the reason so that your child can possibly be excused. Also, if your child will be absent you can request independent study. Your child will receive work to do and if the work is completed, your child will receive credit for attendance and will not be counted as absent. If you have questions, please call the school office.

Third Trimester Attendance Challenge is a field trip to the movies:

Students must have less than 16 absences for the entire year or less than 6 absences for the third trimester 3/11/24-5/ 23/25. Our field trip is scheduled for May 27th!

Attendance is very important, if your student is not at school, they cannot learn. Thank you for your support!

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We want to remind you of the impact social media, especially Snapchat, can have on students at school. We’ve seen an increase in conflicts, distractions, and even cases of cyberbullying that start at home online and carry over into the classroom. Because messages and images on Snapchat disappear quickly, it can be difficult to monitor what is being shared. This can lead to unsafe situations, misunderstandings, and hurt feelings among students. We encourage you to closely monitor your student’s social media use and have open conversations about online safety, kindness, and responsibility. By working together, we can help create a safer and more positive school environment for all students.

Phones are not allowed on Golden Hills campus, we have had students using phones and taking pictures around campus. Students' phones will be taken to the office and a referral will be given if this is happening.

Interesting Book on Social Media: The Anxious Generation, Book by Jonathan Haidt

Thank you for your support!

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Hello everyone,

We will be on campuses throughout Butte County next week promoting Take Down Tobacco. This is a week where we partner with Club Live chapters and other local community health organizations to bring awareness to the dangers of tobacco and cannabis, with an emphasis on what healthy coping skills look like. These mini outreach events are only available to students, but we will offer a youth substance-use prevention webinar for caregivers and anyone else living or working with teens on the evening of Wednesday April 2nd from 7-8pm. Free and open to everyone via ZOOM.

Please send out the attached flyer and help us spready the word!

Thank you!

Melissa Anderson

Prevention Programs Coordinator

School Ties and Prevention

Butte County Office of Education

manderson@bcoe.org

Students should not be dropped off before 7:45 am, We do not have supervision until 7:45 am. We have a morning club for students who are earlier than 7:45. Our crosswalk walker staff member starts at 8 am, and walkers should arrive after 8 am.

We have minimum days on Friday’s and school gets out at 1:45.

Students should not bring items from home. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen or broken items.

Congratulations to Jaxton and Miguel for representing Golden Hills at the county wide spelling bee. Miguel made it the top five! Amazing!

We will have our April optional homework packets available in the office starting Friday. Students can come by the office and grab them, or parents can text Mrs. Webb at 552-1631 and she will be sure your student gets a packet.

Thank you to the families who attended our Growth Parade! The students had so much showing off their growth parade poster!

Please join us in celebrating National Teacher/ Staff Appreciation week the week of May 5th-9th! Our staff works very hard all year long for your student’s success!

For staff appreciation week we want to Stock the Staff Room to show appreciation to our staff members. If we all pitch in this makes a light load for all and not a heavy load of work for a few.

We are asking fourth grade families to “Stock the Fridge” with drinks for our staff for the week of May 5-9th. Drinks could be soda, teas, sparkling water, gatorades etc. Help us by donating drinks for the staff. These can be dropped off anytime to the office.

We are asking fifth grade families to “Stock up the Snacks” for our staff members. These snacks could be pretzels, granola bars, protein bars, string cheese etc.. These can be dropped off anytime at the office.

We appreciate your support!

Thank you to the families who completed our March family survey. Congratulations to Alex S. for winning a gift card to Yoville!

Join our next Golden Hills School Site Council/ Parent Teacher Group Meeting on April 17th at 3 pm in the Wellness center. We will be looking at our School Plan for Student Achievement and planning fun activities for the rest of the year. Everyone is welcome to join us!

4/7: Fourth Grade Field Trip to Chico State

4/16 Talent Show at 1 pm

4/17: School Site Council/ Parent Teacher Group Meeting at 3 pm in the Wellness Center

4/18 Third Trimester Progress Reports Go Home

4/21-4/24: Spring Break...No School

5/5- 5/17 CAASPP Testing No field trips

5/5-5/9 Staff Appreciation Week

“Stock the Staff Room”

4th Grade Families Donate drinks

5th Grade families Donate snacks

5/13: Fourth Grade Music Show at 9:30

5/14 Fifth Grade Music Show at 9:30

5/14 : Gold Dust or Bust at State Theater

5/15 Bike Safety Lessons for fourth grade

5/15-6/2 Olympics

5/16 Walk to school event and pedestrian safety lessons fifth grade

5/19- Third Grade Orientation at 1:30 and 5th Grade Bowling Field Trip

5/19-5/23: Acadience / Iready Assessments

5/22 Bike Rodeo 4th Grade only & Open House 5-6 pm

5/23 Early Release 1:15

5/26 No School Memorial day

5/30-Last Day of Olympics & Extra early Release 1:15

6/5 BMX Bike Riders at 9 am

In March the Wellness Coach and I taught lessons on the Blueprint. The Blueprint is a RULER tool that helps us solve conflict. The Blueprint gets us thinking about others feelings and how our behavior impacts others. We watched a video with a conflict and had the students walk through the questions in the blueprint based on the video.

We also conducted internet safety lessons. The 3 main points were to (1) not share private information online (2) to report things that make us feel uncomfortable (3) not to download anything without permission. Students were encouraged to talk to their parents/guardians about anything that makes them feel uncomfortable online and before they download anything. We talked about “red flags” for example: if someone asks them to share private information or not tell their parents about them or to meet up with them in person.

The feeling of the month for April is Valued. Valued is a green feeling on the Mood Meter because our pleasantness is high and our energy levels are lower. Please talk with your children about what makes you feel valued. It feels good to be valued and we want to feel that way. Talk about some ways that you can help others feel valued.

Talent show try outs happened last week. We had a great turn out of talent! I’ll get results for the students by the end of this week. The talent show will be on April 16th in the afternoon.

In the month of April we will be starting a number of new counseling groups, breakfast clubs and lunch bunches. We will also be offering lessons on sportsmanship to all of our classrooms.

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out via email rwalker@palermok8.org or phone at 530-532-6000 ext 4601.

Sincerely,

Rainbow Walker

School Counselor