Happy Friday! We had a great week back at school. Students came ready to learn and had fun stories to share from winter break and snowfall adventures. Afternoon classes began in earnest this week (art electives were most of our December afternoons) and it was great hearing students engaged in their science, social studies, and health and wellness classes. In Advisory, all of our 4th - 7th graders made resolutions or intentions for the New Year, while our 8th graders worked on learning their new family members' names and made plans for introducing them next week! Ask your student about something fun they did this week.
A huge appreciation goes out to our whole community for helping keep our staff and students safe. With our stellar masking, airflow and exchange of air at school, and great communication from families we feel like we can weather the latest storm that COVID has thrown us and continue to keep the learning going. Thank you for always erring on the side of caution. There is information about the new guidance below (which is essentially 5-days for most exposures and positive cases). Please know that our health team of Lynn Croissant, Cheryl Sharkey, R.N., and myself are available to answer your questions as they arise. Please email the office or give us a call if you're not sure how the guidance affects you and your situation.
It was a blustery and wet week, but the air is seeming warmer and it looks like we could even see the sun this weekend! I hope you all enjoyed the time over break and am very much looking forward to a great January.
Important Upcoming Events and Information
TRCS Board Meeting - January 10
In-Service - No School - January 14
MLK Holiday - No School - January 17
Winter MAP Testing - January 18-20 (4/5 Math, 6/7/8 Reading)
State of the School via Zoom - January 27 at 6:00 pm
For 6th, 7th and 8th grade parents ONLY. On Wednesday, we had a meeting regarding possibilities for Outdoor School for this school year. If you were unable to attend, you can view this brief slideshow. Also, please complete thissurvey link regarding ODS this year after you've looked through the slides. We are going to keep this survey open through the weekend, but will need to move forward at that point making a final decision, so thank you for your participation in advance!
Update from Clackamas County Public Health Dept.
We follow Clackamas County Health rules and recommendations for COVID. New guidelines were adopted on 1/6/22. You can view these guidelines in depth on the West Linn-Wilsonville School District website. To summarize, the current guideline for anyone testing positive is a 5-day quarantine returning to normal operations on the 6th day as long as the individual is symptom and fever-free for 24 hours.
Exposure to a COVID positive for vaccinated individuals without symptoms states that the individual does not need to quarantine and can continue normal practices.
Exposure to COVID positive for unvaccinated individuals states that the individual must quarantine for 5 days and return on the 6th day.
TRCS is excited to announce our participation in the AMC 8 Middle School Math competition administered by the Mathematical Association of America. We are doing it as part of our ongoing Mathcounts coaching and Math enrichment activities. We would love to offer it to all our students. We have one spot left! All grades are eligible. It will be held on Thursday, January 20th after school. Please email our office if your child would like to participate.
