Heights Highlights- Parent Edition

This school year PSD has adopted a new reading curriculum, American Reading Company (ARC). The curriculum encourages communities to create a reading culture.

Reading Culture: The 100 Book Challenge is a community-wide reading culture system to bring students’ own reading interests and choices into the center of the curriculum while ensuring that all children experience the rich reading lifestyle provides the fuel for system-wide success.

Please be on the lookout for your student's 100 Book Challenge Reading Log.

Mr. Chumley has been our security guard for the last five years at Heights Elementary School.

1. He worked for the Sunnyside Police Department as a Detective Sergeant in the major crimes detective before retiring.

2. His favorite recess game is four square and football.

3. Mr. Chumley has 8 grandchildren (4 boys and 4 girls)

4. Mr. Chumley is an avid motorcyclist. He rides his Indian Chieftain motorcycle 8K-10K miles a year.

5. He was a team leader on SWAT for a number of years in the Sunnyside Police Department.

Mrs. Gossett is our new 4th grade teacher at Heights Elementary School.

Fun Facts:

1. She has been teaching for 22 years.

2. Mrs. Gossett is a graduate of Central Washington University.

3. She grew up playing softball.

4. She enjoys camping, reading, and crafts

5. She is married with 2 children, a son and a daughter

Students are able to volunteer at Heights Elementary School for two service clubs..

Scrub Club:

This is a club where students will help in the cafeteria during lunch.

Green Team:

Our Green Team helps our school continue to look nice.

For more information on each club, please see the paperwork that was sent home with the students who requested it. Again, this is purely voluntary.

This is a friendly reminder that Heights Elementary School does not have supervision for students until 7:50am. Please do not drop off your student before then. We have construction workers, vehicles, and tools around school in the morning and supervision is necessary to keep your student safe!

When dropping off your student please pull forward as far as possible! Many parents are dropping off their students in the morning. Pull forward as far as you can, so we do not back up traffic on Miller Ave.

Thank you for your help with keeping our Stallions safe.

Housel Middle School is still in session until 2:50pm. If your student walks to Housel Middle School, please remind them they are expected to be respectful, responsible and to follow school rules. Failure to comply with these rules may result in disciplinary consequences. We appreciate your help with keeping our Stallions safe and allowing Housel Middle School Colts to continue to learn.

Be on the lookout for our STEM LEGO CLUB paperwork! This will be an afterschool enrichment club working on coding and building Lego robots. Students will meet two days a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays for 6 weeks. The time will be from 2:35pm-3:45pm. Space is limited to 16 students. First come, first serve.

Our Stallions had a surprise visit from the hot air balloon, Sunny Rainbow. Our students were able to ask questions to the pilot and crew, as well as, touch the basket. We had a great day!

October 4th: 5th grade parents Growth and Development Meeting (Library KRV)

*More information will be sent out closer to date.

October 7th: Student of the Month Assemblies

October 12th-13th: Parent/Teacher Conferences (In-Person)

October 14th: No School-State In-Service Day

October 18th: 4th grade Girls' Menstruation Parent Meeting (Library KRV)

*More information will be sent out closer to date.

November 11th: No School-Veterans Day

November 24th-25th: Thanksgiving Break (No School)

November 28th: End of 1st Trimester

• 75% of all 3rd graders will read at grade level by the Spring of 2025 as measured by the iReady.

• 75% of all 5th graders will perform at grade level in math by the Spring of 2025 as measured by the iReady.

• 70% of all EL qualified students will exit EL services by the end of 5th grade in 2025 as measured by the WIDA.

Prosser School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boys Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following employee has been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination:

Title IX Coordinator/

Civil Rights Coordinator for State Law

Section 504/ ADA Coordinator

Dr. Syndi Duehn

1203 Prosser Avenue

Prosser WA 99350

(509)786-1820