SHES Weekly Updates

Thank you everyone for helping to make our first full week back at school a success! Visiting the classrooms and seeing the high quality education the students are receiving in both languages has been incredible! This coming week will be our regular week, meaning that students will start with their homeroom teacher and end with the opposite teacher. We understand this can be confusing at first, but feel free to stop by the office or send your child's teacher a message asking what room your child will be in. Soon it will become second nature.

Thank you all for attending Back to School Night. The teachers and I really enjoyed getting to "meet" everyone. If you were unable to attend, please reach out to your child's teacher to get important information for the year.

• Wear your favorite college gear to school!

• We Are Wild About Kindness! Wear anything animal print or animal shirt!
• PTA Meeting, 6pm, SHES lunch tables.

Shadow Hills Spirit Day - Wear Your Spirit Gear!

All AUSD students will begin to take our new i-Ready diagnostic assessment this week. This assessment is given in both math and reading and takes the place of our MAP test. Once the students complete the diagnostic, they are given a personalized learning plan with skills practice within the i-Ready program. The assessment results also help the teachers drive their instruction as they will have a clear understanding of where each child is performing academically. More information about i-Ready can be found here.

One of the best $25 investments you can make this school year is the AUSD Chromebook Protection Plan. If your child's Chromebook is damaged accidentally, it will be replaced at no additional cost with this plan. The deadline to purchase the insurance is September 4th. Click here for more information.

All of AUSD schools will be working towards becoming No Place for Hate certified schools. We will be focusing on the anti-bullying component of this program only and we will be completing three main school-wide activities this year that will help reinforce anti-bullying. For our first activity, we will be creating self-portraits that will form a huge school-wide mural. Additionally, we will be learning the No Place for Hate Pledge in our classrooms.

Please make sure you are sending a refillable water bottle daily with your child. We HIGHLY suggest that your child always has an extra one at school that they fill up from the water bottle refilling stations.

• 9/6: No School - Labor Day
• 9/7: School Site Council, 3:15pm, Zoom
• 9/8: AUSD Board of Trustees Meeting, 6:15pm, JMMS
• 9/14: SHES Picture Day

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Website: https://www.alpineschools.net/o/shes
Location: 8770 Harbison Canyon Road, Alpine, CA, USA
Phone: 619-445-2977
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