Conferences: Thursday, March 12th (4-7:30pm) and Friday, March 13th (12-8pm). Thursday, March 12th is a regular school day for students and there is NO SCHOOL Friday, March 13th.
Art Fundraiser! It's time for our annual Art Fundraiser. You can put your student's art on t-shirts, aprons, pillow cases and more. Your student's teacher has sent home artwork, order forms and a pricing sheet, so be on the lookout! All of the money raised goes toward school assemblies. If you have any questions, please contact 2nd grade teacher Michelle Chase: michelle_chase@gervais.k12.or.us. Thanks!
Book Fair is this week! Your child will be able to experience the book fair during library time. Additionally, when you come for conferences this week, the book fair will be open!
Please join us for Family Coding Night March 19th from 6-7pm in the cafe'! There will be prizes and snacks!
Aguilas de Oro: Gervais Elementary students are invited to join Aguilas de Oro for a special performance at Family Night! Please see the links for more information on how GES students can be involved:
English https://aptg.co/gn2_V5
Spanish https://aptg.co/Y68c3R
Conferences: Please make sure you have called the office 503.792.3803 to schedule your conference for Thursday, March 12th (4-7:30pm) or Friday, March 13th (12-8pm). March 12th is a regular school day for students and there is NO SCHOOL Friday.
Aguilas de Oro: Gervais Elementary students are invited to join Aguilas de Oro for a special performance at Family Night! Please see the links for more information on how GES students can be involved:
English https://aptg.co/gn2_V5
Spanish https://aptg.co/Y68c3R
Please join us for Family Coding Night March 19th from 6-7pm in the cafe'! There will be prizes and snacks!
As we speak, your children are working hard on creating a piece of artwork that can be transferred to a coffee mug, mouse page, T-shirt, etc. Next week teachers will send home a sample of your child’s artwork in an envelope with a pricing guide stapled to the outside. The order forms are due back by March 17th. Please see the link for more information about our school fundraiser. https://aptg.co/c03mpV
Dear Parents,
On Wednesday, February 25th, from 5:30-7:30pm, we’ll have an important parent education event: How to Protect Your Child from Fentanyl. Fentanyl has hit our communities harder than any other drug in history. Fentanyl is involved in 90% of young Oregonian drug deaths, making drugs now the leading cause of death for this age group (15-24). Sadly, many of these deaths could have been avoided if the youth had been educated on the risks of fentanyl.
Schools are adding fentanyl education into their health education curriculum, but a few days of drug education a year is not enough to protect our kids from this dangerous drug. Parents and caregivers need to be involved, educating their kids about this danger and reinforcing the messaging at home. Most parents today were raised during the time of DARE, where “just say no” was the extent of drug education, and they don’t have an example of an effective drug talk to look back on. This event will educate everyone on how the current drug landscape is more dangerous than ever due to fentanyl and give tips and tools to help parents and caregivers have conversations with their kids.
The event will start with the screening of a short film, The New Drug Talk & La Estrella, following a discussion with local experts. Special guests include Marion County Substance Abuse Prevention Coordinator and the Youth Prevention Education Coordinator. We will also have folks from Interface Network to assist individuals with enrolling and navigating the Oregon Health Plan.
While this presentation is geared toward families with children in middle school or older, all are welcome to attend. This is an event you won’t want to miss. We hope to see you there!
THANK YOU TEAM!
Courtney & Guadalupe
1. Family Art Night on February 19th at 6pm in the GES Cafe. Click on the link: https://aptg.co/6Xp3D1
2. If you or someone you know has a student with a disability, please join us on Thursday, February 19th from 5-6pm at GES. Click on the link: https://aptg.co/6hpZGR
3. Please click on the link for information on a community screening event at GHS on February 25th at 5:30pm. https://aptg.co/nvvjV6
What beautiful weather we’re having. As much as I want more snow up on the mountain for snowboarding, I do love the sun!
Here are a few things to remember/be aware of in our GES family:
1. Fancy Day is tomorrow! Students can dress to the nines! I can’t wait to see the creativity tomorrow.
2. No School Monday, February 16th in honor of Presidents’ Day!
3. We have a school assembly (just for students) on Tuesday, February 17th led by the Heart Association and Ms. Bizon has asked us all to wear RED. Bring out your best RED!
4. Family Art Night on February 19th at 6pm in the GES Cafe. Click on the link: https://aptg.co/6Xp3D1
5. If you or someone you know has a student with a disability, please join us on Thursday, February 19th from 5-6pm at GES. Click on the link: https://aptg.co/6hpZGR
6. Please click on the link for information on a community screening event at GHS on February 25th at 5:30pm. https://aptg.co/nvvjV6
It's hard to believe it's February already but here we are! If you click the link below, you'll see the latest GES news.
https://aptg.co/_2GQBv
Reminders:
1. Students are released from school tomorrow (1/29) at 11:20
2. No school for students Friday (1/30)
3. NO LATCH KEY for students tomorrow (1/29)
4. If you or someone you know has a student with a disability, Please join us!
Thursday, 2/19 5:00 - 6:00 PM at Gervais Elementary School. Here is the link to the flyer. https://aptg.co/zbR0G0
Hello Families! I hope you continue to enjoy all this sun! It makes me feel like I live in Central Oregon. I heard we'll get some rain this week which means snow in the mountains for some fun winter sports! It's probably time for some rain.
Here are some things you need to know about this week:
1. Students are released from school on Thursday (1/29) at 11:20am
2. No school for student Friday (1/30)
3. No Latch Key for students on Thursday (1/29)
4. Winter Soccer Club is postponed until we can find another coach. We only have 1 coach right now.
5. If you or someone you know has a student with a disability, Please join us! Thursday, 2/19 5:00 - 6:00 PM at Gervais Elementary School. Here is the link to the flyer. https://aptg.co/zbR0G0
Tomorrow is Crazy Hair Day! Bring your best "hairdo" to school tomorrow!
Reminder: No school tomorrow, January 19th, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We'll see all students back at school on January 20th.
Hello GES Families!
I am excited to serve at the interim principal for the rest of the year. I've missed seeing our students and families over the last couple weeks! I hope you all had a wonderful break, spending time with family and friends. I was able to watch my son wrestle and my daughter play basketball! Such an exciting time to be a parent:).
We look forward to welcoming students back tomorrow (Tuesday, January 6th) at 7:50 a.m. Attendance is the single best way to improve student achievement. Please partner with us in helping your child arrive on time and attend school every day so they can fully engage in learning, build strong relationships, and continue making academic progress.
As ICE continues to remain active in the community, here is a link to a site that offers families a step-by-step resource guide on how to prepare for interactions with ICE. It includes recommendations on filing out a “Caregiver’s Authorization Affidavit (CAA). While this site lists California, we have also included the version provided by the State of Oregon
https://www.ilrc.org/resources/step-step-family-preparedness-plan#item-4332
We had planned to share an important update with GES students today and to then message families afterwards, but with the unexpected school closure due to power outage, we did not get the chance to share the news with our students first. We will let them know in the morning, but we need to announce that principal Dusty Price has been reassigned to serve as interim principal at Gervais High School for the remainder of the 2025-2026 school year. Assistant principal Sarah Bradley will serve as principal at Gervais Elementary School when students return from Winter Break.
Though Mr. Price is excited to work with the high school students, he will really miss our GES students and staff. We have an amazing team and have accomplished so much together. It is inspiring to see such incredible growth in our students. It has been a privilege serving the GES school community and Mr. Price feels very sad to leave. The wonderful work happening across the school will continue under the leadership of Ms. Bradley. She is a very capable administrator and compassionate educator. We will work together to make this a smooth transition.
Gervais School District has a 2-hour delay this morning. Here is the message sent by the district this morning: "2 Hours Late. Due to a power outage and toilets not being functional at GMS and GHS. The district may decide to close for the entire day should the weather continue to worsen. That decision will be made by 8:00 AM".