Key comm nov 17 2014

November

17th-21st—OMS Red Ribbon Week

17th-21st—PTR Food Drive

18th—PTR Picture Retakes

18th—PTTE Meeting

20th—OPS Title 1 Family Night & Ready

for Kindergarten

20th—Vision & Hearing Screening

25th—End of 1st trimester

26th—Payday!

December

2th-5th—PTR shopping for students

4th—School Board Meeting

4th—PTR Report Cards go home

6th—PTR Festive Family Fun Run

8th—PTA Meeting

9th—PTR 2nd grade rehearsal

11th—PTR 2nd grade performance

11th-Flu Clinic

Upcoming Calendar

Congratulations to our OHS Cardinal

Football Team for making it to state and

hosting the playoff game.

Congratulations to our Pierce County

Skills Center Students of the Month for

September and October

Jeremy Kubicek - Orting - Automotive Technology

Jared Crookshank - Orting - PC Net-working Hardware Repair

Sophia Glissmeyer - Oasis - Aero-space Composites

Nathan Boyd - Orting - Aerospace Machining

Tyler Smith - Orting - Video Game Development

Red Ribbon Week this week at OMS

Please remember:

Lock doors

Close Windows

Turn down heat

Michelle Curry, Superintendent

Orting School District

Volume , Issue November 17, 2014

Key Communicator Preparing all students for college, careers and life.

INS ID E TH IS I S SUE :

Superintendent’s Message

Calendar

Schools, Sports & Around the district

Departments

HR postings &

Information

IMPORTANT L INKS:

As we head into the hectic holiday

season I want to extend my heartfelt

thanks to staff for your fine work and

continued engagement of your stu-

dents, a constant positive force in

their lives and their learning.

Enjoy a Socktober Video of Ms.

Scott’s 5th Graders! Click here

Follow me on

@OrtingSupt

@OrtingSupt

NEW Links for Staff @Marci Shepard

NEW M. F. T. Requests Maintenance. Facility. Trips.

Orting School District

#344

Emergency Messages signup for alerts

OSD Teaching Learning &

Leading

Click for Video

Ideas & Resources

Denise Thompson shares her classes

latest Aerospace project

ROV...follow the link (you may

need to log into Facebook to view)

OHS STEM Club is a finalist in

Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Com-

petition

Page 2 Volume , Issue

For Staff

Teaching, Learning & Leading

Newly designed—

Links for Staff

New addition-

Resources for Staff

All ideas & resources links and docu-

ments appearing in the Key can be

found on this page, the list will be

ongoing and updated every week.

WSIPC requires 3

Saturdays during the

course of a year for

downtime so that

they can install updates to the system.

Downtimes begin on Saturday at 12:01

am and end no later than 9:00 pm.

This downtime affects Student/Fiscal/

Teacher/Family and Student Access

Modules.

Downtimes for the 2014-15 School

year are:

November 8th, 2014

March 14, 2015

July 11, 2015

Central Office’s October delivery to

the Orting Food Bank.

Remember: Smarter Balanced Practice Tests Are Always Availa-

ble!

The practice tests, in English language arts/literacy (ELA) and mathematics for grades 3 through 8 and 11, each in-clude approximately 30 ques-

tions.

Practice tests are available to everyone –students, teachers,

parents, the general public.

The Smarter Balanced Prac-tice Tests continue to be up-dated with new questions and

performance tasks.

New enhancements (released in May) include additional embedded universal tools, designated supports and ac-

commodations.

Practice Test

All item types and Perfor-

mance Tasks

Available to all on Web since

May 2013

Updated periodically with new

features

Practice Test Portal—click here

Training Test

Shorter than Practice Test

Trains students on features and

tools

Common Core

Common Core promotes math un-derstanding, efficiency and accuracy. Here's an excellent article about it! Follow link

Coming soon!

Giving back to our Community

Sports!

OHS Sports this week! Click on the Cardinal

Page 3 Volume , Issue

What’s happening in the Schools!

OMS Sports this week! Click on the Falcon 2014-2015 Calendar!

Follow the link

OHS Calendar—clubs & activities

10 More-

Days

Project Graduation Fund Raiser...Are you next?

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PTR 5th Grade Class Donates to Clothing Bank

OMS Sixth Grade Camp

Orting Holiday Giving 2014

Please join the Orting Food Bank, the Orting School District, the Orting Community Network, and the community at large in supporting families in

our midst who need a lift this Holiday Season.

There are a few ways you can support a local family/ student during the

holidays:

1) Sponsor a family with a Holiday meal and/or Christmas gifts

2) Give food and/or cash/check donations to "Orting Food Bank Holiday 2014"

3) Select individual gift(s) Tag from a “giving gift box” to purchase

1) Sponsor a family:

If you would like to sponsor a family in our community with gifts and/or food, please contact Jeanie Pestinger,

Community Volunteer. Jeannie is heading up the gift giving/sponsorships for families and is collaborating

with many businesses and charitable organizations in our community.

Jeannie Pestinger / 253 988-6816 / [email protected]

2) Give Food (or Cash/Check):

Holiday food items can be dropped off directly at the Orting Food Bank. Cash/Check donations can be dropped

off at participating businesses or the Orting Food Bank.

Please make checks payable to: Orting Food Bank Holiday 2014

P.O. Box 1877, 224 Washington Avenue SE, Orting, Wa 98360 Phone—360-893-0095

Email—[email protected]

3) Buy a gift:

Before Thanksgiving the FCCLA Club from Orting High School will place a “Giving Box” in each participating

business in town. The Giving box will have “tags” for an individual child with age, gift idea and/or clothing sizes. You can take a gift tag, purchase the item(s) and return the item(s) to the Giving box with the Tag (or tag number) attached, unwrapped – (donation of wrapping paper/bows/trim appreciated), no later than De-cember 10th. Items donated will be picked up on December 12th for distribution to families prior to the holi-

day.

4) If you know someone in Orting in need of Holiday Assistance: Please Contact:

Orting Food Bank-above / Jeannie Pestinger– 253 988-6816 / Maurine Lewis 253 606-5360

Please contact your School Counselor until November 1st after that – above contacts

Benefit Information

Open

Classified Substitutes

Certificated Substitutes

MONITOR / INSTRUCTIONAL

ASSISTANT ...apply

OMS Head Girls’ Soccer

Coach...apply

OMS Assistant Girls’ Soccer

Coach...apply

Job Alert signup for automatic

notification, don’t miss newly

posted positions.

Please remember the job posting

(TalentEd) website and the district

website are separate, you will

need to login to the TalentEd for

positions.

Follow link

Human Resources

Orting School District

Orting School District is an equal opportunity employer.

For more information on Job

Postings go to

Employment/HR Follow the Link

For all Employees

Benefit Questions

Orting School District will be hosting a representative from Legal Shield on Nov. 18 from 2-

5pm at the Central Office.

See the attached for more infor-mation on the products and ser-vices they provide. This is a vol-untary benefit and a payroll de-duction is available. Additional information can be found under

on our website...click here

PEBB Benefits for OEA, Admin, Exempt open enrollment Nov.1-30, 2014 follow link for guide, enrollment/change application

and rates...click here

Questions? Contact Julie Mondry

[email protected]

Contact Job Postings

Carrie Joy

[email protected]

360.893.6500 x229

Hiring/Application Process

Substitute Online

Classified questions

Contact Julie Mondry

Certificated questions

Contact Terry VanZanten

Substitute Online

Apply for a Job

Benefits

Links

Business & Finance

Department

Brianne King—Director of Finance

and Operations

[email protected]

360-893-6500 x223

Debbie Yanez—Accounts Payable

Purchasing

[email protected]

360-893-6500 x224

Robin Bessey—Accountant

[email protected]

360-893-6500 x237

The finance department will pro-

vide monthly financial re-

ports….follow the link

FYI Driving district vehicles requires

a driver abstract contact Barb Wool-

ery at

[email protected]

Need something repaired?

Submit a maintenance request

linked here

OSD Code 65961984

Tech Problem?

Submit help request linked here

Technology

Transportation

Maintenance Departs