The Twality Spotlight - Quarter 2
Twality Families,
Join me in donating to The Foundation for Tigard Tualatin Schools Fund Drive.
Donations help each school hire more teachers and provide more learning.
At Twality, your donations fund many incredible ways to learn.
Please donate today at www.the-FTTS.org or text FTTS to 56512.
Thank you,
Carol Kinch, Principal
Join me in donating to The Foundation for Tigard Tualatin Schools Fund Drive.
Donations help each school hire more teachers and provide more learning.
At Twality, your donations fund many incredible ways to learn.
- Our 2nd Year of Family Engineering Night
- Buying new and repairing older musical instruments
- 3D printer that brings student ideas to life
- Teacher for After School Academic Support
- Supplies for art classes
- Equipment to record ceramic & sculpture demonstrations, allowing accurate and detailed demos repeatedly
Please donate today at www.the-FTTS.org or text FTTS to 56512.
Thank you,
Carol Kinch, Principal
Important 8th grade transition information
Tigard High School - Wednesday, March 30, 2016 from 6:30pm-8:00pm
An evening for parents and their 8th grade student who will be attending Tigard High School in the Fall of 2016. You will receive information regarding forecasting, graduation requirements, athletics, activities and clubs.
An IB informational meeting will be held in the library at 7:15pm for those who wish to learn more about our IB program.
School tours will be given by our Leadership students.
THS Spirit Gear will be for sale.
Tigard High looks forward to seeing you at the this event. Feel free to call the counseling office if you have any questions at 503.431.5422
Tualatin High School -
An evening for parents and their 8th grade student who will be attending Tigard High School in the Fall of 2016. You will receive information regarding forecasting, graduation requirements, athletics, activities and clubs.
An IB informational meeting will be held in the library at 7:15pm for those who wish to learn more about our IB program.
School tours will be given by our Leadership students.
THS Spirit Gear will be for sale.
Tigard High looks forward to seeing you at the this event. Feel free to call the counseling office if you have any questions at 503.431.5422
Tualatin High School -
Welcome to the Pack Night will be on March 30, 2016. At the time of publishing this blog, the times and details have not been released by
Tualatin High School. We will update you when we receive the information from TuHs.
Tualatin High School. We will update you when we receive the information from TuHs.
Spring Conferences
Spring Conferences are coming up March 10-11, 2016. Spring conferences are scheduled by the teachers on an as needed basis. Teachers will not be available for drop-in conferences.
Thursday, March 10 - 5:00pm-8:00pm
Friday, March 11 - 8:00am-12:00pm
*Reminder - There is no school on March 11, 2016
Yearbook Deadline and 8th Grade Baby Pictures
ATTENTION PARENTS OF 8TH GRADE STUDENTS!
The last day to order, pay for and submit baby pictures for the 2015-2016 yearbook is February 29, 2016. All orders must be submitted electronically and payments must mailed or delivered in person to the school bookkeeper, Amy Meisch.
Click here for detailed instructions on how to submit your baby picture.
Ready to order your baby picture? Click here for the online order form.
The last day to order and pay for a 2015-2016 yearbook is April 1, 2016. We will have a limited number of yearbooks available for purchase during the last week of school. While yearbooks last, 8th grade students will have the opportunity to purchase the yearbooks first, followed by 7th graders then 6th graders.
News from the Counseling Office
Change of Address:
If you have a change of address, phone number or email address, please fill out a Student Contact Update Form, which can be found on Twality's website. If you have any questions, please contact the counseling office for assistance.
Perseverance Awards
Our Twality community includes everyone, values all voices, and celebrates kindness and learning. We PERSEVERE, ADVOCATE, REFLECT AND THRIVE.
We do our P.A.R.T.
During the first quarter, teachers nominated students who persevered though difficult times and situations. Our Perseverance Awards were a huge success. We had 44 well deserving students who received specialized awards from their teachers. We had a hot chocolate bar for the recipients. The students faces were beaming with pride and it was a special morning for all involved. For 2nd quarter, we will be recognizing students who model advocacy skills.
"I had no idea that THIS was going to happen today. You work hard and you think it goes un-noticed and then you get an award. What a great day!" - Xavier W.
News from the Band Department
Tualatin Valley Community Band & Twality Band are hosting their annual Music is for Life Concert on Tuesday, February 23 at Tualatin High School at 6:00pm.
Admission is free and donations are accepted to benefit our bands. The concert will feature Twality band students performing solos and small ensembles as well as TVCB small ensembles. The TVCB is a community band that meets Tuesdays in the Twality Band room and has musicians that range in age from high school to working and retired adults. The TVCB is under the direction of Kevin Soon who is also Liberty High School Director of Bands.
Immunization and Exclusion Day Information
Students that have incomplete vaccine records or have not updated their exceptions to the meet the new law may be excluded from school starting February 17, 2016. Please help us to keep all children safe by completing the necessary vaccines for your child.
If you do not have a primary health care provider, this is a list of some other clinics that give vaccines. Call now for an appointment.
9000 SW Durham Road, Building 7110, Tigard, OR 97224
503.431.5775
National College of Natural Medicine (Beaverton)
11975 SW 2nd Street, Beaverton, OR 97005
503.552.1551
17175 SW Tualatin Valley Highway Suite A&B, Aloha, OR 97006
503.848.5861
Safe Routes to School
The healthiest way for kids to get to school is to walk or bike safely. This is the position of the Tigard Safe Routes to School Program that works with the Tigard-area elementary and middle schools to support and promote the use of safe, healthy and active transportation to and from school. Back in October over 150 students participated in International Walk & Bike to School Day. But we want to build off this success to continue to increase the number of students who walk or bike to school. Twality Middle School is looking to establish a Safe Routes to School Program and we need parent involvement to make this happen.
Twality is in a somewhat unique position. Given the close proximity of Templeton Elementary and Twality Middle School, there is a natural partnership that emerges, especially given that most Templeton students will attend Twality in the future. By building a comprehensive SRTS Program at each school we can help ensure that kids are able to walk and bike to school for many years.
Please contact Liz Hormann, Tigard SRTS Coordinator, if you are interested in helping Twality take the next step in its Safe Routes to School Program, or if you have any questions.
You an also learn more and stay up-to-date on project on the Tigard SRTS website.
Click here to read the February edition of the Safe Routes to School newsletter.
FACT OREGON - FREE TRAINING
Art in the Burbs
Art in the Burbs is gearing up for our 2016 show schedule for October. Art in the Burbs is organized by a team of volunteers with the mission to raise funds to support the arts in ALL 15 of the schools in the Tigard-Tualatin School District. This year we awarded grants totaling over $26,000. These funds were used across the district in support of the performing arts, music, fine art, Art Literacy , Artist in Residence and many other worthy projects.
We can't do this good work without help. We have a few open positions on our board (Category Lead, Marketing/PR, and Volunteer Coordinator). Please take a look at the information sheet below and consider joining us. The time commitment varies by position. If you are interested in learning more or have questions please email us at info@artintheburbs.org. You can also check out our website at www.artintheburbs.com.
FREE HEALTH CLINIC
Schedule of Events
February 17 - ASA Soccer Jamboree at Hazelbrook - 3:45pm
February 18 - ASA Volleyball Jamboree - Main Gym - 3:45pm
February 24 - ASA Soccer Jamboree - Main Gym - 3:45pm
February 25 - 6th Grade OMSI Field Trip (Cunningham / Nicklas)
February 26 - Advocacy Awards - Commons - 9:00am
February 29 - 8th Grade Baby Picture deadline
March 2 - Read Across America
March 2 - ASA Basketball Jamboree - Main Gym - 3:45pm
March 3 - ASA Volleyball Jamboree - Hazelbrook - 3:45pm
March 3 - Intermediate Band and Orchestra Field Trip - 8:45am
March 7-11 - Classified Employee Appreciation Week
March 9 - Spring Orchestra Concert - Multi-Purpose Room - 7:00pm
March 10 - Spring Conferences
March 11 - Spring Conferences - NO SCHOOL
March 16 - Spring Choir Concert - 7th & 8th grade only - Commons - 7:00pm
March 21-25 - SPRING BREAK - NO SCHOOL
March 28 - Teacher Training - NO SCHOOL
March 29 - High School Forecasting for 8th grade students
March 30 - Incoming 9th Grade Information Night - THS and TuHs - 6:30pm
April 1 - Deadline to purchase a 2015-2016 Yearbook
February 24 - ASA Soccer Jamboree - Main Gym - 3:45pm
February 25 - 6th Grade OMSI Field Trip (Cunningham / Nicklas)
February 26 - Advocacy Awards - Commons - 9:00am
February 29 - 8th Grade Baby Picture deadline
March 2 - Read Across America
March 2 - ASA Basketball Jamboree - Main Gym - 3:45pm
March 3 - ASA Volleyball Jamboree - Hazelbrook - 3:45pm
March 3 - Intermediate Band and Orchestra Field Trip - 8:45am
March 7-11 - Classified Employee Appreciation Week
March 9 - Spring Orchestra Concert - Multi-Purpose Room - 7:00pm
March 10 - Spring Conferences
March 11 - Spring Conferences - NO SCHOOL
March 16 - Spring Choir Concert - 7th & 8th grade only - Commons - 7:00pm
March 21-25 - SPRING BREAK - NO SCHOOL
March 28 - Teacher Training - NO SCHOOL
March 29 - High School Forecasting for 8th grade students
March 30 - Incoming 9th Grade Information Night - THS and TuHs - 6:30pm
April 1 - Deadline to purchase a 2015-2016 Yearbook
