April
11- OB Science Night, 6p.m.
14- 3rd Gr. Map Testing begins
15- 4th Gr. Field trip to Jeff City
17- Parent Advisory Mtg. 7-8:30p.m.
18- Early Dismissal- Prof. Dev. 1:15p.m.
22- OB Spring Art Show and Open House, 7p.m.
23- Walk in the Park (during PE)
29- 2014-15 Kdg. Parent Mtg. 7p.m.
Announcements:
Parent Advisory Meeting
Make plans to collaborate with others at the Advisory Meeting on Thursday, April 17, at 7-8:30p.m. in the Library. You will have the opportunity to rotate through three twenty- minute sessions of your choice. Character Education, Counseling, Diversity, PBIS, PTO, and Safety will be holding sessions. The PTO will be providing refreshments. We look forward to working with you to make OB an even better place!
Success Week Photos
Click here www.schooltube.com/video/07daf87c46ec4325834d to check out the
pictures from OB's Champion Success Week.
OB's Got Character
It's official! Our Eagle Mascot, generously purchased for Old Bonhomme by our OBPTO, has a name! All students had the opportunity to vote on one of three name choices this week, during their computer lab time. The name choices were OBI (pronounced like OBI-Wan Kenobi), SOAR-RO (pronounced like ZORRO) and SWOOP. The Eagle Mascot made a special appearance during Friday's Success Week Assembly, and was introduced by his OFFICIAL NEW NAME: OBI :) The students all
11- OB Science Night, 6p.m.
14- 3rd Gr. Map Testing begins
15- 4th Gr. Field trip to Jeff City
17- Parent Advisory Mtg. 7-8:30p.m.
18- Early Dismissal- Prof. Dev. 1:15p.m.
22- OB Spring Art Show and Open House, 7p.m.
23- Walk in the Park (during PE)
29- 2014-15 Kdg. Parent Mtg. 7p.m.
Announcements:
Parent Advisory Meeting
Make plans to collaborate with others at the Advisory Meeting on Thursday, April 17, at 7-8:30p.m. in the Library. You will have the opportunity to rotate through three twenty- minute sessions of your choice. Character Education, Counseling, Diversity, PBIS, PTO, and Safety will be holding sessions. The PTO will be providing refreshments. We look forward to working with you to make OB an even better place!
Success Week Photos
Click here www.schooltube.com/video/07daf87c46ec4325834d to check out the
pictures from OB's Champion Success Week.
OB's Got Character
It's official! Our Eagle Mascot, generously purchased for Old Bonhomme by our OBPTO, has a name! All students had the opportunity to vote on one of three name choices this week, during their computer lab time. The name choices were OBI (pronounced like OBI-Wan Kenobi), SOAR-RO (pronounced like ZORRO) and SWOOP. The Eagle Mascot made a special appearance during Friday's Success Week Assembly, and was introduced by his OFFICIAL NEW NAME: OBI :) The students all
cheered when the name was announced! OBI is
excited to make its next appearance! Please email
Mrs. Humphrey at lhumphrey@ladueschools.net to
be included on a list of parents interested in taking
a turn at being OBI sometime!
Spring Art Show/Open House
Parents, please be sure to stop by the Computer Lab when you come for the Spring Art Show/Open House on April 22 to register for the online parent portal. Creating a portal account will allow you to log in and view your child’s grades, attendance, and update your emergency contact information. As the district moves towards going “paperless” it will be very important to have access to Parent Portal in order to view your child’s report card.
Don’t Forget!
The 2014 Science Night at Old Bonhomme Friday, April 11 6-8p.m.
Featuring 17 science projects by over 30 students at Old Bonhomme Elementary School, as well as activities and demonstrations by parents and outside organizations, such as shows of animals and plants, microscope and telescope viewing, flower chromatography, speed radar detection from Olivette Police Officer and “It is A BLAST” from Saint Louis Science Center. Please join us for celebrating our students’ achievement in Science Projects and for some hands-on science fun at Old Bonhomme Elementary School.
LEF Current Initiatives
The Ladue Education Foundation is seeking funding for two programs to help keep our district competitive, provide world class learning opportunities and advance our students' ability to learn and compete in a global environment.
1. TI-Nspire CX Navigator System for use by every math student at LHWHS.
2. Installing a Videoconferencing System in the high school’s Performing Arts Center that will be available for district-wide utilization.
Spring Art Show/Open House
Parents, please be sure to stop by the Computer Lab when you come for the Spring Art Show/Open House on April 22 to register for the online parent portal. Creating a portal account will allow you to log in and view your child’s grades, attendance, and update your emergency contact information. As the district moves towards going “paperless” it will be very important to have access to Parent Portal in order to view your child’s report card.
Don’t Forget!
The 2014 Science Night at Old Bonhomme Friday, April 11 6-8p.m.
Featuring 17 science projects by over 30 students at Old Bonhomme Elementary School, as well as activities and demonstrations by parents and outside organizations, such as shows of animals and plants, microscope and telescope viewing, flower chromatography, speed radar detection from Olivette Police Officer and “It is A BLAST” from Saint Louis Science Center. Please join us for celebrating our students’ achievement in Science Projects and for some hands-on science fun at Old Bonhomme Elementary School.
LEF Current Initiatives
The Ladue Education Foundation is seeking funding for two programs to help keep our district competitive, provide world class learning opportunities and advance our students' ability to learn and compete in a global environment.
1. TI-Nspire CX Navigator System for use by every math student at LHWHS.
2. Installing a Videoconferencing System in the high school’s Performing Arts Center that will be available for district-wide utilization.
For more information or to make a donation please
visit the Ladue Education Foundation website at
www.laduefoundation.org or contact Kristen Wild
at kwild@laduefoundation.org or 314-983-5334.
Diane Patershuk at dpatershuk@pruall.com or
314-477-7673. Thanks so much for your help and
support for all the kids and our community!
Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) is Soaring at OB
Did you know there is a connection between RtI and PBIS?
Old Bonhomme School has been working the last few years to create a system of academic and social- emotional supports linked directly to the assessed needs of our students. This system, known as Response to Intervention or RtI, provides all students with timely and targeted interventions based upon the results of universal screening tools in reading, math and behavior. In research, RtI is often shown as a pyramid. One side of the pyramid is academic and one side is social-emotional-behavioral. PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention and Support) is the researched based system that we use at Old Bonhomme for the social- emotional-behavioral side of the pyramid.
Universal screening helps school staff to determine which students may be academically or social- emotionally “at risk”. Academic screenings at Old Bonhomme include recent results of state and district tests like MAP and Discovery Education (DE) as well as specific academic screening tests like the Fountas and Pinnel Reading Assessment; these screening assessments are typically administered to all students two or three times per year. Students whose scores fall below a certain cut-off are identified as possibly needing more specialized interventions. The use of universal screenings refines and strengthens our efforts to help all of our students be successful by allowing us to take positive and preventative measures as early as possible.
What are the next steps in our learning?
We are always looking for more effective, research- based ways to support our children and their families and so this Spring, we are trying something new that we believe will help us to reach children whose behavior may impact their being successful in school in the future. For example, some children may have difficulty making friends, being overly shy, avoiding social situations, or not standing up for themselves (internalizing). Other children may have some minor problems following rules and may be acting-out in class or on school grounds (externalizing). Our goal is to find out which kids may need help and then provide them with assistance before minor challenges become bigger problems.
Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) is Soaring at OB
Did you know there is a connection between RtI and PBIS?
Old Bonhomme School has been working the last few years to create a system of academic and social- emotional supports linked directly to the assessed needs of our students. This system, known as Response to Intervention or RtI, provides all students with timely and targeted interventions based upon the results of universal screening tools in reading, math and behavior. In research, RtI is often shown as a pyramid. One side of the pyramid is academic and one side is social-emotional-behavioral. PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention and Support) is the researched based system that we use at Old Bonhomme for the social- emotional-behavioral side of the pyramid.
Universal screening helps school staff to determine which students may be academically or social- emotionally “at risk”. Academic screenings at Old Bonhomme include recent results of state and district tests like MAP and Discovery Education (DE) as well as specific academic screening tests like the Fountas and Pinnel Reading Assessment; these screening assessments are typically administered to all students two or three times per year. Students whose scores fall below a certain cut-off are identified as possibly needing more specialized interventions. The use of universal screenings refines and strengthens our efforts to help all of our students be successful by allowing us to take positive and preventative measures as early as possible.
What are the next steps in our learning?
We are always looking for more effective, research- based ways to support our children and their families and so this Spring, we are trying something new that we believe will help us to reach children whose behavior may impact their being successful in school in the future. For example, some children may have difficulty making friends, being overly shy, avoiding social situations, or not standing up for themselves (internalizing). Other children may have some minor problems following rules and may be acting-out in class or on school grounds (externalizing). Our goal is to find out which kids may need help and then provide them with assistance before minor challenges become bigger problems.
We are going to try using a universal screening tool
highly recommended by the PBIS researchers called
the Student Risk Screening Scale (SRSS-IE), which
focuses on academic engagement behaviors of
students, to see if the information it provides to our
planning is helpful or suits our needs. The classroom
teachers will complete the SRSS-IE for each child in
their class. The results of the tool will be completely
confidential and used only to consider students for
mentoring, social skill building and other supports to
help them engage positively in learning. The tool is
available for review in the office if you are interested.
As with our academic universal screenings, you would
be notified if your student would be recommended for
participation in an intervention program before it
would begin. This first use is for our internal review
process to see if it provides helpful information and
will not be used to make any recommendations.
We are excited to continue the work of building a system of preventative, pro-active student supports that is linked directly to data. This will ensure that each of our students has the opportunity to receive the assistance they need to achieve academic and social- emotional success. Please do not hesitate to contact Mrs. Kirchgessner if you have questions.
Check out the link below where Old Bonhomme was featured on Spotlight Ladue:
http://www.ladueschools.net/spotlight/
2014/04/08/nikes-access-to-sport-brings-icspah-to-old-bonhomme/#more-2094
We are excited to continue the work of building a system of preventative, pro-active student supports that is linked directly to data. This will ensure that each of our students has the opportunity to receive the assistance they need to achieve academic and social- emotional success. Please do not hesitate to contact Mrs. Kirchgessner if you have questions.
Check out the link below where Old Bonhomme was featured on Spotlight Ladue:
http://www.ladueschools.net/spotlight/
2014/04/08/nikes-access-to-sport-brings-icspah-to-old-bonhomme/#more-2094
The Ladue School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, socioeconomic status, marital
status, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other characteristic protected by law in its programs or activities. Inquiries related to
the district’s employment practices may be directed to Ken Rossics, Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources. Inquiries related to
district student programs may be directed to Dr. Laura Brock, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction. Both administrators
can be reached at Ladue Schools Administrative Center, 9703 Conway Road, Saint Louis, MO 63124; 314-994-7080.
