Monday Minute (12.6.21)

December 6, 2021

2021-2022 Calendar

DECEMBER 2021
06-07: Santa's Workshop!
07: Picture Retake Day
08: Report Cards published for Trimester 1
Mass hosted by the 7th grade
14: Christmas Concert, 1st show at 3:30pm, 2nd show at 4:45pm
15: Mass hosted by 4th grade
16: Dinner Night Out (DNO) at Cedar Hills Panera Bread
20-31: Christmas Break

JANUARY 2021
03: School Resumes
07: Free Dress for Food (two cans)

Roman Hall of Fame Standouts

Our 7th Grade Social Studies class has recently completed their unit on the Roman Empire and its capstone project - the Roman Cultural Hall of Fame. To begin, the class examined many Halls of Fame looking for commonalities between admission requirements in order to arrive upon some qualifications for membership in a prospective Roman Cultural Hall of Fame. Collectively, we determined that a nominee must meet the following criteria:

The nominee must be original or unique at its time.
The nominee must create a significant change or impact in its society and be recognized for that.
The nominee’s impact must go beyond its time and carry over for future generations.

Students then applied these ideas to our learning and each student nominated one aspect of Roman history for inclusion. We learned research strategies and a common organized note-taking format to use during this and any future project. After we spent time gathering research each 7th grader created a Google Slides presentation introducing the nominee and criteria for membership in the Roman Cultural Hall of Fame. Students then had the freedom to show how that nominee fit these criteria. Some students built models, others recorded informative videos, some wrote related poetry, and others threw themselves further into their research to create even more robust information-heavy Slides presentations. Finally, students evaluated their peers to determine which projects best achieved these goals.
Here are the class-determined standouts from each category:

Latin Language and Roman Literature: Tyler
The Roman Colosseum: Hope
12 Tables and Roman Government: Vianna
Roman Roads: Olive
Architecture: Addy
Fine Arts: Jina

Dinner Night Out: Dec 16

Help raise money for HT by dining out! The Cedar Mill Panera Bread is hosting HT friends and families on Thursday, December 16, 2021.

4:00pm - 8:00pm in-store or ALL DAY for online orders
You don't have to be a Holy Trinity student/family. Spread the word with family & friends.
If ordering online via Panera website or app you must use this code at checkout Promo Code: PRFUND
20% of sales after $100 has been spent returns to Holy Trinity PTO to help support events that benefit students and staff
Optional RSVP Here

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Report Cards

Trimester 1 ended on Friday! Today starts Trimester 2. Report Cards will be published on Wednesday morning. Report Cards are digital. We do not mail home paper copies. Please look for an email from FACTS. If you have any questions, please contact your child's teacher.

Lunch Volunteers Needed

We need ONE Lunch Room volunteer everyday to help check in and pass out hot lunch purchases. Food is delivered at 10:30am and the last lunch is served at 12pm. Please consider helping out! Sign up here.

Cafeteria Seating

Due to the cold weather, we have moved most of our lunch time eating indoors to the cafeteria. We have several Covid mitigating strategies in place for lunch times: students and seats spaced apart, seating is by assignment and tracked for contact tracing, actual eating time/masks off is less than 18 minutes, tables are cleaned after each session with antibacterial wipes and state of the art ventilation running at all times. We have four tables outside if students do not feel comfortable eating in the cafeteria. (Picture attached)

Santa's Workshop

Santa's Workshop is here! Shopping is open during school and after school Monday and Tuesday. For more information, check out these links:

ODE/OHA Covid Updates

On November 23rd, ODE and OHA released a join statement regarding two substantial updates to school Covid protocols.

Lifting the Outdoor Mask Requirement: The revision to OAR 333-019-1025 will maintain a statewide requirement for mask use in indoor settings and removes the requirement for everyone age five (5) or older to wear a face covering outdoors where people from separate households gather. Revisions to OAR 333-019-1015 will remove the outdoor face covering requirement for K-12 settings.
Test to Stay: OHA’s test to stay protocol allows unvaccinated students and staff to continue to participate in in-person instruction in Oregon’s K-12 schools during their quarantine period. The risk of transmission is minimized in school settings because the required testing is combined with several layers of mitigation including universal masking, physical distancing, cohorting, and ventilation. Note: Test to stay protocol is only used when the exposure occurred during the school day.

Weekly Covid Screening

This Thursday will be our testing day for students and families that opted in to the weekly Covid Screening through OHSU. If you need a test, please contact the school office. Students should complete the saliva test BEFORE they eat or drink on Thursday morning. Tests need to be dropped off by 9am for pick up.

2022-2023 Application Open!

Our application for new students for the 2022-2023 school year is open! Please apply here for new students.

Admissions Information

Covid Updates

Mrs. Sheridan's Back to School Letter
Operational Blueprint (September 2021)
Covid-19 Exclusion Summary Guidance for K-12 Schools
ODE Covid Information
Mrs. Sheridan's Parent Letter

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