Fern Ridge Middle School

FRMS Staff Vs Student Basketball Game Flyer

We want to take a moment and celebrate our amazing classified staff members. Classified Appreciation Week is March 3rd thru March 7th.

Classified staff are the backbone of our school and we could not operate without them. They support student learning, help to supervise students, help keep our school clean, run our school office, and do a thousand other things to help our school. They do everything they can every single day to make students and their family members feel welcomed, valued, and connected to our school community.

Thank you to the best classified staff in the district: Shelby Humphrey, Casey Anderson, Brenda Russell, Angela Wigham, Paige Ramirez, Lili Morales, Sherry Cooper, Robin Younger, Sam Yliz, Marlee Black, Brandon Pew, Gavin Hood, and Danielle Moore. We will never really find the words to tell you how grateful we are that each of you is a part of our school.

Please join us in taking a moment this week to thank the FRMS classified staff.

Great News! We had an amazing first semester of school and there is a lot to celebrate. Report cards will be mailed home later this week and we hope that you will be proud of what your FRMS student has accomplished.
        We had 213 students who earned only A’s, B’s, or C’s on their first and second quarter report cards. That’s 70% of our students who did not receive any D’s or F’s in any of their classes!!!!
         We had 240 students who maintained 90% or greater attendance all semester. That means that 77% of our students have missed fewer than 8 days since school started in September!!!!
         We had 243 students who did not receive any kind of referral (lunch detention, referral, or bus citation) since the beginning of school. That means 78% of our student body are meeting High Five expectations day in and day out.
         We had 156 students who had great grades, great attendance, and great behavior!!! These students are our Gold Star Students for the first semester. They had no D’s or F’s, attended 90% of the time, and did not receive any referrals. They will each get recognized with a certificate, a prize, and a special reward activity just for them. If your child met the Gold Star Standard you should get a Parent Square notification in the next few days.

Beginning December 9th and going through December 20th, FRMS will be celebrating kindness with our Kindness Booster. Students and staff have talked about what kindness is and how one person’s act of kindness can have a huge impact on our school and our community. Staff will be giving out special Kindness High Fives if they see students commiting acts of kindness. Then on December 20th, we will be drawing from those tickets for over $100 worth of prizes selected by our leadership students. Families can help us celebrate kindness by talking to their student about the different ways they can show kindness at school and at home. For families interested in learning more about how they can create more kindness in their home or community, we recommend the Random Acts of Kindness website: https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/

Fern Ridge Middle School is participating in the Student Health Survey (SHS), a survey sponsored by the Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division and the Oregon Department of Education. The survey asks about health risk behaviors of students in grades 6, 8 and 11. The survey will be conducted online in the classroom and includes questions about student health and safety, mental and behavioral health, school climate and culture, and risk and protective factors. 

Taking the Student Health Survey poses minimal risk to your child, who may feel embarrassed or uncomfortable answering some of the questions. Survey procedures have been designed to protect your child’s privacy and allow for anonymous participation. If your child is not comfortable answering a question, he or she can leave it blank. While we encourage all students to participate, the decision to participate is voluntary. You may opt to send a refusal for your child’s participation. Your child will have the chance to refuse at the time of the survey. There will be no action against you or your child if your child does not participate. 

If you do not wish your child to take this survey, return this form to the principal’s office before the survey date of November 8th. You only need to return this form if you do not wish your child to participate.

Parent confereces are next week, Thursday the 17th and Friday the 18th. Middle School conferences operate differently than elementary conferences so please read this information carefully.      
  FRMS holds parent conferences on Thursday evening (4 PM to 8 PM) and Friday morning (8 AM to Noon). Each day operates differently.

           On Thursday evening, conferences will take place “arena” style in the gym. Parents do not need to sign up or make an appointment for the Thursday evening conferences. All of the teachers will be in the gym and parents are welcome to meet with as few or as many teachers as they want to. There will be a table where parents can pick up their child’s progress report as well as last year’s state assessment results. Families can look over progress reports and then determine which teachers they want to meet with. Depending on the line a teacher has, it may be a short wait until they are available or a longer wait.  No appointment is needed, so just stop by to meet with teachers. 
           If you want your conference to be a little longer or a little more private, than Friday morning conferences might be more appealling. Friday morning teachers are available in their classrooms for 20 minute conferences from 8:00 AM to Noon. Families wanting a Friday morning conference need to call the office at 541-935-8230 to schedule a time. There are a limited number of time slots available for the Friday morning conferences, so please contact the office sooner rather than later. There is no school Friday, October 18th because of parent conferences.
          Whether you come to the evening conferences on the 17th or make an appointment for the 18th, we encourage all of our families to come to parent conferences to find out how their child is doing and how they can work with teachers to help their child be even more successful at FRMS.

Fern Ridge Middle School will be holding our Open House on Thursday, October 3rd from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. We are excited at the opportunity to welcome families into our building. We want to give all of our families a chance to meet all of their child’s teachers by following their child’s schedule going from class to class.. To allow more time in the classes that are core academic subjects (Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, P.E., Science) we are starting with second period and skipping the first period exploratory classes.

6:15 Doors open for parents who need to pick up a copy of their child’s schedule. Classrooms are closed to families until 6:30.

6:30 Classroom doors open.

6:35 Second Period Classroom Presentations Start

6:47 Third Period Classroom Presentations Start

6:59 Fourth Period Classroom Presentations Start

7:11 Fifth Period Classroom Presentations Start

7:23 Sixth Period Classroom Presentations Start

7:35 Seventh Period Classroom Presentations Start

7:45 to 8:00 Open Classroom Visitation- All teachers are available for any follow up questions about curriculum or classroom practices.

Just a reminder to families that Open House is a great opportunity to meet teachers, learn about the curriculum, and hear about what is happening in the classroom. It is not a time for conversations about individual students. Parent Conferences will be October 17th and 18th, but if you need to talk to a teacher or teachers about your child before then, please feel free to contact teachers by email or phone to set up a meeting.