Gary Carpenter
Coach Slager is holding open gym Volleyball on Tuesday and Thursday from 6:15 to 8:15 for all incoming 9th-12th graders. Stop by EHS and visit!
Practices begin August 15th @ 9AM. Stay tuned to the EHS website for more information regarding Fall Athletic Registration!
Elmira High School Registration
Seniors: Wednesday, August 25th 8:00 am – 11:00 am
Juniors: Thursday, August 26th 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Sophomores: Wednesday, August 25th 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Freshman: Thursday, August 26th 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Elmira High School: 541-935-8200
Good afternoon,
Elmira High School was notified today of a student testing positive for COVID-19, yesterday. Thank you to the parent who quickly notified us, as it allows the District to begin our work that needs to be done, usually 4-6 hours before Lane County Public Health is notified by the lab, and has time to reach out to us. The District has been working with Lane County in looking at this case. What has been found is that there were no close contacts at school due to strong COVID protocols, and as a result, LCPH is NOT requiring any student to isolate/quarantine. This is not what is classified as a “school contact.”
Although the student was in class this week, District staff have checked with EHS teachers and all safety protocols were followed. Lane County has directed that if students maintain the 3 feet distance, wear a mask and wash their hands, a classroom or cohort does not need to quarantine. As an extra precaution, although not required, the High School will be notifying the parents who have students in the same classroom via email, so those parents can monitor their student for any symptoms. If you have questions, feel free to email the EHS Principal at rgardner@fernridge.k12.or.us and he will respond before Monday morning, or call EHS at 541-935-8200.
An additional element of this case is that there were multiple “close contacts” with friends/peers outside of school. To include work, hanging out with friends, meeting at the lake, etc… The family is very cooperative and supportive and is working with Lane County Public Health to get these names, and if your student was a close contact outside of school, either the family of the student, or LCPH will be reaching out to you to discuss the need to quarantine.
The schools have many protocols in place to help protect your student during the school day. However, the school cannot monitor students outside of school. Please help us keep students in school by encouraging them to wear their mask and keep 3 feet apart even when they are out with their friends.
Thanks for continuing to do your best so that we may keep our schools open!
As we have already shared (in a previous post), there is an opportunity for students 16 and older to sign up for a Pfizer vaccine at LCC this weekend, April 24th and 25th from 9:00-3:00 pm at LCC. This clinic is by appointment only, please go to http://lanecounty.org/vaxclinics to schedule your vaccine. The district is not involved in this opportunity at all, we are just sharing the information.
NEW OPPORTUNITY: On Thursday, April 29th, EHS has 60 slots for students at the Bethel Health Clinic to receive the Pfizer vaccine. This will be a “field trip” for the first 60 students that sign up. Students need to be 16+ years old, and MUST HAVE signed parent permission slip. Sign-ups take place beginning tomorrow morning. Once the 60 slots are filled, we close registration. Below is the important information:
WHEN: Students must be at EHS on Thursday, April 29th prepared to load a school bus at 8:15. The bus will leave by 8:25. We expect the bus to return between 10:30 and 10:45.
WHERE: We will be going to the Bethel Health Clinic on the Willamette H.S. campus.
WHAT: Students will receive the first of 2 COVID-19 Pfizer vaccines. The 2nd dose appointment will be scheduled 21 days later, on Thursday, May 20th, also from 9-10 AM. We we will have the same procedure in place for the transportation/field trip.
PERMISSION SLIP: In order to board the bus, a signed parent permission slip is required. The permission slips will be available to the students that signed up, in the EHS front office, beginning tomorrow.
HOW DO I SIGN UP?: Sign-ups begin at 7:30 AM, tomorrow morning, April 23rd! You can sign up by coming to the front office at EHS, or by calling the EHS office beginning at 7:30 AM at 541-935-8200. If calling, DO NOT leave a message. We will have three people taking calls. If the line is busy, continue to try. The information needed to sign up include, Student Name–Parent name–Parent Contact number.
The EHS Automotive class had a 1996 Toyota Camry donated to them. They have done some work on it, cleaned it up, and are now accepting bids from EHS students and their families ONLY, to auction it off. See the attachment below for pictures and more information.
Visit the link below for information regarding upcoming Cheer tryouts!
http://www.fernridge.k12.or.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Cheer-Info-1.pdf
Today is the day we recognize the many secretaries around the Fern Ridge School District. School secretaries are one of the foundations of our schools. We are lucky that in Fern Ridge we have many outstanding secretary’s in this crucial role! Please join me in recognizing them today, and thanking them for the work they do each day on behalf of teachers, principals, staff, students and parents!
This past Saturday, April 7th, the EHS OBOB team traveled to Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon for the High School section of the state OBOB Tournament. The tournament began with “pool play” among the 15 schools that would be competing for the state title.
Elmira started out by by beating Alliance Charter School (from Oregon City) by a score of 45-25. Next up was Adrian, located south of Ontario, and EHS won by a score of 33-8. The third pool play battle was against Triad School (a private K-12 school in Klamath Falls) and again EHS won, this time by a score of 45-25. The final battle was against Imbler (a school near LaGrande) and EHS again prevailed by a score of 50-20. Coming out of pool play EHS was seeded number one with a total of 168 points scored.
The next section of the tournament was an 8 team seeded bracket. EHS matched up against the 8 seed, Imbler, and won by a score of 45-10. In the final 4 / semi-final round, EHS faced Estacada. The Final score was EHS 50, Estacada 20 and EHS was onto the Championship match that contains twice as many questions as the prior rounds.
In the Championship match, EHS faced Lebanon. While the match went back and forth, with both teams having the lead at some point, EHS went on a late run to win by a score of 68-52. This is the first OBOB championship trophy for EHS, a testament to years of work and practice put in by the members of our team and their coaches. A big congratulations to their coach and advisor, Sherry Cooper, as well as the team members: Josiah Lorenz, Emily Eagle Eye, Jessica Woods and Kelly Hoffman! Go Falcons!
Good luck to the EHS OBOB team of Emily Eagle Eye, Josiah Lorenz, Jessica Woods and Kelly Hoffman. They will be competing at Chemeketa Community College in Salem this Saturday, April 7th in the State Tournament! Go Falcons!
EHS does not have school this Friday, April 6th. Teachers will be working on updating grades for progress reports that will be mailed home early next week. Go Falcons!