Click below for our March Lunch Menu.

FRMS March Lunch Menu 

Click below for our March Breakfast Menu

FRMS March Breakfast Menu

To help prepare our 7th and 8th grade students for their return to school on March 4th or March 5th, FRMS teachers shared several presentations on our new regulations and restrictions related to the “Ready Schools, Safe Learners Guidance.” If your student did not get a chance to review them in class today, it will help them to do so before their first day back in the building.

Everything Students Need To Know About FRMS Hybrid!

Social Distancing at FRMS and Cohorting at FRMS

Wearing A Mask at FRMS- Updated

FRMS thanks our amazing, hardworking, dedicated, caring, and committed classified staff. Whether they are helping in the classroom, at lunch, with the buses, or any of the other thousands of things classified staff do each and every day, we could not operate our school without them.

Just a reminder to families to please use the parent drop off lane in the morning. Students can get out at the drop off point, use the crosswalk to cross to the school, and then go to their assigned entrance. (6th grade Front Entrance, 7th Grade Patio Entrance Near Gym, and 8th  Grade the entrance by Mr. Davis’s classroom)

By pulling all the way forward and using the drop-off point, it will help prevent cars from backing up onto Territorial.

Thank you again for helping to keep our students safe. Just click “Read More” for more information about our parent drop off lane works.

This is the drop off lane coming in from Territorial.

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Thanks to everyone who came to our Q and A yesterday. If you missed it, the link to the video is at the bottom of this post. We had some questions come up that we just wanted to make sure we clarified.

1. Electives- In a normal year, students do have more say in what their electives are. For example last year 6th graders were part of an exploratory  rotation for one elective and then got to select a second music based elective. Unfortunately this year we needed to work to keep students in their cohort groups to the extent that we could. So when we added the one elective to the schedule, we had to make it more of a “selective” where an “elective’ is  assigned to a cohort and eventually we rotate “electives” through the cohorts. You will also note that we have more language arts or math based “electives” this year. We wanted to provide more reading, writing, and math practice for our students after this last year. We hope to go back to our more traditional schedule next year where students choose their elective next year.
2. Music Instruction- We were not able to offer an introductory band class this year. Our plan next year is to offer both a 6th grade Band 1 and a 7th grade Band 1 class so current 6th graders still have the opportunity to learn to play an instrument. We know that learning to play an instrument helps to open up neural pathways and improves overall learning.
3. Breakfast- Just a reminder to all families that we will not be serving breakfast at school, including the first day. We will have take home breakfasts for students, but no breakfast will be available at school the first day.
4. Who goes on what day- There was some confusion about what each grade level is doing during this transition. To help with that, we created the chart below:
5. FRMS Hybrid Return to School Transition Chart
   

   	2/25	2//26	3/1	3/2	3/3	3/4	3/5
   6th	A Onsite B At Home	B Onsite A At Home	No School Teacher Workday	A Onsite B At Home	B Onsite A At Home	A Onsite B At Home	B Onsite A At Home
   7th	Distance Learning	Distance Learning	No School Teacher Workday	Distance  Learning	Distance Learning	A Onsite B At Home	B Onsite A At Home
   8th	Distance  Learning	Distance Learning	No School Teacher Workday	Distance  Learning	Distance Learning	A Onsite B At Home	B Onsite A At Home

    

6. And if you missed it, here is the video from the Community  Q and A:

If you have any further questions, please feel free to call or email. We can’t wait to have our students back in the building!!

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Click below for updated bus routes including stops and times. There have been changes so families should check the list and make sure they know their students bus number, bus stop and times.

Updated Bus Routes

We are reopening!!! FRMS will begin reopening to students on a A/B schedule beginning this Thursday, February 25th. We know you have tons of questions, so we have scheduled a community Q and A for Tuesday, February 23rd at 6 PM. Here is the link to the Zoom meeting:

Olivia Johnson is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: FRMS Return to School Q and A
Time: Feb 23, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join  FRMS Return to School Zoom Meeting

Or cut and paste this link:

https://fernridge-k12-or-us.zoom.us/j/88330691646?pwd=UjZjRm5rYnlsRmhXUmlPakdxRFZEUT09

Dial by your location
Meeting ID: 883 3069 1646
Find your local number: https://fernridge-k12-or-us.zoom.us/u/ksnvLesZi

If you can’t make the meeting, please feel free to email me your questions at ojohnson@fernridge.k12.or.us

And if you haven’t yet, check out our website for more information

What Families Need to Know About FRMS Hybrid

Hybrid Bell Schedule

Dear FRMS Families,

We are starting to field some calls about changing from one block to the other.  Please be aware that the only reason we will accommodate these requests is to match up with a sibling at an elementary school or the high school.  All other requests (work schedules, desire to be with a friend, preferred days, etc.)  cannot be accommodated. 

In order to reopen FRMS, we need to limit the number of students in each cohort class, so switching multiple students from A to B or B to A shifts the numbers and prevents us from keeping our numbers under that required cap for each space. Since we can’t accommodate all requests to change blocks, we have to be fair and say no to any change that is not sibling related.

We are also not making any schedule changes for the same cohorting reason.

We apologize if this creates an inconvenience and absolutely understand that this is not our normal way of operating. However it is a step that we need to take in order to meet the guidelines by which we can reopen and stay open. Thank you in advance for your understanding and support.

Olivia Johnson

FRMS Principal

We know our families have questions about the transition to Hybrid learning. We have put together a PDF that we hope answers your questions.

Click below

What Families Need to Know About FRMS Hybrid

We are excited to bring FRMS students back to the building. We will be in Hybrid mode, which means students will attend on site two days a week and have two days of “at home” learning each week.

Our plan is to bring 6th graders back beginning February 25th for A Block students and February 26th for B Block students. 7th and 8th grade students will return on March 4th for A Block students and March 5th  for B blocks.

To find out if your student is in the A Block or the B Block, just check Home Access, check with teachers, or  call the office at 541-935-8230

Before we can bring students back, we need to plan bus routes.  To do that, we need updated transportation surveys. We need to know which students will be taking the bus, which students parents will transport, and which students will be walking. To get that information quickly, we need your help.

Please take a minute to submit a transportation survey for each of your children that attend FRMS by Friday the 19th. Once they have this information, the bus barn will then create bus routes that we will post.

Click below to go to the survey:

FRMS Transportation Survey

And if your FRMS Hybrid student WILL NOT be returning to  in person classes, please contact the school office at 541-935-8230.

Please continue to check this website over the next week for updates and information about our transition to back to school.