Orchestra. Junior Cheer Camp School Year The Wingspan. Finance Corner

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1 School Year The Wingspan Friday, Oct. 26, Oak Ridge School Rd, Conroe Texas / Attendance KID-CHAT Fax Transportation Finance Corner SchoolCashOnline For your convenience all class fees, club dues, t-shirts, senior dues, etc. can be paid for by using conroeisd.schoolcasho nline.com Orchestra The following students auditioned and placed in Region IX Orchestra!! Way to go! We are so proud of the hard work it took you to get there! Dutch Burns, Bass Reilly Curren, Bass Matthew Dunn, Violin Nathan Stern, Bass Check Policy All checks require the following: -Full Name -Physical Address -Home Phone # -Secondary Phone # -Driver s License # with State On-line Information ORHS Website orhs.conroeisd.net CISD Website conroeisd.net Last Day of School: May 30, 2019 The following orchestra students auditioned and placed in the CISD 9th and 10th Grade Honor Orchestra! Our school is well-represented at the district level! Brittney Hoang, Viola Kaitlyn Metzgar, Violin Razeen Noor, Viola Nicole Pachon, Violin Amber Poynter, Violin Colby Vuong, Violin Junior Cheer Camp The Oak Ridge cheerleaders will be hosting their annual Fall Junior Cheer Camp on November 3rd from 10:00am-2:00pm. Participants will learn cheer, chants, and basic skills. Lunch will be served, and spirit items will be given to each participant, including a t-shirt and a picture with cheerleaders. BEST PART? Participants will be invited to cheer with the Varsity cheerleaders during the 1st quarter of the last home game against Conroe. Last year, it was a huge hit! If you have any questions, please contact Coach Ellison! Further information and the release form can be found at the end of the newsletter.

2 ORHS is a Testing Site for the ACT/SAT Remember to click on ORHS to test at your home campus! Testing Dates PSAT: October 10, 2018 ACT Testing: September 8, 2018 October 27, 2018 December 8, 2018 February 9, 2019 April 13, 2019 June 8, 2019 SAT Testing: August 25, 2018 October 6, 2018 November 3, 2018 December 1, 2018 March 9, 2019 May 4, 2019 June 1, 2019 AP Testing May 6-17 STAAR/EOC TESTING April 1 English I April 11 English II May 6 Algebra I May 7 Biology May 8 US History Winter Exams Dec 14 3 and 7 Half Day Exams: Dec 17 2 and 4 Dec 18 1 and 5 Dec 19 6 and 8 Red Ribbon Week 2018 When you have a few minutes, please review this article for some insights into today's brains. It's a fascinating look at how brains are changing and what schools and parents can do about it. We parents and educators, are, after all, in the brain development business together. Thank you to CISD s Kelly Locke for the article summary below. Another area of interest for Red Ribbon Week is the vaping craze and, specifically, the "dabbing" issue. Dabbing relates to the use of a concentrated, wax-like marijuana residue often used in vape pens. While a recent report put today's street marijuana THC (the addictive/drug part) levels as high as 50%), the wax used for dabbing is often over 90% THC - hence the danger for our kids. In addition to the physical and mental reactions to such a concentrated drug, the possession of a THC-positive vape pod is a felony as a result of the total weight. In an effort to protect our students, our campus police will test all confiscated pods. 5 Ways We Are Priming the Brain for Addiction, Anxiety and Depression #1: Lack of unstructured time As our schedules become packed with structured activities and our down time is filled with electronic devices, those higher level thinking pathways (executive functions) are not being forged. The brain needs unstructured time to develop these pathways, which help to develop a healthy brain. #2: Protection from struggle Without the experience of struggle, we don t experience that large burst of dopamine and serotonin. In other words, self-esteem is not a gift that you can give to someone, it is a neurochemical response that you rob them of every time that you protect them from struggling. Serotonin is key for helping us to develop a sense of purpose. #3: Priming the limbic system for short-term rewards Our world is filled with short-term rewards that are over-feeding our limbic system: sugar, fast-food, social media, new stories. The limbic system is the emotional brain and is in charge of short-term decisions/ survival, so it loves all of this stuff. Each time we get a little short-term reward (say a piece of candy, a social media like, or a piece of juicy gossip to share), our limbic system gets a little burst of dopamine, which tells it to seek out more. The more it receives those short-term rewards, the more we begin to seek them out, distracting us from those longer-term, harder to reach rewards. This primes the brain for addiction. #4: Starving the cortex The cortex is in charge decisions that are going to benefit us in the long-term, like studying for the test, working on the project or leaving the party to get a good night s sleep. The cortex needs a lot of care in order to work effectively, so we don t make our best long-term decisions when we are not taking care of the cortex. Some of the things that help the cortex work effectively are sleep, focused attention, good nutrition, in-person social interactions, and exercise. #5 Over-triggering the amygdala The amygdala responds the same way to social threats and rewards as it does to physical threats and rewards, so when we experience social threats, we get ready for fight-or-flight and short-term decisions. That fight or flight response comes with neurochemicals that help us the react, including adrenaline (a message to move) and cortisol (a stress-response message to be on high-alert). Just like we are training our limbic systems to respond to short-term rewards, the constant stream of potential social threats (cyberbullying, news reports, social media) has primed our amygdalas to be on high alert. With our cell phones, threat is always at our fingertips. See the article below for 5 Ways We Can Stop this process.

3 Progress Report Dates 1 st 9-weeks: 09/06, 09/27 2 nd 9-weeks: 11/01, 11/29 3 rd 9-weeks: 01/31, 02/21 4 th 9-weeks: 04/11, 05/02, 05/23 Picture Day Freshman will have picture day on Oct 30th and 31st. Yearbook Only a couple of weeks left to grab your yearbook at the cheapest price of the year! Starting November 1, 2018, the yearbook will start at $ Grab yours today! Books can be ordered at Approximate: Report Card Dates (Distributed) 1 st 9-weeks: October 12, 2018 w/student 2 nd 9-weeks: January 11, 2019 w/student 3 rd 9-weeks: March 22, 2019 w/student 4 th 9-weeks: June 7, 2019 Mailed ORHS PTO News! The PTO Fall Online Webstore is now open! Please use the link below to order long sleeve performance shirts, blankets and tumblers and support ORHS PTO! The store is open through November 4 and all items ordered will be delivered on campus on November 15 and We are also hosting the annual staff Chili Cook Off. Please see the link to a new Sign Genius for volunteer opportunities. We will need both food donations and help with set up and clean up on October 31st. PTO Meetings Held in the ORHS Library at 10:30am 2 nd Thursday of Each Month September 13 October 11 November 8 December 13 January 10 February 14 March 7 April 11 May 9

4 School Holidays Early Release Days 2018/2019 Labor Day: September 3 Early Release October, Holiday October 8 Thanksgiving: November Early Release December 11:25 Winter Break: December 19 January 7 Teacher Work Day January 7 Students Return January 8 MLK Day: January 21 Teacher Staff Development: February 18 Presidents Day: February 19 Early Release Day: March 8 Spring Break: March Holiday: April Memorial Day: May 27 Football Tickets Football tickets will be sold in the cafeteria every Thursday and Friday during all lunches. They can also be purchased online at Monday through Friday until 1:00 PM. Tickets purchased online or during lunches will be $4 for students and $7 for adults. All tickets will be $8 at the gate. How Can We Improve? We welcome your suggestions about how we can improve and better serve our students, parents and surrounding community at Oak Ridge High School. We want to hear from you if you have a suggestion, question, comment or concern. Please don t hesitate to contact us! To submit your suggestion you can fill out the form on our website:

5 Senior section Senior Class Fundraiser Recommendation Letters: (teachers/staff need a minimum of 10 days to write letters) Cap/Gown, and Announcements: HERFF JONES grads@myhjgrad.com Senior Awards Night: TBA Cap & Gown Meeting: TBA Senior Prom: May The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Graduation Meeting: TBA Senior Picnic: May 24 Graduation Practice: May 24 Graduation Tickets: Distributed after Graduation Practice on May 24 Graduation: May 28, :30pm Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Senior Class Remind 101 Prom Package $125 until March 1 st Includes 1 prom ticket, 2 senior shirts and senior picnic Prom/Yearbook Package $210 until February 1 st Includes 1 prom ticket, a yearbook, 2 senior shirts and senior picnic

6 New Way to Pay! The WebStore has been replaced with School Cash Online. This system operates differently from the WebStore in that any item that is available for purchase by your student appears on your account. Because of this, your child s account will have many optional items listed that they may not be interested in. Class fees will appear as required and if they are not paid by the due date, the fee will appear as past due. When setting up your account, keep in mind purchases will only appear on the online account for each login, and not on all online accounts for that student. Knowing this, please consider having one account per household so everyone in the household can use the same account and see their online purchases, which is required for some items. School Cash Online will allow multiple students attending any CISD school to be added to one login.

7 To report an absence or tardy update On the day of the student s absence or tardy a parent or guardian may call the Senior Campus at or attendance at orhs-attendance@conroeisd.net For the 9 th Grade Campus please call or attendance at hstock@conroeisd.net To report an absence or tardy: ORHS Attendance Procedures On the day of the student s absence or tardy a parent or guardian may call the Senior Campus at or orhs-attendance@conroeisd.net Call the Ninth Grade Campus at If you do not report the absence or tardy by phone on the day of absence a note from a parent or guardian with a signature will be required. Returning students must take their signed notes to the attendance office before or after school or during their lunch period. Check In/Out Procedures: All students must sign in and out through the attendance office. If a student driver needs to leave campus, a note including the name, date, time leaving and parent signature and phone number is required. All notes to leave early must be taken to the attendance office the first thing in the morning. All guardians picking students up must present a photo ID upon signing their student out. If a person needs to pick up a student who is not on their pick-up list, the guardian may add them using the Student Pick Up form located in the attendance office. (If the form is not signed at the attendance office, the guardian must have the form notarized.) The Emergency Clinic form may not be used for pick up purposes due to HIPPA laws. The cut-off time for early pick-up is 2:15. Regards, Tommy Johnson, Principal Oak Ridge High School On Campus Parking All on campus parking spots have been assigned. If your child did not receive a parking spot on campus, they can purchase Woodforest Parking tags for $35 and park at the stadium. A shuttle bus will deliver them to and from school. Before any tag can be purchased, they must register online. All instructions are located on the ORHS website under parking. Students can contact Ms. Baumann in A215 with any parking questions. Food Deliveries to School Oak Ridge High School will not accept student lunch deliveries from a restaurant or from a delivery service such as "doordash." The only lunches that are accepted in the front office are those delivered by a parent or family member and should be picked up in the cafeteria at the Principal s table during the student s lunch period. Thank you for you cooperation.

8 Oak Ridge High School PTO Membership Form The ORHS PTO is the only organization that serves all ORHS students, faculty and staff! The PTO assists with scholarships for students, sponsors programs for parents, provides volunteers, and celebrates faculty and staff. Please join us in our commitment and join today! Membership dues are the primary source of funding for ORHS PTO Please complete the form below and return to: ORHS PTO, Oak Ridge School Rd, Conroe, TX Membership Information: PRINT LEGIBLY Parent/Guardian Name: address: Opportunities to Volunteer: _ Fundraising Homecoming Dance Chaperone Operation Graduation Staff Appreciation _ Help where needed Fees and Donations: (make check payable to ORHS PTO) PTO Membership - $10 per family..$ Notes: Additional Donation $ Check # /Cash orhspto@gmail.com Oak Ridge War Eagles PTO orhspto@gmail.com Total $ Parent / Guardian Copy Meeting Dates Senior Campus 10:30 a.m., 2 nd Thursday September 13, 2018 October 11, 2018 November 8, 2018 December 14, 2018 January 10, 2019 February 14, 2019 March 7, 2019 April 11, 2019 May 9, 2019 Remind 101 : Text the to 81010

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10 REQUEST FORM Marquee Birthday Announcements Student s Name: (Please Print Neatly) Student s Birthday: Parent/Guardian s Name: (Please Print) Parent/Guardian s Signature: Phone Number: Announcement will run for 24 hours. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Circle desired announcement format: Option #1 Happy ##th Birthday, Student s Name Option #2 Happy Birthday, Student s Name Cost is $20.00 (cash or check payable to O.R.H.S.) *Checks accepted with signer s drivers license number, date of birth and phone number written on the check.*completed Announcement Request Form and payment must be received 3 school days prior to announcement date. For questions or additional information please contact Mrs. Vein at (832)

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