Families and friends of C.M.S. students: This year we will be offering a digital yearbook. The yearbook costs $10, and it will be a DVD with the visual images and footage from the end of the year slideshow, and it will be hand-decorated by middle school students. Every student is included in the yearbook, and… [Read More...]
Seeds for Change: Support Outdoor School
April 23, 2012 By
Seeds for Change! jars came home with all middle school students this week. Now that all middle school students have had the Outdoor School experience, we are asking students to take the jars home, collect spare change, bring the money to either Big Bear’s Market, the Corbett Country Market, or back up to the middle… [Read More...]
High School Conferences Wednesday 25th 4:30-8:00
April 23, 2012 By
Teacher conferences for high school students are this Wednesday from 4:30 until 8:00. Conferences are “drop-in”. You can pick up your student’s report card and visit with their teachers. Look forward to seeing you there.
Outdoor School: More than a Science Program
April 21, 2012 By
I can’t really explain why Outdoor School is such an important and unique program without explaining my own personal experience with this treasured, yet threatened sixth grade right of passage. I don’t mean to sound sappy or overly dramatic about what Outdoor School has done for me, just honest. So please bear with me for… [Read More...]
Experiencing the Oregon Trail
April 19, 2012 By
Our five Corbett intermediate classes participated in a reenactment of the Oregon Trail as the culminating activity for our Westward Expansion unit. Wagon groups were formed of five or six students each. Each group mixed up bread dough, which was baked by our wonderful kitchen staff. Groups converted Radio Flyers to Prairie Schooners, stitched covers for their wagons, and loaded… [Read More...]
April 18th Board Meeting Handouts Etc.
April 15, 2012 By
Many apologies for not getting these up in a timely fashion. Spring is an incredibly hectic time around the campus. The board held a regularly scheduled Board Meeting on April 18th. I will include pdf’s of the agenda and financial handouts from the meeting. It was a light agenda. Agenda April 18th, 2012 and Approved… [Read More...]
Corbett Arts Program at Springdale – CAPS
April 13, 2012 By
The Corbett School Board has voted to move ahead with plans to open Springdale School in the fall of 2012. This will be an exciting new satellite program of Corbett Schools offering a unique arts-focused curriculum for students in grades K-8. There will be a lottery held to fill the available classroom slots at the… [Read More...]
Middle School Concert Choir to Oregon Children’s Choir Festival in Eugene
April 11, 2012 By
Hello Cardinal Choir Parents, Here is a reminder about the upcoming choir festival in Eugene, Oregon next Tuesday! All Choir members need to be in the music room at 6:00 a.m. SHARP! If your child has ordered a snack/lunch from the school, I will have it ready. For those of you who have not already… [Read More...]
Evening Principal Chat with Mr. Pearson and Mrs. Luna
April 9, 2012 By
Hello! We would like to offer an evening chat this week at 5:30 on Wed. April 11. Please join us in Phil’s and my room in the high school. A parent contacted me late last week to see if there was a possibilty to meet to discuss expectations for next year’s ninth graders as the… [Read More...]
Restoration of the Crown Point Viaduct and portions of the Historic Columbia River Highway
April 9, 2012 By
Restoration of the Crown Point Viaduct and portions of the Historic Columbia River Highway is scheduled to begin this summer. The Federal Highway Administration, Western Federal Lands Highway Division, is working with the Oregon Department of Transportation and the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department to minimize impacts to Vista House visitors and other users of… [Read More...]