Happy November! After a fabulous October, including the 5th grade trip to outdoor school, Multicultural Night, new Roxhill t-shirts for every student, and more, we’re moving into a busy season of conferences, holidays, and lots of fun events! As always, there’s lots happening at Roxhill – including this week’s celebration of Ruby Bridges! – and plenty of opportunities to support our school. Read on to learn more.
Dine Out Fundraiser Success!
Thank you to everyone who came out to enjoy pizza and community! There were so many happy and smiling faces enjoying pizza (and long lines!) as we raised over $250, our best dine out in a few years!
Volunteers Needed!
We had a wonderful October community meeting and identified a number of different ways to get involved! It’s clear that our community needs more support to help make the opportunities and events we want for our students happen.
How do you want to help?
- Auction planning: Help get items and get people bidding on FORE’s biggest fundraiser of the year. See below for details on the next auction planning meeting.
- Event planning and fundraising: We need more people able to plan and support school events and FORE fundraisers throughout the year. These can be one-time or long-term commitments depending on your interest and availability.
- Garden maintenance and garden club: Help maintain the garden or work with kids during Garden Club.
- Kings & Queens team: Help mentor 4th and 5th graders during Thursday and Friday lunch club with Mr. Hakeem.
- Reading Buddies: Sign up to read with a student once a week for 15 minutes! Contact Katarina
- Safety Patrol: Seeking people who can be friendly faces as families go to and from school.
- Provide snacks for a volleyball team practice.
- Salmon tank cleaners: Make sure our salmon stay healthy as students learn about their life cycle and release them in the spring.
- Social media support: Help maintain our Instagram/Facebook account to keep families in the know!
- Walking School Bus: Support our team of volunteers making a joyful walk to school on the first Friday of every month
- Weekly Food Box Pickup: Neighborcare is seeking someone who can pick up food boxes from West Seattle Food Bank weekly on Thursday or Friday (mid-day).
- Yearbook: Help with taking photos, working with student photographers, laying out pages, and more.
How to get involved: Unless you see a link, contact FriendsOfRoxhill@gmail.com to get involved or just learn more about an opportunity. If you’d like to join our volunteer WhatsApp group, fill out our new online volunteer form.
Events
First Friday Walking School Bus
Friday, November 6, 7:20am-7:55am
Starts from SW Holden & 24th
November 6th is the First Friday Walking School Bus! November’s theme will kick off our school-wide celebration of Ruby Bridges with the question: Who is a hero in our Roxhill community?
Join the walking school bus at the southwest corner of SW Holden & 24th at 7:20 to walk to Roxhill together or in the cafeteria before school to eat red beans & rice (Ruby Bridge’s favorite food) and create a mural to celebrate the heroes in our school community!
Harvest Our Health / Park Meetup
Saturday, November 7, 10am – 2pm
E.C. Hughes Park, Walking Tour, Kenyon Hall
Come to one, two, or all three events to celebrate community and family health at this event series all around Roxhill! We encourage families to join these events as our family playground meetup.
- 🌲10:00 – 11:30 a.m. – Meet at E.C. Hughes Park in honor of Seattle Arbor Day for tree planting, connections with arborists, food, and community. Register to help with tree planting.
- 🍁11:30 – 12:00 p.m. – Join local legend, Ella McRae, for a walk through the trees from E.C. Hughes park to Kenyon Hall
- 🌟12:00 – 2:00 p.m. – Hang out with Roxhill staff and community at Kenyon Hall for lunch and a health fair
Roxhill Monthly Community Meeting
Monday, November 9, 6pm –7:30pm
Roxhill Elementary School at E.C. Hughes
Let’s build a supportive community together. We’ll have time to connect with other Roxhill families, hear school updates from Principal Bruno, and then we’ll split up to work on our Basic Needs fundraiser and plan a fun school event! We want to make space for new voices and new ideas, so we’ll see what our group wants to do and plan that!
Childcare, pizza, and Spanish interpretation is provided for every community meeting.
Veterans Day
Wednesday, November 11
No school in recognition of Veterans Day.
Auction Planning Committee Meeting
Thursday, November 12, 8pm – 9pm
Online. Email friendsofroxhill@gmail.com for meeting link.
Tap in to help with FORE’s biggest fundraiser of the year! We need folks who can help with outreach to donor businesses and promotion. Even a few hours’ commitment makes a big difference!
Family-Teacher Conference Days (No School)
Monday – Wednesday, November 23 – 25
There is no school this week; be on the lookout for conference sign-up from your child’s teacher!
Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Day (No School)
School is closed in recognition of Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Day. Enjoy the holiday!
Parenting Group Offered in the New Year
Brettyn, with our school’s Neighborcare Health Clinic, is planning to offer a parenting group starting this January. This will be a supportive group environment for parents to learn and practice skills to respond more effectively to their children’s emotional and behavioral needs.
Meetings will be 90 minutes and will be held Thursday evenings at Roxhill from Thursday, January 7th through Thursday, March 18th.
Skills taught in the group include:
- Responding to big emotions
- Strengthening attachment and connection
- Setting limits calmly and effectively
- Building confidence and cooperation
For more information, watch for more news coming soon or reach out to Brettyn at brettyn.lamichhane@neighborcare.org or phone at 206-548-5981.