Upcoming Out & Abouts:
- August 30th- Out & About- Garden get-to-know-you games in the Backyard Garden
- September 6th- Out & About-B-Street Farm- Learn about Out & Abouts and team building
- September 13th- Out & About- Mercy Corps and NIKKEI Japanese Museum (6 Chaperones needed)
- September 2oth- In & About- Forest Grove City Planning and Mapping
- September 27th- In & About- Jim Moore- Political Maps
- October 4th- Out & About- Portland Street Art Alliance (4 Chaperones Needed)
- October 11th- Out & About- Washington County Democrats and Susan McLain (4 Chaperones Needed)
- October 18th & 19th- Student-led Conferences no Out & About
- October 25th- In & About- Rob Molina GOP running for House of Representatives
- November 1st- Out & About- Portland Art Museum and Oregon Historical Society
- November 9th- FRIDAY- Out & About- Shiver: A musical- Oregon Children’s Theater
- November 15th- In & About- Research Project Work
- November 17th through 24th- Thanksgiving Break
- November 29th- Out & About- Great Horned Owls- Washington County Court House
- December 6th- Out & About- Barn Owls- Washington County Court House
- December 13th- Out & About- Oregon Symphony- Cirque de Symphonie
- December 20th- Out & About-Pacific University Biology Lab- Microscopes
- January 10th- In & About- Financial Literacy with Bank of the West
- January 17th- In & About- Mental Health & Suicide Prevention with Washington County Health Dept
- January 24th- Out & About- Career Day at Intel (4 Chaperones needed)
- February 7th- In & About- Megan Wright- Genetics and Genealogy
- February 14th- Out & About- CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER
- February 21st- Out & About- Oregon Maritime Museum (4 Chaperones needed)
- February 28th- In & About- Paper making with Jenn Scott
- March 7th- Out & About- Fort Yamhill- Civil War Living History Actors. (4 Chaperones needed)
- March 14th- In & About- Eden Acres- Basketweaving and Native American History
- March 21st- Out & About- NAYA- Native American Youth and Adult Center Portland (4 Chaperones)
- April 4th- Out & About- Oregon Railway and Heritage Museum (2 Chaperones)
- April 11th- Out & About- Cannon Beach Clean Up (4 Chaperones needed)
- April 18th- Student Led Conferences
- April 25th- Out & About- OHSU Primate Study- Beaverton (4 Chaperones needed)
- May 2nd- Out & About- Library Meeting Forest Grove Library Art Show Set Up
- May 3rd- Forest Grove Community School Art Show- 5:00 to 7:00 pm District Office
Spring Expedition: Salem
Dear FGCS Families,
This year the Level 4 students will be attending an overnight trip to Salem Oregon to participate in the Project Citizen Program and visit Champoeg National park. This overnight trip will leave Thursday May, 23rd at 8:30 am and return the afternoon of Friday May, 24th. We will be sending more information home closer to the trip, but at this point we'd like to help you start planning for the trip's cost. The cost of this trip is $100. If you would like to Chaperone the trip please let me know on the below form.
We realize the cost is a significant expense for many families and we would like to help make this payment manageable by offering reduced cost options and payment plans. While the Salem trip attendance is not a requirement of our program, we are eager to have every student attend. We have a limited scholarship fund that we will use to offset this family expense. Please use the form below to indicate whether or not your child will be attending, how you’d like to pay for the trip, and/or if you’d like to be considered for a scholarship.
Please take the survey at this link to let us know if you are attending the trip: docs.google.com/forms/d/1XfeWfT8sM_XXHoT0vmdVIdBIr2ahjXy4-gVdXx-AfDw/edit
This year the Level 4 students will be attending an overnight trip to Salem Oregon to participate in the Project Citizen Program and visit Champoeg National park. This overnight trip will leave Thursday May, 23rd at 8:30 am and return the afternoon of Friday May, 24th. We will be sending more information home closer to the trip, but at this point we'd like to help you start planning for the trip's cost. The cost of this trip is $100. If you would like to Chaperone the trip please let me know on the below form.
We realize the cost is a significant expense for many families and we would like to help make this payment manageable by offering reduced cost options and payment plans. While the Salem trip attendance is not a requirement of our program, we are eager to have every student attend. We have a limited scholarship fund that we will use to offset this family expense. Please use the form below to indicate whether or not your child will be attending, how you’d like to pay for the trip, and/or if you’d like to be considered for a scholarship.
Please take the survey at this link to let us know if you are attending the trip: docs.google.com/forms/d/1XfeWfT8sM_XXHoT0vmdVIdBIr2ahjXy4-gVdXx-AfDw/edit
Want to be a Facilitator on an Amazing Out & Abouts?
Here is what you need to do:
Facilitators are the awesome adult helpers that accompany us on our Out and Abouts! Are you interested? First let me start by saying THANK YOU!!! Here at FGCS we rely on our Facilitators to help us make our many Out and Abouts a reality. If you want to be a facilitator on an O&A here is what you need to do:
- Review the Forest Grove Facilitators handout, this will easily layout the expectations of every out and about: Forest Grove Facilitator Handout: forestgrovefacilitatorshandout.pdf
- Check this weekly page frequently for upcoming Out and Abouts. If a facilitator is needed it will say FACILITATORS NEEDED. Then contact me, Stephanie Woods at s.woods@fgcschool.org and let me know you are interested.
- Complete your Volunteer background check. I can not let you join us unless this is done. Please click here to fill out the form, I will be notified when it is complete: https://www.helpcounterweb.com/welcome/apply.php?district=forestgrove Please see below if you have more questions.
- Once I have confirmed with you that you are facilitating a trip, check your email, because I will be sending you a trip itinerary, with all the trip details and need to know information.
Hagg Lake Adventure
Out and About Slideshow
Comic City USA: We are superheros!
Under new Forest Grove School District policy, criminal background checks will be required for all volunteers starting with the 2014-15 school year. This includes, but is not limited to, Out & About chaperones and classroom volunteers.
We encourage all current and prospective volunteers to go to the link below as soon as possible to fill out the criminal background verification form online. There is no cost to the volunteer and all information provided will remain confidential. Starting Oct. 1, 2014, individuals will not be allowed to volunteer until their background check has been approved.
The conviction of a crime will not automatically disqualify a person from volunteering. Each situation will be considered individually.
We appreciate all of our dedicated volunteers at FGCS. Thanks in advance for taking the time to complete an online background check to continue volunteering at FGCS. Contact Karen Torry at k.torry@fgcschool.org or 503-359-4600 with any questions.
Please click the following link to sign up to be a volunteer and submit a background check (be sure to choose Forest Grove Community School as a school where you want to volunteer)
https://www.helpcounterweb.com/welcome/apply.php?district=forestgrove
goo.gl/forms/RRphdbd3qyO6xECl2 - My future survey
