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Guest, Welcome to Blue Heron!
Important Information for Students and Parents:
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General Information
- During the 2009-10 school year Blue Heron classes will begin at 8:10 am and the school day will end at 2:20 pm. Early Release days classes will begin at 8:10 am and end at 12:20 pm. Parents, students will not be supervised prior to 7:40 am, so please no early drop offs.
- Click on the following link to learn more about the Measurement of Student Progress (MSP) http://www.WAtesting.com
- Blue Heron is on a journey! There is a road map for our journey. The road map is not intended to suggest rigid timetables, step-by-step directions to which you must faithfully adhere, or even a linear approach. On the other hand, some critical issues must ultimately be addressed if the journey is to proceed in a purposeful direction. We are on that journey at Blue Heron! Four essential questions I have asked all staff to consider along the Blue Heron journey this year include: (1) What should each student know [LEARN] and be able to do?; (2) How will we know if they have learned?; (3) What will we do if they don't learn?; and (4) What will we do if they already know [LEARNED] it?
- Parents, check out the school online calendar - the link is located at the far left bottom column of this page. You will find important events posted for each month.
Principal Mark J. Decker
Updated 02/06/2010
Our Vision for Blue Heron (A slide show)
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Blue Heron is located in beautiful Port Townsend, Washington off San Juan Avenue.
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Quick Facts:
- Our school was built in 1994 and dedicated on October 5, 1995. We celebrate Blue Heron's birthday on Oct 5. During the 2009-10 school year, Blue Heron will be 14 years old. Six new classrooms were added in August 2009 to accommodate the addition of 4th Grade, 5th Grade, and the 1st-5th grade OPEPO program.
- Our school motto: The 4A's for Success at Blue Heron: Academics, Attendance, Attitude and Activities.
- Excellent grade and subject level teaching teams, combined with quality paraprofessionals, nutrition, custodial/maintenance, and transportation teams work together to provide a rigorous, integrated curriculum for students.
- Teachers create lessons clearly tied to Washington State Standards.
- We combine in-class instruction with experiential education activities.
- Our school typically hosts over 1000 school-community events each year.
- We have 31.89 certified teaching staff and an enrollment of 520 students in grades 4-8 & OPEPO grades 1-5.. In addition, we have 28.0 hours of para-professional support for Special Education, 12.5 hours of Title 1 para-professional support, and 16.8 hours of Basic Education Assistance (BEA) of para-professional support.
- Two (2) staff members are National Board Certified. Our staff has an average of 10 years of experience.
- In 2008-09, 160+ parents volunteered their time in our school and 21+ business invested in partnerships with our school.
- Please click here to view the WA State "report card" of our school demographics and test scores.
Contact Information:
Port Townsend, WA 98368
(360) 379-4540
For emergencies my cell number is (360) 821-1281
FAX (360) 379-4548
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