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Welcome to Thornhill Elementary School. Thornhill is a K-5 Elementary School located in Oakland, California. Please browse our site for more information about the school.

Important Information on Changing OUSD Admissions Policies NEW!

In an attempt to gather feedback from the Oakland community on how best to modify future OUSD admissions policies, OUSD representatives held a series of community forums to take the pulse of the Oakland public school parent community as to what parents value when looking at admissions policies.

I attended one of these forums on April 21st at Montera Middle School, and have posted my notes plus the slides presented by the OUSD representatives below. The slides contain some very interesting data on school choice and admission trends in Oakland, plus a detailed breakdown of possible new policies. I encourage you to take a look:

• Meeting Notes
  
  
• Meeting Slides

I urge you to keep abreast of developments with respect to changing OUSD admissions policies, and possibly become an activist in terms of advocating for what is best for our community. Please don't hesitate to contact me at president@thornhillschool.org with any questions you might have about this on-going process of changing OUSD admissions policies

Jesse Combs
PFC President

2008-09 PFC Board Recruiting In Progress NEW! We are in the important process of recruiting enthusiastic and capable volunteers for the 2008-09 PFC Board. Please see the PFC Directory/Recruiting page for details on which positions are open and contact info to learn more.

You can also get an overview of open positions and how they fit into the PFC organization by downloading the PFC organizational chart.

Wonder why you'd want to get involved in the PFC, or the school for that matter, in the first place? Check out this video: "Help Wanted: No Pay, Great Benefits".

Thanks to everyone for joining in this effort to fill these critical positions for the coming year, and please don't hesitate to contact us at recruiting@thornhillschool.org with any questions.

PFC Recruiting Committee

Auction Update  Thank you for all your support for the auction, it was so much fun and a huge success.
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Preserve Oakland Public Schools IMPORTANT!As many of you are aware, Governor Schwarzenegger has proposed a $4.8 billion budget cut for California's schools. These cuts would severely damage the quality of education in our state, forcing school districts to lay off teachers and other educators in already overcrowded classrooms while slashing programs that are critical to student achievement.

The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) indicates that these cuts are not finalized and that parents like us can and should raise our voices against them. To this end, we’ve included below a link to a condensed version of a packet published by OUSD (plus the full version) to educate and guide parents in how to respond to this crisis. (This condensed packet is courtesy of Shannon Broome, the Hillcrest PTA President. Thank you Shannon for this!)

• - Condensed Version of Budget Cut Toolkit
  
  
• - Full Version from OUSD

Thanks for your involvement in this important effort to preserve our schools!

Next Round of Enrichment Classes! Click on the links below to download information and sign-up forms for the next round of before/after-school Enrichment classes offered at Thornhill:

For more information, please contact our VP's of Enrichment at vpenrichment@thornhillschool.org.

Important Info About Head Lice! Cases of head lice have been detected at Thornhill. Please review the Parent's Guide to Head Lice from the State of Californica for importants facts and treatment methods:

- Parent's Guide to Head Lice - English, Spanish

Join the Thornhill Yahoo Group! Communication is key for creating community.  Join Thornhill's Yahoo Group so you too can share, inquire, comment or simply get updates on matters pertaining to Thornhill Elementary. To learn more, visit the Yahoo Group page.

School Wear Available Online To purchase Logo-wear click on the link below. At the site you can order baseball shirts, T-shirts, hats, bags and many more items and have them sent directly to your home. Go there.

Thornhill is an Amazon.com Associate Thornhill Elementary is now a member of the Amazon.com Associates program. That means if you shop at Amazon.com—and get there from one of the links on our site—Thornhill receives approximately 5% of the purchase price. This can be a great thing for our school, but it only works in our favor if you go to Amazon.com from a link such as the one in the right margin. For more info, visit our Amazon Associate page. Thank you for supporting Thornhill!