news from the edge
Shannon Ouellette-Principal
souellette@rockfordschools.org
Address: 9605 Edgerton Ave, Rockford, MI 49341
Website: Rockford Public Schools
Phone: 616-326-1030
November 7, 2025
A Note from Mrs. Ouellette
Thank you for your attendance at Parent/Teacher conferences this past week. It is always fun to see parents in our hallways, and I appreciate the partnership between our school and home. If you were not able to schedule a conferenced and would like to, please reach out to your child's teacher. Thank you to our PTO and our families for the food donations for the staff meal and breakfast this week. Both were wonderful!
A highlight of the Holiday season will be our Holiday Music Program at the High School on December 2. The schedule can be found below.
Holiday Music Program
Date: December 2, 2025
Location: Rockford High School Fine Arts Auditorium
Program Times:
K/1 Program at 5:45 Arrival at 5:30
2/3 Program at 6:30 Arrival at 6:15
4/5 Program at 7:15 Arrival at 7:00
UPCOMING EVENTs:
- November 11: STEAM Night at East Rockford Middle School
- November 12: Early Release Day
- November 21: Popcorn Day
- November 26-28: No School Thanksgiving break.
- December 2: Edgerton Trails K-5 Winter Music Concert at the High School
- December 8,9 and 10: Holiday Workshop
- December 10: Early Release Day 1:25 Dismissal
- December 18: Holiday Parties
- December 19: Last Day before Winter Break
- December 22-Jan 2: No School Winter Break
Quick but important
- We will have a Book BINGO event in the Spring. If at anytime you are cleaning out your books (preschool-middle school aged) we will take them for our Book BINGO event.
- Thank you to the Rockford Education Foundation for the generous grant of $10,000.00. Our grant monies will be used to build a Sugar shack for maple syrup production by our Outdoor Classroom.
- Please consider donating to our Food Drive that will run November 10-25 in an effort to support local. The Food Drive is being run by a Girl Scout Troop here at Edgerton Trails. Non Perishable food items can be brought in by students, dropped off at the front office or given to the Paras in the drop off/pick up line. Thank you for your support.
- Our Lost and Found items will be donated on 11/17/25. If you are missing a coat, sweatshirt, waterbottle, etc. it may be in our Lost and Found. Feel free to stop by during school hours if you would like to check it out.
Girls on the run
Mrs. Powell, our music teacher has volunteered to be our head Girls on the Run Coach. We need one or two more parents to help. Practices are two days a week, but with two extra coaches, the job can be shared.
- Season Begins: Tues/Thurs starting March 3
- More details: Two 90-minute practices per week. Curriculum and training provided. No prior experience necessary!
- Celebration 5K: May 16, 2026
- You do NOT have to be a runner in order to coach.
- Your School Contact: Sarah Powell, spowell1@rockfordschools.org or Shannon Ouellette, souellette@rockfordschools.org
