A Message from our friends at Victory Academy

Dear Families and Staff of The Children’s Hour Academy,

Victory Academy expresses its deepest thanks and appreciation to all of you at the Meridian Campus for sharing your school with us and for warmly welcoming our students, staff, and families.

Victory Academy is the first school of its kind in the greater Portland-metro area that offers a comprehensive education to children with unique learning differences, including Autism Spectrum and related disorders. We provide challenging academics to elementary-aged children (Kindergarten through Third Grade), integrating proven, research-based therapeutic strategies into every learning task. We are unique from the public school settings, as we offer year-round school at 7.5 hours per day, low student to teacher ratio (8:3), customized education plans carefully crafted by a highly qualified team of teachers and therapists. We also offer additional therapies to our students, including occupational and music therapy, targeted literacy instruction, social skills, daily living practice, and language and communication. Currently, there is no model like this in Oregon for these ages of students. Victory Academy is founded by educators and parents of children with ASD; they believe that we can and must do better for the children of our community.

Victory Academy currently enrolls eight students and has one lead teacher, Miss Ashley, and three teacher’s assistants, Miss Tiffanie, Ms. Janet, and Ms. Jen. Victory Academy’s Directors are Ms. Tricia and Ms. Thea. Our students receive most of their instruction in Room 112 and will share lunch, recess, and chapel times with The Children’s Hour Academy. We hope to join and support many of The Children’s Hour Academy’s special events, starting with October’s Pumpkin Patch Trip.

We welcome any of your questions or thoughts as we begin the 2009-2010 school year. We are quite excited and a bit anxious too!

Again, we thank all of you for offering us this tremendous opportunity to join a thriving school. While we operate separately from The Children’s Hour Academy, our visions are very much the same.

With Gratitude,


Tricia Hasbrook and Thea Schreiber
Directors, Victory Academy

A few thoughts about the first week of school

The new school year is off and running! We have had a very busy week. Last Wednesday, the teachers spent the first portion of their day in inservice training. We had a music therapy workshop, a course on objective observation techniques, and we learned about new ways to use the accu-cut (die cut) machine in our classrooms for 'more than just bulletin boards.' Teachers earned between two and four credit hours, depending on the courses in which they took part. The next two days (and nights, and weekend for many of them!) were spent getting classrooms in perfect shape for the first day of school on Tuesday. We hope you enjoy the new looks all around the building.

We have many new friends joining us this year and we are all learning our new routines and such. Things are going well. We also have friends back from vacation...it is great to see our friends we have missed all summer. Everyone looks so proper in their uniforms, and we are all excited for next week, when we have our first full week of school, and we will begin German and Spanish as well.

Grandparent's Day will be celebrated Thursday at 3:15 at the Jean Road campus, and Friday at 3:00 at the Meridian campus. Please RSVP to your child's teacher as soon as possible so we know how many Grandparents we'll have the pleasure of meeting.

That's all for now....enjoy the sunshine!

Future "Ace of Cakes" Baker and Culinary Artist...

So, Ethan, how about a field trip to 2936 Remington Avenue, Baltimore, MD‎ to meet Duff Goldman owner of "Charm City Cakes." Let's see if he can create a Ms. Patty cake!