The RGMS Ski Club registration is now open and forms are available for information and to sign up. See the SUN School page for forms and information. Click on the Read More link below for access to online registration. 

Requests for second semester elective changes were due on Friday, January 11. Second semester begins Tuesday, January 23. To access third-quarter class schedules, please check your ParentVue. Login onto ParentVue, select Class Schedule from the menu on the left side, click on Quarter 3. Students can check on StudentVue using the same directions. We will not be printing new schedules, so please be sure your child knows theirs before January 23rd, the first day of the new semester. Elective class change forms were due today and changes should be in the system by the end of next week.

Dinner's On Us!
Wednesday, January 16, 6:15 pm to 7:45 pm
Lucky Lab, Multnomah Village, upstairs
Pizza and salad provided

Agenda:
• RGMS Prepares: an earthquake preparedness and school safety initiative
• Meet our new SUN site manager, Dave Strom
• Learn about Ski Club and Yearbook
• Hear about the RGMS focus on kindness and how you can help!
• Learn how to get involved to finish our year strong

Seeking RGMS Auction leader
We are seeking a highly organized, auction savvy go-getter to project manage our auction this year!

Lots of folks are ready to lend their talents; we just need a project manager to pull off this fun, community-building event to raise money for Chrome Books and our Foundation that provides for RGMS support staff key to keeping our school strong. Unless the Oregon Legislature delivers big time this spring, our schools will face tough budgets for next year.

Are you our Auction Leader? Email Erin Hoover Barnett, PTA co-president, at ebarnettpdx@gmail.com .

Remember: Teamwork makes the dream work.

Thursdays, January 17-March 21
4:15-5:30pm at OmBase Studio in Hillsdale
This group is especially for middle school girls who want a place to show up as their authentic selves, relax and decrease stress and have fun in a nonjudgmental environment. Students can walk easily from Robert Gray to OmBase. Led by Kim Davies: www.Kimdavies.org/classes.

If your child is still incomplete in their immunizations, please make arrangements to obtain vaccinations and to provide this information to the school. Exclusion day for state required vaccinations is Wednesday, February 20, 2019. Students who are not current will not be able to attend school until current immunization records are provided to school staff.

We know that you know that we know many of you by sight as our parents or as PPS staff. But, please be sure to stop in at the main office and sign in and out when you are in the building if it is between 8:30 AM and 3:45 PM. Thanks for helping keep the building secure.

Text YES to 68453 to get the district emergency alerts.

Yearbooks orders will be placed only online this year using this link.
The cost is $20, a real bargain. Hard cover!
We will be looking for folks to be on this year's Yearbook Club to design, execute, proof, tag photos, take orders and distribute. 

In this week's PPS Pulse: PPS performers, speakers set to appear at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tribute; first-graders dive into coding

Portland Public Schools will again be a featured part of the city’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tribute event. The 34th edition will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 21, at the Highland Christian Center, 7600 NE Glisan St. The event will feature digital, musical and artistic performances, and an array of community speakers.

The PPS Visioning initiative has entered a new phase in January, with a series of community meetings in which  students, families, educators and volunteers will be able to share what they think the future of education in Portland should look like. 

Christy Wheeler of Sellwood Middle School recently won the Oregon Counselor of the Year Award from the Oregon School Counselors Association. We asked her to share her thoughts on the role counselors play in school communities.