Mark your calendar for MOD Pizza restaurant day on March 31 at . This fundraiser will yield 20% of the store’s profit that day! We love PTA restaurant events because they are yummy and fun.

Wilson High School has six spots available for 14 year olds (must be 14 by April 2) to join the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race Team as fully functioning team members. They are seeking students that can swim, are comfortable around water, mature, and want to fit in well with the high schoolers. The fee is $100, which includes the boat rental, sign-up for race weekend, clothes (windbreaker/gloves), and food for race weekend. Practice starts April 2 and is on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30-6pm, and Saturdays from 8:30-10am. The races are June 8th and 9^th. More information is available on the READ MORE link below. A video is available HERE so you can get the gist!

Girls Rock Empowerment Group: Thursdays, 4:15-5:30 pm at OmBase Studio in Hillsdale, April 4th- May 23rd. Class will focus on friendships, digital citizenship, and confidence while easing anxiety through games, conversation, and guided meditation. Students can walk easily from Gray to OmBase. Register here. 

 

Get your tickets! Tacos, Tech & Teachers 2019

TICKETS for the second annual Tacos, Tech & Teachers fundraising event for Chromebooks and for support staff – through the RGMS Foundation - to keep our school strong! This year we are not only continuing toward our goal of a Chromebook for every RGMS student, we also need to start replacing old devices!

Saturday, April 20, 2019
7 pm to 10 pm, Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 SW Capitol Highway

For just $25 per ticket, you’ll enjoy a full taco bar and taquitos from Raul’s Family Mexican Restaurant; Northwest beverages (one drink ticket included) and entertainment all night -- the staff/parent Detention Band and much more. There will be a live auction and paddle raise, carnival games (Giant Jenga! Corn Hole!), wine wall, brand new RGMS T-shirts and swag, and slot party sign ups. When you buy your ticket, you can also purchase game bracelets for $20 each to make it easy to play as much as you want.
Jump in; we need you!
Want to host a slot party for 10 to 20 people? (Ideas include a BBQ, a cocktail party, an outdoor movie night) Contact Cathy Fowler: cathy@redwoodagency.com
Do you have an Oregon Coast, Sunriver, Hood River or other Pacific Northwest vacation home or condo to offer in the live auction? Contact Erin Hoover Barnett: hoovere@ohsu.edu
We are pumped for a great night of fun, food, fellowship and fundraising! If the ticket price is out of reach for your family budget, please let an office staff member know or email hoovere@ohsu.edu so that we can arrange a donated ticket. We wish to acknowledge that the fundraiser date falls on the second Seder of Passover and apologize for how this impacts attendance for observant families.

Download the SPRING SUN GUIDE. It has a few updates. 

Please contact PPS Enrollment and Transfer if you are seeking a hardship transfer to enroll next year or use the link in the "read more" link. March 8 is the preferred date for submission of hardship transfers.

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.

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. 

The Portland Public Schools Board of Education approved a significant revision to the district policy on student field trips and out-of-town travel, and passed a resolution to offer comment on proposed construction work on Interstate 5 that would affect Harriet Tubman Middle School.

Dear PPS Families,

With hopes that inclement winter weather is done for this school year, we wanted to touch base with you regarding making up snow days. We thought it was important to share an update with you before Spring Break. 

In this week's PPS Pulse: 6 possible mascot names identified for Franklin High School; pilot water project set to launch

Lincoln High School senior Sagarika Ramachandran has been selected as the winner of the Oregon Student Journalist of the Year Award. Sagarika, who serves as editor-in-chief of Lincoln's student newspaper, the Cardinal Times, became the first journalist from a PPS school to win the award, which started in 2005.