Annie Jr.

TICKETS: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=100284

VOLUNTEER: https://signup.com/go/ZcQjnpj

Performances:

• Friday, May 3, 7:00 PM
• Saturday, May 4, 7:00 PM
• Sunday, May 5, 2:00 PM
• Friday, May 10, 7:00 PM
• Saturday, May 11, 2:00 PM
• Saturday, May 11, 7:00 PM

Questions? tickets@rgmsdrama.com

Information letter, registration and permission slips for the 8th Grade Promotion, Dance & Oaks Park Fun day were sent home with students on Wednesday, April 3. These are due back by April 19. Information is available on the PTA page. Please be sure to fill out both forms and send with payment or use your Schoolpay account. Thanks!

Seventh grade math placement decisions for students in Math 6 will be made after we receive the scores on this spring's Smarter Balanced Assessment. Teachers use a detailed, comprehensive assessment system that creates accurate placements. We will send letters home in June.

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 School Board of Education will unveil a new format to take feedback and answer questions about district finances and processes as part of the process of vetting and approving the 2019-20 budget.

Climate change was the theme when Astor students held a number of events to recognize Earth Day on Monday, April 22. Students who were not able to participate in the global student climate change event last month asked to do something for Earth Day and organized a variety of activities.

Portland Public School’s Visioning process will hit the road for a guest spot at one of Portland’s iconic attractions, OMSI.

On Saturday, May 11, the Visioning core team will present an innovative, interactive exhibit of its work so far. PPS launched the Visioning initiative in 2018 as a way to identify and define what PPS can be, what it should be, and how students, staff, families and community can get to a defined and shared “North Star” for the district.

Six projects by Portland Public Schools students were nominated for the Broadcom MASTERS, the nation's premier science and engineering competition for middle school students, as part of the recent Intel Northwest Science Expo Middle School Awards at Portland State University.