Girls Rock Boundaries: Creating Healthy Boundaries, a fun workshop for middle school girls to help them navigate tricky situations so they feel empowered. Taught by Kim Davies. Monday Oct. 29, 2018 10am-3:30pm at Robert Gray.

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. 

RGMS would love it if parents would put money in their school meals account. We are in the hole by quite a lot. While we will not deny a child a meal, it does weigh heavily on us when we have outstanding debts. See the link to deposit funds at https://www.schoolcafe.com/ or send cash or a check to the school kitchen before school begins in the morning.

Our Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS) lesson this month features the Be Internet Awesome project. The following fundamental practices make up its “Code of Awesome.”

1. BE INTERNET SMART: Share with Care
2. BE INTERNET ALERT: Don’t Fall for Fake
3. BE INTERNET STRONG: Secure Your Secrets
4. BE INTERNET KIND: It’s Cool to Be Kind

The Robert Gray Music Program is collecting Box Tops for Education! Please collect them and turn in all Box Tops to Mrs. Miller's box in the fall. There is also an app for your phone so we can collect more points.If you use the app, our group code is 360040 under Gray Middle School. Thanks so much!

Library fines/charges will show up in SchoolPay, the popular online payment system, so that students and families will be able to pay for lost or damaged materials online. The fines/charges will still show up in Destiny, the library information system. Students can log on to DESTINY to check for fines or charges.

AVID Tutors support the AVID Elective by running "tutorials." In the tutorials, students craft questions based on homework and the group uses academic protocols to develop critical thinking skills while answering the questions and helping each other with assignments. AVID Tutors guide the process in order for students to get the most out of it. Because these are small hour commitments, they make awesome jobs for parents working in the home, future teachers, and folks that like young and maturing adolescents. Consider applying today!

PPS Pulse: PTA Clothing Closet continues to provide for students; Mayor Wheeler helps students walk and bike to school

Art teachers in Portland Public Schools don’t just teach – many are artists in their own right. Four PPS teachers were among the 30 educators from Oregon selected to have their work displayed at the “Teachers as Artists – After the Demo” exhibition currently on display at the Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, Wash.

Since 1963, the PTA Clothing Closet has operated out of Portland Public Schools and is legendary among other West Coast PTAs for its organization and number of students it clothes each year.  Last year the Clothing Closet served over 1,600 students, and those numbers climb higher as families face financial crises. 

Portland Public Schools will join thousands of other school districts in the United States in participating in the Great Shakeout, a national earthquake preparedness event on Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 10:18 a.m.