Inside this Issue:
- School News (NEW)
- Community News (NEW)
- Upcoming Dates
- Websites to Know
- 8th Grade Promotion (NEW)
- Expanded Services at Multnomah Co. Student Health Center (NEW)
- Summer Meals for PPS Students (NEW)
- ESL Chat Time “LIVE” - Season Finale (NEW)
- Imagine, Explore & Create: Summer Fun for K-5 (NEW)
- Join the Virtual Rose Show on Padlet
- 4-H Virtual Neighborhoods
- State Program Offers Help to Pay for Food
- Anti-Racist Reading and Resources (NEW)
Hello Sunnyside,
If you haven’t already, I invite you to take a few minutes to watch the brilliant, fierce, tender truth spoken by one of the KairosPDX founders, Kali Thorne Ladd. Kali asks all of us, “look to the children for answers”. Please consider sharing Ms. Kali’s message with other folks if you’re willing and able:
Our 3rd grade Sunnyside teacher Tiffany also created this incredible resource for teaching young students about race and injustice.
—Amy
If your family or child would like to protest for Black lives but your family is unable to do so because of COVID-19 risks or other reasons, please see the attached link from the King Center, an opportunity for virtual protest for the next several days.
Please see our Anti-Race Reading and Resources section for a list of ways to take action, donate money or directly support black lives and amplify black and brown voices, organizations, businesses, etc. this week in Portland.
Upcoming Dates
Check the district online calendar
here.
| Fridays May 8 - June 5 |
No School - District Furlough
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Mon-Thu May 13 - June 8
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8th Grade Speeches
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Monday, June 8
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8th Grade Drive-Through Promotion, 7:00
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| Wednesday June 10 |
Last Day of School |
8th Grade Promotion (NEW)
We are so excited to honor our 8th graders at a “drive through” promotion ceremony. This will take place at the Marshall Campus at 7:00pm Monday evening. Unfortunately, because we are following strict ODE safety guidelines, this event is only open to families of 8th graders, and are allowed a limited number of vehicles. We are exploring ways of recording the ceremony, and will keep you informed and share any information with you as it becomes available. 8th Grade Families: please expect a couple of follow up emails with detailed information.
Expanded Services at Multnomah County Student Health Center (NEW)
The Parkrose Student Health Center is open during school closures and summer break. Phone, video, and in-person appointments are available to all Multnomah County youth ages 5-18. Call 503-988-3392 for an appointment. Translation services are also available.
Expanded Services Include:
- COVID-19 testing for symptomatic youth
- Wellness checks/sports physicals
- Immunizations
- Asthma and other chronic illness management
- Treatment for minor illnesses
- Medication refills
- Lab tests
- Follow-up after emergency room visits
- Contraceptive/STI screening
- Behavioral Health
Summer Meals for PPS Students (NEW)
The Nutrition Services department will be extending current meal services into the summer, June 11th through August 21st at all locations except Rigler and Harrison Park due to extensive construction projects. Breakfast and lunch will be provided to any PPS student and any children in the community ages 1-18, Monday through Thursday. Meals for Friday, Saturday and Sunday are provided on Thursdays. Children do not need to be present to pick up the meals. Meals will be available for pickup outside the school from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the locations below.
- Boise-Eliot/Humboldt Elementary - 620 N Fremont
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César Chávez Elementary - 5103 N Willis Blvd
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary - 4906 NE 6th Ave
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Franklin High School - 5405 SE Woodward St
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George Middle School - 10000 N Burr Ave
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Grout Elementary - 3119 SE Holgate Blvd
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Lent School - 5105 SE 97th Ave
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- Madison at Marshall - 3905 SE 91st Ave
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Markham Elementary - 10531 SW Capitol Hwy
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Rosa Parks Elementary - 8960 N Woolsey Ave
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Scott Elementary - 6700 NE Prescott St
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Sitton Elementary - 9930 N Smith St
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Woodmere Elementary - 7900 SE Duke St
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ESL Chat Time “LIVE” - Season Final (NEW)
Please join for an array of multilingual/multicultural guests sharing resources that are of particular interest to our EB communities. Check out the archive of shows and links to fliers in multiple languages at our ESL HD Activities Hub
https://sites.google.com/pps.net/eslhdhub/parents.
Imagine, Explore & Create: Summer Fun for K-5 (NEW)
Three weeks of fun for current K-5th grade students!
- Students will EXPLORE, IMAGINE and CREATE an awesome project of your choice each week
- Create with items from in and around their home
- Submit a photo or video of their weekly project to be showcased on our PPS summer gallery website
Photo or video project entries qualify students for a RAFFLE with great prizes- *Books *Restaurant Take-Out Gift Cards *OMSI Family Passes & more!* For more information and to register visit
PPS Summer 2020.
4-H Virtual Neighborhoods
4-H would like to welcome our students to a brand new program called 4-H Virtual Neighborhoods. It's an adaptation of their 4-H Teens as Teachers program which matches Teen Teachers with 2-6 younger buddies (ages 6-13) to do a 45-minute activity on Zoom once a week. Teen Teachers are also matched with Adult Leaders (college students, camp counselors, educators, and 4-H Leaders/Volunteers) to provide support in delivering each session, building intentional lesson plans, and monitor participant safety. 4-H is currently looking for Teen Teachers as well as young buddies. Key things to know:
Join the Virtual Rose Show on Padlet
If your family has been missing the many Sunnyside traditions that were postponed this year, then we have a great opportunity for you! This year, one of our fifth graders has taken initiative and created a virtual Rose Show. If your students would like to submit photos, art work, or other rose ideas, please follow this link:
Rose Show Padlet. We hope you enjoy this adapted Sunnyside tradition.
Anti-Racist Reading and Resources (NEW)
The following is from a PICA newsletter:
A WEEK OF ACTION IN DEFENSE OF BLACK LIVES
The Movement For Black Lives, and organizers mobilizing across the country, organized a week of action June 1st to 7th in defense of Black lives. This is an opportunity to uplift and fight alongside those turning up in the streets and online. Each day of the week of action represents one of our [The Movement for Black Lives] demands.
- Monday: The Rights of Protesters to be respected
- Tuesday: Invest-Divest
- Wednesday: Community Relief
- Thursday: Community Control
- Friday: End the War on Black People
- Saturday: Make Meaning from Crisis
PICA condemns the violent, racist, and militaristic methodologies of police departments across the United States and specifically in Portland, Oregon, as well as the move to increase funding for inherently violent policing in our city when it is rather a time to defund. We will actively work to dissolve our own connections to these systems. We challenge our city, state, and national government, our partner organizations, our audiences, our donors and funders, and our own organization to do better. We urge you to donate, read, post, petition, protest, and take a form of action. We are asking our white and non-Black audiences, artists, donors, partner organizations, and ourselves to find ways to show up and actively engage in solidarity and support of the Black community.
The information below is time-sensitive and based on the demands put forward by The Movement For Black Lives. Tomorrow, we will be sharing more information as it relates to Community Control. If you have additional resources and links please let us know. This will be an ongoing and evolving process.
DONATE IN PORTLAND
Nat Turner Project (NTP) allows artists of color to go beyond the usual initial expositions inherent in presenting art borne of marginalized perspectives to a dominant culture; allowing artists of color freedom to create or express their own language within and without the parameters of racial commodification or designation.
In two days,
The Black Resilience Fund has provided $19,088.24 in immediate support for Black Portlanders, including a warm meal, groceries, and unpaid bills. Please donate to support these efforts.
Ori Gallery is the brain child of the creative duo Maya Vivas & Leila Haile. Together they seek to reclaim and redefine “the white cube” through amplifying the voices of Trans and Queer Artists of color, community organizing and mobilization through the arts.
Urban League of Portland is one of Oregon’s oldest civil rights and social service organizations, empowering African-Americans and others to achieve equality in education, employment, health, economic security and quality of life.
Donate to, or, apply for a PNW Ballroom Micro-Grant by
tournament.haus, a homebase for Lady Tournament (@jxzz_hndz) and other ballroom/club scene related projects.
The Black Feminist Kitchen and
The Black Feminist Summer School (BFSS): BFSS is an underground school dedicated to Black feminist study. BFSS offers a critical meditation on the theoretical concepts, questions, interventions, directives, tensions, and ideologies within Black feminism(s) and Black feminist thought. Donating via CashApp is most helpful. Donate to $BFKBFSSFund on CashApp and BFKBFSSFUND on PayPal.
PORTLAND FOOD-BASED RELIEF
The Black Food Sovereignty Coalition (BFSC) serves as a collaboration hub for Black and Brown communities to confront the systemic barriers that make food, place and economic opportunities inaccessible to us.
SNACK BLOC is a community resource and support for rallies, protests, community events and vigils in the greater Portland area.
Black Futures Farm is a community farm, staffed by volunteers and two resident farmers. We sit on 1.15 acres with 17 different fruit trees, vegetables, flowers, medicinal and cooking herbs. The CSA is full, but you can donate unrestricted funds.
