August 9^th: Office re-opens for Fall Enrollment

August 14^th: Office Closed for Staff Development

1st Day of School, grades 1-5: August 28^th

August 28^th-August 30^th: Kinder Assessment days

September 2^nd: Labor Day Holiday, Schools Closed

September 3^rd: 1^st Day of School, Kindergarten

September 4^th: Sellwood M.S. BBQ 5-7:30pm

September 5^th: Kinder Family Social @ 6pm

September 6^th: 1st Walk + Roll Day

September 9^th: 1^st PTA Meeting @ 6:30pm

September 11^th: Sellwood M.S. Back-to-School Night @ 6:30

September 13^th: PTA After School Social

September 19^th: Lewis Back-to-School Night 6-7:30pm

September 21^st: Reed College 5k FUNd Run/Walk

September 27^th: Fall Picture Day

Field Day:
What a fantastic day it turned out to be!  Thank you to Mr. DeMonte and all the wonderful volunteers that made helped to make this such a fun, wonderful event for our kids!

PTA End-of-Year Celebration:
Thank you to our PTA for a terrific End-of-Year Celebration!  This community event could not have taken place without all of our fantastic volunteers!

Thanks to our food vendors BBQ by Michael, Café de Crepe and Island Daydream Shaved Ice for offering their delicious fare, and to Inez and her team of face painters and Randy the Balloon Guy for providing added fun!

Are you a new family coming to Lewis School in the Fall?  Stop by and meet other incoming families and meet some of the Lewis PTA Board Members.

What: play date, popsicles, and information about students’ first year at Lewis

When: Monday, June 3rd 3:15 pm

Where: Lewis Playground, near play structure

PTA End-of-Year Celebration:
We are celebrating another great year with our annual
End-of-the-Year Celebration on Tuesday, June 4^th from 5-7pm.

This year we are broadening our fun with some carnival games, face-painters, Balloon Guy Randy, music from our own Boomin’ Beats with the fabulous Mr. Jamesbarry, some organized activities, food vendors and more!

Bring your own picnic or purchase something from our local food vendors.  We will have BBQ by Michael, Café De Crepe, and Island Daydream Shaved Ice joining us.

All activities, and fresh watermelon, are free of charge; food will be available for purchase.

As always, we cannot do this without the help of our fantastic volunteers! 
Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0A44A9A82EA31-ptaendoftheyear or outside the office door.

Questions? Want to help organize and make final plans??
Contact Tracy at tgiordano@pps.net or 503-916-6360 

Community Potluck and Conversation is next Monday, May 6th

Please join other Lewis parents in the cafeteria from 6-8pm on Monday, May 6th, for a forward-looking conversation focused on what we love about Lewis, where we see opportunities for change, and what we can commit to as parents within the greater school community. Bring a dish to share for the potluck. Free childcare is available. Please RSVP via this link no later than Friday, May 3rd, so that we can make sure to have enough space and childcare providers: https://forms.gle/1JnFwmLixFha3mho8 More details about the event are available on the PTA and Foundation Facebook pages.

 

Community Meeting for Selection of Next Year’s Principal: 

Dear Lewis Staff and Community,
Lewis K-5 will have a new principal next year. We want to invite staff and parents to attend a Community Meeting to understand the process for selection of next year’s principal and to get your ideas and input; they are important!

Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Time: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Location: Lewis School Cafeteria

The community meeting is one of the first steps taken in our principal hiring process. Keeley Simpson, Area Assistant Superintendent of Schools and Kristie Lindholm, Area Senior Director, will come to your school and meet with school staff and parents. The purpose of the meeting is to hear what you think is special about your school. We want to know about your programs, demographics, parent involvement, special projects, etc., and about the type of person you would like to have as your Principal. This information helps us select candidates that have qualifications that support those elements.
At the meeting we will also take time to explain the full hiring process.

The new mascot and nickname for Franklin High School will be Lightning. The process to determine a new identity for the school was finalized Tuesday, when the Portland Public Schools Board of Education unanimously approved Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero’s recommendation.

Dear PPS Community,

We have come to the end of what has been an ambitious and groundbreaking school year at the Portland Public Schools. I want to offer my heartfelt thanks to our amazing students, their supportive families, our dedicated teachers, hardworking support staff and dynamic school and district leaders who made it all work.

This week in PPS Pulse: A full summer of modernization and improvements projects; district launches enrollment and program balancing process

This summer promises to be the biggest of the PPS bond program so far. School modernization and improvement projects will touch almost every school over the coming months with security upgrades, new roofs, asbestos remediation, new fire alarms, ADA improvements and a seismic retrofit in the works.