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No School: Spring Break March 25th-29th 2024
No School: Friday, April 5th 2024 End of Q3 Teacher Planning Day
No School: Monday, May 27th 2024 Memorial Day
Last Day of School: Friday, June 14th 2024
Connect to Kindergarten at Peninsula:
Tuesday, April 9th 2024 at 3:00pm In-Person at Peninsula
Thursday, May 23rd at 3:00pm In-Person at Peninsula
August Date TBD - In-Person at Community Care Day (More info to come!)
Peninsula's "Connect to Kinder" Slideshow
Registration for 2024-25 Kindergarten starts March 1st.
Lottery Window for 2024-25 Elementary School is from
February 15 to March 15, 2024.
For school-specific information, visit PPS School Choice or School Finder.
For general registration information, visit PPS Enrollment.
For more lottery information including videos and meeting dates/times, visit the school’s website or see the district maps below.
Important Program Update: On Tuesday, January 24, 2023, the PPS Board of Education voted to modify our PPS Compulsory Enrollment; Age and Grade Level at Entrance Board Policy (4.10.020-P). This modification eliminated our previous practice of offering an Early Entry to Kindergarten exception. Our policy now reads: "A child will be admitted to Kindergarten if their fifth birthday occurs on or before September 1.
Our community enjoys bringing their canine companions to school grounds during hours when students and after-school programs are not using the facilities.
Unfortunately, those sneaky canines manage to poop on our field and create some stinky situations for students and staff.
We have decided to form a poop patrol! Click here for details and to sign up for a shift.
Our shoes and noses thank you in advance for doing your part.
At Peninsula, reading, writing and math are fundamental. Enrichments are essential. They bring pleasure to reading and creativity to expression. Enrichment classes teach cross-curricular skills that demonstrate to students how math applies to art, music, physical education, and beyond. Enrichments are the colorful ties that bind the fully educated child together. Each of these certified teachers has a subject "specialty," complete with its own set of adopted educational standards. Most enrichment teachers have stand-alone classes and all collaborate with homeroom teachers to make curricular connections. We want students to know math doesn't just happen in "math class," it's all around us. Enrichments are fundamental to student engagement in school. Enrichments foster agency within a child and their ability to participate in their education.
Each month you will receive a newsletter from all of us updating you on what is happening in our classes and subject area specialties.
Archive of Specialist News Distributed via School Messenger
Visit our Teacher Tech Portal for additional information.
Each teacher has a website. Click on a name to view their website.
"Enrichments" or "Specials" Teachers at Peninsula:
Kirsten Slane, Art
Patrick Nearing, Music
Matt Challender, PE
Jenny Gapp, Library
Samara Carranza, Counselor
Oregon Physical Education Standards
Oregon Arts Standards (includes Music and Art)
Oregon Library and Media Education Standards
Oregon's Guidelines for Comprehensive School Counseling
When students from Cleveland High School’s Advanced Commercial Foods and Baking class visited Hosford Middle School last month to try out a new recipe they called Baked Pears Goat Cheese Sunflower Seed Delight, the results of an informal sticker poll were very much on the positive side: 26 kids liked it and 30 loved it. Twenty-two were on the fence.
Sixth grader Isaac Huynh was in the latter category. “I’ve had goat cheese before, but this goat cheese tastes different,” he said. “I think the whole thing might have been better with whipped cream.”
Ever wondered if dogs might be able to sniff out cancer? Or how Magic the Gathering is connected to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s? Or if your running watch might be gaslighting you?
Seniors in the Cleveland High School International Baccalaureate (IB) program answered these questions – and many more – at the 15th annual Extended Essay Senior Showcase on February 21. The showcase gives IB students the opportunity to present the results of two years’ worth of research into academic topics of their choosing. The topics begin as inquiry questions, which students then investigate and eventually answer in the form of a 4000-word essay.
At first glance, the annual Portland Public Schools district calendar might seem to fulfill one crucial function: to alert students, staff, and families to the days when school is in session and when it is not.
If that were the case, crafting the calendar would be the work of days, if not hours. In fact, the calendar is a multipurpose living document that involves meticulous planning and careful forethought to ensure the best possible outcomes for students and staff. It also reflects the needs and observances of the many diverse communities the district serves.
Ethan Kramer, Beaumont Middle School’s assistant principal, sees middle school math as so much more than 2x + 3y = 5.
“It’s helping to build the logic center – the prefrontal cortex – in analysis and processing,” he said. Given this, Kramer and others believe that middle grades instruction must lay a strong foundation to support more challenging math concepts in the future – first high school, then beyond.
But what are the components of that foundation? And how is it best established?
The district’s middle grades core academics team and its grades 6-8 math committee have spent the last year weighing these questions in tandem with educators and community stakeholders. Their goal: a comprehensive math curriculum that challenges students without rushing or skipping over key concepts.
Monday-Friday (on school days)
7:30am - 3:30pm
If you need assistance after that time,
please email Principal Claire at cskelly@pps.net
For enrollment questions email enrollment-office@pps.net
For transportation questions email transportation@pps.net
*These newsletters were originally distributed through Remind.
Latest parent news: 3/1/24
Past communications:
2/23/24
2/16/24
1/26/24
1/12/24
Teachers request that, in lieu of purchasing supplies for individual children this year, parents make a School Pay donation, giving teachers the freedom to make their own supply purchases. Each grade level will have its own funding source. Consider donating to each grade level fund in which you have a student enrolled. Lists are included in the School Pay link, so community members can see how the money will be spent. Please do not make purchases from these lists except for backpacks, headphones, waterbottles, and three-ring binders (5th grade only).
For more information on School Pay, and activating your parent account, click here.
Kinder
Link to School Pay Donation Site.
1st
Link to School Pay Donation Site.
2nd
Link to School Pay Donation Site.
3rd
Link to School Pay Donation Site.
4th
Link to School Pay Donation Site.
5th
Link to School Pay Donation Site.
Peninsula uses a communication app called Remind to distribute information from the school. Download the app and get additional info. here.
Messages are best read if you download the Remind app onto your phone and/or desktop.
Once you have downloaded the app, turn on notifications so you don't miss new content.
If you do not have regular access to a phone or a computer, please contact the office and we will work with you.
Your student's teacher may communicate class-specific info. using different methods of communication.
ParentVue is a website that offers secure, private access to school and student information, including class assignments, attendance, emergency contacts on file, the school calendar, and teacher contact details. Parents and guardians can see information for all of their students who attend Portland Public Schools in one place. For students at the secondary level, student assignments and grades are available.
Click on the link to get started. Each parent or guardian will need an activation key (linked to the email address on file). The school secretary can supply the key. Note: if you are calling the school for the activation key, you must call from a phone number on file.
Each student also has an account to access the student version of this website, called StudentVue.
BREAKFAST and LUNCH are FREE for ALL Peninsula students during the 22-23 school year. Completing these forms helps Peninsula get access to other resources we may be entitled to.
Free and Reduced Lunch forms are found at SCHOOLCAFE.COM You will need your student's ID number to complete the paperwork. If the student is a returning Portland Public Schools student their ID number can be found on their report card or in ParentVue. If the student is new to Portland Public Schools, you can get an ID number from the school office.
If you have students at schools other than Peninsula, where lunch is free for all students, you still need to apply for students attending Peninsula.