Newsletter 03/10/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT

Spring After-School Enrichment Register Now!

Spring after-school club registration is live! See all the classes on our website, including some new ones, like Drawing, Dungeons & Dragons, Coding, Drama and Parkour. Check out the new options for middle schoolers too! Scholarships available -- let a school counselor or the after-school provider know you are looking for support.

REGISTER NOW

EVENTS

March PTA Meeting: Monday 3/10 at 7pm

The next PTA General Meeting will be held in the school library (or via Zoom) on Monday, March 10 at 7pm. All community members are invited to join! Check out the Meeting Agenda to see what will be discussed this month.

AGENDA

Blind Onion Fundraiser Night

The Blind Onion will be hosting a fundraiser for our PTA on March 19th, 2025. 10% of all sales from that day will be donated to the BCS PTA. This includes dine in or take out. So take a break from cooking, enjoy some pizza and support our PTA!

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YMCA Spring Break Care available at BCS

The YMCA is offering full-day care during Spring Break Care March 24 -28th! Any questions please contact Childcare Registration at ccregistration@ymcacw.org or Stephanie Vera at svera@ymcacw.org. Please Note: This is not a BCS PTA Program. All questions and scholarship requests should go to the YMCA .

REGISTRATION

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Seeking PTA Board Nominating Committee Members for Next Year!

Help identify next year’s PTA board nominees through this essential committee. Committee members can work at their convenience to build the slate and must be PTA members this year. You can participate regardless of interest in a board position yourself. Reach out to Kelsi Roberts, membership@beverlyclearyschool.org, to learn more or to volunteer.

Volunteer with the PTA Clothing Center April 3rd.

Thursday, April 3rd is Beverly Cleary's day to send 5-6 volunteers to the PTA Clothing Center at Marshall Campus. We need volunteers to represent our BCS community from from 9:30am -1:30pm. Volunteers will help PPS students receive clothing, and help sort donations. Volunteers can be any BCS adult community members including parents and grandparents.

Each PPS school is responsible for sending volunteers two times during the school year to assist students in receiving clothing and shoes.

We are excited to be able to have families come to shop for their students. This past school year, we assisted nearly 1,400 PPS Students! And logged over 2,800 volunteer hours.

Please email communications@beverlyclearyschool.org to volunteer.

BCS PTA Welcome Crew Needs You!

This year, we’ve seen some new faces around BCS, many joining post kindergarten. Some of our new families are now members of the PTA and have shared how hard it can be to feel connected in the beginning. We believe there is a need to identify families to serve as a touchstone for incoming families outside of kindergarten.

Could you join our Welcome Crew? Email membership@beverlyclearyschool.org to confirm your interest.

Welcome Crew may be matched with a new family, and asked to:

• Say hello and share your contact info
• Offer helpful tips
• Plan to meet in person at pick up / drop off or other
• Plan to meet up at the first BCS event so friendly faces are present
• Answer/redirect questions

As part of bringing new families into our community, we are also so fortunate to have so many amazing languages represented (Currently 11)!

Do you have a working knowledge of languages other than English, and would you be willing to use those skills to help include families new to BCS? If so, let us know! This year at BCS, we have 11 different primary languages spoken at home: Dutch/Flemish, Afrikaans, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and English

Thank you for helping to welcome new faces to BCS!

Volunteern Here

OBOB 2026

We are already thinking about OBOB 2026 - our current OBOB leads are ready to pass the baton so we are looking for new leadership for next year's event. There are great systems in place that we are happy to pass off. If you are interested please send an email to obob@beverlyclearyschool.org.

Help Capture the Memories – Join the Yearbook Team!

Calling all parents and staff! We’re looking for creative and organized volunteers to help with next year’s BCS yearbook. Whether you love photography, design, writing, or just want to lend a hand, we’d love to have you on the team! Join together as a team with staff in creating a keepsake that students will treasure for years to come. No experience? No problem! There is a guide, Josten's rep, and a meeting with former advisors to hand over all the tips and tricks. Interested? Email Liz Kobs, lkobs@pps.net, to learn more. Let’s make next year’s yearbook the best one yet

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Grant HS PTA Community Event: Attendance- Helping Students Show up and Succeed

Date: Tuesday, March 11

Time: 6:30 PM

Place: Grant HS Library

Topic: Attendance – From Absent to Present – Helping Students Show Up and Succeed

This meeting is open to all Grant feeder schools so that rising 9th grade families have the opportunity to come to campus and get connected to our great Grant Community. Joing the meeting will be: Lisa Kensel, Oregon PTA President – Sharing a Statewide and National perspective from the workgroup on attendance and how PTA advocates for all children. James McGee, Principal – Sharing the impact of poor attendance on Grant’s community and on student success. He will also share his vision and action plan for making improvements in attendance.

Grant Youth Sports: Track and Field

Is your child interested in participating in Track and Field? If so, we’ve got you covered! Below is a link to the PIL website’s Youth tab, where you can find all the information you need about spring sports for middle school students in your cluster. On this page, you’ll find flyers with details on how to register, documents needed to participate, how to pay and important dates about when/where practice is. Season is from March 10th to May 10th. Registration closes on March 21st. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the District Athletic Office by email at dbookout@pps.net or by phone at 503-916-3223. We look forward to seeing your child on the field this spring! Please Note: This is not a BCS PTA Program - All questions and scholarship requests should go to Grant Youth Sports.

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Grant HS Cheer Tryouts

Don't Miss the Opportunity to join Grant Cheer! See the attached flyer for info on 8th grade tryouts, information nignt and clinic dates in April. Please Note: This is not a BCS PTA Program - All questions and scholarship requests should go to Grant Cheer.

FLYER

SUMMER 

Private Summer Camp with Ms. Walters and Ms. Nelson

Join 5th grade teachers Ms. Walters and Ms. Nelson for a week at Oregon Adventure Trips this summer. Adventure + Creativity + Summer = Oregon Adventure Trips Camps are June 16-20 and July 14-18 Our goal is to provide fun and educational ""field trips"" for kids to learn about, explore and appreciate Portland's treasures. Please note: This is not a PPS or PTA sponsored event. This is a private program being offered by BCS Teachers. PTA Scholarships are not available. Please follow the link for more information and for contact information.

Camp Details