CSS Community Updates
January 21st, 2022
Upcoming Event Dates
- SAVE THE DATES
- January 27th CSS Spirit Day! Winter
- January 28th Planning Day, No School
- January 31st Planning Day, No School
- February 4th Principal's Coffee Chat 9:30 am Online
- February 9th K-5 Information Session Online 6:30 - 7:30 pm
- February 16th K-5 Lottery for 22/23 OPENS
- February 21st No School - President's Day
Principal's Message
Greetings,
I hope you all are looking forward to the dry weekend ahead. I am looking forward to a weekend of watching two of my teenagers kick off their soccer season, and hopefully getting a little extra rest. We are approaching a very busy time of the year for the school. February launches the beginning of planning for the 2022-2023 school year. This involves hiring, scheduling classes, enrollment and for Creative Science, the lottery process. A lot of important dates and information will be shared in the newsletter in the coming weeks.
K-5 Lottery: The K-5 lottery opens on February 16th. In order to ensure we have the correct number of lottery openings for the 22-23 school year, we are asking our families to complete a quick survey to share their plans with us for the following school year, and inform us about any siblings they intend to enroll. This survey will be very brief, and take less than five minutes. We very much appreciate you taking the time to complete this survey, as ensuring our classes have the correct number of students is essential to our school staffing and funding processes.
COVID Protocols: As our staff and community continue to navigate the changes to COVID protocols, we appreciate your patience and understanding. I will be holding a virtual coffee chat the first week of February to help answer any questions as I am able.
Spirit Day: Our middle school leadership class will be coordinating a spirit day on the 27th. Students are invited to wear their favorite winter and cozy attire. This can include snowflakes, scarves, or anything that reminds your family of the winter season. Leadership students will be available to lead lessons with K-2 students and have created a video and activity prepped for grades 3-8 students. Each student at CSS will create a snowflake and write on the snowflake something unique about themselves that they are proud of. Snowflakes will be hung on the windows in the main hallway. Thank you to our leadership team for the work they are doing!
Thank you for continued support and service to our community.
Sincerely,
Dr. Kristy Mize
K-5 Survey for 22-23 School Year
Principal's Coffee Chat - Online
This will be a time to connect with other families and Principal Kristy. This event will be online here:
Join by phone
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Friday, Feb 4, 2022, 09:30 AM
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Student Store is Back!!
Spirit Day! January 27th Winter!
January Spirit Day
Date: Thursday, January 27th
Theme: Winter Day
Ideas:
Wear cozy winter gear like hats, scarves, etc.
Frozen themed clothing
Clothing with snowflakes or winter scenes
SEGC Meeting Summary 1/20/22
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Hello CSS Community,
I have brought in a new collection of books from Multnomah County Library for the front display case and the staff lounge. The books that support International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan 27th, 2022. This collection also supports Oregon SB 664 Holocaust Education K-12 and will complement the Anti Hate Lessons coming to CSS this month. I will be setting up the display with materials from Amanda Gorman and her book/poem/Children's Anthem Change Sings on the K-2 eye level, picture books on the middle shelf, and YA and Older Elementary Books on the top shelf of the display.
If any families have items that would support the display and add to it would make it more meaningful to us all.
In library lessons, I will be reading the book Hold On to Your Music by Mona Golabek and Lee Coheh about the Jewish children taking the Kindertransport to England.
Kind regards,
Laura Axon
Siblings for 2022/23 School Year
K-5 Lottery Information Session Online February 9th 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Late Start Schedule
If it is a late start date school will begin 2 hours later:
10:40 am (late bell 10:45 am) for ML
10:55 am (late bell 11am) for K-5
Bell schedules are posted on our website here: https://www.pps.net/domain/1285
Inclement Weather
Order Your CSS Yearbook Now!
Our school ID number is: 12440422 or search for Creative Science School.
Yearbooks are being created by our students and will be delivered in 2022 before the end of the school year!
McDaniel Info Session for Students
Please Help Us Plan and Respond by Registering Your Child’s COVID-19 Vaccinations
Please note that if your child received a vaccine at a district-sponsored event on a PPS campus, that information is not automatically conveyed to ParentVUE. If your student was vaccinated at one of those events, please take a few moments to update your child’s status.
To update your children’s COVID-19 vaccine status, you will need their vaccine card. You can upload an image of the card into ParentVUE by following these simple instructions.
CSS Wishlist
Donations for walkie/radios: For communication and safety we use specific Kenwood ProTalk radios that are serviced by PPS. Not any radio will work. The district gives us an allotted amount but if we would like more radios they need to be purchased using CSS funds. One radio is $256 and must be purchased and programmed through a communications company to be able to tune into our private channel. We currently have 33 radios and our hope is to one day have 45. This would cover every classroom, specialist, office, and essential support staff. If you would like to donate to purchase CSS radios/walkies we would greatly appreciate it! Donations can be dropped off in the office with a note that it is for “walkies/radios”. Thank you!
Donations for outdoor lunch seating: We began the year using yoga mats and buckets as our COVID outdoor lunch seating. Over the seasons the yoga mats have become ruined with food, rain, and mud and are no longer the best option for students to sit on. We need donations of 5-gallon buckets for ML students to use during lunch. To keep them easily accessible we need buckets that stack together. Donations of these buckets or cash/check with a note labeled “covid lunches” can be dropped off in the office. Thank you!
Lunch Volunteers!! Still Needed!
Hello CSS community - With the special set-up for lunch during Covid times, we need extra help. You would be supervising lunch and/or recess. This includes: helping kids space appropriately in line, wiping down mats when we sit outside and tables when we eat inside, and general supervision at recess.
Depending on the weather, you would be inside or outside. Please dress for the possibility of rain.
Time: 11:20-1pm
Each volunteer must have completed the PPS background check: https://www.pps.net/volunteer and bring proof of vaccination to show in the office on your first shift.
Thank you!
Sign Up Here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f49a4a62aa2f4c34-lunch
OHSU Screening
If you do not receive results from the screening testing, you should verify that your primary email and phone number are up to date via PVUE. OHSU is only emailing the primary email provided to the school.
If that doesn't work, please call OHSU: 833-376-1027
Families can also visit: https://www.ohsu.edu/health/k-12-covid-19-screening-program.
Creative Science School Weekly Screening Schedule
We have begun to receive OHSU labels. We have also been notified that due to the volume of schools/students signing up for the screening OHSU is behind on creating labels. Thank you for your patience. Please note: Not all students who signed up have received labels yet from OHSU. When these are delivered they will go home on Fridays.
Please keep these labels at home to attach to your student's sample. There are detailed directions linked here and attached to your labels. You will not get a test kit until you get labels.
If you get a test kit on Monday. Perform the spit test on Tuesday morning and then bring the sample to school that morning.
On Tuesday mornings, a district representative will be in the front of the school with a sign and a cooler for families to collect the samples during drop-off from 8:30-9am.
You can find sample collection instructions here.
Test kits go home on Mondays.
Please do the spit test on Tuesday morning and bring it to school for drop off on Tuesdays between 8:30 am and 9 am. We cannot take test kits after this time.
Keep your labels and please label your own student’s tube. Thank you.
OHSU expects to provide families with results within 48 hours of the specimen being dropped off at the school. You will receive a secure email with your child's results. Please be sure the primary email addresses are updated and you have the correct email address noted that you wish results to go to.
If it is a positive result, you will need to call the CSS nurse’s office and inform them immediately and follow the guidance provided to you. You will be asked to keep your child home from school. 503-916-6431 ext. 73339