CSS Community Updates
October 22nd
Upcoming Event Dates
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- October 25th CSS Site Council Meeting
- October 25th and 26th Mid Level Elective Forecasting
- October 29 Principal Coffee Chat at Berrydale - All Families Welcome
- November 1st Native American Heritage Month Begins
- November 1st Spirit Day - Cozy Day!
- November 5th - No School, Planning Day
Principal's Update
One of my favorite parts of the fall is soccer season. I played soccer most of my youth and this fall I enjoyed watching two of my kids playing on their high school team and ended up being assistant coach of my youngest son's team the Thunder Unicorns. One of the highlights of my week was playing goalie for our scrimmage at the end of practice, although I did let a few goals in. I hope you are also enjoying your fall traditions in your community.
Next Thursday (10/28), the Southeast Guiding Coalition will release proposed scenarios on rebalancing in Southeast schools to the public. As a result, we are shifting the K-2 coffee chat to be open to all K-8 families to stop by. Area Senior Director, Karl Logan, will be present as well to help provide information about the scenarios and answer questions.
Have a restful weekend.
Dr. Mize
Spirit Day Update from CSS Leadership
Looking for Family Volunteers: Finishing the Gym for 6ft Distance During Rainy Day Indoor Lunch
A huge thank you to our CSS volunteers who came over and helped prepare our gym for 6ft. of distance during Rainy Day Indoor Lunch this week!
To keep students safe during rainy day indoor lunch, we will be moving to 6ft of space between students. This means that we will be using both the gym and cafeteria on days that we are unable to eat outside due to rain/inclement weather.
We are looking for family volunteers who can complete this project. It involves taping eating locations on the gym floor. We are looking for volunteers on the following dates/times:
- Wednesday, October 27 between the hours of 4:00-6:00 PM
- Thursday October 28 between the hours of 10:45-3:15 PM.
Please email Andrew Dauch, assistant principal if you are interested. adauch@pps.net
Mid-level Forecasting for Q2: Information and Timeline
We're getting ready to start forecasting for mid-level students for Quarter 2. Listed below is some important information.
Quarter 2 required classes:
- 6th grade- Health (for all 6th grade students)
- 7th grade- Movement
- 8th Grade- Health
Electives for Quarter 2:
- Yearbook - Ms. Golden
- Electronic Music Production - Matt
- Leadership - Ms. Skybak/Year-long
- Health - 6th and 8th Grade
- Spanish - Mr. Ventura
- Art - Ms. Mica
- Rock the Doc - Ms. Axon
- Movement - 7th Grade
- Spanish - 8th Grade/Year-long
Students have four core classes: Humanities (Social Sciences & Language Arts), Math, & Science. All students will be required to take one quarter of PE and Health during the year. Spanish is year-long and only available to 8th Grade students. Spanish will take up 4 of your electives throughout the year. Leadership is also a year-long class, and will also take up 4 of your electives throughout the year.
Elective classes are subject to change depending on the level of interest and district requirements. Students will rank elective choices starting with "1st" as their first choice and "4th" as their last choice. All mid-level students will complete the electronic forecasting document on either 10/25 or 10/26 in their advisory class. We will also email mid-level families a copy of the forecasting sheet on Monday 10/25.
After you receive your final schedule and would like to be considered for a different elective, first please talk directly to the teacher about your concern. If you would like your request to be considered after speaking with the teacher, please email Andrew Dauch, Assistant Principal adauch@pps.net
Forecasting Timeline
10/25 & 10/26 - All mid-level students will complete their electronic forecasting sheet during Advisory
10/27 - Counselor Casey will meet with students who did not complete the document
11/5 - Individual Quarter 2 schedules will be available in Synergy
11/8 - Hard copies of individual student schedules will be available before school on the south playground
If you have questions about forecasting, please contact Andrew Dauch, Assistant Principal at adauch@pps.net
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Coffee Chat with Principal Mize and our Area Director Karl Logan
Next Thursday (10/28), the Southeast Guiding Coalition will release proposed scenarios on rebalancing in Southeast schools to the public. As a result, we are shifting the K-2 coffee chat to be open to all K-8 families to stop by. Area Senior Director, Karl Logan, will be present as well to help provide information about the scenarios and answer questions.
Friday, Oct 29, 2021, 09:00 AM
Berrydale Park, Southeast Taylor Street, Portland, OR, USA
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
OHSU Screening
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
Volunteers
TAG Nomination Process for the 2021-2022 School Year
- If you are interested in nominating your child for TAG for this year, please email Andrew Dauch, Assistant principal, and he will email you an electronic TAG nomination form. Family nomination forms must be completed by December 1, 2021. Andrew's email address is adauch@pps.net We will have more information soon for families that nominated their students last year. Please email Andrew if you have any questions.