Llewellyn AWESOMEness!

September 6, 2024

We are excited to invite you to our Start-of-School Picnic! Please join us on Friday, September 13th, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM on our school field to celebrate the start of the new school year. This will be a wonderful opportunity to connect with other families and enjoy a relaxed evening together.

Bring a blanket, chairs, and your favorite food to share. Whether you pack a picnic or pick up something delicious on your way, the evening promises to be filled with laughter, community, and fun.

We can't wait to see you there!

Breakfast

Lunch

As safety is a priority, please…

• Please follow the traffic flow indicated in the graphic, and DO NOT drive, stop or park in the bus zones in front of the school building.

• There is plenty of parking just south of Llewellyn, at the Wilhelm Mortuary and on side streets. It’s only a quick walk to Llewellyn from these locations.

• DO NOT ride skateboards, bikes, or scooters on the playground before or after school.

• Dogs (with the exception of service animals) are NOT ALLOWED on school grounds before, during, and after school.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION AND UNDERSTANDING!

Save the Date!

September 26th is Picture Day! Forms for ordering and more information will be sent home the week before.

This year our goal is to provide a yearbook for every student. More information on this will come. In the meantime, we are collecting pictures! We want to include more candid photos of all our awesome events, field trips, class parties, etc. To make it easier to collect them a google folder was created. As pictures are taken please upload any you think are worthy of the yearbook! Each teacher has their own folder as well as specials and events. You can also email them directly to kgrunde@pps.net.

If you want your 4th or 5th grade student to walk home on their own, you must add "Has Permission to Walk Home" as an Emergency Contact in ParentVue. Instructions for how to add Emergency Contacts can be found HERE. This permission is required for teachers to release students on their own.

Our Open House is just around the corner, if you are in need of interpretive services, please reach out to the office ASAP. We want to make sure all of our families can enjoy a night of immersive interaction within our school!

If you have a last-minute change to your student's end of day plans, please try to notify the office by 2:00PM. After that, it becomes much harder to get a note to teachers before the day ends. Thank you for your help in making sure your student gets where they belong after school!

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the office. The office is open between 7:00AM and 3:00PM on school days.

The Llewellyn Afterschool Enrichment program opened on Wednesday 9/4. There is a wide range of topics including Drawing, Acting for the Camera (new!), Chess, Garden Club, Yoga, Artificial Intelligence (new!), Magic the Gathering, Ukelele, Circus Arts, Electronic Music (new!), and more! Classes start week of September 16th.

REGISTRATION LINK --- Spots are first come, first serve. Sign up for the waitlist if it's full.

Wait, there's more!.........

There are also 2 amazing classes NOT on the above platform!

1) Basketball-Tues/Thur, K-2 and 3-5 https://www.pdxreignbasketball.com/event-details/llewellyn-fall-24-hoops

2) Yoga-Mondays, K-3, https://www.yogaplaygrounds.com/school_classes/llewelyn-elementary/

A limited number of scholarships are available.

Please reach out to parent volunteer Adrianne at adrianne.schaefer@gmail.com with questions about scholarships, teaching a class, or anything else!

Please remember that only a Parent / Guardian can drop off medications for a student. Please do not give them to your student or their teacher to bring to the Health Room. The Health Room's hours are (currently) 7:45AM - 2:15PM. Thank you for your cooperation and please call if you have any questions.

We LOVE volunteers! If you plan to volunteer at Llewellyn at any time, a background check must be completed. This is done at the district level at no cost to you and is good for three years. Please keep in mind that it can take up to 2-3 weeks for the application to be processed, especially at the beginning of the year. Look here for more information, to apply, or to see if your current application is still valid.

We are in full swing of our school year! Welcome back everyone! Your Llewellyn PTA has been very busy over the summer with kinder playdates, popsicle social, and adding a little color to our blacktop. Do you love it? Our treasurer, Lindsay Lopez, headed up this project with the help of some wonderful Llewellyn teachers, Mrs. B and Ms. Brittany. And it’s not done yet, so watch out for ways to help continue this project soon.

Our gear sale will have its debut soon! We have a new design created by a Llewellyn parent and former Foundation member, Natalie Anzalone-Zuniga. We will have some graphics ready to see soon and we hope to have our website ready for pre-orders by Open House! Get ready to shine in your new gear!

Our first PTA meeting will be on September 24 in the Llewellyn Library at 7 pm. We will have our new principal, Diana Collins, share with us her vision for Llewellyn and what some of the changes we will have for this year. We will be discussing our after school program and how we can continue to offer our free clubs and classes through the new district building usage protocols. Llewellyn parents, Meredith Goddard and Scott Bush, will be sharing their proposal of revamping our school fields and playgrounds. Some very exciting things are happening and we look forward to sharing everything with you. Please join us for our meeting and make sure to pay your membership dues so you can be part of any voting that happens in all of our meetings. As an added bonus, we will have raffles at each meeting for some cool gear or other equally fun prizes for attendance.

Konstella is where all of our events and fundraisers are posted and where you can sign up to be a part of this amazing community of Llewellyn families and teachers. You don’t have to be a parent to volunteer. There is something for everyone in our community from teaching after school classes to volunteering your time at one of our community events. In order to make these events happen, we need volunteers. Watch for sign-up opportunities all year long! Together we shine!

If you have any questions or creative ideas for events, fundraisers or possible business sponsorships in our community, please email us at llewellynpta@gmail.com. You can also grab one of our board members when you see them around school.

Your PTA Board for the 2024-2025 School Year

Co-President: Joanna Sellers

Vice President/Communications: Iniray Luper

Secretary: Ashley Garcia

Treasurer: Lindsay Lopez

Volunteer Coordinator -Classrooms - Kili Fern

At Large:

• Elise Friederick
• Caitlin Roberts
• Rebecca Collins

Save the Dates

9/13 Back to School Picnic 5:30-7 pm

9/17 Open House 6-7:30 pm

9/24 PTA Meeting 7-8pm in the Llewellyn Library

10/4 Run Llewellyn

9/13 Llewellyn Picnic 5:30-7:30PM

9/16 After School Classes Begin

9/17 Back to School Night 6:00-7:30PM

9/24 PTA Meeting - 7:00 in the Library

9/25 EARLY RELEASE DAY – School ends at 11:50AM

9/26 Picture Day

10/4 Run Llewellyn

10/11 NO SCHOOL – State-wide Inservice Day

10/15 PTA Meeting - 7:00 in the Library

10/19 Harvest Festival

10/23 EARLY RELEASE DAY – School ends at 11:50AM