Important Dates
Oct. - Nov.3rd: Ridwell Collection at Hosford MS
Oct. 4th: Delayed Opening: 2 hrs.
Rescheduled Lock Down Drill
Oct. 5th Portland Author, Keely Grand, Visit
Oct. 10th: Latino Family Pot Luck Dinner 6 - 7:30 pm
Oct 12th: 8th Grade Pep Band with Cleveland High School
Oct. 13th: No School
Oct. 18th: AVID Family Night
Oct. 19th: Great Shake Out - Earthquake Drill
Clothing Closet
Oct. 26th: Virtual Parent Meeting: Digital Citizenship & Middle Schoolers
Hosford Library Announcements:
Exciting news! The Hosford Library will be hosting an author visit on Thursday, October 5th during both advisories. All students are invited to sign up, though space is limited!
Portland author Keely Grand will be here to talk about her new book, Troublemakers and Superpowers. It’s a beautiful biography collection highlighting 29 famous and historical figures who have “turned their childhood struggles – their personal “troublemakers” – into strengths that enabled them to live their lives to the fullest” (from the publisher).
Students will have the opportunity to to sign up in advisory this week, but in case they missed it, here is the form to attend!
If you would like to purchase a copy of Grand’s book to pick up during the author talk, head to our page at Maggie Mae’s Books by October 3rd to have it delivered directly to school.
See you soon!
PTA Clothing Closet
Every year, each PPS school sends 5 to 6 volunteers to staff the Clothing Closet at the Marshall Campus (Benson) High School. This is a fun event where we staff the Clothing Closet as a group!
Volunteers will help students shop and find clothes that make them feel good or they will sort donations and organize the shop.
The PTA Clothing Closet is 100% volunteer supported and serves over 1000 students per year! If
volunteers don’t show up, students don’t get to shop. It is okay if volunteers cannot stay the entire time.
Any amount of time given is helpful!
Location: PPS PTA Clothing Center
Marshall (Benson HS) Campus
3905 SE 91 St, Room B-60
Hosford Middle School will be helping out on the following dates.
Thursday, October 19, 2023, 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
Thursday, January 11, 2023, 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
To sign up for October 19 th date click on the link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12Ft8OLN244moQoH9XzJARTWPcNRMu6lNVA_dw0vhGek
Let's see how much waste Hosford can divert from the landfill!
We're doing a hard-to-recycle plastics drive with Ridwell!
October - November 2nd
Bring in your Multi-Layer Plastic items (snack packs, candy wrappers, chip bags)
Rm 131A (Ms. Van Dam's room in the North Wing)
Materials to be recycled by Ridwell and upcycled into new edge building materials.
Get Ridwell and Funding for Hosford!
Sign up for Ridwell between now and 11/17/2023 using https://get.ridwell.com/hosford/ms and Ridwell will donate to our school!
(Reminder) 26th and Grant Street
Please talk with them about double checking for cars at that intersection. Cars coming down or going up the hill do not have a stop sign.
We have heard from the neighbors that cars are coming quickly down the hill and not looking for students crossing, and kids are not always checking for cars coming. I have reached out to Safe Routes to see if they will come observe and help change this intersection.
I do not have any staff that I can send over to supervise, but if you'd like to volunteer, we'd love to have you come help students cross and slow down the cars.
E-mail me at jliddle@pps.net if you are available and interested.
Thank you for considering!
