LMS Weekly Newsletter

Thank you so much for your patience during the extreme heat last week, and for your responsiveness when we closed at 1 p.m. on Friday. Our buses were on time and so were our families - we appreciate you!

Hopefully this week will see much cooler temps, but please make sure your student brings a water bottle to stay hydrated.

We are still working to balance classes, so your student may see some changes on their schedules. The end of schedule requests is coming soon, so if your student is unhappy with a class, now is the time to fill out a blue slip that can be found in the office. We are still working through them!

Tuesday is our first staff meeting of the year, and this means that the doors will open at 9:15 a.m. instead of at 9 a.m. and school will begin at 9:30 a.m. instead of at 9:15 a.m. The beginning of the day shifts 15 minutes later, but we will still end at 4 p.m. Please let us know if you have any questions!

Back to School Night is coming up on September 19th from 5:30-7:30 p.m. and we will be serving pizza dinner. You will see presentations from grade level teams, learn about ELD, Title I, and interventions available to support your student at LMS this year. We hope to see you!

There is a PTA meeting tomorrow night if you'd like to join - more information in the PTA section below.

Warmly,

Rosemarie El Youssef

LMS Principal

office: 503-916-6355, ext. 72700

cell: 971-706-3438

relyoussef@pps.net

A note from Transportation (you may have already received it on Friday):

A change has been made to one or more bus route(s) servicing your students' school.

Changes will go into effect on 09/04/2024.

Please note changes below:

Please visit www.pps.net/bus to look at updated stop times if your student uses an impacted route.

Please contact the Transportation department with any questions at (503) 916-6901 or transportation@pps.net.

Thank you,

PPS Transportation

Route 239 MORNING

Route 239 AFTERNOON

Route 242 MORNING

Route 242 AFTERNOON

Route 249 MORNING

Route 249 AFTERNOON

Route 256 MORNING

Route 256 AFTERNOON

We have 4 buses that help students get to and from school, and a cross walk that we support in order to make sure all of our students are safe. Please pay attention to cones and don't park where they are placed, and pay close attention to the crossing guard at the cross walk. No passing, no u-turns, and no parking in areas where buses are pulling in and students are walking. We will help direct traffic but we depend on you to do your part - thank you!

When you get an email and text message from our school leaders and educators that communication likely came from one of two platforms: Remind or SchoolMessenger. Both platforms take the email addresses and phone numbers you provide, store those securely and sync with our student information system to capture any changes.

Most often, we use SchoolMessenger to contact you. In these instances, the sender decides how it will come to you – as a call, text, or email. With Remind, though, the decision sits with the recipient: do you want to read a message as a text or email, or do you want the message in the Remind app on your phone? (This last option would require you to download the app).

As a district, we have been well-served by both platforms, and school communities have adapted each to their needs. However, in a year of budget cuts, continuing both platforms is not sustainable.

We therefore want to share that, starting this school year (24-25), Remind will become our only broadcast messaging tool as a district.

You will want to opt into our school messages with the code @lanemidd. We would strongly encourage you to set your personal preferences in Remind. Teachers will have class codes for you to opt into soon. Look for these codes when teachers send home beginning of the year communications.

While this is a technical shift, we know it is a shift that touches on your daily experience with your student’s school. We thank you in advance for your patience and cooperation as we navigate this change.

Sincerely,

Rosemarie El Youssef, Principal

Jesus Ramos, Assistant Principal

Emily Barron, Assistant Principal

1. Remind allows us to send messages directly to students in grade 6-12, which will encourage them to play a more-active role in their education.

2. Remind gives families more agency to pick whatever form of communication is best for them: email, text, app, or any combination.

3. Families have increasingly asked the school district for communications via a smartphone app – Remind affords this opportunity, and SchoolMessenger does not.

4. Once we complete the shift, families will be able to receive all communications from our district in one place.

This shift will also save us tens of thousands of dollars each year – savings that are needed in this tight budget year.

As you may know, our staff meetings will now take place in the morning before school begins and we have 6 early release days for professional development.

Regular days will start at 9:15 and end at 4 p.m.

Staff Meeting days will start at 9:30 a.m. and end at 4 p.m.

Early Release days will start at 9:15 a.m. and end at 1:45 p.m.

Hello families! Hopefully your student received paper instructions on how to register for SUN this year at Lane to bring home, but we want to make sure to give you electronic instructions too. SUN is the umbrella program that runs after school programs at LMS. We provide free programs for students from 4-5:35 with a free activity bus afterwards. We also will be offering a new lecture series this year for adults. You can sign your student up using the QR code below or request a paper registration form from Chelsea Kimura (chelsea.kimura@portlandoregon.gov). If you have previously created a grouptrail account you can also register through Grouptrail: app.grouptrail.com/signin/22118

Our celebration is this week!

Students who completed the summer reading game board, should have turned it into their local Multcolib branch to be entered into a drawing for an Ipad package and receive a summer reading t-shirt. Wearing the 2024 t-shirt on 9/13/24 will be their ticket to pizza and cake in the library!

More information on the program is available here, you can find your closest Multnomah County Library location here, and send any questions you may have to our librarian, Ms. Raspone (sraspone@pps.net).

Our first General PTA meeting will take place tomorrow, Monday September 9th from 6-7 PM. All are welcome including kids. It will be at the school with board games available for kids who attend. We will have pizza (one of which will be GF) and we will spend the first part doing a meet and greet and sharing all the great things happening at LMS! We hope to see you there!

Save the date for our second annual Lane PTA student run carnival at the Woodstock Gives Back neighborhood celebration on Sunday September 15th from 10am-2pm! We are looking to fill volunteer shifts that day for set-up, clean-up, and to help with activities during the carnival. We need lots of help! Please take a look at this sign up and help out if at all possible! Lane DIY Carnival volunteer sign up

Our No Fuss Fall Fundraiser will be starting up next month. We have one person on the fall fundraiser committee, but she could really use some help with organizing and communications for it. Email us at lanemspta@gmail.com if you would like to help or to hear more!

Please note we have changed website platforms.Subscribe to the Lane PTA Google calendar and sign up for our email list. Check out our new website at https://lanemspta.givebacks.com/

We’ve got lots of activities and ideas for the upcoming year! Sign up for our emails and help us by filling out this interest form. Link has been updated and is now working: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1k5GYYCEG8tLo0N3gF8hRSG5iMcEiQsmLG00ylPZXO54/edit

Renew your PTA membership for the 2024-2025 school year here: https://www.oregonpta.org/membership

Be sure to choose Lane PTA from the dropdown list. Dues are $10 of which $9.50 go to pay state and national PTA dues. We have scholarships available to pay for memberships. Email us at lanemspta@gmail.com to let us know you need a scholarship and we will take care of the rest!

We are working to increase parent volunteers at LMS this year!

Our incredible LMS librarian, Ms. Raspone is holding a pizza party celebration this coming Friday for all LMS students who completed the Multnomah County Library Summer Reading Challenge. She would like 1-2 parent volunteers to help out during 6th and 7th/8th grade lunch and recess. Contact us at lmspta@gmail.com if you would like to volunteer for this and hear more about volunteer opportunities this fall!

Elections for new board members will take place during our October general meeting on Monday, October 7th at 6PM. No experience necessary!

September

9/2 - NO SCHOOL, Labor Day Holiday

9/10 - Staff Meeting, School Starts at 9:30 (Doors open at 9:15 a.m.)

9/15 - Hispanic Heritage Month begins!

9/19 - Back to School Night, 5:30-7:30 - more info to come!

9/25 - Early Dismissal, students released at 1:45 p.m.

9/26 - Progress Reports

PPS 2024-25 Calendar