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Wednesday, February 5th, 6:30-8:30pm, Library: Latino Family Night

Friday, February 7th, 5:00pm, Room G-018: Celebration to Honor Retired Coach Scott Aker

Saturday, February 8th, 7:00pm, Melody Ballroom: Winter Formal

Thursday, February 13th, 8:30am-3:30pm, Auxiliary Gym: Red Cross Blood Drive

Friday, February 14th: Senior Portraits & Quotes Due to Yearbook

Monday, February 17th: NO SCHOOL

Sunday, March 9th, 8:30am-12pm, Norse Hall: All You Can Eat Pancake Breakfast

Thursday, March 13th, 6:30pm, Room M-221: PTSA General Meeting

Dear Students and Families,

Last week my message focused on district and school support of our immigrant and refugee students and families regarding the presidential executive orders. In addition to supporting our immigrant and refugee students a district email went out reinforcing our deep support and advocacy of LGBTQ2SIA+, nonbinary, and transgender students. Be assured that at Franklin we will protect and wrap around our LGBTQ2SIA+ community. I'd like to share a slide deck created by one of our amazing English teachers that affirms teacher and staff commitment to supporting our students and provides other important resources. We will respond to any hate-based behavior or incident. Key practices that we follow at PPS and Franklin High School are:

• Students are experts on their own identities.

• Students choose restrooms and locker rooms that align with their identity.

• Students determine the name and pronouns that best reflect their identity, which PPS staff will honor.

• Staff will address and interrupt anti-trans language or behavior every time.

I recognize that the country's political climate continues to move and change all around us. I encourage you to reach out to a trusted adult if you have any questions or concerns regarding your safety and well-being.

Thank you,

Dr. Z

PPS is currently working on the 2025-2026 school year calendar, and would love your input. You can review the DRAFT calendar here and provide your feedback here.

Franklin High School cordially invites you and your family to our Latino Family Night event. Join us as we discuss the courses and resources that will help you plan and prepare for the upcoming academic years. This is a great opportunity to learn about the options available to support your child's success and future goals. We look forward to seeing you there!

Where: Library at Franklin High School
When: Wednesday, February 5th
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm

Please RSVP here

Here’s a quick update on all the exciting happenings in the library coming up.

Story Slam - our annual Story Slam event will take place Thursday, February 6th here in the library during tutorial. Students will tell a 3-5 minute original story from memory in hopes of winning fabulous prizes and a spot in the city wide slam on February 27th at Benson High School. Students can sign up in the library or on the QR code in this slide show - please share!

Everybody Reads is a large scale book club sponsored by the Multnomah County Library and Literary Arts. To participate, pick up your free copy of Solito by Javier Zamora in the Franklin Library or at any MCL branch. Then read, enjoy, discuss, and attend An Evening with Javier Zamora on Tuesday, March 11th at 7:30pm at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Free tickets are available to students and staff through the FHS Library.

Makiia Lucier Book Club - Amazing local Guamanian American fantasy author Makiia Lucier will be visiting the library on Thursday, March 6th. In collaboration with TAG, we are hosting a Makiia Lucier book club for all students with free copies of two of her books! Students should sign up and get their book here in the library. Sea dragons, assassins, conspiracies, magic tattoos, royalty and more!

OBOB Regionals will take place here at Franklin on Saturday, March 15th! Oregon Battle of the Books is a state wide reading competition where students read and battle to see who knows the most about the books! Franklin teams are fierce this year. If you would like to volunteer to moderate some battles, please email me! It's the most pulse pounding, exciting, reading based head-to-head contest of the year.

Poetry Slam - mark your calendar for our poetry slam on Thursday, April 3rd in the library

Winter Formal is happening on Saturday, February 8th from 7:00-10:00pm at the Melody Ballroom: 615 SE Alder St.

• Tickets will be sold January 29th-February 7th.
• Tickets will cost $20 for one and $35 for two.
• Students can purchase tickets with cash only through ASB during lunch and after school on the dates listed above.
• All card sales must go through the bookkeeper.
• Guest forms will be available at the ASB ticket sales table, the bookkeeper's office, and in the main office.
• Guest forms will be due February 5th.

Please review the FHS Counseling website for all forecasting questions and information. Your student must complete their paper forecast form and input their courses into StudentVue by the date counselors visit their english classes. Please consult the graphics below to determine when your student's information is due.

Counselors will be available for drop-in forecasting help during the following times:

Lunch

Wednesday, February 5th & Wednesday, February 12th

11:41am-12:14pm

Tutorial

Thursday, February 6th & Friday, February 7th

2:46-3:30pm

Seniors, your photos and quotes are due to the yearbook staff by February 14th. The QR code in the above flyer does not work but submissions can be made here. Important note, if you do not receive an email confirmation, your submission has not been received.

Franklin Athletic Boosters is going to be busy over break! Read their weekly newsletter and find out how you can participate here.

Interested in trying lacrosse or joining a team?

Cleveland High School welcomes Franklin athletes interested in playing Lacrosse! Come out to Cleveland Girls Lacrosse preseason to meet the team, see what it’s all about, and get ready for the upcoming season. Mondays & Wednesdays 4:30-6:00pm, at Cleveland Field (SE 31st & Powell).

Email: clevelandgirlslacrosse@gmail.com for more information to register!

Everyone is welcome to attend a celebration to honor retired boys' basketball coach, Scott Aker, on Friday, February 7th. The meet and greet will start at 5:00pm in Room G-018 (basement of the gym building) and Coach Aker will be recognized at halftime of the boys' varsity game. Use the code word "AKER" to get into the game for free. Here is a bit of information about Coach Aker:

Scott began his varsity basketball coaching years at Franklin in the fall of 1991, after teaching and coaching basketball, volleyball, tennis and girls' golf at Milwaukie and Marshall High Schools. At Franklin he was the boys PE teacher and varsity boys basketball coach. He was also an assistant freshman football coach with Rick Holte. He coached at Franklin from 1991-1998, and served as the school's athletic director from 1994-98. He then transferred to Wilson (now Wells) from 1998-2017. He was the Wilson athletic director from 2006-2014. He retired from teaching in 2014. Scott returned to Franklin to coach the varsity boys' basketball team from 2017-2020. He was honored as the Oregon High School Basketball coach of the year for the 2018-2019 season.

Because game schedules are subject to frequent, often last-minute changes, we don't publish them in this newsletter. Please bookmark this page to have easy access to up-to-date game info.

We run items in The Bolt family newsletter for two weeks unless there is a good

reason to run them longer. To submit an item, fill out this form by 4pm on Thursday.

You can find past issues of The Bolt on the FHS website or on our Smore homepage.

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