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THANK YOU, SKYLINE COMMUNITY!

Over $85,000 was raised at this year’s Auction. Incredible! These funds directly impact staffing at our school. We greatly appreciate the generous donations from our community, sponsor support and many hours of volunteer work from the Auction committee.

A new tradition is starting next school year. The Skyline rising 3rd grade class (2024-2025) will take over Auction management. This lightens the load for all involved. Upcoming third grade parents, reach out to skylineauction@gmail.com and Foundation will share their many years of wisdom!

Nike, Intel and Daimler will MATCH your cash donations made to the Auction - search Skyline Foundation EIN 84-2040549. Ask your employer if they’ll match & submit your receipts for matching ASAP!

All Skyline students are invited to participate in the spring talent show! Group and solo acts welcome. Counselor Kristi will have applications available for students to pick up at school (outside of the office) after Spring Break. Parents are welcome to attend the Talent Show, Wednesday June 5 at 8:45am in the gym.

Battle of the Books!

Mia, Diego, Elsie and Cillian represented Skyline IB during the March 9th OBOB regionals in Tigard. During Pool Play - the 1st half of the competition - Skyline went undefeated and placed 4th out of 23 schools. 4th! Fantastic. Unfortunately, during the World Cup-style "Knockout Round", our OBOBers lost the first match of the Sweet 16 and had to go home. The whole thing was well-organized and super fun. I also thought, from my experience scorekeeping the quarters and semis of the Knockout Round, that Skyline should definitely return next year and compete. We were that close and, most importantly, displayed stellar sportspersonship. Thank you parents and volunteers!! - Mr. S

Our elementary (3rd-5th) regional competition for our school's winning team (the MACAWS) is Saturday, March 16th, 8:30 to at least noon (until 2:30 if we keep winning) at Capitol Hill Elementary School, 8401 SW 17th Ave., Portland, OR, 97219. More details on our library’s website (which is also at the top of the school webpage): https://sites.google.com/pps.net/skylinek-8library/home

Enrollment is open for Kindergarten. Please share this link with anyone in our community who is interested in sending their little one to Skyline next year.

Hello,

Portland Public Schools (PPS) is invested in fostering safe, trauma-informed emergency drills that are taught and carried out in developmentally appropriate ways. Oregon schools are required to instruct and drill students on emergency procedures and it’s important that students are empowered to keep themselves safe in case of an emergency.

This week, Pre-Kindergarten through 2nd Grade students at our school will learn about Sammy the Sasquatch, Crittertopia, and the many ways Sammy practices safety. Crittertopia is kept safe by the Critter Elder’s magic. While it’s very unlikely a curious human will accidentally wander into Crittertopia, Sammy & Friends practice keeping Crittertopia safe by doing a Lockdown, “Locks, Lights, Out of Sight.” For more information on Sammy & Friends and resources to help empower your kids at home, please see that attached document.

School Counselors will read the illustrated children’s book, “Sammy the Sasquatch: Welcome to Crittertopia,” while students color an image of Sammy. About one week later the School Counselor will revisit the classroom with a Campus Safety Associates (CSAs) for a classroom coaching session. The team will focus on empowering students and providing choice throughout the Lockdown Classroom Coaching session, modeling how to do a Lockdown and allowing students to choose to practice together.

Classroom Coaching for Lockdown will not focus on any specific threat. Students will be able to ask questions which will be answered in trauma-informed and developmentally appropriate ways. Responses will always bring the focus back to:

• Kids, and adults, practice safety in many different ways every day.

• Doing a Lockdown does not mean school is unsafe. It means one of the caring adults did a great job of noticing.

• School safety partners, like Campus Safety Associates (CSAs) and local first responders, are very good at their jobs and will respond quickly if students need help.

Please remember that only staff & busses are allowed past the chains in the parking lot between the hours of 8:15 - 3:30. In addition busses will remain parked until after the 8:45 bell going forward.

SAVE YOUR BOOKS! Please start gathering your gently used books to donate during collection week, April 15th through 18th. Place all books donations in paper grocery bags or boxes marked with the total number of books and the name of your student's teacher.

SAVE YOUR BOXES! Please bring us your sturdy Costco boxes! We use these to display books during the sale. Get in touch with Shannon Sivell or Sam Freeman if you have boxes to donate. The more the merrier!

The Used Book Sale will run from April 22nd through the 26th. The class with the most donations wins a cupcake party! Thanks for all your help!

~Sam Freeman: (503) 841-7997

~Shannon Sivell: (971) 409-0977

Hello Lovely Skyliners! It is that magical time of year where the sun occasionally comes out, the daffodils are blooming, and the Vit D makes everyone giddy. It’s also a great time to start putting some TLC into the school gardens and grounds.

Please join us on April 13th, 10:00-1:00 at Skyline for some garden and ground weeding, pruning, wheelbarrowing, community building and fun!

Bring your tools and gardening gloves (there will be some school provided tools/gloves as well), your kids and neighbors, your experience, or just your willingness get dirty! The more the merrier!

There are jobs for every level of experience, but we are also looking for the following volunteers/donations:

~a load (or two or three) of wood chips

~trucks or trailers that can take away branches/blackberries/weeds

~weedwackers and adults to wield them

~rototiller and adult to till with them

~Andrew and his amazing saw on a stick for pruning hard to reach places (or other awesome power tool experts!)

Delicious Chai and snacks to be provided by the amazing Saranea Rajaram

Questions? Contact a Skyline Steward: Jenny Hunt (415-378-9866)

or Alli Novak (541-840-9868).

Just an FYI for our community - the Parkrose Health Center will be OPEN during Spring Break. All other Student Health facilities will be closed during this time.

A big thank you to our neighbor Plumper Pumpkin for donating 16 bales of straw to help cover mud in the playground. And to the many parents who spent their morning on Tuesday distributing it. We are so grateful for our community!

Come join us on March 20th from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the library to find out more about the Middle Years Program (MYP), our IB framework for 9th and 10th grade. Teachers have been working hard over the past couple of years to bring IB into our 9th and 10th grade classes. We are currently a candidate school and plan to become a fully authorized MYP school in the 2024-2025 school year. During this event, we plan to have students and families find out more about how this program has already been impacting the experience of Freshmen and Sophomore Cardinals as well as changes we are planning for next year, including the Personal Project Capstone and how MYP supports all students in their Diploma Program (DP) classes in 11th and 12th grades. All families are welcome, but we specifically hope to see students and families of our first cohort of MYP students, our rising 9th and 10th graders. In the meantime, you can find more information in this brochure as well as on the IB MYP webpage. Please RSVP here and reach out to Vice Principal Steve Pape, spape@pps.net, with questions.

Mr. S & Mr. Fanning supporting the Blazers to VICTORY

Skyline Library or on Google Meet
February meeting minutes

March agenda coming soon - send any items to add to: skylineschoolpta@gmail.com

Upcoming Events:

• 4/15 thru 4/19 - Used Book Sale collection (Start setting aside kids’ & general books for this awesome annual event. Details coming soon!)

• 4/22-4/26 - Used Book Sale

• Friday, 5/10 - Move For the Arts

• Friday, 5/31 - Skyline Carnival

Move for the Arts FUNDRAISING HELP NEEDED

Please contact us if interested: skylineschoolpta@gmail.com. There is a playbook with ideas ready to go.

Help Needed!

We are looking for assistance with the projects above, please let us know if you're interested. Many thanks! skylineschoolpta@gmail.com

• Issue #1 (Aug. 27th, 2023)
• Issue #2 (Sep. 1, 2023)
• Issue #3 (Sep. 15, 2023)
• Issue #4 (Oct. 6, 2023)
• Issue #5 (Oct. 20, 2023)
• Issue #6 (Nov. 3, 2023)
• Restart of School (Nov. 27, 2023)
• Issue #7 (Nov. 21, 2023)
• Issue #8 (Dec. 1st, 2023)
• Issue #9 (Dec. 15, 2023)
• Issue #10 (Jan. 6, 2024)
• Issue#11 (Jan.23, 2024)
• Issue #12 (Feb.2, 2024)
• Issue #13 (Feb 16, 2024)
• Issue #14 (Mar. 1, 2024)

A foggy Thursday morning at Skyline

Image courtesy of the talented, Ms. Fondse!