CJES Family Bulletin

🎉👟Get Ready to Have Some Fun-d Run Fun!

Join us this Friday, October 2nd for our exciting Fun-d Run! We’d love to have families there to cheer on their runners and help make the morning extra special!

Families: Please gather outside the fence to cheer on your students. For safety, only registered volunteers will be allowed on the track and school grounds.

3rd–5th Grade: 8:30–9:00 AM
K–2nd Grade: 9:45–10:15 AM

Bring your smiles, your cheers, and your best encouragement!

We hope to see you there! Let’s make it a FUN-d Run to remember!

We are looking for one additional parent/guardian to join our Site Council Team! Meetings will be held virtually, quarterly from 5:15-6pm. If you are interested, please email Michelle at mirowley@pps.net.

A few Chief Joseph families who live east of Denver near Bryant have volunteered as crossing guards to get students safely across Denver in the mornings. One adult volunteer will help children cross Denver at Bryant from 7:45-7:55 each morning. If you walk or ride that route give them a shout out as you pass! If you feel your child is independent enough to walk or ride to school unaccompanied, know there will be a trusted adult to help them cross Denver safely. If you have other questions, are interested in volunteering for a crossing shift, or want to connect your walking student with one of ours, reach out and join our WhatsApp group. We will also post on WhatsApp if a shift isn’t covered or canceled because of bad weather.

Thanks!

Each month we are required to complete emergency drills.

• Summary of Drills

• Parent Emergency Resources

For the month of September we will have the following drills:

• Fire Drill
• Lockdown Drill

Schools in Oregon are required to practice a number of drills (monthly fire drill, twice a year earthquake drill) and in the first 2 weeks each school must conduct an lockdown practice drill.

On September 29th at 1:45pm we will practice a lockdown where we quickly get each student into a locked, safe space. It is important that in an emergency situation we are confident we know exactly what to do. Your student may come home and talk about the drill and we wanted our families to be aware. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us here at school anytime you have questions.

Cafeteria Volunteers: (need a current PPS background check) https://signup.com/go/gRcRSik Clothing Closet: M/Th on school days between 9:30-1:30 at Marshall Campus, no sign up required, partial shifts ok.

Email volunteer@chiefjosephschool.org for more information

We have two music concerts scheduled for this year! Please mark your calendars for these events. More details to come as the concerts get closer.

4th and 5th Grades

January 12th at 5:30

1st and 2nd Grades

March 16th at 5:30

Hi, I'm Mel, the new school health assistant at Chief Joseph! I'm excited to work in the health room M-F supporting your kids with health needs. Feel free to get in touch about any student health concerns, medications your child needs to take at school, or immunization questions. I work with the RN Susan Rhedmond alongside others at MESD (Multnomah Education School District) to support your kids M-F. Whether it's a band-aid, fever, or head collision, I'm here to help.

Looking forward to the year ahead!

Mel (they/them)

This is the season of cooler mornings, and warm afternoons! So many coats and sweatshirts are piling up!

There are still a number of afterschool program's with space available! Check out the offerings on the PTO website!

Monday:

Pokemon STEAM

Ultimate Frisbee

Tennis Afterschool Zone - NEW!

Tuesday:

Yoga Playgrounds

Electronic Music Club - FULL!

Wednesday:

Clay Club - FULL!

Thursday:

Adventures in Spanish

WeBreak Breakdancing

Friday:

Lego Engineering

Did you know that the PTO is on Instagram? Give them a follow to stay in the know about whats happening at CJES and the greater community!

Follow:

chief_joseph_pto

The Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership will be working with students in 4th/5th grades over the next three weeks to provide education and hands-on experience planting the stormwater infiltration facilities. Planting day is scheduled for Wednesday, October 14th! Contact chiefjosephplayground@gmail.com with questions.

There are some fun volunteer opportunities coming up for folks who like to work with plants and soil.

These opportunities will be during the school day, which means you MUST be a registered PPS volunteer, approved through the district background check. Please fill out the required info ASAP if you want to volunteer to do some planting this fall with students: https://www.pps.net/volunteer/volunteer/volunteering-with-pps. More info to come!

Please feel free to reach out with questions.

• Direct email: chiefjosephplayground@gmail.com
• Replies to this email will go to the whole Google group!

Warmly,

Leigh McIlvaine & Kristin Sweeney

CJES Playground Committee Co-Chairs