Weekly Family Newsletter

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Monday, May 25th: NO SCHOOL

Wednesday, May 27th, 7:00pm, Auditorium: Lightning Bands Spring Awards Concert

Thursday, May 28th: Last Day of School for Seniors

Friday, May 29th, 6:30pm, Auditorium: Capstone Narrative Screening (mature audiences only)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 7:30pm, PSU Viking Pavilion: Class of 2026 Commencement (Livestream Link)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 11:00ma-9:00pm, 7122 SE Foster Rd: Pizzeria Otto Fundraiser

Wednesday, June 3rd-Friday, June 5th: Semester Two Finals

Friday, June 5th: Last Day of School for 9th-11th Graders

Dear Franklin Students and Families,

We have had an amazing week of events highlighting our students academically and in the performing arts. Thank you to our dedicated teachers and staff that work tirelessly to engage students in our school community. On Wednesday our choirs enthusiastically performed in the Spring Choir Concert and on Thursday we had two Franklin firsts. We celebrated our seniors at the phenomenal Rainbow Graduation ceremony and we held our first AP Capstone Night where students showcased the research they have been working on in AP Seminar and AP Research courses. I learned so much from you last night! Below are some photos from the events.

On Friday, our seniors that attended Atkinson Elementary started off the day with a clap-out from the Atkinson students. The celebration continued in the afternoon with the Senior Recognition Assembly and Benjichella Festival in the front lawn.

I can’t believe there are only 2 weeks left of school and 3 days left with our seniors!

Have a great weekend. See you on Tuesday.

Dr. Z

PPS Summer Scholars registration is now OPEN. Any student who earned a F in a core class, Health, PE, or Spanish, counselors would like to get you signed up. The classes will fill up fast so please reach out to your counselor ASAP. Here's a link that shares the dates, times, location info. All courses are FREE.

If your student has earned a D in a core class and would like to raise that grade for either improving their GPA or to enroll at a 4-year university can do that during PPS Night School in both the fall and spring terms.

Franklin Film School took home 4 out of the 5 awards given out at this week's Best of PPS Film Festival. Congratulations to the following students:

• Iris de alba Gibbons, Felix Beckstrom, Siri Dorn, and Lucy FiveCrows won Best Documentary for their film Espacio.
• Ines Chen and Mary Ursaki won Best Experimental/Music Video/Animation for their film music video Maybe.
• Alumni Indie Becker, Astrid Robin, and Ruby Rippetoe Crawford won two awards: Best Narrative and the Best of Fest award for their film Fault Lines.

• Thursday, May 28th, 6:30pm: Capstone Documentary Screening also featuring the Senior Video
• Friday, May 29th, 6:30pm: Capstone Narrative Screening (mature audiences only, due to violence and language)

On Saturday, the Lightning Band Wind Ensemble performed at the OSAA State Band Championships in Corvallis. Congratulations on receiving the highest scores in Franklin's history at the state band championships! We are so proud of your musicianship, work, and dedication! Go FHS!

Head to fhspost.com or classrooms, businesses, and mailboxes near you to read this school year's final issue of the Franklin Post! Student journalists have been working hard to bring you an issue that covers everything from birthright citizenship, to a Dairy Queen update, to people pleasing, to a breaking story about Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette. Make sure to check out pages 18-20 for a celebration of our senior journalists. Thank you for supporting student journalism!

Students in Mr. Garcia's AP Psychology have to apply their skills to design a product or service fitting one of the following 12 categories or “worlds.”

As a voter, you have the power to choose not only our World Champions (best in each category) but also the Exalted Undisputed Grand Champion Of Psychology (best design of the year). Parents and community members can vote up to three times in up to three different worlds.

Voting ends on Saturday, May 30th at midnight.

Here is the link to the Mega-Ballot: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X7Jm3e-1u5acSvShsLuNKD6gKH0_QglMxMEw2MTPsMk/edit?usp=sharing

The Healthy Choices Bulletin is a monthly summary of substance use prevention resources for school staff to use and share with students and families. Most of the titles and images are linked to fliers and websites. We encourage all families to read and take advantage of the information provided.

On Wednesday, May 27th at 7:00pm, the Franklin Lightning Bands will be performing their Spring Awards Concert. Selections will be performed by the Jazz, Concert, Symphonic, and Wind Ensemble Bands along with the Drumline and Real Book Club. You can buy your tickets here.

We look forward to seeing the Franklin community come support our student musicians!

May is the month to donate menstrual products. ASB is partnering with McDaniel High School for the period drive! Hundreds of students can't afford basic necessities for their periods. Please drop off your donations at the main office or make donations online here.

Please remind your seniors to settle any outstanding fees with our bookkeeper, Kristin DeBenedetto, and to return library books, chromebooks and chargers as soon as they are able, in order to ensure an efficient senior checkout on Thursday, May 28th. Additionally, we will be collecting Yondr pouches from seniors on the morning of Tuesday, May 26th. If anything is outstanding, seniors will not receive their clearance envelope, which includes their commencement tickets.

Additionally, please be advised that we will not be seating graduates alphabetically at the commencement ceremony, so keep your eyes on your student!

We are excited to celebrate with you on Tuesday, June 2nd!

Families of graduates, please take a look at the following links with helpful information pertaining to the commencement ceremony at Portland State University on Tuesday, June 2nd. Hard copies of these, along with graduation tickets, will be provided in the senior clearance envelopes that will be distributed to your graduates on Thursday, May 28th. We look forward to celebrating this momentous occasion with you!

PSU Restrictions

PSU PPS Guidelines

ICE Communication

Parking/Drop Off Map for Families

We’re excited to share that Visual Impressions Photography, LLC will be capturing this year’s graduation for Franklin High School.

If you want to receive your gallery link, be sure to register your email and/or cell phone at this link (and don’t forget to include friends & family who may want access too!).

Questions?
Visual Impressions is here to help! Reach out anytime at: schools@visualimpressions.org

FAB has had another impactful year supporting Franklin athletics. They are already planning for next year and looking for people to step up and get involved, so please read their weekly newsletter here and see how you can help.

Because game schedules are subject to change, sometimes with short notice, we don't post them here. Please bookmark this page that is kept up to date. This information is also posted in Trivory for your convenience.

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 our Smore homepage.

There is a lot going on at Franklin. Make sure to download Trivory, follow the

FHS Instagram page and bookmark the FHS website for the latest information.