Beverly Cleary School is a member of the Safer Routes to School (SR2S) program. SR2S encourages students and families to get to and from school in ways that reduce traffic, build strong bodies and clear minds, and provide a cleaner environment.

All second and fifth grade families recently received in the mail an order form from Safer Routes.  The order form serves as a fundraiser, earning our school $5 for each order form turned in!  If we mail all our forms back, BCS will get over $500!

The order form provides FREE resources for families to find fun ways to get around the city of Portland.  Options include Metro's terrific "Walk There" booklet, a beautiful pocket sized guide to many areas of our region with history, a walking map and ideas for an active outing with your family.  Or maybe you'd like a free bike bell, some information on your nearest bus route or a coupon for a bike helmet.  

Choose something of interest and return that form!!  Go find it right now!  It's a super easy way to earn some money for our school.

Families, mark your calendars for a celebration of our school and benefit for our children!  Enjoy an evening with a cause we can all support.  Join your friends and neighbors for Beverly Cleary School Foundation’s annual fundraising auction on March 5th 2010 from 6-10pm, at the Bison Building at 419 NE 10th Avenue.

We invite you to “Dream Big” for your neighborhood school and your kids’ future.  What will our school look like next year and the next?  What do our children dream for themselves?  What do you dream for your kids?

Our Dream Big benefit offers fun and fellowship for everyone.  The evening’s festivities will include a light buffet, complimentary beverages and music by the Tabor Jazz Trio.

Celebrate Valentine's Day this year by warming your heart and someone else's toes! The Beverly Cleary School Sock and Underwear Drive, benefiting the PTA Clothing Center, is on!  Please donate new socks and underwear between February 1st and February 12th. Collection bins will be at both campuses. All sizes are needed: from extra small (for the very little ones, ages 4 years old) to XXXL.

The PTA Clothing Center which is located at Marshall High School serves PPS students who are in need of clothing, and so far this year they have served over 1275 students! Each student who "shops" at the clothing center gets a few pairs of new socks and underwear, and their stock is extremely low.  This clothing drive is taking the place of the Giving Tree this year (usually in December). Thanks for your donations!

Here's your chance to get 40% off tickets to Walking With Dinosaurs at the Rose Quarter and have $10 from each ticket go to the PTA Technology Fund!

Families of students who are entering high school next year may have specific questions and concerns about how High School System Design will affect them.  PPS staff have complied a list of questions and answers to help with this transition.

The date for eighth-graders to participate in shadowing a Grant student is Tuesday, February 9th 2010.  A permission form (download here) must be returned to Grant by January 29th. Shadow Opportunity days at Grant High School are restricted to eighth-grade students interested in attending Grant High School as freshmen next year who have completed all appropriate paperwork by the deadline.  Current eighth-graders will be matched with a ninth-grader.  If you would like to request a ninth-grade host, you may do so; however the ninth-grader must be a student in good standing for both academics and citizenship.

Students must report to the Library on the main floor of Grant H.S. at 7:45 a.m. to sign in and meet their host student.  Parents must check their students in; please allow up to an hour for check-in. Students will not be allowed to shadow if we have not received the appropriate paperwork.

Attention families of the Class of 2023!  We are pleased to announce our 2010-2011 Kindergarten Round-up for children turning five on or before September 1, 2010.  If so, you are invited to our 2010-11 Kindergarten Round-Up. This is a great opportunity to prepare you and your child for the new school year--meet the Principal, Assistant Principal and teachers and learn about our Kindergarten program.

How to register for Kindergarten

Kindergarten Round-up for Beverly Cleary School is on Thursday, February 18 from 9-10 AM and again in the evening from 6:30-7:30 PM on the Hollyrood campus (3560 NE Hollyrood Court, 503-916-6766). Because of space constraints and fire code restriction, Kindergarten Round-up is for adults only.

Read more about the new PPS program for incoming kindergarten families, Ready Set Connect!

What do you look at every day and take for granted...  What if you looked at it up close?  What if you look at just part of it?  What if you looked up at it from way down low?  What if you looked at its shadow?

Intrigued?  Check out this year's auction art project blog...we are starting to add exciting information!

Your online holiday shopping can do double-duty, making it an effortless way to help your PTA raise classroom funds.

Just to the left of these words, you'll find our four ongoing PTA fundraisers: Amazon.com, Powell's Books, magazine subscriptions and scrip sales.

Any Amazon.com purchases you make will bring your BCS PTA a 7% referral commission, Powell's will give us a 7.5% commission and magazine subscriptions allow us to keep 40% of the proceeds.  

Please keep this in mind as you do your holiday shopping and please let your friends and family know!