May 10th - Today! Ms. Stahlecker's Kinder Class Plant Sale 3 pm to 4 pm
May 17th - FINAL Principal's Coffee, 9 am in the cafeteria
May 19th - CSS Clark Arboretum Welcome Event, 2 pm - 3 pm in the Arboretum
May 27th - No School
June 12th - 5th Grade Promotion 2-3 pm
June 13th - Field Day - Volunteers Needed!
June 14th - Last Day of School
Clark Families,
Happy May!!! I hope this message finds you well and you are enjoying the beautiful sunshine. I can’t believe the end of the year is around the corner and that we have almost finished our first year together as a èßäÊÓƵ community. As we are moving into warmer months and hot weather, we have a few friendly reminders. For safety reasons, please don’t send your child to èßäÊÓƵ in flip-flop sandals, and if you can, send a water bottle to èßäÊÓƵ with your child so that they can èßäÊÓƵ hydrated. We have drinking fountains with water bottle filters throughout the èßäÊÓƵ. In addition, please ensure that èßäÊÓƵ wear appropriate clothing for the warm weather.
Students in 3rd-5th grades are taking the required Oregon State tests for the next few weeks. We assess all 3rd-5th grade èßäÊÓƵ in English Language Arts and Math and 5th grade èßäÊÓƵ also take a Science test. Please make sure your child gets a good night's rest and eats a healthy breakfast in the mornings. We encourage our èßäÊÓƵ to take their time on the tests and to do their best. These summative assessments are important and give our teachers and èßäÊÓƵ information about what our èßäÊÓƵ have learned and what we as a èßäÊÓƵ can do a better job teaching. I will be taking all of the 3rd-5th grade èßäÊÓƵ on a bowling field trip in June to celebrate their hard work this èßäÊÓƵ year and for completing the state tests.
Our last day of èßäÊÓƵ this year will be on Friday, June 14th. Summer break will be June 17-August 26th. The first day of èßäÊÓƵ for 1st-5th grade èßäÊÓƵ will be on August 27, 2024. The first day for all kindergarten èßäÊÓƵ will be on September 3rd, 2024.
- Tara
Program Information
Early Kindergarten Transition (EKT) is a three-week summer program to help you and your child have a great start to èßäÊÓƵ.
Students attend July 15-26 (Monday thru Friday) from 8 am to 1 pm and July 29-August 1 (Monday thru Thursday) from 8 am to 1 pm.
Families/caregivers are provided with educational training twice a week during EKT.
Child care for siblings is available during family/caregiver sessions.
Students receive free breakfast and lunch, books, and èßäÊÓƵ supplies.
Sponsored by èßäÊÓƵ in partnership with Schools Uniting Neighborhoods (SUN).
It is currently field trip season! Please make sure that before you volunteer to attend a field trip you have submitted a volunteer background check to PPS. Information can be found . Security Services needs two weeks to process your check but once cleared, it lasts three years! Volunteers who have not completed this process will not be allowed to chaperone field trips. Please check in with Kelly in the Clark Office if you need more details.
Final Principal's Coffee!
Join our Principal Tara Bourland in the cafeteria for coffee and treats! We will discuss current happenings at Clark Elementary. We look forward to seeing you!
Friday, May 17, 2024, 09:00 AM
Clark Elementary School, Southeast 92nd Avenue, Portland, OR, USA
5th grade promotion will be from 2pm - 3 pm on Wednesday, June 12. We will start out with a ceremony in the cafeteria at 2 pm then move to refreshments outside on the playground. Parents and families are welcome! Please sign into the office when you arrive at the building.
Field Day will be Thursday June 13th! Please prepare to send your èßäÊÓƵ to èßäÊÓƵ with sunscreen on, water bottles and a change of clothes in their backpacks. We will be playing outside with with water and there is no covered area. We also need volunteers for this event! If you would like to help us out on field day please make sure you have and email Ms. Flores at
REMINDER: If you would like to bring store bought treats for your child or their class, please make arrangements with your child’s teacher ahead of time. All staff emails can be found on our website At Clark, we maximize instructional time and although celebrating birthdays and other special events are important to us, teachers have tight schedules and any treats brought from home that could disrupt teaching and learning time need to be pre-arranged so that teachers can account for the time in their day. If you bring treats during the day and have not checked with your child's teacher, the office will hold on to the treats and deliver them to the class at the end of the day after instruction. Please feel free to reach out to the Clark office. Thank you for understanding.
Great job Clark! We raised a total of $2101.96 which was way over our goal of $500. A total of 25 èßäÊÓƵ participating online. Ms. Foreman, Ms. Skye, and Ms. Brey had the most participation and will get a glow party in PE.
CSS Clark Arboretum Welcome Event
?The CSS Clark Arboretum Welcome Event will be on May 19th in the Arboretum! This event is co-sponsored with The Montavilla Neighborhood Association and Portland Parks. There will be refreshments, a map/legend of the 50 trees, a tree bingo game, possible items for sale to raise money to replace some of the trees and more! Join Portland Parks Tree Steward Lisa Wilcke and the Montavilla Neighborhood Association Parks & Garden Committee to have a fun day in the sun and learn about our Arboretum! Below is a map of the original trees and . We hope to see you there. Meet us in the Arboretum off SE 89th Avenue ?
Sunday, May 19, 2024, 02:00 PM
Southeast 89th Avenue, Portland, OR, USA
The Clark community will be selecting a Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum for next èßäÊÓƵ year. The choices are Wayfinder and Caring School Communities. Please check out the websites forand.
We would love to hear from you if you have a preference for either curriculum. Please completewith your preference.
Counseling lessons for Quarter 4 will start with executive functioning skills and finish with career cluster information. Spring is a great time to review and strengthen skills like organization, flexible thinking, time management, and planning. We will finish the year strong with lessons about community helpers, career paths, and education options. In 5th grade, we'll focus on the transition to middle èßäÊÓƵ.
As always, I love to partner with families so please reach out to me anytime at.
Please note that last month PPS released this message about the change to bell schedules for next year.
Next year’s bell schedules will change for many èßäÊÓƵ.
Beginning next èßäÊÓƵ year, we added 15 instructional minutes for elementary and middle èßäÊÓƵ èßäÊÓƵ and provided all middle èßäÊÓƵ èßäÊÓƵ with a seven-period day. Accommodating these changes while supporting 410 minutes per week of teacher planning time and aligning our transportation systems requires us to adopt common start and stop times:
At K-5 èßäÊÓƵs, èßäÊÓƵ will now start at 8:00 AM and end at 2:30 PM
At K-8 èßäÊÓƵs, all èßäÊÓƵ will start at 8:45 AM.
K-5 èßäÊÓƵ will end at 3:15 PM.
6-8 èßäÊÓƵ will end at 3:30 PM
At middle èßäÊÓƵs, èßäÊÓƵ will now start at 9:15 AM and end at 4:00 PM
At high èßäÊÓƵs, èßäÊÓƵ will now start at 8:26 AM and end at 3:30 PM
More particular variations of these schedules (e.g. early-dismissal or late-arrival) will be available in the coming weeks on your èßäÊÓƵ’s website. Multiple Pathway to Graduation èßäÊÓƵs (alternative, charter and treatment èßäÊÓƵs) develop their own schedules and will be sharing those later.
Our summer registration is now open! We are offering 6 weeks of summer camp starting on June 24th! The last day of Summer Day Camp will be on August 2nd.
Stephanie Vera
HabloEspañol
she/her/ella Before and After School Assistant Director
Light the fire within
Main 503-224-7800
Cell 503-758-9111
School Starts at 8:45 am Please make sure to arrive on time for èßäÊÓƵ. This helps our classrooms get started on time for the day to not miss instruction and fun activities.
School Ends at 3:00 pm Please make sure to pick up your èßäÊÓƵ promptly at 3pm. The Clark Office will begin calling guardians and emergency contacts at 3:10 pm for èßäÊÓƵ. Our office closes at 3:30 pm.
Find Clark bus schedules here:
Clark Elementary
Office Hours: 8:38 am to 3:30 pm
School Hours: 8:45 am to 3 pm
Doors Open for Students: 8:38 am
Please do not drop off your èßäÊÓƵ prior to èßäÊÓƵ opening unless they are supervised by a parent/guardian. We have no student supervision until 8:38 am. Thank you!
Email: Website: Location: Phone:
Lacy McKinney
Lacy is using Smore to create beautiful newsletters
Congratulations to Lincoln High School èßäÊÓƵ Richard Deng and Coral Platt! Both were awarded National Merit Scholarships of $2,500 toward their college studies.
They were chosen from more than 15,000 finalists nationwide. Richard plans to pursue a career in politics and Coral is looking at a future in the legal sector.
Two exceptional PPS educators, Ricardo Barber and Hang Jones, were recently named OnPoint Educators of the Year for 2025.
As part of this prestigious honor, both teachers will have their rent or mortgage paid for an entire year, and their èßäÊÓƵs also receive a $2,500 donation.
Ricardo Barber teaches third grade at Faubion, and Hang Jones serves as a social worker at Marysville Elementary.
The OnPoint Prize for Excellence in Education celebrates educators who embrace innovative teaching techniques that ignite enthusiasm in their èßäÊÓƵ.
Congratulations to Ricardo Barber and Hang Jones! And thank you both for everything you do to make a difference in the lives our èßäÊÓƵ.
The assignment their teacher gave them was simple – make a short film that begins with a phone call and ends with someone hanging up. Benson first-year èßäÊÓƵ Dylan Martinez-Torres and Dariel Soriano Zamora ran it all the way to a small city populated by two very big and rather iconic monsters – Godzilla and Hedora.
The result, Sorry, Wrong Number, is one of the more than 90 films entered into the annual Best of PPS Film Festival. The festival is a celebration of exceptional student filmmaking that includes a showcase at the historic Hollywood Theatre.
The fourth annual installment of the festival took place on May 21 and included a screening of 13 standout films. The films came from all over PPS and ran the gamut from Dylan and Dariel’s monster short to documentaries, film noir, and broadcast journalism.
If you are a passionate student or community member that wants to make a difference at PPS, apply to join the Climate Crisis Response Committee! This is a committee that reports to the PPS Board of Education.
On the committee you will learn about how PPS is making progress towards our climate justice and sustainability policies, provide input and recommendations to the PPS Board on how to better support PPS staff as we advance these policy goals, and connect with other passionate members of our PPS community from diverse backgrounds, knowledge areas, and lived experiences.
No previous professional experience in climate change or sustainability required! Students can apply . Community members can apply .
