The Llewellyn Friday Flyer

There is so much to celebrate at Llewellyn!

We may have not been in the path of totality like elsewhere in our nation, but students were still able to view the Eclipse from all around the world. During lunch in the cafeteria we tuned into the NASA website and were able to see what it looked like from Mexico, Maine and many other vantage points. We loved that is was a safe way to see it in its entirety.

Please join us in celebrating National School Library Week this week with a round of applause for our AMAZING librarians at Llewellyn! Whether it's ordering the books our students want to read, to teaching lessons, organizing OBOB, or opening up the world of reading, we are grateful for making our library a special place. Thank you Mrs. Street and Miss Kari!

Next week on Tuesday, April 16th is the HeART of Portland event at the Portland Art Museum. It starts at 6:30pm and is free to the public. Featured on Tuesday is student art work and many performance by PPS students. Three Llewellyn students will be singing in the Honor Choir (Evelyn Carlson, Claire Desrocher, and Tomas Jacobsen) and one student's art (Gabriel O'Connor) will be featured as well. Congratulations! Thank you to ZWB and Ms. Davis for helping our students to showcase their talents!

Lastly, don't forget to check your child's backpack for their 3rd Quarter Report Card! Please sign and return the envelope to school on Monday so that your child's teacher knows you received it.

Have a great weekend!

Principal Pam

All TAG referrals have been processed and final decision letters have been sent out. The spreadsheet sends a PDF as soon as the nomination has been considered. If you have not received a decision letter, then please request a copy from the PPS Let's Talk (pps.net/contact) resource. The referral cycle will start again next school year in the fall. All spring and fall test scores will be filtered and families will be notified if their child is a candidate for nomination. The process is automatic and family letters are sent from the district.

-Tanan Woods (twoods@pps.net)

Let's improve traffic flow and safety during drop off and pick up!

Please read the attached documents and follow these directions. A map is included to help illustrate the new routes suggested.

By AVOIDING the RED ZONE, we can all be safer!

Note: If you are interested in helping to support these new routes by volunteering in the morning or afternoon or if you have access to signage, please let me know. It would greatly help to have people directing traffic as we all get used to these new routes.

A collaborative build of scenes by many winter session LEGO Club members.

Students were challenged to build a scene in a 16x16x16 stud underground "bunker" then all were assembled into one large build.

Kindergarten enrollment is happening for next school year! Tell your friends, neighbors and other community members with young children ready to start kindergarten in the fall. Look here for more information and to enroll online. Next chance to connect is on May 9th at 6:00 for Kindergarten Connect Art Night.

Spring Class Picture Day is coming up on Wednesday, April 17th! Order forms went home with your student(s) today. If you plan on using the paper form instead of ordering online, on picture day PLEASE be sure to let your teacher know your student has a form. If they do not bring it with them when they get their picture taken, you will have to order online. We do not have a way to send the forms in late. Questions? Please ask the office!

Hello Llewellyn families,

PPS is hosting a Queer Family Night at Oaks Park on April 22nd, 7p-9:30pm for students, families, and other folks who support the LGBTQ+ community. Entry and skate rental are free for the event. Attendees are welcome to bring money for the snack bar and arcade. See attached flyer for details and waiver to be completed before the event.

We hope you can join!

Cassie

Llewellyn's Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP)

We are currently in an urgent need of larger gender fluid pants to fill our extra clothing lockers. Sizes preferred are size 10, 12, 14, 16 or even men's small to medium in bottoms. As you are doing any spring cleaning please keep this in mind! You can bring them to the office anytime. Thank you!

Every Friday will be a School Spirit Day. Students and staff are encouraged to wear their Llewellyn gear new or old. One Friday per month will be a fun theme. On 4/26 it will be Rainbow Day!

Show your school spirit and wear rainbow clothing or clothes with rainbow colors!

PTA Happenings

Our next PTA meeting will be April 16 at 7 p.m. and is a social hour for our community members to come and get to know each other and express any new ideas or concerns about how our PTA can best serve our school. We will be meeting at Smitty’s, between Reverend’s BBQ and A Cena restaurants. See you there!!

Our Earth Day event will be on April 20 and we are still in need of two volunteers to lead Earth day themed crafts and a couple more to help our garden and games leads. Please check Konstella for the sign up to give our garden some spring love and help with this fun event!

We are beginning to plan out this year’s teacher appreciation week and all the fun events to go along with it. Watch for an email from your class lead and Konstella sign ups so that you can show your student’s teacher some extra special appreciation along with all of the other wonderful staff members who make our school such a wonderful place to learn for our students. Together we shine!

Upcoming Events/Fundraisers

4/16 PTA Meeting Social Hour – 7pm @ Smitty’s

4/20 Earth Day Celebration @ Llewellyn School Garden

4/26 School Spirit Day: Rainbow Day

5/6-5/10 Teacher Appreciation Week

5/21 PTA Meeting Time and Location TBD

5/31 School Spirit Day: Superhero Day

6/7 Llewellyn Carnival

Principal Pam's message was clear, PPS budget cuts will impact Llewellyn next year. Three classes will be impacted with larger class sizes. The purpose of the Llewellyn Foundation is to raise funds throughout the year to provide additional staff positions to the school.

DONATE NOW during our Spring Promotion (April 8th - April 26th) and get a little swag in return. We have magnets and new lawn signs available! Funds raised through June will go towards hiring staffing support in the 24-25 school year. Thank you to all those who have been able to contribute so far.

Dine Outs!

Local favorite Gino's will be hosting our next Dine Out on Wednesday, April 17th. 25% of the day's proceeds will be donated to the Llewellyn Foundation. Reservations are available and they have a great To-Go Menu here (scroll down): https://www.ginossellwood.com/ Hope to see you there!

Recurring Donors!

Are you a recurring donor to the Foundation? Then you may have received an email from Aplos, our payment vendor - they are requiring all recurring donors to verify their payment information by April 13th! Please email if you have any questions.

Upcoming:

Wednesday, April 17th, Gino's

Tuesday, April 30, Nectar

Wednesday, May 8, The Portland Bottle Shop

Next meeting: Wednesday, May 1, 7 pm

E-mail: thellewellynfoundation@gmail.com

Website: www.llewellynfoundation.com

The Healthy Choices Bulletin is a monthly summary of substance use prevention resources that schools share with students and families. We hope you will find it useful.

Check out the information in this flyer https://www.metroartsinc.org/kids-camp

*scholarships available

4/16 PTA Meeting Social Hour – 7:00PM @ Smitty’s

4/17 Class Photo Day

4/20 Earth Day

4/25 2nd Grade Music Concert 6:30PM

4/26 Spirit Day – Rainbow Day

4/30 Foundation Dine-Out @ Nectar

5/1 The Phantom Portal (5th Grade Play) – 6:00PM

Foundation Meeting 7:00PM

5/6-5/10 Teacher Appreciation Week

5/8 Foundation Dine Out @ The Portland Bottle Shop

5/9 Kindergarten Craft Night 6:00PM

5/16 1st Grade Music Concert 6:30PM

5/21 PTA Meeting Time and Location TBD

5/27 NO SCHOOL – Memorial Day

5/30 Kindergarten Music Concert 6:30PM

5/31 Spirit Day – Superhero Day

6/7 Llewellyn Carnival

6/12 Field Day

6/13 5th Grade Promotion in Gym - 12:45-2:00PM

6/14 Last Day of School

Spirit Day – Vacation Day

5th Grade Party in Cafeteria – 12:45-2:00PM