Mark your calendars for the Buckman Grade Level Performances!

1st grade: Dec. 11th, 2025 at 6:30 p.m

2nd grade: Feb 19th, 2026 at 1:00 p. m. and 6:30 p.m

4th grade: Mar. 19th, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

3rd grade: April 23d, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

5th grade: May 29th, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m

Kindergarten: June 4th, 2026 at 1:00 p.m.

Please join us on Tuesday, December 2 from 6:00-7:30pm for a family-friendly evening celebrating the innovations of Oregon’s Native Tribes. Dinner will be provided!

You and your child will have the opportunity to build a shelter, weave a basket, or invent a tool, exploring how Native Americans have long used science and engineering to create tools, homes, clothing, and cooking methods. This event is a wonderful way to connect as a community while honoring the ingenuity and traditions of our indigenous communities. Resources are provided through the Museum of Natural and Cultural History’s DIY programming for schools.

The food pantry will be open, and a free clothing swap will be set up as well! There will also be a station for completing the Successful Schools Survey. Hope to see you there!

Buckman is focusing on supporting our students’ in having full access to their education by improving their school attendance rates. Our goal is to decrease the number of students at our school who attend less than 90% of the time and thus are at risk of falling behind academically. 

Our goal this year is to have 78% or more students with good or acceptable daily attendance. During the first quarter of school, just 72% of Buckman students had good or acceptable attendance. Good or acceptable attendance means missing no more than 2 days per month. This also means that we had 28% of Buckman students who were chronically, severely, or acutely absent and were not here enough to participate fully in their classes. 

If your student is out of school due to health exclusion, please connect with your student's teacher about accessing educational resources that can be done at home while your student is recovering. Please help us reach our attendance goal and help your child reach their dreams by making school attendance a priority for your family!

Kindly,

Lisa Ditto 

Buckman Site Council: Open to the Community

Meeting the 4th Monday of every month*; 6:00–7:00PM

*exception: Nov. 17, 2025

Site Council Meeting
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/hvk-kbpt-eby
Or dial: ‪(US) +1 978-347-2957‬ PIN: ‪774 250 179‬#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/hvk-kbpt-eby?pin=3256357862386

Slides

Congratulations to Lincoln High School students 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 schools 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 students. 

Congratulations to Ricardo Barber and Hang Jones! And thank you both for everything you do to make a difference in the lives our students.

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 students 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 via this form. Community members can apply here.

Deadline to apply: June 6.