Common Middle School Experience: Family Listening & Learning Sessions, Thursday, 2/6

BSD has announced a Common Middle School Experience: Family Listening & Learning Session on Thursday, February 6, from 6:30-7:30pm in Cedar Park’s library.

Learn more about the Beaverton School District’s efforts to create a common experience at all of our comprehensive middle schools. This effort includes middle school course offerings and schedules that are standardized across the District.

The Beaverton School District is working on a common comprehensive middle school experience, which would include middle school course offerings and schedules that are standardized across the District. Currently, period lengths vary and the number of elective courses students can access are not consistent.

More info can be found at BSD’s Common Middle School Experience webpage.

Cedar Park Achieves 5K Goal, Fully Funds 2019-20 Budget

Due to the recent influx of matching fund income, the Cedar Park PTC Board is proud to announce the successful fulfillment of this year’s PTC budget. BOOM!

Matching funds are an invaluable resource for the continued success of the PTC's efforts to buoy the programs and classrooms of Cedar Park. Without this income, our PTC budget would have fallen short. To date, the PTC has raised $55,000 this year, all which support the programs, events, and student enrichment at CPMS.

The all-school ice cream party has been scheduled for 2/7. THANK YOU to every 5K donor who made this achievement possible. #takesavillage #everydollarcounts #matchingcountstwice

Take a look at our 2019-20 budget to see everything that your donation will provide.

Cedar Park Onstage Celebrates Another Epic Production

BRAVO to the Cedar Park students & staff who made last month’s productions of The Giver and Gathering Blue another success! 

Director & Cedar Park drama teacher, Mikaela Gladstone-Saucedo was pleased with the effort. "Audiences were receptive, and the kids had a great time," she shares.

Thank you to all who attended, participated, and made these productions a memorable part of the CPMS experience. Next up for Cedar Park Onstage will be this spring’s One Act Festival, featuring Check Please! & Check Please!, Take II by Jonathan Rand.

More info can be found at: https://cpmstheatre.weebly.com/cedar-park-onstage.html

Art Lit Brings Piet Mondrian to Cedar Park, Volunteers Needed

Cedar Park’s Art Lit team is hard at work to bring the world of Piet Mondrian to our 1000+ students this winter. This student enrichment program would not be possible without willing volunteers. Please see below to sign-up for a fun (and rare!) art experience with your student.

6th Grade: Wed, January 22, 2020

7th Grade: Wed, January 29, 2020

8th Grade: Wed, February 5, 2020

Anyone interested in volunteering for art lit can email artlit@cedarparkptc.org. No art experience required, though all volunteers will need to have a background check through the mIP system.

Cedar Park’s Art Lit program is funded by your generous 5K donation.

YOUR MONEY AT WORK: PACK Store Brings Fun & Focus to Cedar Park Students

Huge thanks to Cedar Park parents, Pam Ross & Nancy McCartney, for reviving the Cedar Park PACK Store! These motivated women stepped up last fall to provide leadership for a long-time CPMS tradition that offers fun & prizes to our motivated students.

The PACK store is a school-wide incentive program, encouraging Perseverance, Acceptance, Courage, and Knowledge. Teachers reward students with tokens for participation, consideration, or any other positive action. Students use those tokens to purchase some awesome prizes at the PACK Store, which is open during designated lunch hours. Additionally, pop-up pizza or donut days are offered, where students can cash in their hoarded tokens.

This entire program is funded, organized, and staffed by the PTC and made possible by your 5K donation.

THANK YOU to BEF and Local Donors for Supporting CPMS Band Program

THANK YOU to the many community donors who contributed to the recent success of BEF’s campaign to support Cedar Park’s band program.

“Everyone is welcome in the Cedar Park Band! The Cedar Park Band is an important part of our school and our community,” states CPMS Band Director,  Jennifer Stenehjem. “As the school and neighborhood changes, the band changes with it. Each year we have more and more families that can't afford to get an instrument to participate in band. At Cedar Park, we make sure that kids in need can borrow a school-owned instrument. As the need rises, and as our instruments wear-out, we are finding it harder and harder to supply instruments for everyone.”

This year’s endeavor to purchase three new clarinets and three new trombones ($2411 total) was fully funded through the support of BEF, generous donors and the matching power of the Juan Young Trust.

Click HERE to learn more about this Beaverton Educational Grant.

1st Annual CPMS Science Festival Needs Volunteers, Thursday, 1/23

First Annual Science Festival! Calling all parents for a unique opportunity to see your kids and their friends, showing off their finest STEM work!

We need 20 parents/grandparents per grade (must already be in MyVP system) to review the projects. No experience required, no science knowledge needed. The kids will do a short presentation of their project to you, and you will have the opportunity to spend a few minutes with them asking questions and filling out a form that will be provided. You will have 4-5 projects assigned to you. 

Please take advantage of this wonderful Science Festival opportunity!  Sign up below to help make this new endeavor a success.

Thursday, 1/23

Set-up: 8:45-10am (4 volunteers)

Festival Judges:

• 10:00-10:45 (6th graders)

• 10:47-11:31 (7th graders)

• 2:18-3:02 (8th graders)

Clean-up: Friday, 1/24, 3:30-4:30pm