Gaffney Lane Elementary School

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🙋 Ready to make a real difference for Oregon City students? We have a seat with your name on it.

The OCSD Board of Directors has an opening — and we need a dedicated community member to fill it. Board members guide policy and governance for our schools, serving our community's students. This appointed position runs through June 30, 2027, with two meetings per month.

Eligibility requirements: district resident for at least one year, registered voter within OCSD boundaries, and not a current district employee or officer.

Applications due by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 30, 2026.

Grab the application at the link in our bio, then email it to Executive Assistant Holly Beck or our district office. Paper copies available at the district office too.

Questions? We've got answers. Call our district office (503)785-8000.

👉 Full details: ocsd62.org

After nearly four years of serving this amazing community, our Communications Coordinator is heading off on their next adventure. 🌍 We're so grateful — and now we're looking for the right person to carry that work forward.

We're hiring a Communications Supervisor to lead all of our district's communications: social media, family outreach, bond program communications, media relations, website design and management, campaign creation, and more.

We're looking for someone who is:
✦ Full-time · Oregon City, OR
✦ Near Portland ·
✦ Knowledgeable of K–12 public education
✦ Bilingual Spanish/English a plus (but not required)

Apply today! www.ocsd62.org/careers

91 combined years of service! It is with our deepest gratitude, respect, and love, that our Gaffney family honors our retirees today. Traci Sether, Kim Unis, and Tami Archer, you set an example each day of who we strive to be as educators and as good citizens of the community and the world.

Like so many of us, I am better for getting to work alongside each of you all these years. I'm glad to call each of you my sisters, my friends. 💙💛

5th graders finished off strong with a new class called Discovery! Mrs. Fernaeus explained, "Students had a choice between research and present or build!
Research allowed students to pick a topic to study, then present it in a slide show! We had so much fun learning all the fun topics that they chose! In the Build class students were given a chance to see all the materials we had, create a plan on paper, then build!
We had cars, working skeeball, a pinball machine and even a marble maze! It was a blast to see so much creativity!"

Field Day is a massive undertaking, but our volunteers made it look like a walk in the park!

Today, we want to give a huge shoutout to the wonderful crew of volunteers who helped us pull off an epic Field Day. Whether you were soaking kids, sending climbers through the blow-up courses, cheering at tug of war, or bringing the positive vibes at the other 15 stations, you made a huge difference.

Our school community is so special because of people like you who pour love and energy into our kids. Thank you for your hard work today—we hope you are getting some well-deserved rest tonight! We all deserve it!🤩

Our students completely crushed the Kids Heart Challenge this year, raising incredible support for a great cause! How did we celebrate their hard work? By letting our top fundraisers throw a pie directly into brave educators' faces!

Swipe through to see the exact moment a mountain of whipped cream met its match. 😂

A massive shoutout to our amazing students for their generosity, and a huge thank you to everyone in our community who donated. We might still have whipped cream in our ears, but our hearts are completely full! ❤️🌟

It was career day last Friday in 5th grade and things got exciting at Gaffney Lane. Our students had some incredible special guests drop by to talk about their careers. A huge thank you to KOIN6 news meteorologist, Josh Cozart for sharing the science behind our local weather! We were also thrilled to welcome back our own Gaffney Lane alumni, a local nurse and a paramedic! They shared what it is like to save lives every day and even brought an ambulance to tour. Once a grizzly always a grizzly! Thank you all for inspiring the next generation.

Thank you, PTO for funding the OMSI engineering program visit for fifth graders today! With just a motor, a battery, a marker and a handful of craft supplies, students got to engineer a robot that could draw and doodle all on its own! Students had a blast coming up with their designs!