Safety Harbor Elementary May 2015 NEWSLETTER Created by the SHES PTA Principal: Cecilia Palmer Phone: 727-724-1462 Assistant Principal: Amy Stewart Website: www.planetshes.com YEAR-END UPDATES Dear Safety Harbor Families: It is hard to believe that this year is coming to an end and that we have only one full month of school left! Even though summer is approaching fast, there is still so much to do and so much to celebrate! Please check our website calendar and monitor agenda books for upcoming events and activities, we wouldn’t want you to miss out on anything! Next week we are honoring our wonderful teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week – May 4-8. Please help me in thanking all of our Safety Harbor Elementary teachers and staff for the countless hours and dedicated service they provide to our students and families each and every day! We are saying good-bye this month to one of SHES dedicated teachers, Robin Little, with 37 years of service to this profession. Mrs. Little will leave us as of May 1st to begin the next exciting chapter of her life – retirement! We hope she enjoys every well-earned moment and we all wish her the best!! During this time of year, much planning takes place for the new school year. We gather and utilize a variety of data and information as we begin the process of creating next year’s class lists. If you would like to provide input into your child’s classroom setting/learning style, please write a letter, to my attention, no later than Wednesday, May 13th. While we do not take specific teacher requests, we understand that your prior experiences, successful (or not), would provide additional information in determining the best setting for student success. Tentative teacher names will not be placed in the end of year report. Class lists will be posted on the front office window prior to open house. As many of you are aware, and were impacted this past year, a multitude of changes, which are out of our control, can occur over the course of the summer and into the 10th day of school. These changes can impact previously developed class lists and classroom teachers, therefore class lists remain tentative until after the 10 day count. Additionally, if your child will not be attending SHES next year, please inform the front office with the school they will be attending. As always if you would like to speak to me directly, feel free to contact me via e-mail or phone. Finally parents, Summer Bridge, our district’s summer school program, is currently open for registration. Letters were sent out to families based on data and school judgment for students who we feel would benefit from the additional instruction. If you feel your child would benefit from this program and did not receive a letter please contact your classroom teacher for more information. If you received a letter, we encourage you to register your student to ensure that learning continues throughout the summer and the best opportunity possible is provided for student success in the coming school year. Feel free to contact or stop into the front office for assistance with registration. We will be happy to help! See you tonight at Spring Fling for our Country Fair! MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Sincerely, SEPTEMBER 3RD Family Night Ms. Palmer *details on back Principal MAY CHARACTER TRAIT OF THE MONTH CARING Being kind, friendly, considerate, and willing to listen, give, and share. PTA NEWS Thank you parents and volunteers for an amazing year. The PTA held numerous activities at the school from the fall festival, two book fairs, walk to school day, the Veteran’s day breakfast, bingo for books night, teacher luncheons, the jog-a-thon, Yankee Candle fundraiser, a Mad Science assembly, family nights, spring fling and our annual school auction. This year we also kicked off some exciting new programs including the “million minute reading challenge,” donated hundreds of books to our classrooms and students as well as gave our teachers thousand of spirit sticks. We helped our teachers get their classrooms prepared with start up funds and provided a generous donation to support the HOPS program. The PTA also supported our art, music, commitment to character and physical education programs and school beautification projects. The SHES PTA also has funding set aside to help our school with technology improvement and acquisitions. Along with all of this, our team also worked hard creating our school yearbook and monthly newsletters. A huge “thank you” to our volunteers who have spent countless hours working to make our school the best around! On May 14th we will hold our final general PTA membership meeting where we will elect the new PTA board for the next school year, vote on our updated by-laws and review our annual budget. We hope to see all of you there. Thank you for a great year! IT’S BOOK FAIR TIME! Come one, come all to the SHES Spring Book Fair May 11th – 15th in the Media Center. Student shopping hours are 8:05 a.m. till noon and 2:35 3:15 (after school students must be accompanied by an adult.) Early birds can visit our May 13th Bagels and Books event from 7:30 a.m. - 8:05 a.m. The Book Fair will also be open Thursday, May 14th from 2:35 till 8:30 pm during Gifted parent conferences and the Spring Concert. Finally, our All 4 Books loose chance drive will run May 4th-14th Collection containers will be in each classroom. Funds benefit book purchases for children who might not otherwise be able to visit the Book Fair. MARK YOUR CALENDARS MAY 1st: SPRING FLING MAY 4th-14th: All 4 BOOKS FUND DRIVE MAY 8th: COLD STONE CREAMERY DAY MAY 9th: RAYS GAME – PCSB SPIRIT NIGHT MAY 11th-15th: BOOK FAIR MAY 13th: BOOKS AND BAGELS MAY 14th: PTA GENERAL MEETING AND 3rd and 4th GR. CHORUS - SPRING CONCERT th MAY 15 : FIELD DAY FOR ALL GRADES MAY 15th: SPRING SPIRIT STICK SALE MAY 20th: TEACHER APPRECIATION LUNCH MAY 21st: CRISPERS NIGHT MAY 22nd: C2C CELEBRATION MAY 25th: SCHOOL CLOSED – MEMORIAL DAY MAY 27th: VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION BRUNCH SKATING PARTY / CRAZY HAIR DAY JUNE 1st: 5th GRADE CELEBRATION JUNE 2nd: 5th GRADE MOVE UP CEREMONY LAST DAY OF SCHOOL/REPORT CARDS EARLY DISMISSAL – 12:35pm A NOTE FROM THE KIWANIS CLUB FROM THE PE STAFF: Kiwanis is gearing up for the start of KFIELD DAY IS May 15th Kids, which will hold its first meeting SHES COMMITMENT TO SEPTEMBER CHARACTER TRAIT OF CHARACTER AWARD WINNERS FOR THE MONTH: SELF-CONTROL APRIL 2015 The times are as follows: Friday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 a.m. in the art K/1st Grade is from 9:00 am - 10:20 am Evan O’Connor room. K-Kids is a leadership and service Cordelia Jenks 2nd Gr./3rd Gr. is from 10:45 am - 12:05 pm Nicholas McNealy Bryan McGinnis club open to all students from Gabby Gutierrez 4th Gr./5th Gr. is from 1:00 pm - 2:20 pm Makayla Adams kindergarten to fifth grade. The club, run Smith Any parents wishing to attend are welcome and Iona Matichuk is doingMarley Responsibility the right this by student officers and board members, Amanda Vehorn Dulce Ramirez-Jaguey encouraged to do so. Please be sure you arrive early undertakes numerous service projects David Cervantes whether or not someone tells you to. Elsa Cubaj enough to sign in at the front office. Parents wishing during the year, from planning and Malia Connelly Amerie Velazquez to volunteer to assist the classroom or the Physical Ryan Stewart sponsoring a holiday party for the Adam Green Education Department with Field Day must have anResponsibility involves being Valentin Krajelg a dependable Sinorra Adams children at the Haven House, the county’s Sonheim approved Volunteer Form already on file. Please Sophia Karikas spouse abuse shelter, to planting and and reliable person who Stuart is committed to Dayna Rodgers come to watch and support your child! Beckett Tibbetts maintaining gardens on the school following through on his orJazmyn her McCree obligations. Keyonna Hamilton campus to raising money so students who William Roberts Jayden Allen cannot afford to buy books at the school Charlise Alverio Jesus Cervantes Elizabeth Shea book fair can LEGISLATIVE do so. These are justUPDATE a few Brayden Temperton Sylwia Kwasny of the many service projects K-Kids are David Kent In response to parent concerns regarding the new Joey Paul Carlos Martinez involve in. They raise money to support Florida Standard Assessment (FSA) test and theIt’s only September Isidoro and the PTA has beenLael busy supporting Melanie Trout their endeavors by operating the school amount of testing our students currently face, state Safety HarborLillian Elementary! In August, we purchased the agenda Spaethe store. Students interested in improving legislators have recently passed legislation thatbooks takes for all of our students and 47 copies of the SHES book of their school and their community while a first step toward easing those concerns. First,the theyear “Scaredy Squirrel.” We welcomed the teachers back to developing leadership skills should check salutes our Carwise Minority breakfast and also hosted the “Boo Hoo” breakfast new law requires outside experts to review thisschool with a SHES out K-Kids, where kids have fun while Daisy) for ourAward new SHES families.Lael year’s FSA before the results can be used to (thanks Kate and Achievement winners making the world a better place. determine school grades or teacher evaluations. It all of the exciting educational, student recognition, teacher With Isidoro Huizache and Keita Wolfe Guy, also limits testing to no more than 5% of the school ***** appreciation and classroom enhancement programs we will be both 5th graders. Hip, hip, hooray! year and reduces the portion of teacher evaluations sponsoring this year, we need your support! based on student performance from 50% to 33%. We will kick off our annual Yankee Candle Fundraiser on Congratulations to Jessica SEPTEMBER 3RD:recently BINGOissued FOR BOOKS The Florida PTA a statement September 12th. Be on the lookout for those catalogs and don’t commending the state’s efforts, though it feelsforget that out of town Contreras Lindsay families and and friends can Neufarth, order online and SEPTEMBER 10TH: VOLUNTEER elected officials did not go far enough in holding have the product shipped to them. cover design winners for this year’s ORIENTATION students harmless from the new test results, nor did SHES Beautiful job! monthly Box yearbook. Tops collections this year on the it change online requirements. SEPTEMBER 12thtesting : YANKEE CANDLE For moreWe will hold We will hold monthly Box Tops collections this year of every month. The classroom that collects the FUNDRAISER KICKOFF information about new and pending education second week on the second week of every month. The classroom most Box Tops each month will receive a special and legislation, as well as how you can be an advocate CONGRATULATIONS TOprize THE that collects the most Box Tops each month will SEPTEMBER 16TH: STUDENT PICTURES hold the monthly trophy. The winning teacher will receive a receive a special prizeKIWANIS and hold theSTUDENT monthly trophy. for your child, please visit the Florida PTA’s FOLLOWING OF $50 gift card purchase bookswill forreceive the classroom! sure Thetowinning teacher a $50 giftBe card to to Legislation page SEPTEMBER 26that : C2C THE MONTH keep turning in those Box for Tops! purchase books the classroom! Be sure to keep http://www.floridapta.org/advocacy/legislation. celebration turning in those Box There you can also sign up to receive email alerts Finally, we encourage all of ourTops! SHES parents to become a RESPONSIBILITY PTA NEWS Mark Your Calendars COMING SOON: SPIRIT STICKS – the PTA volunteer. Show your support for all and information on how to contact your state member ofFinally, weand encourage all of our SHES parents to Aldo Perez-Cruz Are you ready to go bananas? representatives and senators regarding your of the great things the PTA does at SHES! Your voice matters! ALLconcerns. MONTH: PTA MEMBERSHIP DRIVE become a member of the PTA and volunteer. Show your support for all of the great things the PTA does Erica VanRossum, PTA President at SHES! Erica VanRossum, PTA President
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