SCHOOL LIFE
Thank you to all who participated at Campus Improvement Day on Monday! GPA Welcome Back Coffee - A huge thank you to the Gateway Parent Association (GPA) for hosting a fabulous welcome back coffee. The food was delicious. What a fun way to start the year! Thank you! School Assembly - The whole school gathered for the Welcome Back Assembly this morning in which Percy introduced new faculty. All the teachers introduced themselves and sang a song to the children. The Student Council Co-Presidents welcomed new students to our community and everyone sang the song Circle of Peace three times. For those parents who were not able to join us, here are the words that started us out on our new school year: We create a circle of peace,
a circle of peace
all around this land.
Heart to heart,
home to home
in a circle of peace we stand.
Carpool to School! Gateway is excited to announce our new partnership with CarpooltoSchool, an online carpool service that is fast, easy and secure. For more information, visit www.carpooltoschool.com Upcoming dates:
Labor Day Holiday - Monday September 7th - no school, no childcare. Back to School Nights - Come and meet the teachers, sit in your child's classroom and hear about the year ahead. Kindergarten - 5th Grades: Thursday, September 10th, 6:30 pm for New Families, 7pm for returning families, Childcare is available for $5; sign up ASAP in the Main Office so we can plan for staffing. 6th-8th Grades: Wednesday, September 16th, 6:30pm. All parents meet in the West Cliff Room for a brief introduction, and then parents will follow their child's schedule of classes. Room Parent Meeting - Tuesday, Sept. 8th 8:45am at the picnic tables. Everyone is invited to attend this GPA gathering where we will share information about upcoming events, opportunities to get involved, and discuss the primary responsibilities of being a room parent. If you have any interest in being a room parent or a room parent assistant, please come to the meeting and email Laura Lucas at laura.lucas@gatewaysc.org. Thank you for supporting the Gateway Parent Association and the students of Gateway School by volunteering your time and energy. Board Retreat Saturday September 12th.
Other News:
A Taste of the Harvest - UCSC Life Lab's Annual Benefit and Auction and 30th Anniversary - September 12th, 4 - 7pm. Yes, we all know the fantastic Life Lab program that educates our children at Gateway School. The non profit organization housed at UCSC called the Life Lab Science Program helped bring our Life Lab Garden Science Program to Gateway. This organization has been designated by Gateway School to receive a portion of proceeds from Gateway's February 2010 Auction event. This organization is dedicated to designing school garden curricula and creating gardens in public and independent schools all across the nation. They accomplish this by educating teachers and youth in science, nutrition and other subject matter using the garden as an outdoor living laboratory. The UCSC Life Lab Garden Classroom is a model school garden located on the 25 acre organic farm at UCSC. Their annual benefit will be held at this beautiful garden location with magnificent views of the Monterey Bay and music by the Rolling Cultivators. This event will feature amazing hors d'oeuvres created by Chef Jon Dickenson of Café Cruz, wines donated by Cooper-Garrod Winery and beer from Santa Cruz Brewery. Produce for the event has been donated by Santa Cruz County farms, and businesses in the county have donated many exciting items for the silent auction. Please go to www.lifelab.org/dinner.php for more information. To order tickets you can find the UCSC Life Lab invitations in a basket in the Gateway lobby or contact Gateway parent Mika Jarnagin-Knox at mika@cruzio.com! Other Life Lab 30th Anniversary Events coming up:
September 11th - School Garden Sustainability Summit - www.lifelab.org/summit.php
September 12th - Life Lab School Garden Open House. There are 8 school gardens on the tour, including Gateway's garden! - www.lifelab.org/openhouse.php Alumni News:
Kaitlyn Saia-Hicks, Gateway alumni Class of 2006 and daughter of Gateway Resource Specialist, Joan Saia, wrote a story entitled Maybe Next Time, which has been selected to appear in the book Chicken Soup for the Soul: All in the Family. Chicken Soup for the Soul: All in the Family is scheduled to be available in bookstores October 20th. For more information, visit www.chickensoup.com. Congratulations Kaitlyn! Parent Education:
Challenge Success Conference, Sept. 25th, 7:30 - 9:30pm at Stanford University. Admission is free. Keynote by renowned psychologist and author Michael Thomson, Ph.D. For more information and to RSVP, visit www.challengesuccess.org
Parent Education Network 2009-2010 Speaker Series:
Connecting Research to Practice: Making Math Real, The Multisensory Structured Methodology in Mathematics, K-12, by David Berg, Educational Therapist. Friday September 11, 9 am - 12 pm at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. For more information, visit http://parentseducationnetwork.org/SpeakerSeries?eventId=69697 |
