Family Science Night is Wednesday Feb. 9th

5:00 - 8:00pm

Come view 5th-8th grade student Science Fair projects and sign-up for fun science activities run by Gateway parents. To view project descriptions and sign your child up , please click here. Please remember that sign-up for each project is limited to 10-12 students per session.  Pizza will be for sale starting at 5:00pm to benefit the class of 2012 DC Trip. For more information, please contact Chris Woldemar at cwoldemar@gmail.com.  

Don't forget to pick up your copy of Brain Rules at Bookshop Santa Cruz and receive a 10% discount when you mention Gateway School's Book Club.  Our Head of School Book Club will discuss Brain Rules on February 16th, 7 pm.

If you have friends or neighbors who are investigating school options for next year, please encourage them to attend an open house or the upcoming Kindergarten Information Night.  Prospective parents are invited to the kindergarten classrooms for a presentation from the teachers about the Kindergarten program, and to hear from current parents. Please note that this is an event for parents only. RSVP to colleen.sullivan@gatewaysc.org

We are still looking for donations for our online (March 19-27), silent and live auctions (April 2). If you have something you would like to donate (or know someone who does), please fill out the donation form that was sent home last week or click here to download a form.

Be on the look out for more auction news coming soon from the volunteer auction team!

40 Acts of Kindness Updates

One of our Gateway 8th grade students, Blake Rovai, is collecting donations on behalf of our local "Stuff the Bus" initiative as part of his community service hours. Stuff the Bus provides school supplies to economically disadvantaged children in our area. If you would like to support this initiative, please bring to the bin in the lobby any of the following supplies: pens & pencils, crayons & colored pencils, 3-ring binders, dividers & paper, rulers & calculators, Spanish/English dictionaries, or backpacks (no shades of red or blue please).  Thank you!

Financial Aid for the 2011-2012 School Year
 If you would like to apply for aid for the 2011-2012 school year, please click on this link for the complete packet of forms and instructions.  In order to apply, you must file a Parents' Financial Statement (PFS) with School and Student Service for Financial Aid (SSS) and you must submit a copy of your complete 2010 tax return to SSS.  In order to be considered in the first round of financial aid awards, parents needed to file their PFS by February 1^st and to submit their 2010 tax return copy to SSS no later than February 25^th.  After the first round of awards, Gateway will continue to award financial aid on a rolling basis to families who complete their applications after these deadlines, until our financial aid budget is exhausted.  We recommend that parents file the PFS online, rather than filing the paper form, and that they upload their tax returns to SSS, rather than mailing them, if they want their request for aid to be processed by Gateway School as soon as possible. Please contact Rima in the Business Office at x 308 if you have any questions.

Live Oak Family Resource Center, Tuesdays 6:30-8:30pm February 15 - April 12, 2011. This eight week series uses the internationally renowned Jane Nelsen Positive Discipline curriculum to address the joys and challenges of parenting children ages 5 through 12. $80/person. For more information or to register, call 476-7284 x107.

7 pm - 9 pm, The Bay School in San Francisco. $20/person.

website.For more information visit PEN website.

Removing the Mystery: Developing a Better Understanding of the Student with Language Processing Difficulties. A free parent workshop on Saturday Feb. 12, 2011, 8:30am-12pm in San Francisco. For more information visit PEN website.