Reminder: No School March 4th and March 7th for Teacher In-Service Days. 

Childcare is available on Friday March 4th (please sign up in the Main Office), but is NOT available on Monday March 7th.

There are still a few spaces for Lego Movie Maker, LEGO Engineers, and Ukulele classes.  To register for classes, download a registration form from Gateway School's web site or pick up a paper copy in the Main Office. The beginning date for Clay class will be Thursday March 3rd.

For specific information and to register for classes select the  after school class flier  on the website.

To those who are going to the "Brain Rules" presentation at Cabrillo tomorrow night, please remember that seating is general admission, so allow yourself enough time for parking and registration. Doors to the Crocker Theatre open at 6:30pm and all unclaimed seats will be released at 7:15pm. 

This year, Gateway's celebration will have two major components - a morning assembly for parents, faculty and students, and an all-school potluck in which we invite families to share food from a meaningful tradition in their experiences, hopefully associated with the spring.

We are soliciting parent volunteers to help by:

1. Bringing a dish that is meaningful to your family to share with the community as part of our potluck luncheon.
2. Baking traditional breads (e.g., naan, tortilla, pita, etc.) that will be passed around after the Norooz celebration, on which students can taste different herbs and spices from the Life Lab garden.
3. Hosting a stand where you can introduce the community to a spring celebration that you cherish.

If you are interested, please e-mail us at internationalspring2011@gatewaysc.org.

Family Weekend May 6-7, 2011
Grandparents Day May 6th
Art Tour & Spring Concert Sat. May 7, 2011 

We have a special project that is being designed specifically for Gateway School's Life Lab Garden. We will be installing a grey water system to treat and re-use water from our outdoor garden kitchen for hand watering in the garden. The goal is to keep our precious resources, like water, on the farm.

We will use an ecologically-based management system with emergent plants in tiered 3-pond biofiltration system to treat the water from the outdoor kitchen sinks, which will then be conveyed through a hand pump to watering cans and used to water the garden beds.

As part of the Life Lab Garden the water system will educate students about local, regional, and international water issues. Incorporating a hand pump into the design is fun for our students; it also helps give them first-hand experience on how millions of people through out the world retrieve water on a daily basis.

We had originally planned on breaking ground on this project this coming weekend, however, due to the recent heavy rains we have decided it best to postpone this project until Saturday May 14th and Sunday May 15th. In next weeks newsletter you will find a link to more detailed information and an on-line sign up form for this project. We hope you will be able to join us!

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.  Although the first round deadlines have now passed, 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. Please contact Rima in the Business Office at x308 if you have any questions.