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REMINDERS
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4/7 - Open House
4/7 - Mindfulness Parent Meeting
5/11 - HOS Book Club
See our
schoool calendar
for other upcoming events
Click here to visit the "Green Gateway" blog to see what the EAP group has been up to!
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Congratulations to County Science Fair Winners!
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Emma Heady
Alyce Hersey
Chloe Ortiz
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Welcome to the Gateway Family News. Please be sure to click on the Confirm button at the very top of this email button. Doing this helps to avoid spam filters on your end.
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The Gateway Family Survey Needs You!
Thank you Kindergarten class for having the highest percentage of parent responses! You "Rule the School!"
We are truly wanting everyone's feedback. We ask all families to participate in the survey.
Please log on and fill out the survey now. Five minutes from now you will feel better and we will have the feed back we need to make important decisions about the school.
Thank you,
Gateway Board of Trustees
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International Spring Celebration
Thank you to all who helped make this year's International Day a success! Special thanks to: Tom Tobin, Alex Armstrong, Neli Mashian, Rupsa Bhattacharya, Shiva Hurvitz, Naomi Bendiner Woldemar, the 8th graders, and Nicole Ciocca (Life Lab intern).
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IMAGINE Auction Gala
THANK YOU to all of the parents who helped make this year's auction such a success! A special thank you to our lead volunteers: Michele Brady, Christina Falco, Christie Hausmann, Denise Lee and Lisa Ortiz, and to Abra Allan, Joanna Blattberg, Rachel Conable, Jessica Delgado, Katie Fitzgerald, Joanna Manoff, and Karen McCormick for their roles in helping create such a stellar evening with great music and entertainment, stunning decorations, and fabulous class projects. Many other parents helped and we are compiling the list to share our appreciation of them in next week's newsletter.
If you won an item in the on-line auction, you should have received an email detailing that. Items can be picked up starting today at 2 pm through Friday 4/8 in the Development Office.
Donate to support Mindfulness training
At our Auction event on Saturday the final item in the Live auction was our Fund-a-Need for Mindfulness training. Funds raised support the 8 week in-classroom training which is happening right now with Mindful Schools trainers in all our K-8 classrooms, and some additional faculty training this summer and fall. If you missed the chance to support the training on Saturday, you can make a tax deductible donation of any amount by writing a check or donating on-line. Click here for links (in the green "post-it" box) about Mindfulness practice at Gateway https://www.gatewaysc.org/about/index.html
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40 Acts of Kindness Updates
The second and final bake sale for Japan Relief is this Friday 4/8 after school 2:30 - 3:309pm. The coin drive in the classrooms continues, so send in spare change.
Human Race Walk-a-thon: Gateway will be putting together a team to participate in the Human Race on May 7, 2011. Any parents and students who are interested in participating, please contact Virginia Ganley at virginiag@cruzio.com. The race will be in the morning so you can participate and still make the afternoon Spring Music Concerts!
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Zero Waste Lunch Day - Wed. April 13th
Gateway School is participating in a Zero Waste Lunch Challenge, an event sponsored by the City of Santa Cruz, on Wednesday, April 13th, 2011. Students are asked to bring lunches with zero waste. Lunch should include items that can be eaten, reused, recycled, or composted and as few items as possible that must be thrown away in the trash. Each participating school will be challenged to get as close to zero waste at lunchtime as possible. For more information, click here. Let's try for 100%!
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Open House April 7th 9-11am
Refer anyone who is still looking at schools for next year. RSVPs recommended to colleen.sullivan@gatewaysc.org. |
Mindfulness Parent Meeting -
Tuesday April 12th, 3-4pm (note date change)
We apologize for any inconvenience, but our trainer has had to reschedule her presentation. On April 12th, Carla, who has been one of our trainers from Mindful Schools, will speak about the program and take questions. All parents are welcome. Please RSVP to Kimara.vann@gatewaysc.org in the Main Office, so we can know how many people to expect.
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Hops and Pops - Thurs. April 7th, 5pm
Come join the Gateway Dad's Group at the Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery on Thursday April 7th at 5pm. All are welcome - it's not just for Dads! $1 from each pint purchased that day will go to support the Beach Flats Community Center. Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery
402 Ingalls Street
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OCEAN WEEK
The Gateway community will be celebrating Ocean Week next week, April 11th through April 15th. The classrooms are alive with activities related to the ocean. On Tuesday, April 12th we will enjoy the music of the Banana Slug String Band at 2:00. On Thursday, April 14th our annual Ocean Week Classroom Tours will take place from 1:15 until 2:15. Students will be returning to their classrooms at 2:15 to conclude their school day. Please remember that Friday is a regular school day and like every school day meaningful work will be taking place so make sure your child is present.
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Spring After School Classes
Mondays, May 2nd - 23rd
Claymation / Stop Motion Video
Age 8 and up
3:15 - 4:30pm
Cost $80 (4 Sessions)
This workshop will be an introduction to stop-motion video. Students will build their own mini movie sets and create their own clay characters. Using web cameras and Microsoft Movie Maker software, they will create an original animated movie using stop-motion and live video techniques. They will edit the movie and add exciting sound effects, music, narration and titles. The movie projects will be burned onto CD and MAILED home. Thursdays, April 14th - May 26th
Robotics Lego RCX Mindstorms Ages 7 and up 3:15 - 4:30 Cost $120 (6 weeks, no class April 21) The Lego RCX Robotics after school class is an introduction to building and programming machines. Students will have fun designing programmable machines that can walk on legs, or move about on wheels, to find their own way to avoid obstacles. Using Lego blocks, motors and sensors, you will learn mechanical design, construction, programming and teamwork skills. Students use a computer to program their machines to move, react, and make sounds in order to solve challenges. |
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Head of School Book Club - May 11th, 7pm
Be reading now so you can join in the book discussion in May. "The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development", by Richard Wiessbourd.
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Parent Resources
Help Japan Relief Concert
Saturday, April 23rd, Rio Theatre
Help Japan Relieve Concert is a fundraiser to help the earthquake and tsunami victims presented by the Japanese Cultural Fair organization in Santa Cruz. The money raised will be going to the Northern Japan Earthquake Relief Fund established by the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC). 100% of the donations received will go to local non-profit and community service organizations in Japan for citizen to citizen relief efforts reaching those most in need in the most affected areas.
For more information, click here.
Parents Helping Parents: Building Bright Futures for Children with Special Needs Newsletter. Click here to view.
Presentation for Educators: The New Learning Sciences: How variability in learning informs teaching in the 21st century, featuring the keynote speaker from EdRev 2011, Dr. L. Todd Rose, Co-Chair of the Mind, Brain, and Education Institute at Harvard University, in a special presentation for educators Thursday, April 14, 2011, 5 - 7 pm @ St. Ignatius High School, San Francisco. For more information click here.
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