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GRANDPARENTS DAY - May 6th
We hope you can join us for Grandparents Day next Friday May 6th! This is such a special day for our students to share with you what they are learning in school. If you plan to attend, please mail your RSVP card or send via email to kristin.smith@gatewaysc.org.
Other events next weekend:
Art Open Studio - Friday May 6, 4-5 pm
All children's artwork will be on display at school.
Human Race Walk-a-thon - Saturday May 7th
8:00am. (For more information, see below).
Spring Music Concert - Saturday May 7th
2:30 and 4:30pm shows.
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40 Acts of Kindness Updates
Human Race Walk-a-thon: Gateway is putting together a Championship team to participate in the Human Race on Saturday, May 7, 2011. Our team will be raising money for Save Our Shores (Agency #181). Our goal is to register 40 families who will raise at least $40. The race will be in the morning so you can participate and still make the afternoon
Spring Music Concerts! We hope grandparents will join us! If you have questions, please contact parent volunteer coordinator Virginia Ganley at virginiag@cruzio.com.
Red Cross Japan Relief: 6th grade advisory groups organized a coin drive and bakes sales to raise money for the Red Cross Japan Relief efforts. We raised $1,019.06, and a 6th grade parent's company has offered to match that amount! Thank you to all the families who supported this effort for Japan.
Pet Supply Drive: 7th graders delivered pet supplies collected during their "Hearts of Gold" drive to Santa Cruz Animal Services on Monday. Thanks again to all the community members who supported the pet supply drive.
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Life Lab Plant Sale - May 6th
May 6th (the Friday before Mother's Day) and
May 10th-11th, 3:00-5:00pm, in our Life Lab garden classroom.
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Auction Gala IMAGINE a success!
 Thank you to all of the parent volunteers who spent months planning this amazing event. The auction gala was superb this year, and thanks to the hard work of our volunteers, we were able to reach our goal. This year, Gateway
School donated a portion of auction proceeds to Beach Flats Community Center, a community and family resource center in the heart of the largely low-income, Latino neighborhood of Beach Flats.
Thanks to the grandparents who supported our event and/or shopped in our on-line auction.
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New MINDFULNESS PROGRAM
Thanks to generous support from our parents, we just finished an 8-week in-classroom training program for students and faculty in Mindfulness techniques, taught by trainers from the Oakland-based organization Mindful Schools. www.mindfulschools.org
We view mindfulness as a component of our Social Emotional Learning curriculum, which helps teach students self-awareness, empathy, and an understanding of their relationship to others. There is a body of research from the past few decades on mindfulness used in the medical field to help patients in reducing stress and working with chronic pain or illness. While mindfulness practices have only recently been introduced in the field of education, recent advances in brain research and early evaluations of mindfulness in education point to many potential benefits to teaching these techniques to children. The lessons included mindfulness of breathing, walking, movement, hearing, eating, and heartfulness practices.
Mindfulness can help students learn better impulse control, improve focus and attention and reduce stress, all of which can impact academic achievement. It also can help develop greater empathy which improves interpersonal relationships.
Gateway School is hosting a Mindfulness Fundamental class for adults, taught by Mindful Schools, this summer. The 6-week class meets on Thursday evenings from 6 - 8 pm on campus. To register go to http://mindfulschools.org/training/
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UPCOMING EVENTS
May 25-27 - 7th grade overnight trip to Catalina
Island
May 23-27 - 8th grade trip to Washington DC
June 9 - Class of 2011 Graduation Ceremony,
1:00pm
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