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REMINDERS
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3/9 - 4th Grade
Parent Coffee
3/15 - Open House
3/15 - Re-enrollment
Paperwork due
3/16 - Kindergarten
Parent Coffee
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SAVE THE DATE
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Apr. 12, 2012
7:00pm
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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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Re-enrollment
Only 8 days left until the drawing to win 10% off tuition for one student!
Is your name in the drawing?
Don't miss your chance to receive 10% off tuition when you re-enroll by the deadline of March 15th at 5pm. See your enrollment packet for complete details.Only fully complete enrollment packages are eligible to enter the drawing.
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Financial Aid
Financial Aid application deadlines: The deadline for completing applications for the first round of financial aid grants has now passed. Families may still apply for aid at this time in order to be considered in the second round of awards. See the Financial Aid item at the bottom of this page for detailed information.
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Percy's Blog - Who's In Control?
The host committee at last week's the National Association of Independent School (NAIS) conference in Seattle, selected "Innovation: Imagine, Invent, Inspire, Dream" as their theme for the two-day forum. Among the innovative speakers was Bill Gates, John Medina, and Raymond Van (of Digipen Institute of Technology). Inspirational speakers included Sara Key, spoken word performer and founder of Project V.O.IC.E. (http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_if_i_should_have_a_daughter.html); John Hunter, inventor of the World Peace Games (http://www.ted.com/talks/john_hunter_on_the_world_peace_game.html); and Dan Savage of It Gets Better Project (http://www.itgetsbetter.org). There was a third group of speakers who opined more philosophically on contemporary approaches to parenthood and education. The two most provocative were Stephen Carter (author and Yale law professor) and Amy Chua (author and Yale law professor). Many of you may know Ms. Chua's work, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom, but Mr. Carter's essays on integrity and civility are equally as thought-proving if not nearly as controversial. To read more of Pcrcy's Blog, click here. |
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CAMP GATEWAY's 
new summer website has launched!
Visit www.gatewaysc.org/campgateway/ to browse classes, learn more about our day camp and read up on what's new at Camp Gateway. Registration opens March 15th.
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IMAGINE Auction Gala 
Thank you to our team of volunteers who worked for months to make the auction gala event such a spectacular evening!
Thank you to co-chairs Jessica Delgado and Karen McCormick for your leadership and dedication to this year's event. Thank you to our auction lead team: Jenny Barchas, Michele Brady, Priscilla Cinque, Christie Hausmann, Reneé McCormick, Dana Nichols, Laurel Perotti, and Virginia Rodriguez.
And thank you to all of the parent volunteers who helped with everything from securing items for the silent and online auctions, to decorations, to set up and clean up. We could not have created this event without you! Thank you Kathy and Scott Anderson, Joanna Blattberg, Bernice Bernstein, Suzanne Brooks, Petra Bryan, Rocco Cappalla, Michele Claussen, Angela Chesnut, Glenn Cruden, Rachel Conable, Michele Darnell, Christina Falco, Sally Fauske, Maria Greaves, Leslie Harris, Mary Henderson, Karen Hovekamp, Andrea Hultzen, Amy Jensen, Joanna Manoff, Christa Manor, Mercy Nakamura, Lisa and Chloe Ortiz, Joellen Pelz, Zanele Sibanda, Alisa Van Dissen, and Pushya Wahl.
Proceeds benefit the financial aid program and a portion of proceeds goes to the Beach Flats Community Center.
Online Auction News If you "won" an item in the on-line auction, please contact Laura Lucas to arrange pick up in the Business Office. Thank you! |
Student Council Dessert ContestMarch 16th
Students: you are invited to participate in the Student Council Dessert Contest on Friday, March 16, 2012. Entries will be graded by Appearance, Taste, Originality and Texture.
Three sections - Grades 1st-2nd, 3rd-5th, and 6th-8th.
Bring desserts to the staff/faculty kitchen in the morning.
Must be baked, or created from scratch (no boxes).
Must have recipe, grade, teacher and student's name attached.
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Gateway International Day:
Spring Around the World
Thursday March 22 12-2:30
Families are invited to join in the festivities. There will be an all-school pot-luck at noon. Please email Andrea Hultzen drehultzen@gmail.com or sign up by clicking here to bring a dish to share. Food should be vegetarian and finger foods for +/-25. Please be sure your dish is well-labeled. Feast will be followed by an afternoon of music and dance from around the world and an International Village with crafts, henna, music, etc hosted by Gateway families. In keeping with Gateway's Green Initiative this will be a "no waste" event. Please have your child pack a reusable lunch kit, including plate, fork and cup. Send along the recipe! We are hoping to create an International Cookbook and would love to collect any recipes you use and traditions around this food.
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2nd Grade Animal Masks on display this month at TWIST
Paper mache masks of Native California Animals made by Gateway 2nd graders will be on display and for sale at Twist,
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Save The Date - HOS Book Club
April 12, 2012
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain,
by Dr. John Ratey
Copies of the book are available in the Main Office or at Book Shop Santa Cruz. Mention Gateway School Book Club and receive a 10% discount, or order online by clicking here.
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Mindfulness Blog 
by Rachel Sattinger, First Grade Faculty
The power of Yes! This little word, "Yes," keeps coming to visit me in delightful and unexpected ways. About 5 years ago I learned the YES! Game from my CircusYoga teachers Erin Maile O'Keefe and Kevin O'Keefe. It's an acting/clowning/pantomiming game with the basic premise that anything goes, from the realm of fantasy to extreme silliness, from serious to possibly even slightly inappropriate. The Yes! Game creates a space that allows us the opportunity to say yes to anything.
To read more click here.
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Parent Resources
Check out the Parent Resources page on our website for a link to parent workshops including:
a new online course offered by the Stanford University School of Education program Challenge Success.
Mindfulness Class for Parents and Educators this summer. Gateway will run an 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) class for parents and educators from June 19th - August 7th, 6-8:15pm. For more information, please email meg.corman-hall@gatewaysc.org.
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Financial Aid 2012-13
Financial Aid for the 2012-2013 School Year:
In order to apply for aid, you must file an online application through the FAST (Financial Aid for School Tuition) system and you must mail to FAST a copy of your complete 2011 tax returns. If you are divorced, separated or never married, please be aware that each parent must file a separate FAST application and each parent must submit a copy of his or her complete 2011 tax returns to FAST.
Families who completed their FAST applications by February 15th and mailed in their 2011 tax returns to FAST by February 24th will be considered for the first round of financial aid awards (the round in which the bulk of our financial aid budget is awarded). Families who complete their financial aid process after these dates will be considered for awards on a rolling basis, until the funds in our financial aid budget are exhausted. Please contact Rima in the Business Office at x 308 if you have any questions.
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Like us on Facebook!
Thanks to those of you who have recently done this. We invite all parents to "Like" us on Facebook to get news updates, photos and fun school info! www.facebook.com/GatewaySchoolSantaCruz
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