We're looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday night for the Open House. Highlights of the evening will include free samples from the
lunch caterer, last chance to register for lunch for September/October and a chance to drop off supplies. Thank you for your generous shopping. It sustains us all year long.      

 

A couple of notes about a few forms we need from you:    

 

• Lunch Menus - If you are able to return your August/September lunch selections electronically (scan your completed menu or email your selections to Gwendolyn Stangel) before the Open House it will help pace the workload of those processing them. The Open House is the deadline for lunches, no orders can be processed after that. Thank you in advance.         
• Educational Benefits - In a recent e-mail you received both a lunch menu and a form called Educational Benefits. This form determines whether your family may be eligible to receive lunch either free or at a reduced cost. We encourage you to fill out this form if you wonder whether you might qualify.  
  1. These forms are handled only by our lunch intake staff, this year Gwendolyn Stangel who has returned from being home with her twins to help us get ready for the year. No one else has access to the information on these forms. Confidentiality is important to us.
  2. The guidelines may be lower than you realize and you may be eligible. 
  3. If you are eligible for support, we encourage you to use the opportunity. It is actually beneficial to the school to have our percentage of families receiving free and reduced lunch accurately reflect our population.
• Supply Contribution - Each spring when the Board and I have made the budget we have weighted the pros and cons of cutting programs vs. raising revenues. Each year we make difficult choices. One way we ensure that we have money to buy all the curriculum materials is to request that families make a $35 per semester or $70 annual contribution per student to cover the cost of disposable materials such as writing and math notebooks.    Please fill out the supply form to indicate your payment arrangements, including a request for scholarship as necessary. We will make a follow-up request for these contributions in October, knowing that families are also now paying for school supplies. If you are in a position to pay in full and would like to cross your supply contribution off of your remembering list we encourage you to fill out the attached form and leave a payment on Open House night on Thursday.

  

Sincerely,