Sixth grade has begun their study of ancient pasts with the unit Dig It!  The students have become archaeologists and studied the stone ages.  They have learned about the development of man and are currently learning the three eras: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic.  Each era has distinct advances in language, culture and technology. 

Over the summer, we were sad to lose our much-beloved Finance Director Larry Christensen to another opportunity closer to his home.  We are pleased, however to introduce you to Virginia Turner who will serve as our bookkeeper for the coming year.  Virginia is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and she has a notable depth of experience as a bookkeeper for a variety of area businesses.  Earlier in her career, she spent eleven years with the Federal Reserve Bank as an Accounting Coordinator and Specialist.  Virginia is excited to help the tuition and incidentals billing process at Presentation go as smoothly as possible.  Please join us in welcoming her to the Presentation family.  Stop by and introduce yourself if you haven't already.

Congratulations to everyone who tried out for our fall drama.   The first rehearsal is this Thursday and rehearsals will be after school several days a week from now through December.  Contact Director Lauren Miller for more details.

Amazingly, the 2013-2014 school year admissions cycle is already underway.  Do you know of a family who might be interested in the Presentation School for next fall?

If so, please invite them to join you, and us, at a cocktail party on Thursday, October 25 at the home of Don and Katie Sebastiani.  If you have some ideas of friends to invite, or would like to help out our admissions team, please email admissions@gmail.com.

Perhaps the most inspiring aspect of having visitors on campus over the past two weeks (Head of School candidates) was seeing and hearing their perspective on what is happening in our classrooms at Presentation.  A tour stop in Mrs. George's second grade classroom featured the whole class performing enthusiastic and impressive renditions of four different songs/dances for one of our visitors. Pictured here are the children rocking out to Rockin' Robin for music teacher Mrs. MacArthur.

 

Yearbooks!!:  Yearbooks are on sale now and available online only this year! Current price is $45, prices go up at the end of October.  Use this link for Jostens and order yours today!

 

eScrip: Remember to register of renew your Safeway card at www.escrip.com.  Group ID - 137107396

  

Scrip: We will be sending out a letter on how to sign up to order scrip store cards shortly at participants like Safeway, Starbucks, Lucky, Whole Foods, CVS, Rite Aid, Shell, 76, Papa Murphy's, Costco, Target, and online retailers like Amazon too.

 

PERKS:  Limited spots are still available!  See Mrs. Armer to register.

 

Our See's Candy fundraising takes place two times a year - during the winter and spring holidays.  Please look for the flyers that will come home with your children during these two drives, and please make your purchases through Presentation to support our school. 

 

PARKING:  The lane in front of the school is for rapid pick-up and drop-off only. At pickup, please DO NOT park in front of the school to wait for your student.  If no parking spots are available, the black top is available.  Thank you for your cooperation.

 

GOOGLE DRIVE: We have a new system for how students save documents that they are working on on school computers, which can also be viewed from computers at home.  Ask your child about it.  Our goal is for all middle school students to be adept at it by the end of this month. 

 

BYE BYE BIRDIE:  For those of you who haven't seen it, the recording quality of the Bye Bye Birdie DVDs we had made of the show were outstanding.  There are 10 copies for sale in the office for $20/each if you have not yet purchased one.