Monday-Friday, STAR Testing >>

Monday, Spring Fling planning meeting>>

Tuesday & Wednesday, Student Recognition Assemblies rescheduled for May 18 & 19>>
Wedneday, Dining for Dollars at Chili's>>

Thursday, 6th Grade Ice Cream sales

Students, parents, staff and friends .......

Join us for a Holmes Fundraiser at Chili's

Wednesday, May 4th, 11AM-10PM 

4060 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., 858-273-3058

15% of all proceeds will go to Holmes PTA.  Flyer must be presented at time of purchase.

6th grade ice cream sales will take place on Thursday, May 5th after school instead of Friday, May 6th.

**Student Recognition Assemblies changed from May 3 & 4 to May 18 & 19.

**Principal's meet and greet scheduled for May 19th has been cancelled due to the Clairemont Community of Schools Meeting on the same night. View our calendar for more info>>

Saturday, May 14th from 11AM-4PM

Time to dust off your favorite Star Wars costume, strap on your Mork suspenders or break out that trusty transporter - better yet, all three... it's time to Space Out (ie: dress up) for Holmes 49^th birthday party Spring Fling!

Holmes will be hosting their community event which includes live music and dance performances, our 3rd annual cake show - Outer Space, a-shop-in-a-black-light-and-laser room silent auction, theme basket raffle, free family games and activities, book exchange, pet adoption & care, small car show, fresh food vendors including grass-fed beef burgers, arts and crafts booths and e-recycling. This year we are working with the Madison and Clairemont clusters by inviting all our Clairemont schools to attend the event with the hope of igniting a relationship of communication and celebrating our schools together in our future community events.

Help us kick-off our Spring Fling Celebration with our Silent Auction preview night on Friday, May 13th at 6PM.  A "family friendly" movie will be shown outdoors, on the school campus, at dark and Joe's pizza of Clairemont will be available for purchase.  

None of this is possible without your help - please sign up for a volunteer shift as part of the fun with a friend, family member or neighbor.  Volunteer Sign-ups >>

May the force be with you, live long and prosper, nanu-nanu, to infinity... and beyond!

Jennifer Lonack, jlonack@gmail.com

Spring Fling Chair

Holmes Elementary, 4902 Mount Ararat Drive San Diego, CA 92111

"With a continued focus on Respecting, Reducing, Reusing and Recycling, the goal of this event is to inspire, educate and celebrate creativity through bringing together children's playfulness, student experimentation and technical study with professional expertise. Celebrating these individual traits, together, during a single event creates a unique and expansive atmosphere for all attendees.

When individuals get together and share their talents, regardless of age, a unique event is created that is not only entertaining but a celebration of individual gifts. This environment creates an opportunity to ignite within each participant a desire to explore what might be possible for themselves and their community as a whole.

...the idea of a birthday party is simple, but the possibilities of what could unfold is wonder-filled." 

CONGRATULATIONS to our newly elected 2011-2012 PTA Executive Board:

President---Christine Groves
VP Programs---Kristen Miner

VP Ways and Means---- Marlo Boyce

VP Membership---Christie Pearson-Wohlwend

VP Communications---David Zugman
Secretary---Andrea Camporesi
Treasurer---Jennifer Mattoon
Financial Secretary---Jessie Nettles
Auditor---Judy Smith

Historian--- Chris Pierce

Parliamentarian---Leigh Conner-Moyers

The new board will take their positions on July 1, 2011.  We are very grateful for their commitment to our children and our community.  This board and our many wonderful volunteers are going to be crucial to Holmes success next year! Please contact Christine Groves if you are interested in a committee position or if you can volunteer your time.   

HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL PLANNING COMMITTEE

WE ARE ALREADY LOOKING FOR EAGER PARENTS TO HELP PLAN OUR 2011 HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL!  WE MUST FORM A PLANNING COMMITTEE BEFORE THIS SCHOOL YEAR ENDS! 

If you love Halloween, carnivals, sharing good times with fun people or just seeing smiles on all our Holmes kids' faces, then this will be an event that you'd like to take part in.  Putting on this large event takes lots of planning and lots of help.  It truly cannot take place with only one or two volunteers, nor is that fair to the volunteers who are helping.  Volunteers on the planning committee will help with planning games, designing game booths, scheduling volunteers, finding prizes, making signs and banners, selling tickets, finding food vendors, acquiring donations and SO MUCH MORE!  If you can donate a few hours of your time next September and/or October, we'd truly appreciate it!  DAD'S ARE NEEDED TOO!  This event requires a lot of work from our Dads.  Contact Stacy Coulter if you can help make our 2011 Halloween Carnival the best ever.

Bullies Beware - New Policy Set to Eliminate Bullying, Harassment, Intimidation

In its commitment to providing all students and staff with a safe learning environment where everyone is treated with respect and no one is physically or emotionally harmed, the Board of Education has approved a policy stating that the district will not tolerate bullying (including cyber-bullying), harassment, or intimidation in any form at school or school-related events (including off-campus events, school-sponsored activities, school buses and any event related to school business), or outside of school hours with the intention to be carried out during any of the above. View the NEW policy>>