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Carpool Connection

Are you looking for other Summit Rainier families living in your area to set up a carpool? Please contact Sarah Paradise, Rainier's carpool coordinator with the following information, and she can help connect you with other families in your area:

Student's Name

Parents' Names

Street Address

Phone Number

Email address

Families have a 40 hour volunteer commitment per student enrolled - start logging your volunteer hours.

Volunteer Time Log

2013-2014

Please make sure you log in your hours using the link above. Families who have reached the 40 hour commitment will be recognized in future editions of the newsletter and on this page of the PIVOT website.

See our Facilities volunteers in action here: photos.

Rainier

Back To School Night

Thursday, September 19

6:30-8:30pm

Message from the Directors

Dear Rainier Families,

Back to School Night

A reminder that our Back to School night will be on Thursday, September 19 from 6:30-8:30pm. We look forward to seeing you at Back to School Night.

API Scores

We are excited to announce that Rainier has maintained our API score of 823. This score ranks us among the top public high schools in Santa Clara County, as well as in the top schools in East Side Union High School District. We are also pleased to announce significant growth in both our low-income and Latino subgroups. The API scores for both low-income and Latino students ranks us in the top 20% of high schools in the county as well. Congratulations to our students and faculty from 2012-13 for continuing to shine!

Respectfully,

Pamela Lamcke, Principal

Lia Pinelli, Assistant Director

Summit Public Schools: Rainier

Recruitment Open Houses

Our first Summit San Jose Recruitment Open House is coming up on Tuesday, October 1 (with additional events on November 5 and December 3) at 6:30pm on the Rainier campus. This will be the first opportunity to get and submit an application for the 2014-2015 school year and to sign up for shadow events and tours. Be sure to tell your friends and family to get their applications in early to have the highest chance of acceptance.

We also have a limited number of immediate openings in our current classes. For more information or if you have questions, please contact Assistant Director Lia Pinelli or call (408) 831-3104.

College Corner

Summit San Jose College Night

11th grade students and families, please attend our College Night on Tuesday, September 24 at 6:30pm on the Rainier campus. You will receive information about what to expect from junior year, what steps juniors should be taking to prepare for college, and what to expect from the Expeditions College Readiness course. Presentations will be given in English and Spanish.

Note: This event is designed just for the 11th grade class and families. Events for the 10th and 9th grades will be held October 24 and November 21 respectively.

CSU Event

Here is an opportunity to find out about all of the CSU campuses.

CSU College Night - Wednesday, October 2, 2013

6-8pm at the Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy in Santa Clara.

Athletics

Coach J Bumagat, Athletic Director

Boys and Girls Wrestling

There will be a meeting on Friday, September 20 at lunch for all Rainier students (boys and girls) interested in joining the wrestling team this year. Feel free to bring your lunch to this meeting.

Last year, the Summit San Jose Wrestling team was very successful, with wrestlers placing and winning in every tournament attended. The plans are for 6 frosh/soph and 6 varsity tournaments.

Conditioning will beging Monday, September 23 - time/location TBD. Cost for the season is $125. Girls are welcome, so please spread the word. If you are interested in being contacted with further information, please contact Teresa Attebery.

Coaches are needed! Anyone with previous wrestling experience interested in coaching, please contact Coach Ernest Mendez.

Winter Sports Meeting

There will be a mandatory parent and athlete meeting for all Winter sports (Basketball and Wrestling) on October 10 at 6pm in the Tahoma campus auditorium.

Cross Country

Our Cross Country team is doing great. We had a great race at the Chieftain Invitational at Toro Park in Salinas - the competition was tough, but our runners were ready for it all. They started strong and finished strong. Congratulations to all and thanks to the parents for their tremendous support. The Cross Country meet schedule can be found here.

Volleyball

On Friday and Saturday, September 13 and 14, the Rainier and Tahoma teams participated in the two day Dig Pink Volleyball Tournament hosted by Santa Clara High School. Both did very well and bettered themselves as teams. It was an intense two days, where the players, coaches and parents had fun while supporting a cause to raise awareness about breast cancer and research. Special thanks to all our wonderful coaches, parents and volleyball teams for their hard work. The Volleyball game schedule can be found here.

More information about our sports teams is available on our website: rainierbulldogs.olinesports.com

Roller Hockey

Prashant Bala and Mr. Evan Lee

Summit is trying to start a roller hockey team. This is a co-ed team - boys and girls - and any grade level - freshmen, sophomores or juniors - can join. You do not need any equipment. Depending on how many students we can get to join, the price will vary. Are there any parents who would like to sponsor our team, or do you have old equipment that the team could use? Please contact Prashant Bala or Coach Mr. Lee for more information.

Summit Rainier YahooGroup

Diane Tom

We are happy to announce the launch of a Yahoo Group to facilitate communication between Summit Rainier parents/guardians. This group is set up to answer questions and build community. If you would like to join this listserve/email group, you can join in one of three ways:

1. Go to the group home page and click Join

2. Send a blank email to this address and responding to the confirmation

3. Email group moderator, Diane Tom and she will send you an invitation to the group

Morning and Afternoon Traffic

Rainier drivers: The white painted curb on Marten Ave is for Rainier pick-up/drop-offs but it goes unused while many folks are double-parking directly in front of the Rainier gate. This is unsafe both for our students and the surrounding community, please pull up to the white curb to drop off your students.

Traffic monitors

Volunteers are needed to direct traffic at the curb on Marten Ave in front of the Rainier gate during morning drop-off (8:30-9am) and afternoon pick-up (3:50-4:20pm). Please sign up for your choice of day and shift here (scroll down to On-campus).

Volunteers Needed

Janet Amaro, Communications Committee Chair

These are some of the volunteer jobs that we need filled.

Office help - Can you come in on a regular basis to help in the office? We especially need help covering the phones during the lunch hour so that Ms. Martinez can do lunch duty. Please contact Ms. Martinez in the office (408) 831-3104 ext 5001 if you are interested in helping.

Lunch help - We need one volunteer per day to come help Ms. Margie distribute lunches to our hungry students. On regular weeks, we need someone from 1-1:30pm, during Expeditions help is needed 11:45am-12:15pm. If you can volunteer even one day a week, that would be a great help. Please contact Ms. Pinelli.

Gardening - We still need volunteers who can help with watering our container plants until we can get drip irrigation installed, so that our plants don't die. Please contact Janet Amaro if you can help water the plants one day a week.

Proofreader - A parent is needed to proofread this newsletter on a weekly basis, with a 24 hour turnaround. Please email newsletter editor, Lisa Kobayashi for more information.

Mentor Group Parents - Each student is assigned a mentor group, each group needs at least two parent leads to serve as the first branch of a phone/email tree between the mentor teacher and the other parents in the group. Ideally, one of the leads should be fluent in Spanish, but don't hesitate to volunteer if you are monolingual. If you are interested in this volunteer opportunity, please contact Lupe Trujillo.

Thank you to the following families who have already reached their 40 hour commitment:

Janet Amaro, on behalf of Daniel Amaro (10th grade)
Phillis, Randy and Kristen Chan on behalf of Kristen Chan (10th grade)
Domminique Nguyen, Ingrid Tran, Katherine Huynh, Minh, Michael & Brandon Diep on behalf of Brandon Diep (9th grade)
Patti & Steve Hares on behalf of Jeff Hares (11th grade) & Connor Hares (9th grade)
Ben, Makiko & Emili Hartwell on behalf of Emili Hartwell (9th grade)
Karen, Aaron, Ashley & Samantha Luna on behalf of Andrea Luna (9th grade)
Nancy Ho, The, Anna & Andrew Nguyen on behalf of Andrew Nguyen (9th grade)
Sam & Katie Reguindin on behalf of Katie Reguindin (11th grade)
Helen & Forest Sironen on behalf of Forest Sironen (9th grade)
Maria, Frank, Hildeberto & Andrew Sousa, Robert Castilo, & Carla Ramos on behalf of Andrew Sousa (11th grade)

Please use the link in the left column to log your hours.

Fundraising: GiveWith.Target.com

Last Chance to Vote - Use this link: GiveWith.Target.com to vote for our school. So far, we have 66 votes! For each vote, we get $1 from Target. This is an easy fundraiser for the school - we would love everyone to help us. So please remember that, although the gesture is small, the rewards are potentially huge. Vote for Rainer Charter High School NOW!

Labels for Education

We are now collecting Labels for Education to redeem for school and athletic supplies for Rainier students. Look for these labels on packages of Pepperidge Farms cookies & crackers, V-8 beverages, Campbell soups & Swanson broths, Dannon, Post cereals, PopSecret and more. A full list of participating products is here. Drop off your labels in the box in the Rainier office.

Amazon.com

Do you shop at Amazon.com? Bookmark our new Amazon link today and Amazon will donate up to 10% of your purchases to Rainier! The donation comes out of Amazon's pockets not yours, so it is a painless way to donate. To take advantage of this program, simply visit Amazon.com from this link, shop and check out as you nor
mally would and Amazon does the rest!

P.S. For all of our wonderful families who have been using eScrip's Amazon link: please switch to this new Amazon link while continuing to use eScrip for everything else. eScrip gives Rainier a maximum of 2.5% per Amazon purchase while using our new link brings in a minimum of 4% per Amazon purchase!

Amazon Associate link
http://www.amazon.com/?tag=rainpivo-20

Camping Trip Lost and Found

There are a few items that remain in the office from the Camping Trip.

Sleeping bag - Red bag that is held together by a leather belt
Sleeping bag - Blue Ozark Trail brand, in a stuff bag with a red thermal shirt
various rainfly covers - the piece that goes over the tent

If these might belong to you, please come claim them.

Upcoming Dates and Deadlines

Thursday, September 19 - Back to School Night, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Friday, September 20 - Coffee with the Directors - join us for an informal chat at the Starbucks at White and Story, 9-10am
Tuesday, September 24 - College Night for 11th grade families - 6:30-8:30pm at Rainier
Thursday, September 26 - School Closed
Friday and Saturday, September 27-28 - Personalized Learning Plan meetings (time will be scheduled)
Tuesday, October 1 - Recruitment Open House for families interested in enrolling at Summit San Jose, 6:30pm
Thursday, October 3 - PIVOT meeting, notes from the last meeting on the PIVOT website, 6:30pm
Monday, October 7 - Picture Day

Rainier's School Year Calendar Color / Black & White

School Events Calendar on the PIVOT website.

Newsletter Submissions

Is there something you would like to have included in a future edition? Rainier's newsletter comes out weekly on Wednesdays. The deadline for submissions is Monday at noon. Please email articles to the Rainier Newsletter Editor. Early submissions are welcome and appreciated.