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.

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Summit Rainier YahooGroup

Diane Tom

If you would like to join the Rainier Parent 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 respond to the confirmation

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

Labels for Education

We are now collecting Labels for Education. Drop off your labels in the Rainier office.

Bookmark our new Amazon link today and Amazon will donate up to 10% of your purchases to Rainier.

Upcoming Dates and Deadlines

This Week

Through Friday, January 31 - Expeditions, 9am- 3pm, followed by mandatory PLT with Friday Check In Mentor - dismissal at 4pm (except Tuesday January 28, dismissal at 3pm)
Thursday, January 23 - Make Up Spring Athletics meeting for any students and their parents who would like to participate in Spring Sports and missed the previous meeting, Tahoma Campus, 6pm

Next Week

Tuesday, January 28 - Cafecito con los directores en espa�ol, Starbucks, 3pm
Wednesday, January 29 - Deadline for Uniform Orders. Order Form
Thursday, January 30 - 11th Grade College Night, Tahoma Campus, 6:30pm
Friday, January 31 - Coffee with the Director, Starbucks, 9am

Mark Your Calendars

Thursday, February 6 - PIVOT meeting, 6:30pm
Saturday, February 8 - Recruitment Open House, 10am

Message from the Directors

Dear Rainier Families,

We are pleased to announce that Jessica Miranda is returning to Rainier as our Office Manager for the remainder of the 2013-14 school year. As many of you know, Ms. Miranda started with Rainier and Tahoma as the Office Manager for both schools when we shared a campus, and was previously an Office Manager at another charter school. Ms. Miranda will continue to have some responsibilities for the Summit Human Resources team in addition to supporting Rainier this Spring. We are excited to have Ms. Miranda return to our team and are grateful for her support!

Students are currently in their two week Expeditions classes. After students finish their Expeditions course at 3pm, they will all go into one hour of PLT with their Friday check in mentor to finish the school day. Students will be dismissed at the regular 4pm dismissal time each afternoon, with the exception of Tuesday January 28, which will be a 3pm dismissal.

If students would like further support or need more time to work, teachers will offer after school PLT every afternoon from 4 - 5pm. The 11th graders after school PLT will be located in room 1213, 10th graders in room 1211 and 9th graders in room 1207. Each subject will take one day a week to cover after school PLT. If your student needs help in a specific subject, be sure to encourage your student to attend after school PLT on that day. The subject days are:

Monday: History
Tuesday: English
Wednesday: Spanish
Thursday: Math
Friday: Science

Because of changes to the faculty schedule during Expeditions and the additional hours of after school PLT, we will not be hosting before school PLT during Expeditions. While there will not be before school PLT hours for these two weeks, the campus will be open for students to be dropped off starting at 8am.

As always, we look to you to help support your student during this time to ensure that he/she is on track with their projects and playlists for each class. You can always check your student's progress on the PLP tool (http://app.mysummitps.org). If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to your student's mentor or teacher.

Respectfully,

Pamela Lamcke, Principal

Lia Pinelli, Assistant Director

Summit Public Schools: Rainier

Volunteers Needed

Recruitment Volunteers

Please continue to spread the word about Summit Public Schools. We are now accepting applications for next year's freshman class. Applications are due February 28th for the first lottery, and highest chance of acceptance. There will be Informational Open House meetings on January 21 (6:30pm at Tahoma), February 8 (10am at Rainier) and March 11 (6:30pm at Tahoma). Flyers are available in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Please distribute these flyers in your communities.

Parents and students are needed to help answer questions at the Open House events. Please volunteer to help on this list.

Field Trip Drivers

Drivers and Chaperones are needed for the Expeditions Computer Science class field trip to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on Friday, January 24, 9am-2pm. Your student does not need to be in the class for you to volunteer. Please sign up here.

Parent Accounts - Online Payments

Pamela Lamcke, Principal

We are encouraging families to enroll in our Online Payment program. This will allow you to make payments to the school including lunch payments, donations and payments for Study Trips and Yearbooks (coming soon) via an online system using your credit card. Registration forms (English and Spanish) are here, or you can enroll by visiting this website: http://bit.ly/spsparentsignup

Deadline for returning forms to the office or enrolling online is January 31.

College Corner

Pamela Lamcke, Principal

College Night - 11th Grade

Please join us for the next 11th grade College Night on Thursday, January 30 at 6:30pm at the Tahoma campus. The focus of the meeting will be on financial aid and paying for college. Presentations will be given by financial aid representatives from Santa Clara University in both English and Spanish. This is your chance to hear about paying for college from the experts! We hope you will join us.

Athletics

Coach J Bumagat, Athletic Director

Spring Sports Meeting (Make Up)

Last chance for students and their parents to attend a mandatory Parent/Athlete Spring Sport meeting for Spring baseball or softball.

When: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 6pm

Where: Tahoma Auditorium

Items needed:

1. All athletic documents which can be found on the Athletic Website under forms: rainierbulldogs.olinesports.com/links.php

2. Completed physical that clears the athlete for participation

3. $125 sports fee

No student will be allowed to participate if anything is missing. If you have questions, please feel free to email, phone or text Coach J at (408) 688-1995.

Roller Hockey

The joint Rainier-Tahoma Roller Hockey team, the Thunderdogs, will be playing two games on Saturday, January 25. They will play against Sobrato at 3pm and against Legacy at 5pm. The games are held at the Silver Creek Sportsplex located at 800 Embedded Way, San Jose, 95138. Come and cheer on Rainier team members: Meaghan Allen, Alex Angel, Prashant Bala, John Gundayao, Peter Le, Connor Murchison, Max Rogers, William Teav and Willy Teav.

Interact Club

John Gundayao

Members of Summit Rainier's Interact Club joined the Interact Club at Mt. Pleasant High School for a mixer last Friday, January 17. Both clubs enjoyed good food and had fun, while encouraging team and community building.

Interact is a club for youth who want to connect with others in their community and school. Interact club members have fun while carrying out service projects and learning about themselves and the world. This year's District 5170 (covering the South and East Bays) service project: The Answer is The Sun raises money to buy solar cookers for families in Afghanistan and raise environmental awareness in the community especially in a time of drought and intense smog (Instead of looking at the mirror, why not look outside.)

Please contact John Gundayao for more information about the Interact Club.

Fundraising

Thank you to Aaron and Dabbie Smith (on behalf of Philip - 11th grade, Sean - 11th grade and Aaron - 9th grade) for their recent donation to Summit Rainier. They join our Bulldog Circle of Families who have contributed $750 or more to support our school. We also appreciate the contributions of those who made pledges to donate throughout the school year. Unfortunately, we have not reached our goal yet, and ask that every family participate. For more information about our Fundraising efforts, please see the PIVOT website.

Amazon.com

Thank you to our parents and community members who have already made purchases using our Amazon link we have earned $276 so far this school year. Summit Rainier can earn up to 10% of the purchase price with no additional cost. Click on the link before you purchase and remember to use it every time you purchase from Amazon. Please share this link with your family and friends.

Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/?tag=rainpivo-20

Other ways to help

eScrip - Register your Safeway card, and a portion of your purchase comes back to Summit San Jose when you use your debit card, check, or cash. Credit cards will no longer earn contributions.

Shop at Target with a red card? Just indicate you'd like donations to go to Rainier here:

https://www-secure.target.com/redcard/tcoe/enroll

We have SHARES cards in the office for anyone who shops at SaveMart, Lucky, or FoodMaxx. Just slide your card before payment and we earn a percentage of each purchase, with no additional cost to you.

Stanford School of Medicine Internship Opportunity

The Stanford Medical Youth Science Program's (SMYSP) Summer Residential Program is an annual five-week science- and medicine-based enrichment program that takes place annually from mid-June to late July, and is held on the Stanford University campus.

The Summer Residential Program is open to low-income and ethnically diverse high school sophomores and juniors who live in northern and central California. Please visit our Summer Residential Program page for complete eligibility requirements, program details, and a link to our application. Postmark deadline is February 15.

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.