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Summit Public Schools: Rainier
1750 S. White Road (enter from Marten Ave.)
San Jose, CA 95127
(408) 831-3104
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Executive Director
Assistant Director
Office Manager
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Quick Links...
(Parents and Students for a Common Goal, formerly known as Rainier PIVOT)
(real time information!)
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Bookmark our new Amazon link today and Amazon will donate up to 10% of your purchases to Rainier. |
Families have a 40 hour volunteer commitment per student enrolled - start logging your volunteer hours.
Please make sure you log in your hours using the link above. |
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In Case You Missed It
Items below are previously published items from the Rainier Newsletter
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12th grade reminders
Senior Portraits
Don't forget to make your appointment to take your Senior Portraits. Go to Pro Image Studio to schedule your appointment. Portraits must be taken by November 8.
ACT and SAT Testing
Fall testing dates are approaching soon. Make sure to register by the deadline. If you qualify for free or reduced price lunch, fee waivers are available in the office. |
College Visits
College representatives will be visiting Rainier and Tahoma:
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Global Glimpse
This summer, Ms. Goddard will be taking a small group of rising seniors to Nicaragua through the Global Glimpse program. We will be sharing more details in the future, but if you are curious you can watch this video and contact Ms. Goddard.
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Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office's Teen Community Police Academy
Students interested in learning more about law enforcement careers can participate in the Teen Academy 10 week program on Wednesday evenings, 6-9pm at the Sheriff's Office, West Valley Division, in Cupertino. Applications are available at the West Valley Substation, 1601 S. DeAnza Blvd, Cupertino, and are due by September 25.
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Rainier Carpool Coordination
Are you interested in carpooling to or from school? Please sign up on this link and follow the instructions. For more information please contact John Gundayao or call (408) 718-9570.
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Bulldog Athletics
Coach J Bumagat
Winter Athletics
For students interested in participating in Winter Basketball, Wrestling or Soccer there will be a mandatory parent/athlete sports meeting on September 17, 2014 at 6pm in the Summit West building located on the Tahoma campus. The make up meeting will be held September 24. All interested participants need to attend.
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Request for Empty 2 liter Soda Bottles
Ms. Shemyakina
AP Environmental Studies Teacher
Our second APES project has to do with building ecosystems within plastic bottles. We need as many 2 liter soda bottles as we can get by Friday, September 12.
Here is an image of the PERFECT soda bottle:  Some details: - Clear plastic (green does not work)
- "Flat" sides (the curvy new Coke bottles do not work as well)
- Gently rinsed out with water please! (dried soda is hard to clean out)
- With caps if possible (but not required)
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Goodwill Collection Event
Help advertise on your Facebook page, just cut and paste the section below to help raise funds for our Summit schools.
Saturday, September 27, 10am - 4pm
The Goodwill Trailer will be in the Tahoma turn-around (14271 Story Road) to accept E-waste, clothing, shoes, toys, household appliances and housewares - pretty much everything except large furniture.
The more we collect, the more money we raise for Rainier and Tahoma - we made almost $1500 last time by filling up the trailer! Please help us reach our goal of filling up another trailer!
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En Español
Tan pronto como la edición en español está disponible, una copia impresa estará disponible en la recepción.
¿Quieres traducir esto ahora? Ver el boletín como una página web. Utilice el enlace en la parte superior "Click here to view as a webpage." ("Haga clic aquí para ver esta página en la red.") Copiar la dirección de la página en la red. Vaya a esta página web:
Copie la dirección web en la caja. Haga clic en el botón "Translate". (Haga clic en El Botón "Traducir")
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Upcoming Dates and Deadlines
- TODAY Wednesday, September 10 - Teaching and Learning Tour, 3pm
- Thursday, September 11 - Camping Trip Debrief meeting, outside at the tables, 3:30pm. (If you can't attend please send feedback to Patti Hares)
- Thursday, September 11 - Back to School Night - Part 2, 6:30pm
- Weeks of September 15-18 and September 22-26 - Expeditions
- Wednesday, September 17 - Winter Athletics Mandatory meeting (Basketball, Wrestling, and Soccer), Summit West on the Tahoma Campus, 6pm (make up meeting September 24)
- Thursday, September 18 - Make up picture day
- Friday, September 19 - Deadline to register for PSAT on October 18. See below for information.
- Friday-Saturday, September 19-20 - PLP meetings with families to be scheduled with mentors (no regular classes on Friday so that meetings can be held).
- Saturday, September 27 - Goodwill Collection Event at Tahoma turn around, 10am-4pm
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Message from the Directors
Dear Bulldog Families,
We are excited to announce that we have had more than ten students join our community in the past three weeks! The most important consequence here is that these students will now have the benefit of a world class education and supportive relationships with our amazing faculty here are Rainier. This also earns us a donation of $20,000 to help us implement some of the orientation projects that your students did earlier in the year. We will start that process during Expeditions and put student in the role of project management to help build their skills! If your child has an idea that they are particularly passionate about, encourage them to reach out to their teachers individually and advocate for their campus improvement.
We also wanted to remind you about three important parent and student support structures we have coming up. First of all, today is our first Teaching and Learning tour. This event is focused on our classroom instruction and allows you to visit classrooms with Mr. Roe and ask questions about anything you saw. We will start in the office at 3pm. Next, Back to School Night Part 2 is tomorrow evening at 6:30 pm. BTSN1 was focused on getting to know the school and your student's mentor. BTSN2 covers our academic program in more depth and will help you understand how to support your student. Next Friday and Saturday are our PLP Family Goals meetings. These meetings between families, student, and mentor are essential for helping students set goals that will lead them to being successful here at Rainier and in college. Your student's mentor should have reached out to you to schedule this meeting. If you have not scheduled a meeting, please reach out to your child's mentor this week. Faculty emails can be found on this page. Our students and parents had a great time on the camping trip and the students and teachers are extremely grateful to the volunteers who drove students and cooked meals. Thank you very much, we could not have made the trip happen without you. Despite the being tired from activity and lack of sleep, many students and teachers have reported that the trip left them refreshed and excited to get back into the classroom. Our next big off campus event is our study trips in the Spring, be on the look out for information about that and a request for more parent volunteers.
If you have driven past the campus recently, you may have seen that the four portables in the front have been taken down. We are hopeful that the remaining construction work to improve our campus will be completed in the near future.
Sincerely,
Jesse Roe, Executive Director
Kevin Bock, Assistant Director
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PSCG - Parents and Students for a Common Goal
Dear Summit Rainier Community!
It was great to see everyone at the PSCG meeting - we are immensely impressed by the number of students at the meeting! Attendance was split almost 50/50 between parents and students. What a wonderful testament to our dedicated student population and your desire to build 'your' school.
PSCG has five committees that are looking for active student and parent input and participation. There are a couple of spots open which we would love to see filled. We would like to introduce the committees and respective chairs. Please extend a warm welcome to our team!
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Communications:
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John Silva (P), OPEN (S)
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Events:
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Helen Sironen (P), Dillon Pardini (S)
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Student Activities:
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Varies - We are happy to announce we have 17 clubs at Rainier!
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Student Recruitment:
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Crystal Speed (P), OPEN (S)
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Volunteers:
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OPEN (P) John Gundayao (S)
Facilities: Maria Souza (P)
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*(P) Parent, (S) Student
Katie Goddard, 11th grade Summit Teacher is the Advisor to Rainier's Student Council and she is in the process of building a strong student council team with Rainier's student population, which will be an integral part of PSCG.
The next PSCG meeting is scheduled for Thursday, October 2 at 6:30pm. The individual committees are utilizing the next few weeks to define their short term goals between now and December. Their meeting times will be published soon - please consider joining one of these committees and/or reach out to the respective chairs (parent or student).
Linked is a PowerPoint presentation highlighting our mission, goals, committees and areas where you can lend your time and talent. The file already lists some Summit parents and students which have expressed an interest in certain areas. If your name is listed, please make contact with one of the chairs listed above.
We thank everyone for their support of Summit Rainier PSCG! Go Bulldogs!! Sylvia Pardini (Dillon '15) Julie Ramirez (Amanda '17) Co-Chairs
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PSAT Testing - 11th and 10th Graders
Mr. Bock, Assistant Director
The Preliminary SAT or PSAT will be offered at one of our Summit San Jose campuses this year on Saturday, October 18. This is an important exam opportunity for 10th and 11th grade students. This exam serves the following three purposes:
- A very high score (top 1 - 3% nationally) can bring scholarships through the National Merit Scholarship Organization, colleges, corporations, and other institutions for any 11th grade student
- The National Merit organization has a separate scholarship program for any 11th grade student who identifies as "Black" or "Hispanic" (these are the words the organization uses) and who also scores well on the exam
- Any score can help a 10th or 11th grade student understand if the SAT might be a better match college entrance exam as compared to the ACT. (In general, the ACT aligns better with college-ready skills and curriculum than the SAT, but for some students the SAT is still the stronger test.)
We encourage all students to take advantage of this opportunity. The exam costs $14. Students can pay with cash or check. Students who are on scholarship will have support to pay for the cost of the exam. You can find more information about the PSAT exam, including other local high schools who offer the PSAT, on the College Board website.
Students who want to register to take the exam with Summit need to talk directly to Mr. Bock by the end of the day on Friday, September 19.
Another (free!) opportunity to take the PSAT is being offered by the San Jose Public Libraries and Kaplan. Participants must contact the branch to receive the registration code to participate. Click here for more information: Kaplan SAT Practice Exam
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Interact Club Help Needed
Interact Club is looking for drivers who can take us to events after-school such as bowling, the movies, fundraisers, etc. If you're able to help, please e-mail Amanda Ramirez at aramirez.ra@mysummitps.org. We especially encourage parents whose kids are in Interact to become drivers for us.
Also, we're looking for cardboard boxes (preferably white or tan), duct tape, hot glue guns (we can return them), construction paper in white, light blue and black, and rope. If you can help by donating items by Wednesday September 17, please contact John Gundayao. An online sign up list can be found here. Drop off items in Mr. Avarca's room, 1220.
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Breakthrough Silicon Valley
Breakthrough Silicon Valley is looking for Juniors and Seniors to be part of their after school math program. High school and college students teach their own classes of middle school students. Class sizes are small, with less than 10 students per room, and each teacher receives intensive training, individualized support and lesson materials from experienced BSV staff members.
As an after-school math teacher, you will lead students in number talks, critical thinking word problems, and Khan Academy practice, as well as support the implementation of our "Student Success Skills" program with the training and supervision of Breakthrough's staff members.
More information at their website: Breakthrough Silicon Valley. You can also speak to Mr. Avarca if you are interested or have questions about the program.
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CodeNow
CodeNow is a non-profit that provides free three-day computer programming training to high schools students. No prior programming experience is necessary - just an open mind and eager attitude to learn! The fall workshop is scheduled for Sept 27, 28, and Oct 11. More details are available by checking out this flyer.
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Newsletter Submissions
Newsletter items are due Monday at noon for publication on Wednesday afternoon. Please email articles to the Rainier Newsletter Editor. |
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