Dear La Entrada Families,

As the 2012-2013 school year comes to a close, the 2013-2014 PTA has already been hard at work preparing for another great year at La Entrada.  We must begin with a huge thank you to Laura Glader and Rachel Lokey, our past Presidents, for all of their time, energy, and leadership this past year.  Under their direction, the PTA had many successes.  New programs such as Reflections, Project Cornerstone, and Career Day will continue to enrich the culture of our campus. Returning programs such as the Family Picnic, the Used Book Fair, the Spelling Bee, and the Science Fair kept our traditions alive.  While many talented committee chairs and volunteers made all this happen, Laura and Rachel were the fearless leaders not only for these programs, but for 28 programs in total!  Thank you, Laura and Rachel!  

We are very excited about the number of volunteers who have already come forward to support the PTA in the coming year.  Almost all of our committee chair positions are full, but we are still searching for someone to lead the Family Picnic, the Halloween Event, and the Science Fair.  If you are interested in chairing any of these events, please contact our Volunteer Coordinator, MJ Crousore, at mjcrousore@gmail.com.  To secure your spot on our committee lists as a volunteer, just click here.  Please mark your calendars for Wednesday, August 28, at 9:00 a.m.  We will kick off the new school year with our first PTA General Meeting and we hope to see you there!

Finally, on behalf of our entire school community, we want to thank our new Principal, Shannon Potts, for taking the reins this year.  Shannon has been a huge supporter of our students, parents, and staff, and without her help and the help of Sonya Dineen, we would not have been able to accomplish all we did.  We are excited to partner with both of them as we move forward toward a new year that will certainly come with its own challenges and rewards.

Here's to a great summer!

Lisa Reid and Laurel Timpson

2013-2014 PTA Co-Presidents 

New Online Registration for 2013-2014 Returning Students 

Las Lomitas Elementary School District is excited to announce an online student data validation and registration system for the upcoming school year, called InfoSnap. The system is a secure and green process, which allows the district to verify all student demographic, emergency and medical information for your child prior to the start of the new school year. The system will also allow you to electronically sign most the annual permission forms for school district policies.

In short, this online process

• Replaces the annual Student Emergency Card updates
• Replaces most the hard copy student registration needs, there will still be a need to print and return some forms
• Offers online permission forms that your child typically brings home on the first day of school, many of which you can now "digitally" approve, and
• Offers you the ability to update or changes any of your family or student anytime!

By early August, you will receive a letter with instructions on how to access the system for your children. The email will contain a link/instructions and a secure "snapcode" that links directly to your student's information. You will create an account, that you will use each year for this process, and submit a form for each student in your family. To make the process easier for families with multiple students, you will have the option to copy all generic family information to all other students in your family.

We need all returning families to complete these forms before the start of school. If you do not have access to the Internet, please contact your child's school and you can make an appointment to use a school computer in the library.

Again, you don't need to do anything right now. Look for our letter with instructions in early August.

If you have any further questions, please contact Suzanne Mitchell, 650-854-3962 x199 or email smitchell@llesd.org.  Thank you.  And have a nice summer :)

Plan Ahead!  

Information on the Fall sports and after school classes will be up on our website http://www.laslomitasleague.com/ on August 1st so parents can start planning.  

Registration for both sports & classes will open on  August 22nd at 7 PM,  so remember to put this date down in your calendar.  

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