Summit Preparatory Charter High School
Published by Summit SPOT
December 2, 2013 |
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Important Dates
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This Week at Summit
- This week in Athletics (see article)
- Monday, December 2 - Morning with the Director, 8:30 a.m.
- Thursday, December 5 - Open House (for prospective Summit/Everest students), 7 - 9 p.m.
Upcoming Events
- Friday, December 13 - Deadline for Mid-year Transfers (see article)
- Friday, December 13 to Thursday, December 19 - Finals
Save the Date
- Friday, December 20 - Friday, January 3 - No School, Winter Break
- Monday, January 6 - First Day, Second Semester
- Monday, January 13 - Morning with the Director, 8:30 a.m.
All events are at Summit unless noted otherwise.
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Message from the Executive Director, Penelope Pak
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Dear Husky Families:
We hope everyone had a wonderful break with family and friends. We are incredibly grateful for the support that you have provided us throughout this school year, and we would like to take this time to welcome our community back for the last stretch of 2013 with some special "shout-outs":
Thank you to our parents Marilyn Ezrin and Stacy Guthmann, and our students Alexis Straiten, Adrianna Corrales, Laurel Naylor, Cheyenne Seneca, Lili Mourier, Alexander Guthmann, Jeremy Ezrin, JC Angulo, and Russell Wong, for participating in our phone bank evening to help raise $250,000 for our basic operating costs. Thank you to the 20 families who have donated over $60,000 to our annual fundraising campaign, and to the families who have promised financial support.
Thank you to our students for working hard each day to prepare for success in college, career, and life. Your persistence continues to amaze us, and we feel incredibly lucky to be a part of your life journey.
Thank you to our parent community for volunteering endless hours to support our students, families, and faculty members. Sandra Cheung -- thank you for taking the lead on SPOT, and organizing our parent volunteer opportunities! Martha Perez -- thank you for volunteering four hours of your personal time to clean our kitchen! And to all of the parents who have provided delicious treats for our faculty meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays -- thank you for celebrating our teachers! They work very hard everyday to personally support all 400 of our students, and it is such a reward to begin our faculty meetings with the snacks you have prepared. Thank you for your compassion and kindness.
And finally, thank you to all of our fabulous teachers for supporting our students and colleagues organization-wide during a tremendous time of need. A few days before our holiday break, Justin Semana, a Summit Public School: Rainier junior, unexpectedly passed away. This tragic event has affected our entire SPS community, and our thoughts and prayers have been with the students, families, and colleagues of our San Jose schools. In support of our former colleagues who lead our sister schools -- David Richards, Lia Pinelli, and Nick Kim -- and our teachers and students in San Jose, the Summit Prep faculty spent the last Friday before break at Rainier and Tahoma. Below are a few words of thanks from our San Jose partners:
From Tori Pennings (Former Summit Prep student teacher and current faculty at SPS: Rainier):
"It was such a relief to have the teachers from Summit Prep here. We really needed them."
From Leo Carrillo (Former Summit Prep student teacher and current faculty at SPS: Rainier)
"Thank you very much for helping and supporting our students, teachers, and admin. You helped us get through the rough day. It was great to see our SPS community come together to support and be there for each other."
We are so grateful for our entire SPS family -- together we are a group of students, parents, and educators that believe in the power of community, and the importance of building personal relationships across all of our schools. We will miss Justin dearly, and we will always remember him as a model student and community member. To celebrate Justin, we have created this tribute (bit.ly/1cU6TYi) to capture his time with us. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and community.
Thank you.
Penelope K. Pak
Executive Director
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Administration
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 Mid-Year Transfer Spaces Available. We will have spaces available for mid-year transfers at every grade level (including a couple of coveted spaces in the 9th grade!). If you know of anyone who is interested in joining our community, please encourage them to get in touch with Patti Giamoni at pgiamoni@summitprep.net, and to do the following:
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SPOT
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Grade Level Ambassadors. As a reminder, this year, the SPOT is led by a small team of Grade Level Ambassadors (see below) - through whom key communications and volunteer designations will be accomplished.
Key Volunteer Positions Needed - for questions or to fill either of these positions, drop us an email at: spotsummit@gmail.com.
- eScrip Administrator Assistant. eScrip is a program by which you can earn money for Summit by shopping. We are looking for an assistant to the administrator who can roll out the program at school, and who can do lightweight administration. The time commitment is not expected to exceed 3 hours a month - and counts towards your 30 annual hour volunteering requirements.
- Husky T-Shirts and Hoodies Administration. We have now moved to selling our Husky Wear at the front desk, but we are looking for a parent volunteer who can track sales, manage inventory (place new orders), and manage the money we make. The sale of these items is one of the several vehicles the school has to raise funds.
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Community High School Foundation
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Fundraising at Summit Prep Last week, ten Summit students joined the Executive Director, Penelope Pak, and Summit parents Marilyn Ezrin and Stacy Guthmann to call the families at Summit to ask for donations to the annual direct drive. The students were driven to help out to show their appreciation for the education that they receive at Summit. Our goal this year is to raise $250,000 for the operation of the school. We currently only have 20% of our families participating in the Direct Drive and we would be grateful if every family can make a contribution, to the best of their ability, to the Direct Drive. Please show that you value your child's education as much as they do.Any questions about how your funds will benefit the school, students, and faculty can be addressed to: spotsummit@gmail.com. Shop and Earn Cash for Summit! Just in time for holiday shopping, we have enabled our Summit parent website to earn cash for our school as you (and your friend and family) shop at Amazon. To do this, you must initiate from our website: http://www.summitspot.org/ - and click on the Amazon button. The rest is easy!
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Community Support
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Typhoon Aid - The largest TV station in the Philippines has an office here in Redwood City (ABS-CBN) and they are asking for donations of baby diapers, baby formula, clean underwear of all sizes and over-the-counter skin care medications (e.g. Neosporin antibiotic and Anti-itch, caladryl) to send to the Philippines to help the victims of Typhoon Haiyan.
Please bring your donations and leave them in the box at the front desk at the school. On behalf of all the Filipino families at Summit we thank you for your help.
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Athletics
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Sports Activities
Come show your Husky pride and cheer on your Husky teams at their first games!
Girls Basketball Game -- Tuesday, December 3 at 3:30 p.m. vs. Mt. View Academy, 360 So. Shoreline Blvd., Mt. View.
Boys Basketball Game -- Tuesday, December 3 at 7 p.m. vs. Los Gatos High School, 20 High School Court, Los Gatos. The gym is in the back.
Basketball and Soccer practice - go to MaxPreps Website: http://bit.ly/183SRRR. Click on the sport and then calendar.
Stanford Concession Fundraising. Thank you!! There are a few spots left for the December 7 (PAC 12 Championship Game!!) Sign-up here: http://bit.ly/1672c9m.Have any sports-related questions? Please email questions to Candace at summitprepathletics@gmail.com. (Return to Top) |
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Community Opportunities
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The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music!Don't miss the chance to perform in Rodgers' and Hammerstein's beloved musical classic, The Sound of Music! Peninsula Youth Theatre will hold auditions for actors ages 8-18, on December 7 and 8 with performances March 1-9, 2014. For more information and to schedule and audition time, please visit www.pytnet.org. No te pierdas la oportunidad de actuar en el clásico musical de Rogers y Hammerstein, The Sound of Music! Peninsula Youth Theatre llevará a cabo audiciones para actores edades 8 a 18 dic 7 y 8 con las actuaciones 1 a 9 marzo, 2014. Para más información y para programar y escuchar, por favor visite www.pytnet.org.
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