On behalf of the Board of Trustees, faculty, staff and children, we would like to thank everyone in our school community for making our Imagine Wild Wild West event such a great success.  Paddles were raised to over $39,000 for our Fund-A-Need for Technology!  We will be able to resume upgrading the technology used by our teachers and students ensuring that powerful teaching and learning continues. 

We are having a fun competition among the grades from now until the end of the day on Friday, October 26.  Your student's class can win a non-uniform day! 

 

In just four days we collected $77  in Box Tops. The standings for the non-uniform day so far look like this:

Second Grade is in the lead for K - 2

Third Grade is in the lead for 3 - 5

Seventh Grade is in the lead for 6 - 8

Presentation's new Shop and Support program allows you to purchase gift cards for everyday shopping and more. A percentage of these each card purchased is donated back to our school.

 

SCRIP is a gift card from national and local retailers, the same you would buy at the store. Many popular local retailers participate in our SCRIP program, (see attached list), such as Safeway, Whole Food, Lucky, CVS, Rite Aid, Starbucks, Papa Murphy's, Shell & 76 gas, and many more. You can even order Land's End SCRIP to buy your uniforms and 16% will come back to the school!

 

Participating retailers agree to sell gift cards to our school at a discount. Member families buy the cards at full-face value and redeem them for full-face value, and our school keeps the difference as revenue. SCRIP benefits all parties as the retailer gets cash up front and repeat business, you can help raise funds for the school without having to sell anything, and the school gets a regular source of revenue to help wherever needed.

 

The best part about SCRIP is that you are putting your regular household spending dollars to work. You can earn money for our school by not spending an additional penny above your regular shopping dollars.

 

We plan on having a SCRIP table during drop off and pick up once a week where you can place new orders, pick up the orders you have placed, or just to ask general questions about the program. This Tuesday morning Kelly Pucci will be in the library happy to help families to sign up.

 

You can also email any questions to the SCRIP coordinator at scrip@presentationschool.com.

Our See's Candy fundraising takes place two times a year - during the winter and spring holidays.  Your child should have brought home flyers last week.  Please considering making your gift and holiday candy purchases through Presentation to support our school. 

 

A big thank you to Kirstin Flaherty for spearheading the See's Candy sales each year.

Wednesday, October 24th is the Picture Make-up Day and we will be retaking the all school photograph that day as well, right after lunch.  You must notify the office in advance if your child will be having their photo re-taken.

All students need to be in Dress Uniform on Wednesday. The good news is that all students will have non-uniform days on Thursday, October 25 and Friday, November 2. 

The Parents Association met last week and is very excited about our new SCRIP program.  You will be receiving more information on how to sign up this week.   Also, don't forget to check your eScrip account and update it if necessary.  For those of you who have not signed up it is an easy process and only takes a few minutes.  Our ID number is 137107396.

 

The Association will be holding a Bake Sale on Friday the 26th after school to benefit the Presentation Garden.  We are asking for donations of cakes, cookies or cupcakes to be brought to the office Friday morning.  This will be an all cash event we will not be able to charge school accounts for this.

 

We have had a great start on our Box Tops drive, please keep saving and bringing them in.  There are envelopes in each class for you or your children to drop them off.

Also, don't forget to participate in some of our other fundraising programs, like See's Candy, Papa Murphy's night and Dine and Donate at Mary's Pizza.

 

We would like to encourage parents to come to our monthly meetings to see special speakers and stay for our business meeting.  We have great committees that always welcome new volunteers, please consider joining a committee or volunteering for one of their events.  The following is a list of our committees: Speaker Series, Angels, Dad's Club, Presentation Garden and Social.  You can pick up a flyer in the office with more details on these committees or feel free to Contact Co-President Carolina Salmonsen at 707-694-4100 or csalmonsen@msn.com.

Presentation students Annabella Curotto and Taylor Owen at the NBYFC  Cheer Competition at Sonoma State on October 21.

A huge thank you to school parent Ryan Granko of Granko Consulting who provides the school with all of its audio/visual and computer support.  Ryan is always willing to come to our aid and he has been invaluable in our migration over to the new systems, hardware and software our students are enjoying this year.

Help Needed!:  We are still in need of help in after-care on Friday afternoons and substitute (fill-in) lunch helpers on occasional week days. Please let Laura Wallace in the office know if you can help out!

 

Hooded Jackets:  Order should be placed for Presentation School water resistant hooded jackets (considered acceptable outwear at school) at the office this week.  Sizes range from youth XS to adult XXL but the jackets do run small so keep that in mind.  The cost is $49.

 

Yearbooks!!:  Yearbooks are on sale now and available online only this year! Current price is $45, prices go up at the end of October.  Use this link for Jostens and order yours today!

 

eScrip: Remember to register of renew your Safeway card at www.escrip.com.  Group ID - 137107396

  

PARKING:  The lane in front of the school is for rapid pick-up and drop-off only. At pickup, please DO NOT park in front of the school to wait for your student.  If no parking spots are available, the black top is available. Thank you for your cooperation.

 

GOOGLE DRIVE: We have a new system for how students save documents that they are working on on school computers, which can also be viewed from computers at home.  Ask your child about it.  Our goal is for all middle school students to be adept at it by the end of this month.