PTSA Membership Drive

It's time to renew your annual membership in PTSA and WIN!! 

Membership not only gives you a vote at our monthly meetings, but provides much-needed financial support for dozens of programs run by the PTSA. Your $16 fee helps to pay for emergency prep, carnival and dances, art night, and many other things, including grants to our teachers for classroom supplies. With your membership you will receive the highly popular student directory!

This year we are trying to get as close to 100% online enrollment as possible for the PTSA. First 100 members who register online receive a Colts window decal with a chance to win cool prizes like personal-size pizza gift certificates, music player, sports cam, and more!!  Get a jump on it!  Click HERE to complete your membership for the 2014-15 school year. Hard copy forms are also available if needed.

Thank you for your participation! 

PTSA Chairs/Coordinators needed

The PTSA is looking to fill a few roles for the current school year.  We are able to provide our children with many great opportunities at Horace Mann and need a few more people to help support the following programs.  Please contact PTSA Co-Presidents Lia White or Jean Chenevert to help or inquire at president@horacemannptsa.org. 

*NEW* Co-VP Enrichment: 

Don't you just love those after school programs?!!  Every year we have a wide variety of opportunities for kids conveniently located at the school.  The PTSA is looking for a Co-VP Enrichment to help with logistics of scheduling, registration, and recruitment for those amazing and fun programs.  Got some great ideas for after school activities for the kids?  Please contact president@horacemannptsa.org to help or inquire. 

*NEW* Mann Website Webmaster:

The Horace Mann LWSD website needs a new webmaster.  Light time commitment, training is provided.  The position is open to all volunteers....parents and staff alike!  The only requirement is a desire to learn a little about being a webmaster and to help keep our school information current.

Health & Safety Chair: 

This chairperson is responsible for being the point person for the school staff for all health and safety related activities and programs (including Health Room, Health Screening, Safe Arrival, Emergency Preparedness and AM Parking Lot Patrol). They help to support the coordinators in each area and identify or recruit key coordinators to manage each area when vacancies are identified.  Currently we have a great team of volunteers for each of these areas. 

Yearbook Committee Co-Chair Needed for this School Year:                 

We are looking for one more parent volunteer to be a Yearbook Committee Co-Chair for the school year. The Yearbook Committee is responsible for planning,  creating, advertising and selling the school-wide yearbook that shows off all of our wonderful students, their classrooms and all of the student activities and events that happen during the school year. The yearbook is a treasured keepsake that students look forward to receiving at the end of the school year. Co-Chairs will head up the yearbook committee volunteers and provide direction and guidance to the parent volunteers who help take pictures.

Knight of the Multiplication Coordinator:

This exciting program involves all 3rd and 4th grade students at Horace Mann. Upon completing their multiplication facts, our students will have the opportunity to kneel before our royal Mrs. Spaulding to be knighted and honored with their classmates. We are looking for a organizer to coordinate and facilitate the knighting ceremonies with Mrs. Spaulding and a few volunteers.

Assemblies Volunteer: 

The PTSA is looking for a parent volunteer to help research possible assemblies for the school. This volunteer will present ideas to the PTSA Board and Mrs. Spaulding, and once approved take care of contract details and help facilitate on the day of the assembly.

School Supplies Coordinator: 

This very helpful program prevents all those end of summer shopping trips or school supply scavenger hunts!  Help renew the contract with the vendor, coordinate with office staff to obtain the school supply list, distribute a flier and market to the students and parents, and coordinate the delivery of the supplies. 

Health Room - help needed

The Mann Healthroom is looking for volunteers to help support our front office staff so they can take their lunch break every day.  Volunteering in the healthroom is a fun and fulfilling experience and doesn't require you to have any medical background or knowledge. As volunteers, we mainly give band-aids and ice-packs, take temperatures, call a child's parent if necessary and mostly just give lots of friendly and supportive TLC to the kids.  If you are interested or even just curious about this volunteer opportunity, please contact Holley Kaskel at drholley@centerforpositivewellness.com or 425-213-9153. 

Orchestra

Redmond Region Elementary String Orchestra classes for 4th and 5th grade students!

Level  1 - Beginners (4th graders who have never played before)

Plan to attend the parent AND student information meeting on Monday, Sept. 8th at 7:30pm in the Rockwell gym and watch for a flyer the first week of school with more information. Classes are before school from 7:35-8:20am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings in the Rockwell gym. The first class will be on Monday, Sept. 15th!

Level  2 (mostly 5th graders who have completed at least one year of instruction)

Classes are on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 7:35-8:20am in the Rockwell gym. The first class will be on Thursday, Sept. 11th. Bring all music from last year, folding music stand, emergency form and $5 materials fee. The book to purchase for Level 2 is "Sound Innovations for String Orchestra" Book 2.

School Pool

Dear families,

As our school expands and we welcome new students this year, it's important that each of us make an effort to reduce the congestion around the school caused by the number of vehicles that are dropping off and picking up kids each day.  Horace Mann has partnered with City of Redmond in an exciting new program.

With Redmond SchoolPool, Horace Mann families register on a secure website and are then matched with other students to help form carpools, create 'walking school buses,' or find 'bike buddies' to travel to school with. We also encourage those students who have school bus service, to ride the bus to and from school. This program encourages healthy travel habits, and helps families save time, money, and reduce their impact on the environment.

Participating families can earn awesome rewards:

• For Our School: Earn $20 when you sign up & add a trip to the SchoolPool Calendar
• For Your Family: Be entered to win prize drawings for gas gift cards
• For Our Students: When we meet our participation goal, students will win a great assembly at school!

To join the Horace Mann SchoolPool:

1. Create an account at RedmondSchoolPool.com (for detailed instructions click here)
2. Join the secure network by searching "Horace Mann" under the Profile, My Networks tab
3. Enter the password "colt" to join the Horace Mann Network.
4. Find other families to travel with by creating a trip under the SchoolPool tab.

Please help us combat this problem and give our students a healthy, fun, and safe way to get to school, while earning rewards for our school and your family!  If you have questions on the Redmond SchoolPool Program, or need help getting your account set up, email RedmondSchoolPool@redmond.gov

Parking Lot Changes

In an effort to keep traffic flowing smoothly in the parking lot, we have extended our student drop off and pick up areas.  Please have car seats and students sitting on the passenger side of the car for easy transitions.  Stay in your lane until it merges into 1 lane.  Also, the south side of 104th, just before the school entrance, is a "NO PARKING ZONE" during pick up and drop off times.  This area is meant to be a queue for cars waiting to get to the pick up and drop off areas.  Please refer to the attached map for more details.  Thank you in advance for your help in keeping our traffic flowing smoothly.

http://horacemannptsa.org/Doc/Newsletter/Mann%20student%20drop%20information.pdf