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Greetings!
I hope you and your family are enjoying these last few weeks of summer. It won't be too much longer before we're gathering up school supplies, looking for school outfits and getting back into the school routine. This newsletter will hopefully provide you with some useful information before your students venture back into the classroom.
Make sure to check out the Letter from the President, Kasey Chapin, as well as other links to the left and throughout the newsletter for more information. Look forward to seeing you soon!
Julie Lengacher
PTSA Technology Chair
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PTSA Officers for 2008-2009
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President Kasey Chapin
Treasurer Kim Kimberly
1st VP, Fundraising Trevor Brumbley
2nd VP, Programs Heidi Abernethy
3rd VP, Membership Marie Aguirre
Recording Secretary Sara Hamon
Corresponding Secretary Cathy Jones
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August at a Glance
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August 7 Orientation (6th grade)
August 12 Orientation (Grades 1-5, 9,10)
August 12 PTSA Board Meeting - 6:30 pm
August 13 Orientation (Grades 7 and 8)
August 14 Orientation (Kindergarten, 11, 12)
August 15 Back to School Teacher Breakfast
August 18 Boo Hoo Breakfast - 7:30 am until
August 25 Fall Fundraiser Begins (until Sept.2)
September 1 Labor Day - NO SCHOOL
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Back-To-School Teacher Breakfast
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 In August 2007, the PTSA sponsored a Back-To- School Breakfast for the faculty and staff. It was such a success that we have decided to hold it again this year. The breakfast will take place on Friday, August 15 at 8:30 am in the cafeteria.
If you would like help out with the breakfast or contribute a breakfast casserole or breakfast bread of some sort, please click here .
If you have any further questions, you may contact Kasey Chapin, PTSA President.
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Annual Boo Hoo Breakfast
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Each year the PTSA holds a Boo Hoo (and for some of you, it may be a Yahoo!) Breakfast on the first day of school. This is for kindergarten parents and new parents to the school to commiserate or rejoice as their child starts school.
Come and join us under the tent near the front office building! Tissues will be available.
We need 2-3 volunteers! If you would like to help out with the breakfast, please contact Lori Fitzpatrick .
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Fall Fundraiser - August 25 - September 2
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 The PTSA funds many programs, projects and scholarship for teachers and students throughout the year.
The fall fundraiser will kick off on August 25th. This year we are using a company named Great American Fundraising. Many different items such as wrapping paper, candy, and gift items will be for sale.. There will also be a catalog featuring handcrafted gifts.
Great American has established "Project Centers" in Africa that focus on improving the lives of the workers they serve. Projects assist employees with fair wages, clean, sanitary working conditions, health care assistance, and a commitment to provide sustainable income which transforms their lives. When you purchase something out of this catalog, you not only help our school, you are simultaneously transforming lives far away.
The exciting part of this fundraiser is that if we meet our school wide goal, we will have a world champion BMX performer, Matt Wilhelm come to our school and perform a BMX show!
Our students will also receive service hour credits for sales made as this fundraiser will be supporting a humanitarian endeavor.
Look for more information to come home with your child beginning on August 25th. The fundraiser will continue until September 2nd.
Trevor Brumbley
1st Vice President, Fundraising
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Ways You Can Support the School
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 Box Tops, Campbell's Education, Tyson A+ and Community Coffee
Every year, a few faithful PTSA volunteers collect, sort, and bag hundreds of Box Tops, Campbell's, Tyson and Community Coffee labels that are redeemable for money for our school.
This is free money folks! Prizes are given by grade (K-2 and 3-5) to those students with the most collected labels for each of the time periods throughout the year. In addition, an end of the year pizza party will be given to the elementary class with the most labels collected.
For more information and the collection dates for '08-'09, please click here.
Office Depot Back To School (5%)
When you purchase items at Office Depot, 5% of your total purchase will given to FSUS. Just tell the cashier to credit your purchase toward the FSUS account. Our school will receive a check from them a couple of times throughout the year. Again, free money! And for things you will be buying anyways. For more details, click here.
Target Stores
Anytime you make a purchase at Target stores, with your Target credit card, a portion will go to our school. For more information, click here .
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Go Green, Florida High!
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 As the school year begins, look for more information concerning the Go Green Initiative around campus. The Go Green Initiave is a movement toward environmental responsibility on school campuses nationwide and FSUS PTSA is dedicated to playing our part in reducing, reusing and recycling paper and plastic/glass/aluminum waste around campus.
Check out www.gogreeninitiative.org and keep an eye out for information on environmental stewardship in the next edition of the Council Oak.
Heidi Abernethy
2nd Vice President, Programs
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PTSA Membership Renewal
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This is just a reminder that your PTSA membership must renewed annually.
One of the biggest pluses this year for renewing, aside from supporting the many endeavors the PTSA spearheads at the school, you will be entered into a drawing to have one of your children's activity fees reimbursed to you. If you are a teacher, you will be entered into a drawing for $250 in matching funds for a teacher mini-grant. That's a total of $500 for things you might need for your classroom.
For more details on this drawing, click here.
Marie Aguirre
3rd Vice President, Membership
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We look forward to a great year, working with you to help make Florida High a place where our students can thrive.
We are all in this together!
Sincerely,
Julie Lengacher
FSUS PTSA Technology Chair
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