Blythe Park PTA Happenings 05/11/2015

This year’s 4th/5th Grade Spring Music Show will be held tonight Monday, May 11th at 6:30pm in auditorium.  The 4th/5th graders will perform “Pirates -the Musical”.

    

Blythe Park’s Spring Run & Walk club for students in grades 2nd - 5th will meet Thursday, May 14th and Friday, May 15th this week.  Please have your runners/walkers dressed appropriately for the activity and the weather and be ready to go at 7:50am.   The students will join Ms. Gorman and Mr. Bartelt in a run around the Blythe Park Campus.  Four laps around the school equals one mile.  Students will be tracked with the goal of completing an incremental marathon.  Parents are welcome to join as well.

    

The Gail Goletz ACES walk will be held this Friday, May 15th at 11:30am.

ACES is an acronym for All Children Exercising Simultaneously and the ACES walk has been the traditional end of the year celebration for the Bulldog Challenge Fitness Program.  After Mrs. Goletz, former Blythe Park PE teacher, retired last year, we renamed the ACES walk in her honor.

All Blythe Park students 1st-5th grade will walk one mile around the Blythe Park neighborhood during the lunch/recess period.  Kindergarteners are encouraged to participate, but must be accompanied by an adult. After the walk, the students will have lunch in the amphitheater and there will be an awards presentation for students who participated in the Bulldog Challenge this year.  We will also have a healthy treat for students. Parents are encouraged to walk with the students, cheer them on, and help decorate the path.

Please contact, Jill Glawe at pjglawe@yahoo.com with any questions.

    

Please join us for the Blythe Park PTA May meeting to be held this Friday, May 15th at 9:00am in the lunch room.  Come find out about the last PTA events for the year.  The 2015-2016 PTA Executive Board will be installed.

Refreshments will be served!  We look forward to seeing you!

The agenda and minutes have been posted.   Please click on the links below to review them.

Meeting Agenda/Minutes for Approval: http://www.blytheparkpta.org/?page_id=22

    

BYLAWS

To keep our PTA in good standing, bylaws must be updated and submitted every two years.  The bylaws have been updated and are attached for general membership review.  The General Membership has 30 days to review the bylaws. The updated bylaws will need to be voted on. The vote will take place during our next general membership on May 15th.

A copy of the bylaws is attached.

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STANDING RULE ADMENDMENT

The following standing rule amendment was proposed at the April 17th PTA meeting and will be voted on at the May 15th meeting:

Debit Card /Electronic Banking transactions will be allowed, with prior approval, solely by general membership.

If you have any questions, please contact Julie Stack @ stackjulie@yahoo.com.

    

Congratulations to the following individuals who will be serving on the 2015-2016 PTA Executive Board.  The board will be installed this week at the May 15th PTA meeting.

President - Meaghan Mathews
Co-First Vice Presidents - Laura Rodriguez and Lisa Gaynor
2nd Vice Presidents - Julie Stack
3rd Vice Presidents - Rory Dominick
Secretary- Amy Wysocki
Treasurer- Katie Ford
Parliamentarian- Julie Laube

    

This year Blythe Park will hold our first annual Rain Gutter Regatta.  The Regattas will be raced as a station at this year’s Field Day.  The Regatta is a double elimination race. Awards will be presented to the winner from each classroom and ultimately the Gutter Cup Trophy will be awarded to the overall Blythe Park Grand Champion.

Please check out the attached sheet for all the details on how to help your student build their regatta.

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Three Boat Building Days will be held at Blythe Park to help students.

    

Have any Box Tops sitting around?  If so, turn them all in before summer break and then start a new collection this summer.  That way Blythe Park’s first check next school year will be big!

    

Blythe Park PTA’s school supply kit sale will run May 1st - June 1st.  All orders will be available to purchase online from The Write Stuff  and be delivered right to school.  How Convenient!

Easy Ordering Instructions

1) Go to www.write-stuff.com/storefront/school/blythe
2) Select grade level.
3) If applicable, select kit within grade level.
4) Enter student name and gender.
5) Follow prompts to check out.
6) Save and print email confirmation for your records.

There is no cost to have your kits shipped to school during the sale dates.  If you order after June 1st or have the kits shipped somewhere else, standard shipping charges will apply.   If you have any questions, please contact: The Write Stuff   1-800-871-8546 contact@write-stuff.com (phone orders accepted)

PLEASE NOTE:   BLYTHE PARK IS RECEIVING DISCOUNTED PRICING DURING THE ABOVE SALE DATES ONLY.  AFTER JUNE 1st, REGULAR PRICING WILL APPLY.

Get a Hauser School Supply Kit for your 6th Grader!

Don’t want to shop for school supplies? We’ve got the solution!  For the first time, Hauser PTO is offering a school supply kit program for all three grades at Hauser. We’re using The Write Stuff as the vendor, and the sale runs from now through the end of June.

Some highlights of the 2015-2016 program include:

• You can remove items from the list if you already have them!
• Calculators are not included in the kit, but can be ordered separately if you need one.
• All kits will be shipped to your home later in the summer – the flat shipping rate is $7.95.
• This is an online only sale. There is not an option to write a check.
• A small portion of each sale will benefit our PTO.

Cross it off your to-do list and go to www.hauserpto.org to place your order!   If you have any questions, contact Carol Barlow at carol377@att.net .

    

Registration for 2015-16 school year begins today Monday, May 4, 2015.

New Students: registration materials will be available on the District website on May 4, 2015.

Returning Students: registration packets will be mailed to your residence beginning May 1, 2015.

RESIDENCY – Change for 2015-16
Beginning this year, in accordance with the surrounding districts and RBHS, all families will be required to provide proof of residency each year. The Registration Packets include a Verification of Residency form. You will be required to provide copies of residency documentation. Please complete, sign and return the form, along with copies of the required documentation, with your registration packet. If your residency documentation is not in the packet you return, the entire packet will be sent back to you until it is complete.All residency is subject to verification through an investigator hired by District 96. We reserve the right to request additional documentation

For more information, click on this link: http://www.district96.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2015-16-Registration-Information.pdf