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Gregory Activities

Drama Club: Tomorrow is our drama students’ performance of “Bubba, The Cowboy Prince,” with two shows: 2:00 and 7:00pm in the multi-purpose (lunch) room. Don’t miss the fun!

Multi-Cultural Night: Multi Cultural Night is this Thursday Feb. 17th from 6:30-8:30pm in the multi-purpose room! Our exciting line up includes:

  • 7:00 international fashion show (Gregory Students) + announcement of Global Art Contest Winners
  • 7:10 Gregory Spanish Club
  • 7:20 Gregory Chinese Club
  • 7:30 Rythm Ambassadors
  • 8:00 Seattle Filipino Youth Drill Team

MAPFEST Ends this Friday Feb 18th!: Parents be sure to come & view the display of 100+ traveling maps in and around the multi-purpose room. Mapfest is brought to Gregory Heights via the PTSA/Passport Club. See below “Volunteer Opportunities” for help still needed for mapfest. jimandjen2000@comcast.net. Also, we need a crew of people to take down the maps on Friday, Feb. 18th.

Spirit Day! This Friday is “Moustache Day!”

Family Fun Hockey Night: Feb. 20th, 5pm. There are still a couple of tickets left so if you are interested, please contact Jill Mudge, ghvolunteers@comcast.net

REMINDERS

Cookie Dough: Today is the day to turn in your Cookie Dough orders. Don’t worry, if you forgot you can drop them at the office this afternoon or just return them on Tuesday. If you have questions or need any help with your forms please don’t hesitate to call or email Brenda Sutherland-Field, 206-384-3368 or sutherfield5@comcast.net Thank you to Tara Hatcher & Kristina Anderson for already signing up to help!

Volunteer help still needed to:

Order Sorting/Pick-up: 3/16 Wednesday: 9am-6pm This tasks requires 4-6 people. This is the day the orders arrive, they are package by student name and will need to be unloaded from the truck and sorted alphabetically in the main hall. If you can help, please contact Brenda Sutherland-Field and Maria Coyier, Cookie Dough Team! sutherfield5@comcast.net or msmariacoyier@gmail.com.

Box Tops for Education: We can’t wait to earn even more money for our school this year through the Box Tops for Education program! Remember, this Wednesday, February 16th is the last day to turn in your Box Tops. Don’t miss the chance to help your child’s classroom win a party and help earn money for our school!

2010-2011 Yearbooks: This Friday is your last day to order your yearbook to be guaranteed a copy at a $13.00 price. In June a very limited number of yearbooks will be available on a first come first served basis for $16.00 per book.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Girls Softball Cancelled. Due to the lack of participation from other schools, the PTSA 2011 GIRLS SOFTBALL season has been cancelled. “I’m so sorry to see this happen, Gregory Heights always has a great turn out for softball from parent and students. We will try again next year!” ~Tracy Hadaller, Girls Softball Chair

Art Club: Attention 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th graders! Sign up now for our next session of art club! There are limited spaces available. Art Club will be held from 1:45-3:00pm on Friday afternoons in the PTSA room. Sessions begin Friday March 4th and will meet on March 18th, 25th, April 1st & April 15th. Cost is $40 for PTSA Members & $50 for non-PTSA Members for 5 classes; $10 Supply fee for all students. If interested, please contact Jill Mudge at ghvolunteers@comcast.net. Snack donations are always welcomed! (Next session will be for 5th and 6th graders).

PTSA Board Elections: Gregory’s PTSA has a tradition of providing excellent academic and extracurricular activities, events, & clubs for our students. Strong board leadership plays an important role in deciding which programs to offer and how to allocate funding for these fun activities. We would like you to have a hand in selecting PTSA board members for next year. We are looking to form a nominating committee of Gregory parents and staff (4-6 people) that would bring forth recommendations to the PTSA board, of people you would like to see nominated for next year’s open board positions. If you would like to serve on the PTSA Board Nominating Committee, please contact PTSA President, Jill Mudge at ghvolunteers@comcast.net

Gregory Club/Committee/Event Chairs Recruitment: As we wind down the school year it is time to start recruiting new Chairpersons for next year’s Clubs/Committees/Events. Stay tuned to next week’s Husky LOOP to find out which Chair positions will be open next year so that you can be thinking about where you would like to serve.

District, Staff, Community News

HIGHLINE DISTRICT SCHOOL LEVY PASSED! Highline voters passed a four-year $188 million education programs levy last week. In updated results from Feb. 10, King County Elections reported 11, 918 yes votes (61.67 percent) and 7.407 no votes (38.33 percent.) The levy needed a 50 percent majority to be approved.

“Thank you to our PTSA families and other families and relatives that voted yes for the school levy. I will speak for all Gregory staff; we appreciate all of PTSA’s support at school for our students and staff. Thank you for working on your own time to promote the levy.” ~Scott Stubberfield Gregory PE.

Little League 2011 Baseball/Softball Signups: Only one opportunity left to sign up! Sign up location and time is: Saturday, February 12th from 10am-2pm at the Boulevard Park Presbyterian Church, 1822 So. 128th.

Volunteer Opportunities/Donations Needed

THANK YOU to Tom Benedict & Lynda Lykes for putting together student questions to go with the maps!!

THANK YOU to Sandra Holmes for volunteering to assemble bookmarks to pass out to students!!

THANK YOU to employees of Conover Insurance in Kirkland for being the “impartial” judges of our art contest!

THANK YOU to Denise Anderson & Jill Mudge for volunteering to help finalize the global art presentation and helping with certificates.

THANK YOU to Denise Hemingway for helping with the Global Art Contest Certificates.

THANK YOU to Tara Hatcher & Kristina Anderson for volunteering to help with Cookie Dough order processing/distribution.

STILL SEEKING VOLUNTEERS FOR THE FOLLOWING:

Mile Club: Volunteers have dwindled and we need your help! To keep this program strong through the end of the year, we need parents, grandparents, aunts/uncles , or past Mile Club volunteers to help record laps (for 1, 2, or all 3 lunch recesses) while students walk. If you can help for even one Friday per month, please contact Mile Club Co-Chairs, Sandra Holmes at sandraholmes@comcast.net or Jenny White at jenrwhite@comcast.net. Siblings are always welcome!

Dollar Book Store: Much appreciation for the book donations that have come in! We are still collecting so if you or someone you know have any children’s book still in good shape we would love to have them. Special interest books (ethnic, Spanish-language, thematic) are desired too! Just drop them off in the Library. For more information, please contact our Librarian, Michael Bento, bentomj@hsd401.org.

Husky Hike: Thanks to you who have signed on to volunteer for the Husky Hike! We still need many more to make this event happen. Specifically, we are looking for some people to serve on a committee to help Chris Bass organize the day of the event and a few people to help Kristina Anderson gather grand and raffle prizes. We also need about 50 volunteers on April 28 to make the walkathon successful. You can count laps, set up, clean up, pass out water or help count pledges. A schedule will be posted a few weeks before the event so you will know when your student is walking. If you have questions or would like to volunteer, please contact Lori Box at volunteer@gregoryptsa.org.

Fundraisers

Gregory’s 2012 Auction off to a GREAT start! We had a great first auction meeting last Tuesday and want to invite you to get involved in our biggest fundraiser of the year (many hands make light work!) In order to make it successful we have created a “committee” approach structure with the following goals/tasks:

Committee structure

  • 5 – 6 committed people (directors) to oversee all aspects of the auction
  • One person to be the lead (not someone taking a role as a director) – big picture person overseeing committee work, reporting to the PTSA board, managing the budget.
  • One – two directors willing to stay on for two years so in the off year they can do “clean up”, work with the board and train a new committee for 2013-14
  • It takes a village! Committee members

    Committee needs

    Chair(s): Big Picture person, manages budget, makes sure all deadlines are being met, goes to PTSA board meetings and gives reports, approves expenditures, works closely with PTSA Treasurers submitting money and getting checks to pay vendors, selects the Auctioneer and Emcee.

    Creative Director: Oversees design and creative, including logo, forms, posters, banners, invitations, bid sheets and catalog.

    Print production Crew: one person for each of the tasks above

    AV Crew: one person for each of the following: set up of AV equipment, production of slideshow, and photography on night of the event.

    Marketing/PR Director: Oversees Advertising and Sponsorship crew, makes sure deadlines are met.

    Sponsorship Crew: Go-getter type, in charge of lining up sponsors, collecting money and submitting logos to print crew.

    Advertising Crew: Go-getter type, same as above

    Communications Crew: Enthusiastic, communicative type. In charge of newsletters and weekly email blasts

    Website Crew: ideally one person in charge of website set-up and data entry of auction items but this is a big job. Also should be same person in charge of printing auction provided gift certificates and item tent cards.

    Event Director: Highly organized type, oversees details of the day-of-event and people working day of.

    Event planning (facility research/rental; liaison to site manager and caterer)

    Decoration Crew: 3 or 4 people available day of event.

    Set up Crew: 8-10 people available day of event.

    Dessert Dash Crew: one person in charge of lining up 20-25 desserts

    Entertainment Crew: one person in charge of lining up DJ or other entertainment

    Clean up Crew: 6-8 people to stay after and clean up. One person has sole responsibility of collecting forgotten items and taking them home.

    RSVP Crew: one person in charge of assigning seating and making sure check payments get to Chair to deposit.

    Thank You’s Crew: one person in charge of printing and mailing thank you’s to all donors with amount raised.
    Procurement Director: Highly organized person in charge of managing the details of what has been procured and what still needs to be procured, with an ability to rally crew to go out and get what is still needed. Works with Chair bundling items to create larger packages.

    Community Procurement Crew: 8-10 people hitting the streets, following up and getting donations. Must be a go-getter, no problem making requests.

    Classroom Projects Committee: 2-3 people coordinating the classroom projects with one parent from each class as the in-classroom aide.

    Class Baskets Crew: 2-3 people coordinating class baskets

    Teacher Adventures Crew: one person to coordinate and meet with teachers to solicit donations for fun days spent with teachers.

    Parent Adventures Crew: one person coordinating and soliciting fun adventures donated by and solicited for parents.

    Banking Director: preferably a PTSA Treasurer, one person day of the event in charge of “The Bank” where Crew is checking guests in and out, paying for purchases.

    Banking Crew: 5-6 people in charge of checking people in and out, handing out purchases, closing silent auctions, collecting bid sheets, and entering winners into computers.

    Auction Coordinator: Handles all night-of events and volunteers.

    Live Auction Spotters: 3-4 people spotting raised bid paddles, pointing or calling out numbers.

    Live Auction Recorders: 2-3 people recording winning bid numbers.

How will you help? Decide which committee area you would like to help with (also indicate if you are willing to be a Director) and email LORI BOX, volunteer@gregoryptsa.org. Ideally we would like to have a general idea by this FRIDAY, February 18th who/what area people are interested in so we can put people in place for our next meeting (TBD). However, if you are not sure how you want to help, but want to be included in all Auction communications, please email Lori to let her know that too.

Remember: As an incentive to enlist your volunteer help now, our Burien’s Tin Theatre has offered to host a special event in the coming future, exclusive to the volunteers signing up to help with the auction, as a way of showing community support for our fundraiser. You won’t want to miss this one!

3rd Annual Cove to Clover Race: March 13th This South-end 5K family race is fast becoming a favorite for NW runners! Not only is it a challenging course, it has turned into a 3-day Celtic family fun celebration (including: Celtic Folk Fair, Irish Gala, & Pub Crawl)! But most importantly, all proceeds go to local charities including the Highline Area Food Bank, the Hospitality House and Highline District Schools. Gregory Heights could win $1500 if we have the highest percentage of registrants from our school! Starting NOW, you can register at covetoclover.com and when registering put “Gregory Heights” in the registration code box so your registration counts towards the school drive. Also, If you are interested in sponsoring a low-income student, become an athlete angel. You can sponsor as many students as you want for $25 each. Don’t forget to put “Gregory Heights” in the registration code box so we get credit for the registrations and the sponsorship goes directly to our students in need. For more information, contact Lori Box, loribox@comcast.net, or Denise Sagmoen, dsagmoen@comcast.net.

Looking Ahead…

  1. Mid-Winter Break: Feb. 21-25th
  2. Reptile Man: March 10th, 7pm
  3. NO SCHOOL: March 11th

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