SKYLINE PTSA EMAIL BLAST #1 - WELCOME BACK!
Hello 2008-2009 Skyline PTSA
Members!
THANK YOU FOR JOINING.
If you’re receiving this email blast
it means you’ve successfully joined the Skyline PTSA for the 2008-2009 school year. Thank you! We’re up to just over 1,000 members. We
still have a way to go to reach our customary 100% membership, which means
there’s one adult member for every student enrolled at Skyline. We need about
300 more members to make our goal. Please nudge anyone you know of who hasn’t
yet joined to do so. (And they can do it at Curriculum Night – see below.)
GOT AN EXTRA LINCOLN FOR LAB
SCIENCE?
Actually, we could use a little more
than a Lincoln. We’re a little slower than usual to get to our pass-the-hat
fundraising goal this year. This is the only fundraiser we do, and we count on
it to fund all the grants and programs we do to benefit all the students at
Skyline. For example, this year, in addition to the $10,000 we have budgeted to
give out in Spartan Grants to staff, we also plan to give an $8,500 grant to
Skyline to pay for science consumables in all lab sciences. That’s beakers,
chemicals, lab masks, slides - you name it - for all biology, chemistry,
physics and environmental science classes. If you donated to
pass-the-hat when you joined, thank you. (Can you give a little more?)
If you didn’t, would you like a second chance? If you’d like to donate more, or
if you’ve joined but haven’t donated yet, go to http://www.skylineptsa.org/news/news2.htm, download the form and send it with your check to the
address shown. If your employer matches your
donations, please include your employer’s information in the space provided.
SEPTEMBER 23RD – BIG
NIGHT: PTSA AND THE COUNSELING CENTER PRESENT…
September 23rd at 7 pm
we’ll have a short PTSA General Membership meeting in rooms 102-103. Please
join us, so we can approve our budget and goals for the year. Directly
following our meeting, the Counseling Center will be presenting two seminars to
help you and your student plan ahead for life after Skyline. One seminar,
“Making the Most of the National College Fair,” will help guide students and
parents at all grade levels about how to make the best use of the National
College Fair (see below). The second seminar, “IB Student Panel: Life in the IB
Program, Is It For You?” will feature a panel of IB students to talk about
their experience in the IB program, how they decided whether to pursue the full
diploma or to take certificate exams, how they balance the course load and
their extracurricular activities, etc. These two seminars will be offered twice
so that you can attend both. It all starts at 7 pm in rooms 102-103.
MORE
PLANNING FOR COLLEGE…
The Skyline PTSA sponsors SAT Prep
Courses and Mock SAT tests as well as Mock ACT tests throughout the year to
help students get ready for the real thing. These prep courses and mock tests
are open to students at all grade levels. You can pick up registration forms at
the PTSA’s table at Curriculum Night, or log on to our website, http://www.skylineptsa.org/programs/collegereadiness.htm.
Deadlines for the first prep classes and mock tests are fast approaching.
HEAD
SWIMMING WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT COLLEGE ADMISSIONS TESTING?
Here are TWO things you can do. 1.
Look over our Frequently Asked Questions on College Admissions Testing, which
is on our PTSA website at http://www.skylineptsa.org/forms/SAT_ACT_FAQs.htm.
2. Talk to your child’s Skyline counselor. It’ll be OK. Everyone gets through
this.
ACING
THE COLLEGE APPLICATION.
The Career Center offers seminars throughout
the year to help get students ready for life after Skyline. The first seminar,
September 16th in the theater beginning at 7pm, is called “Acing the
College Application.” It’s targeted to seniors and their parents, but students
and parents at all grade levels are welcome.
2008 NATIONAL COLLEGE FAIR COMING TO
SEATTLE
The 2008 National College Fair will
be held on Sunday, September 28 (12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.) and Monday,
September 29 (9 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.) at the Seattle Convention and Trade Center.
Over 400 colleges and universities from the U.S., Canada and Europe will be
represented. For further information go www.nacacnet.org.
COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS COLLECTION
Community Service hours can be
logged by the PTSA at lunches beginning the first Thursday in October ( October 2nd). Questions?
Contact Dolores Krop at dokropp@msn.com.