News & Reminders from Newcastle Elementary PTSA

for Wednesday, January 24th, 2018

NEWCASTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SPELLING BEE
Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 at 6:30pm in the Commons

3RD GRADE CONCERT
Thursday, January 25th, 2018 at 6:30pm in the Commons

NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS - TEACHER WORK DAY
Monday, January 29th, 2018

GENERAL PTSA MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018 at 9:15am in Classroom 166

T-SHIRT FUNDRAISER IN MEMORY OF MRS. ROBINSON - {LAST DAY TO ORDER}

Miss Gaul has organized a t-shirt fundraiser in memory of Mrs. Robinson. The proceeds of this fundraiser go to the pulmonary fibrosis foundation. Staff and students will be wearing these shirts on Valentine’s day to show their love for Mrs. Robinson. Shirts can be picked up at Newcastle in the Kindergarten pod on February 12th and 13th.

Please {click here} if you would like to order a shirt. ORDERING CLOSES at 8pm. 

Link to Order: www.Customink.com/fundraising/michellerobinson

LEVY VOTES

Vote Yes 3 Times by February 13th!  Our community is being asked to renew 3 levies that are expiring in 2018. Like a subscription, levies must be renewed and replaced or the funding will be lost. Your local school tax rate will not increase. Visit www.visvote.org for more information.

Did you Know? The Issaquah School District is known for sound fiscal management of taxpayer dollars. ISD has had 15 consecutive clean financial and accountability audits and maintains a Moody’s AAA rating, which is the highest credit rating possible!

Does your student need Community Service Hours?  Join Parents, PTA members, and Community members on Wednesday, January 24th to “Honk and Wave” to support passage of the February 2018 Levy! (2) times: 7:00am - 8:30am and 5:00pm - 6:30pm.

{Click here} for a link to sign up and list of locations near you...the more the merrier! 

Link to Sign up: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4DA9A829AAF49-2018

CULTURE & HERITAGE FESTIVAL

Newcastle families, save the date for the upcoming Culture & Heritage Festival, to be held on February 9th from 6-8 pm in The Commons.

We invite your family to participate in the following ways:

• Decorate a “puzzle piece” that will be displayed at the school. Ideas include family and cultural traditions, flags, photos. Due January 31st.

 AT THE EVENT:

• Set up a visual display that showcases your family’s ethnicity and cultural traditions.
• Bring a traditional food to share.
• Host an art/craft or interactive demonstration (examples: craft project, Henna tattoos, cultural masks).
• Be part of the entertainment (examples: cultural performance groups, model traditional clothing).
• Sign-up at: http://signup.com/go/rJLEqZC .

{click here for Culture & Heritage Festival flyer}

 


FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE

We are putting together a Fund Raising Exploration Committee to assess our Spring fundraising efforts and evaluate the Auction components.  If you’re interested in sharing your ideas, opinions or experience, please contact Elysa Piha and Angela Ursino at newcastleptsa.president@gmail.com.

Angela and Elysa (Co-Presidents) and Vivian and Gina (Co-VPs, Ways and Means) will be leading this committee and building a plan for our Spring fundraiser and our longer term fundraising strategy.  We expect the commitment for this work will be a meeting once a month with potentially sub-committee meetings or work outside of the full committee meeting.