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January 24, 2023
Highlights:
  • Our School Needs Your Help!
  • Volunteers Needed to Stock the Lounge
  • Marathon Kids Update
  • Spring Clubs - More Info This Week
  • Diversity Night - February 9
  • Candy Grams Coming Soon!
  • West End Middle School Open House

Our School Needs Your Help!

Share your Panther Pride with incoming families! We are in need of tour guides to give school tours to prospective families. These tours are SUPER important, giving interested families helpful insight into what makes our school a terrific place to be, and gets these families excited to join (and therefore strengthen) our community.

Tours typically happen Tuesdays at 9am. 1 hour time commitment per tour. Training will be provided. Contact Ruth Butler, ruthabutler@gmail.com, for more information. Most of our previous tour guide families have moved onto middle school - please consider helping if you are able!

Volunteers Needed to Stock the Lounge

We'd love for you to help us with a Restart/Refresh January Stock the Lounge. We hope you will consider helping support our teachers in this way, as there are still many slots open. Please sign up here!

Marathon Kids Update

Marathon Kids starts January 31st and has a few spots left on Tuesday’s Roster. Please contact spmarathonkids@gmail.com to sign up.

This club is designed to encourage a passion for running with additional tips and training by volunteer coaches and parent volunteers.

Spring Clubs - More Info This Week

Please be on the lookout for a special edition newsletter later this week which includes Spring Club dates and registration details.

Diversity Night - February 9

Diversity Night on Thursday, February 9th will be from 6-7p in the school auditorium. Free pizza and childcare for potty-trained children 3+ will be provided by the PTO. Please sign up for childcare here.

We are delighted that the very talented Verity Rodrigues will be presenting about "Understanding Neurodiversity in Learning". Through her experiences and training as a school psychologist and licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Rodrigues specializes in providing coaching and professional development to educators and school administrators on utilizing evidence-based assessment and intervention practices for students on the autism spectrum. At TRIAD, the Autism Institute at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Dr. Rodrigues works across TRIAD’s school-based professional development team supporting educators in autism evaluation and leading the development of professional learning content on autism and mental health. Dr. Rodrigues has served as an advisory board member on the Mental Health and IDD National Training Center and is currently the Tennessee Children’s Mental Health Champion through the Association of University Centers on Disabilities and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Valentine's Candy Grams Coming Soon

The Sylvan Park PTO is hosting our annual Valentine’s Day Candy Grams fundraiser. All proceeds will be donated to teachers for classroom use.
Candy Grams are $1. There is no limit to how many you may buy for friends. They will be handed out on Valentine’s Day.

There are 3 ways you can purchase Candy Grams:
1. Your homeroom teacher will send home a sheet of Candy Grams in early February with instructions if you’d like to fill them out at home and return the sheet and money to your teacher.

2. We will email all parents a copy of the Candy Grams printable with instructions. Just print, fill out, and return them with money to your teacher.

3. Candy Grams will also be collected out front of school on Thursday February 9th and Friday February 10th. The 10th will be the last day to purchase.

Payment will be accepted via cash, check made out to Sylvan Park PTO, or Paypal. You can also pay by credit card in person on 2/9 or 2/10 in front of the school.

West End Middle School Open House

Find out more about West End Middle School and tour the building this Wednesday, January 25 from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Upcoming Events:
West End Middle School tour, January 25, 5:30-6:30pm
5th Grade Performance, January 26, 6pm
Diversity Night, February 9, 6pm
No School, February 20
Parent Paideia Seminar, February 23, 6pm
Let's Goet(z) Together, February 24, 8:15am

Click Here for 2022-2023 PTO Calendar:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=cHRvLnNwYXJrQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ

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