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- Our School Needs Your Help!
- Spring Clubs Updates - More Info This Week
- Diversity Night - February 9
- Candy Grams Coming Soon!
- Garden Enthusiasts Needed!
- Thank You for Stocking the Lounge!
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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.
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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!
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We hope you saw Thursday's Special Edition newsletter featuring our spring club offerings. Briefly, they include:
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Nature Explorers: Thursdays, March 23-May 18 from dismissal to 5pm for grades 3-5
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Diversity Night on Thursday, February 9th will be from 6-7p in the school auditorium. Free pizza and childcare for elementary aged children 3+ will be provided by the PTO. Please sign up for childcare here.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We will be working to clean up the school's garden in time for spring! On Saturday, February 25, we will be removing the existing garden soil from each bed, relining the beds with garden fabric, and then filling the beds back in with garden soil and compost. We will provide coffee and donuts for everyone. Hope to see you there - sign up today!
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Thanks so much to everyone who donated to our January Stock the Lounge Teacher Appreciation event. Our staff loved it!
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Diversity Night, February 9, 6pm
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Parent Paideia Seminar, February 23, 6pm
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Let's Goet(z) Together, February 24, 8:15am
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Read Across America Week, February 27-March 3
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2nd Grade Program, March 2, 6pm
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Click Here for 2022-2023 PTO Calendar:
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Get Involved in West End Middle!
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Submissions for the newsletter: please submit any school-related news, photos or announcements by each Sunday at noon in order to get it in the following Tuesday's newsletter. Images and PDFs should be converted to JPG or PNG format.
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