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Endhaven Elementary
BI-WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
THE COUGAR PRINT
Upcoming Dates
August
25th First Day of School, 8:15am-3:15pm Kindergarten (A-H) 26th Kindergarten (I-P) 27th Kindergarten (Q-Z) 28th Boo-Hoo Woo-Hoo Breakfast, 8:15am
September
1st No School 4th Room Parent Meeting, 8:30 am OR 5:30pm Curriculum Night, 6-7:20pm 11th EEO @ Qdoba 18th PTA/Principal Meeting, 6pm 19th Dads & Donuts, 7:30am *Full calendar can be found in parent packet or at www.endhavenpta.org
Dear Parents,
Thank you to all the families who attended Open House last night. It
was wonderful to see all the smiling faces of our returning students. It
was also great to meet a lot of our new families. Open House is a great
way to begin the new relationship with your teacher. I heard a lot of
positive feedback throughout the evening which means that the night
was a success for all. Curriculum night is just around the corner on
September 4th. This will be another
opportunity early in the school year to get to know your teacher and have the opportunity to
learn about the classroom and get questions answered.
It’s hard to believe that school starts on Monday. We are so excited to get the school year
started for our students. Please be patient and expect delays during transition times of
morning arrival and dismissal time. Buses are learning new routes and can be delayed for the
first few days of school until they are able to work out the kinks and maneuver through traffic
patterns. Carpool also tends to start off slow as students and new parents learn the
procedures. Many of you will want to walk your child to class the first day of school. If you do
walk your child into the building just please be aware of carpool and use the cross walk. We
want to keep everyone safe. Please also keep in mind that pedestrians crossing the carpool
lane at different points will stop traffic and create more delays in carpool. Using the cross
walk will be the safest and most efficient way during arrival time for all families.
Thursday will be the first day that we have all of our kindergarten students in the
building. This again can impact our transition times as our 5 year olds and parents adjust to a
new routine. I encourage all of our kindergarten parents to attend the Boo Hoo/Woo Hoo
breakfast in the cafeteria after you drop your child off at class on Thursday, August 28th at
8:15am. This will be a great way to meet other new families and learn how you can be
involved with our PTA. Friday, August 29th is our “Independence Day “! Starting Friday we
will ask parents to allow your child to walk to class by themselves. We want our students to
be self-directed and follow their classroom procedures as they unpack and get ready for the
start of their day.
The start of the school year and new routines is an exciting time but also a tiring time. Many
of us will still be adjusting from the summer schedule of staying up late and sleeping in. With
the school day being 7 hours long, don’t be surprised if by the end of the week or for the next
few weeks you see more tears from your child than normal. School can be exhausting
especially by Thursday and Friday. I know in my family we have had to adjust our social
calendar on Friday evenings to allow our children time to recover from the long school week.
Finally, I would like to wish every family a great start to a new school year. Our teachers have
worked so hard this past week in preparation for Monday. Endhaven is a wonderful place and
our staff feels honored and privileged to serve your children.
Mr. Slattery
Principal
Endhaven Elementary School
Contact PTA Endhaven Elementary - 6815 Endhaven Lane – CLT 28277 980-343-5436
Boo-Hoo Woo-Hoo Breakfast
Thursday, August 28th 8:15-9:15am in the Cafeteria
All Kindergarten and new Endhaven parents are invited to
the annual Boo-Hoo Woo-Hoo Breakfast.
This is a great opportunity to meet other parents and learn
more about our school.
All Endhaven students will need to proceed to their
classroom as normal, but younger siblings are welcome to
attend!
Endhaven Lobby got a Facelift!
Notice the fresh,
new look of the
Lobby? Many
volunteers have
been hard at work
over the summer giving the Lobby a new look.
The goal was to enhance the lobby, create
an inviting space, and share what we are all
about at Endhaven – being a T.E.A.M!
“Together Endhaven Achieves More”
Walls were painted, seating was added, and
Endhaven student art work is on display. We
hope everyone who walks through our doors
feels like they are a part of T.E.A.M. Endhaven!
We would like to especially thank Christine
Bittler, Sam Bednarski, Christy Masch, Christy
Quincannon, and Jacquie Slack for all of their
time, energy and enthusiasm!
TEAM Fund Drive
This year’s TEAM Fund Drive will kick off on Curriculum Night, September 4th, and run through September 30th. A donation form was included in the One Payment Form you received in your
Parent Packet at Open House, and more information will be coming home soon in your child’s Thursday folder. This year we have a fun and colorful way for your child to Be a Part of the TEAM!
Questions about donating? Contact Christy Masch at [email protected]
One Payment Form
Each student received a Back to School
Packet full of CMS, Endhaven, and PTA
information. We all know back to school
means many forms to fill out, supplies
to purchase, and papers to organize.
This year, the PTA has worked with
Administration to streamline some of
the paperwork and payment. In your
parent packet, there is a pink One
Payment Form. This form allows you to
choose the items you would like to lump
together in one payment.
The One Payment Form is due by
September 15th. If you need an
additional copy, it can be found at
www.endhavenpta.org/.
Questions? Contact Jacquie Slack at
Listserv?? CMS Registered Volunteer? What
does this all mean? It is important to be
register for BOTH!
ListServ - The Endhaven Parent Listserv is a means for all emails to
be registered with Endhaven to ensure you receive important
information from the school. Items such as communications about
inclement weather, school closings, announcements from Mr.
Slattery, the newsletter, and more come via the listserv email
distribution list. Click here to register your email.
Registered Volunteer - To ensure the safety of our students,
CMS requires all volunteers to be registered. Click here to register
as a CMS Volunteer prior to volunteering to work with students.
Over the summer, CMS sent an email to all registered volunteers
asking them to follow a link to remain active. The email will come
from "[email protected]”. Check your spam folder, it
may go there depending on individual email settings.
An email was sent on August 11th and another will be sent on
September 8th.
When you receive the email, just click on the link to remain active.
If you do not receive the email it may be due to that you are not
registered or your email address has changed since you
originally registered as a volunteer. To update your email
address or for additional assistance you should contact Ann Brown,
CMS volunteer coordinator at 980-343-0474 or email
EES is #5354 Click here to RE-LINK your Harris Teeter VIC card. Link your card today and be entered for a $200 HT Gift Card!
Character Education volunteers assist Endhaven’s
Guidance Counselor, Erika Clarke, with the Character
Education instruction included in her monthly Guidance
lessons. Character Education volunteers are responsible
for presenting a 30 minute classroom character
education lesson once a month. Monthly themes and
activity suggestion are provided and include fun
activities centered on that month’s character trait.
Why do we include Character Education in our
school?
Our goal as adults, parents, and educators is to teach
our children about morals, values, and beliefs. The
Character Education Program helps children develop
virtue. They learn how to be productive, live with
purpose, have compassion, and how to flourish in
society. Through the program, students develop skills
that helps them in with relationships with parents,
teachers, and peers, understanding discipline and
consequences, navigating through school life, making
them aware and accountable in the school environment,
and so much more. Everything that happens in their
school life is character education because everything
affects the development of a child’s character.
Please consider being a part of this wonderful team at
Endhaven. By working together we can help build strong
character in our children that will last a lifetime.
Sign-ups were out at Open House, click here for the
SignUpGenius link for Character Ed, or you can email
“Character education is a learning process that enables
students and adults in a school community to understand,
care about and act on core ethical values such as respect,
justice, civic virtue and citizenship, and responsibility for
self and others. Upon such core values, we form the
attitudes and actions that are the hallmark of safe,
healthy and informed communities that serve as the
foundation of our society." –US Dept. of Education,
Character Education
Each class at Endhaven will need a
Room Parent this school year. Room
Parents serve as a liaison between
teachers, parents, and the PTA to
facilitate communication including sharing information about
and/or seeking volunteers for upcoming PTA events and
classroom activities.
Please consider volunteering in this fun and important role.
Sign-ups sheets were in each classroom during Open
House. Did you miss it? Email Marcia Folnsbee.
For more information, contact Marcia Folnsbee at
Junior Achievement ~ Class Parent ~ Office Volunteers ~ Media Center Volunteers ~ Grant Writing ~ A Child’s Place ~ Book Fair ~ Art by Me ~ Spirit Wear ~ Box Tops ~ VIC Card ~ Yearbook
H E L P W A N T E D Character Education ~ Pizza BINGO ~ Beautification ~ Carpool ~ Thursday Folders ~ School Directory ~ Family Fitness ~ PTA Membership ~ Spring Carnival ~ Sunshine Committee
Interested in being a part of T.E.A.M. Endhaven? There are many different school wide volunteer opportunities, big and small, at Endhaven. Below are a few ways to get more involved at Endhaven through the PTA. Please sign up using this SignUpGenius link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/508094caaab22a02-endhaven or contact Christy Quincannon at [email protected]. Class specific events will be coordinated through class parents. For additional information on volunteering and what each role entails, please go to http://www.endhavenpta.org.
Pre-K and Kindergarten Lunchroom helpers:
The Pre-K and Kindergarten teachers need extra hands in the cafeteria to help students through the line, open containers and milk cartons. If you have some time to help, please sign up using this SignUpGenius link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/508094caaab22a02-prek
Carpool Helpers:
Endhaven faculty needs extra help the first two weeks of school in the carpool line. Parents learning new procedures, excited (and nervous) kids needing guidance into the building ... the extra hands help this process go much smoother. If you can help in carpool in the morning and/or afternoon, please sign up using this SignUpGenius link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/508094caaab22a02-back1
Character Education
Be a Part of the T.E.A.M.!
Join the PTA TODAY! Just $5 per member. This
is a great FIRST STEP of getting involved at
Endhaven. Use your One Payment Form or
click here for the PTA Membership Form.
Thank you to our 2014-15 Endhaven Business Sponsors
Help us show our appreciation by supporting these local businesses.
Dear Endhaven Parents,
Welcome back to all returning families and a special greeting to the pre-kindergarten, kindergarten parents and new families to our Endhaven community. On behalf of the PTA, we are looking forward to seeing you again at events throughout the school year.
The role of the PTA at Endhaven is to support the students, faculty and parents by providing volunteers, financial support and programs for everyone. This year we will be embracing the T.E.A.M. motto “Together Endhaven Achieves More.” We are so grateful for the families, friends, and neighbors that are a part of the T.E.A.M. It is from your contributions in volunteering, donating items, and financial contributions each year that allow our students and staff to fully embrace a 21st century learning community. Without your support, many of the activities provided to our students and faculty would not be possible. One way to show your support of Endhaven is to become a member of the PTA.
Our goal is to continue to streamline the information you receive, decrease paper copies and have one place you can go to get what you need from the PTA and to stay informed. We will continue to focus on utilizing our PTA website at www.endhavenptaorg for important information such as a calendar of events, how to volunteer, making payments, resources, class parent information and more. Bookmark www.endhavenpta.org in your internet browser!
As we continue to look at ways to simplify things, we are implementing the “one payment form.” This is the pink form found in your back to school packet. The one payment form is an opportunity for you to order and pay for items needed at one time at the beginning of the year. It will also assist the teachers with the collection of payments and simplifying the majority of expenses on one form and in one payment.
We are also very excited to announce that there will be two new events! A Mother / Son Bowling night on January 9th and A Father / Daughter dance on March 7th. We will continue to sponsor Pizza Bingo, Book Fairs, Family Fitness Night, the Spring Carnival, Endhaven Eats Outs Nights and more. These are all great opportunities to meet families, staff and classmates.
Finally, this past year our Fundraising team decided to have one main fundraiser for the 2014-15 school year, the “T.E.A.M. Fund Drive”. This will kick off on September 4th. Our focus is 100% participation with every contribution making a difference to our school. We will also continue to focus on our business partnerships and building relationships with the community. The fundraising 101 document included in the back to school packet outlines the many different options for financially supporting our school.
I look forward to seeing all Endhaven families at school events this year and hope you will join us as we T.E.A.M. up in 2014-15!
Sincerely,
Jacquie Slack
Endhaven PTA, President
