COVID-19 TESTING OPTIONS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

​The County of San Mateo offers no-cost testing for COVID-19 for children age 5 and older. The test is a simple-to-use oral mouth swab test that is self-administered for children and families with results available typically within 48 hours. Appointments for the drive-through testing at the San Mateo County Event Center are available weekdays from 1 to 8 p.m. Click here to make an appointment. 

PTO HOLIDAY FUNDRAISERS

HONEY BEAR TREES 

If you are buying a tree or wreath for the holidays, HONEY BEAR TREES at 955 Woodside Road, Redwood City, or 651 El Camino Real, Redwood City, or 1579 El Camino Real, San Carlos, will donate 15% of the sale to our schools!  Both locations are now open!

The flyer has more information, but you do not need to print it! Simply mention Ormondale or Corte Madera School when you pay and they will take care of the rest! 

AMAZON SMILE

Make your Amazon purchases through Amazon Smile this holiday season and effortlessly donate to our schools!​

Go to smile.amazon.com and select "Portola Valley Parent Teacher Organization" as your designated organization.   

MINTED FUNDRAISER PROGRAM

Create your holiday cards through Minted​ this November and December.... you'll get 20% all holiday card and gift orders, and MINTED will donate 15% of the sale amount back to Our Schools! Use code: FUNDRAISEPORTOLA

SHUTTERFLY FUNDRAISER PROGRAM

Visit the PTO Storefront with Shutterfly this year!  From cards to calendars and candles to keepsakes, shoppers will find fresh new designs and products this holiday season.

SHUTTERFLY will donate 8% of your purchase back to Our Schools!  Use the link http://pv-pto.shutterflystorefront.com/     

COMMON GROUND SPEAKER SERIES UPCOMING EVENT

UNDERSLEPT AND IDLE

The Transformative Effects of Sleep & Movement

​Featuring Matthew Walker, PhD, In conversation with Kelly McGonigal, PhD

Tues Dec 8, 7pm–8:15pm PST

Online Zoom Webinar:  Register to Attend  (Registration closes at 5pm the day of the event) 

Sleep scientist Dr. Matthew Walker and research psychologist Dr. Kelly McGonigal will come together to discuss the enormous benefits that restful sleep and joyful movement have on health and well-being. Dr. Walker will discuss the positive impacts of sleep on mind and body and share practices both parents and kids can use to get some rest. Dr. McGonigal will show how movement is intertwined with the most basic human joys and why it is a powerful antidote to depression, anxiety, and loneliness.

For event registration and details, visit the Common Ground website.

As a reminder, prior virtual events are posted to the password protected page on Common Ground’s website. Please contact Anne Fazioli-Khiari ([email protected]) or Teri Wolf ([email protected]) for access. 

GIVING THANKS FOR OUR HANDS OF THANKS

Thank you to all of the teachers and students that contributed to our Ormondale Hands of Thanks. It was wonderful to see so many words of gratitude welcoming us onto campus. Indeed this has been an immensely challenging year…but there is still so much for which to be grateful.  Our kids agree!

Please treat yourselves to a look at The Ormondale “Hands of Thanks” display—please click here to see the photo album.

THANK-FALL PROJECT

Thanks so much to our 4th and 5th grade teachers and students for being part of our “Thank-Fall” project. Hopefully you saw the display at school but you can also click here for the photo album of the collection.

We are so grateful to have reasons to smile inside of this intense year and CMS is most definitely one of them! So many of the kids listed school and teachers as things they are grateful for and we parents are so grateful for CMS and all of its teachers and staff too!

CMS STUDENT COUNCIL TOY DRIVE

CMS Student Council is running a Toy Drive during the month of December for the Good Tidings Foundation. Students will earn spirit points for their grade if they bring in a new, unwrapped toy for children ages newborn to 15 years old. The toy drive starts on Tuesday, December 8th and there will be large grade level bins outside of CMS for students to drop in a toy if they choose to participate! The Student Council will be creating flyers/posters to put up around campus.