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- 10/19: When You Wonder, You're Learning: Mister Rogers' Enduring Lessons for Kids
- 10/20: Fighting Hate for Good: An Anti-Bias Community Training
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10/29: Halloween Parade 8:45 am
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PVSD FAMILY DIRECTORIES
Directories are here! If you made a donation to the PTO, your oldest PVSD child should bring home your directory this week.
A HUGE thank you to Judy Gilbert for all her hard work pulling the directory together. So many of our staff members and parents use this invaluable resource and we all appreciate your time and effort. THANK YOU JUDY!
Register your child for weekly during-the-school-day testing with WorkSite Labs
If you haven't done so already. Portola Valley School District’s COVID-19 testing program is designed to be the main diagnostic screening test provider for all students and staff in the District.
Even though we cannot mandate student testing at this time, it is highly encouraged and recommended that all students participate in our testing program. I am hopeful that we will have 100% student participation once the testing program begins next week.
Beginning October 19th testing will take place during the school day (students will be tested in their classrooms):
- Tuesday @ Corte Madera School
- Wednesday @ Ormondale School
Please register your child or children as soon as possible!
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new COVID-19 TESTING DAY FOR FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES: MONDAYS! | |
SAM TRANS PROPOSED CHANGES
SamTrans is recommending changes to bus routes across the network and needs to hear from you. Under this proposal, the 85 school route would still run in the afternoon but morning service would be discontinued. Join a regional community meeting to learn more and give your feedback.
You can also go to reimaginesamtrans.com or call 1-800-660-4287 by Nov. 8, 2021 to learn more and make comments.
Regional Community Meeting, South County
(Redwood City, Menlo Park, East Palo Alto, Atherton, Portola Valley, Woodside and unincorporated area of North Fair Oaks)
Date/Time: Thursday, October 21 at 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/reimaginesouthcounty
Call in Option: (312) 626-6799
Zoom Webinar ID: 858 7664 0032
Languages: Spanish, Mandarin and Tongan
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PTO FUNDRAISERS
Please consider enrolling in the following programs to benefit our PTO.
ESCRIP
Sign up for eScrip today and a % of purchases you make at participating merchants, including Bianchini’s, will go back to our school. Click here to sign up (select Portola Valley School District PTO as your school)
Already signed up? If you shop at Bianchini’s, please click here to make sure that the phone number you use for your Bianchini’s Rewards is also linked to your eScrip account: CLICK HERE
AMAZON SMILE
Make your Amazon purchases through Amazon Smile and help our schools! Go to smile.amazon.com and select "Portola Valley Parent Teacher Organization" as your designated organization.
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Halloween parade friday october 29, 8:45am
The Halloween parade tradition continues - but with a twist! The parade will not be on campus this year due to construction. Students and their teachers will start the parade at the kindergarten gate and will parade down Iroquois Trail to the school entrance, through the car line area and back to the kindergarten gate.
Parents/guardians will line up across the street to watch the parade. Please don’t park on Iroquois that morning to reserve ample viewing space for the parade. Parents should stay behind the cones that will be set up on the street. Facial coverings are required for all spectators at this school event.
Costumes: Children may wear costumes on this day, they should come to school ready in their costume in the morning. Costumes should be school and age appropriate, should not include toy weapons and should not be overly scary (e.g. masks, blood). Students may wear costumes all day or change at recess if they are able to do so themselves.
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6th-8th Grade Basketball Coaches Needed
Ms. Cox and Mr. Flahavan are looking for basketball coaches for our 6th,7th and 8th grade boys & girls basketball teams. If you have coached in the past, please take this opportunity to volunteer again, and if you have not please consider coaching this season as it is a great opportunity to engage in your child's life.
Info you need to know:
1. You must be vaccinated
2. Season length: End of Nov to mid-March
3. Commitment: 1-2 practices a week + a weekday game.
4. We play in the Menlo Park league so games are at Arrillaga Gym in MP
5. We're hoping to have at least 2 coaches per team.
Please let Kate and Dan know if you are interested, or you know of anyone who would be a great addition to our coaching staff. This is a team effort and will not take place without quality coaches.
Interested boys coaches, email Dan: [email protected]
Interested girls coaches, email Kate: [email protected]
Thank you!
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The CMS “No Trick Just Treat” Cocoa
Thursday, October 21st CMS students can come to the courtyard for a before school cocoa and donut treat. Starting at 7:30 am for students with 0 period and 8 am for all other students.
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CMS Yearbooks
Order your child’s CMS 2021-22 yearbook by going to the Yearbook Order Center (school code 7530). You can order yearbooks, design dedications (called "Ads"), or upload photos (click the "Share images with ESHARE" button) for possible inclusion in the yearbook.
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When You Wonder, You're Learning: Mister Rogers' Enduring Lessons for Kids
Tues, October 19, 2021
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT
RSVP
Join the authors of "When You Wonder, You're Learning: Mister Rogers' Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids." Playful and practical, When You Wonder, You're Learning introduces a new generation of families to the lessons of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Children's advocate Gregg Behr and award-winning reporter Ryan Rydzewski show parents and educators the many ways they might follow in Rogers’ footsteps, sharing his lessons with today’s kids. Their new book reveals what Fred Rogers called the “tools for learning”: skills and mindsets that scientists and educators now consider essential. These tools—curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and more—have been shown to boost everything from academic learning to children’s well-being, and benefit kids of every background and age.
Gregg Behr is the executive director of the Grable Foundation, and the founder and co-chair of Remake Learning, a network of educators, scientists, artists, and makers. In 2016, President Barack Obama recognized Gregg as a Champion of Change.
Ryan Rydzewski is a writer whose science and education reporting has garnered several awards and fellowships. Ryan taught elementary school in south Louisiana before earning an MFA in nonfiction writing from Chatham University.
Parents/caregivers, students, educators, mental health professionals, and community members welcome! Free admission. Spanish interpretation will be available. This presentation is sponsored Sequoia Union High School District, Sequoia Healthcare District, Peninsula Health Care District, and The Parent Venture.
Questions? Contact Charlene Margot, MA, Co-Founder and CEO, The Parent Venture (The Parent Education Series), at [email protected]
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Fighting Hate for Good: An Anti-Bias Community Training
Wed, October 20, 2021
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PDT
RSVP
By the time children reach preschool, they already show signs of racial bias. As children spend time in our nation’s schools, they face and observe bias every day. The goal of anti-bias education is to help young people, and those who work with them, to challenge bias in themselves and others. Anti-bias community education aims to create respectful, inclusive, and safe communities for all children and teens.
In this workshop, Samantha Brown, M.Ed., Director of Education (Central Pacific Region), Anti-Defamation League (ADL), will encourage participants to increase their understanding of bias (explicit and implicit), build understanding about diversity, and improve their capacity to recognize prejudice and discrimination.
Parents/caregivers, students, educators, mental health professionals, and community members welcome! Free admission. Spanish interpretation will be available. This event is sponsored by M-A PTA, Sequoia Union High School District, Sequoia Healthcare District, Peninsula Health Care District, and The Parent Venture.
The Parent Education Series is a program of The Parent Venture, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Questions? Contact Charlene Margot, MA, Co-Founder and CEO, The Parent Venture (The Parent Education Series), at [email protected]
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All community news is posted on the pto website
HERE ARE THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS!
For details, click the orange Community News button below and scroll through the listings.
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Christ Church Linen Drive for Homeless Families
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Fall theater classes at Portola Valley Theater Conservatory (PVTC).
- Community COVID-19 Testing at PVSD!
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