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PTA @ WORK…
2/28 - PTA Meeting 9:30am
2/28 - PARP Kick-Off 10:00am
3/1 - PARP Begins
3/7 - Staff Recognition Day
3/14-15 - Spring Book Fair
3/18-19 PARP Mystery Readers
3/21 - Spring Photo Day
4/11 - PTA Meeting 9:30am
5/9 - Special Person’s Day
5/10 - Mother’s Day Plant Sale
5/21 - Spring Concert 7pm
5/23 – PTA Meeting 7:30pm
FEBRUARY 2013
VOL. 10, ISSUE 2
I would like to thank all of our committee chairs and volun-teers. Hosting these events takes a lot of hard work and can't be done without them.
There certainly is a lot to do, so please do not hesitate to volunteer a bit of your time and talent! Remember, if you forgot to sign up for a committee and can spare an hour or two, just come on down. We look forward to many other wonderful events during the second half of the
school year.
Its hard to believe we are already entering the second half of the school year. The first half was filled with many exciting events for our children. We have had Kids Bingo, Fall Book Fair, Holiday Boutique, and several Cultural Arts events. Our PARP committee chairs have already begun planning a memo-rable month of reading with our children, starting with a kick-off ‘Brain Show’ on February 28th for students in all grades during school hours, continuing with our reading log, and ending with
‘Mystery Readers’ week.
Our Spring Book Fair will be in March, which will be two days and one evening devoted to offering families an opportunity to purchase books from Scholastic
at a reduced price.
We will show our teachers, staff, and invited guests our apprecia-tion during Staff Recognition Day. We will also show-off our school, dedicated teachers, and talented children on Special Person’s Day. Our children will be given an opportunity to shop at the Moth-er’s Day Plant Sale in May.
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE HOPE KRANIDIS
Happy New Year! As we begin the second half of the school year, in addition to concentrating on the academic growth of all our students, we continue to review and refine safety measures in the wake of the Sandy Hook catastrophe. We regularly practice lock outs, lock downs, shelter and evacuation drills, yet no one can be prepared for the type of intrusion that occurred in Newtown.
Each school has a Safety Committee and Crises Team that meets regularly to refine our school safety plan. In addition, table-top exercises that pose many “what if” sce-narios are conducted at regularly held Building Advisory Committee, School Aide and Faculty meetings. Following lock out, lock down and evacuation drills, which are attended by local police officers, central district administrators and a BOCES safety consultant for the district, debriefings are held with our school’s Safety Team to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each drill. Measures for improving and tightening up procedures are then discussed at faculty meet-ings. Periodically, I attend District Health and Safety Com-mittee meetings comprised of building and central adminis-trators, teacher and parent representatives, the district’s
safety consultant from BOCES, police and fire department representatives and insurance representatives. Building security issues are discussed and suggestions by outside consultants are sought.
We have always had a locked campus. Students are continually reminded not to open outside doors for any-one. At the present time we have a security person at the door for a majority of the day. When she is not at the Do-ver Parkway North door, the secretaries monitor the visi-tors’ entrance through camera surveillance. New security procedures require all visitors entering the building to state their intentions before being electronically buzzed in, report to the security person or the main office, show identification and then sign in.
District teams along with the Board of Education are presently looking into measures to upgrade building security to ensure an even safer learning environment for all students and staff. We greatly appreciate your coopera-tion in adhering to all security measures and welcome your feedback and suggestions.
Newsletter of the Stewart Manor PTA®
The Stewart Manor Spotlight
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE PAM MILINIC
to middle and high school level
students. October’s workshop
focused on eating disorders and
early detection. Notification of
these types of programs is not
always forwarded on a timely ba-
sis. Look for emails from PTA on
program topics and location. If
there is a question that you would
like posed to the Council, feel free
to forward your inquiry to:
StewartManorPTA@gmail.com
The delegates will report on the
responses.
The PTA board includes 3 Coun-
cil Delegates to attend monthly
meetings held throughout the Se-
wanhaka Central School District.
The purpose is to inform parents
of the events and programs held,
as well as to address concerns
expressed at the local high
schools. Delegates report what
has transpired at the SCC meet-
ings at our regularly scheduled
PTA meetings. SCC also spon-
sors the See Saw Program. The
program provides workshops on
various issues that are pertinent
THE STEWART MANOR SPOTLIGHT
FALL KIDS BINGO 2012
PAGE 2
SCC Annual Holiday Dinner
On December 7, 2012 the Stewart
Manor School PTA board attended
the Sewanhaka Central Council of
PTA’s Annual Holiday Dinner Meet-
ing. We had the pleasure of meeting
other members of our Interschool
PTA. A fundraiser was held to raise
enough money in sponsoring 2 schol-
arships for each H.S. in the Sewanha-
ka Central School District.
Sewanhaka Central Council (SCC)
This year Stewart Manor Kids’
Bingo took place on Friday, Octo-
ber 21st at 3:30pm in the school’s
gymnasium with the Fall Season in the air and a whiff of Halloween
on stage. The tables were all set
up for the children to just come in
and begin their fun – it was a full house of excitement, especially
when the prizes were won and
cries of BINGO were echoed.
Pizza and ice cream were served
and children even had trick or treat goody bags to take home. A
huge thanks goes out to Frank
Guglielmo for some fantastic
number calling and thanks to all parents who volunteered!
-Jen Cipolla & Nancy Gregory
The Fall Fundraiser was a big success, bringing in $9,166 as a total, yielding Stewart Manor School a total of $4,530. A huge thank you to all who partic-ipated, and a special thanks to Maureen Ogden for or-ganizing this fundraiser!
PRESTIGE FALL FUNDRAISER Fall Book Fair
This year’s Fall Book Fair took place on October 13th and 14th and was a huge success! PTA volunteers assist-ed children with finding the books they wanted. Students got huge dis-counts on their favorite sellers, such as The Diary of A Wimpy Kid, and Big Nate, and teachers were once again able to submit their “wish lists” in order to expand their classroom collections. Thank you to our PTA chairpersons and many volunteers who kept the lines moving and the kids smiling! Watch for our Spring Book Fair coming in March!
Photo Day Chairperson Bee Cintron,
Joan Hurley and Diane Lisojo orga-
nized parent volunteers to ensure
that the photo process went smooth-ly on October 4th. We appreciate the
efforts of these volunteers who
helped to insure school photo mem-
ories of our children.
FALL PHOTO DAY
SUPERMARKET BINGO NIGHT
Even though Supermarket Bingo
Night had to be rescheduled due to Hurricane Sandy, the event
chaired by Seana Bart & Barbara Zabatta, was a great success.
Thank you to all the volunteers who helped. This fundraiser
helped raise $4,500 for our school.
CULTURAL ARTS
PTA fundraises for special events such as the workshops that our 4th, 5th and
6th graders participated in during these past few months. In November, our 6th
graders were mesmerized by the fantastic Greek Mythology storytelling of
Gerald Fierst. They loved it and remember the stories more because of the
wonderful theatrical animation of Mr. Fierst. In December, our 4th graders got
to experience life as the Native Americans did in the Native Life Workshop.
And in January, the 5th graders learned about how the colonists lived in the
mid-1800’s - using traditional tools, weaving wool, and coring apples the old
fashioned way in their Colonial Life Workshop. Thank you to Jennifer
Kightlinger and Estela Agudelo for organizing these wonderful events which
serve as extensions to curriculum studies for our students.
Parents as Reading Partners (PARP) is a statewide PTA program that encourages reading at home in order to develop good reading habits and a love of reading. PARP will commence on Friday, March 1st with a PARP kick-off Brain Show during school hours on Thursday, February 28th for all students. Join us as we Blast Off into Reading!
As part of the P.A.R.P. program, all children from K-6 are
given an opportunity to participate in a contest for the
P.A.R.P. T-shirt design. Each child will receive a free
P.A.R.P. T-shirt with this year’s winning design depicting the
theme Blast off into Reading! We are happy to announce
that this year’s contest winner is Sophia
Kasimatis (4th grade) with two runners-up:
Michael Dominguez (5th grade) & Tasheima
Johnson (6th grade). Their designs posters
will be displayed in school for all to enjoy
during P.A.R.P. month. Congratulations to
Sophia, Michael & Tasheima! One, two,
three Blast OFF!
P.A.R.P. T-SHIRT DESIGN WINNER
PARP Kick-off with The Brain Show ~Thurs., February 28th
THE STEWART MANOR SPOTLIGHT PAGE 3
PARP 2013 ~ Launch into Reading
JUMP ROPE FOR HEART & HOOPS FOR HEART
Student Manor School students, in 3rd & 4th grade, participated in the American Heart Associa-
tion’s ‘Jump Rope for Heart’ on Wednesday, February 6th, jumping rope and having fun for a
great cause. The 5th & 6th graders participated in the ’Hoops for Heart’ program on Wednesday, February 13th
for the same cause. Stewart Manor School is one of many schools that participates in this fundraiser for the AHA,
which supports lifesaving research and educational programs. This year the 1st & 2nd graders also participated for
the first time in fundraising as well. Congratulations to all the students for their fundraising efforts and heart
healthy habits!
Michael Dominguez
Tasheima Johnson
Sophia Kasimatis
SEPTA Meetings
3/4 & 4/29, 6/4
***********************
NEXT SM PTA MEETING
Feb. 28th 9:30AM
CAFETERIA **************************
BOE MTG @ 8pm
2/12 CA, 3/12 GA
4/9 CHC, 5/14 SM
Annual Budget Vote held 5/21
Spring Book Fair March 14-15th (School Hours)
March 14th - 6:30pm (Family
Night)
PTA Volunteers Needed Don’t be shy! Bring a friend and sign up to
volunteer for a PTA event. You are always
welcome and our school is better for it.
Contact Pam for details: 516-488-9272.
BLOOLD DRIVE
Upcoming Events
PTA Executive Committee Members
President ~ Pamela Milinic
1st Vice President ~ Barbara Za-batta
2nd Vice President ~ Ivy Belardo
3rd Vice President/Principal
Mrs. Kranidis
4th Vice Pres/Teacher Reps ~
Mrs. Kasprzak & Ms. Moculeski
Corresponding Secretary ~ Maureen Ogden
Recording Secretary ~ Jennifer Kightlinger
Treasurer ~ Joanne Dominguez
Central Council Delegates ~
Abbey Guglielmo, Lisa Bleeker, & Carolyn Brendel
PTA Committee & Chairs
Safety Patrol ~ Marianna
Sicignano
BAC Representative ~ Nancy Gregory & Carol Ann Albersten
Bulletin Boards/Decorations
Celeste Ramondi
Membership ~ Ivy Belardo
Supermarket Bingo ~ Seana Bart
Holiday Boutique ~ Joan Hurley, Michele Rullo & Lauren Giuffre
Cultural Arts ~ Estela Agudelo & Jen Kightlinger
Blood Drive ~ Joanne Dominguez
PARP ~ Barbara Zabatta & Pamela Milinic
PARP Mystery Readers ~ Joanne Dominguez
Spring Book Fair ~ Joanne Forte-Davidson & Barbara Torres
Poinsettia Plant Sale ~ Karen Martocci
Mother’s Day Flower Sale ~ Ka-ren Martocci & Joan Hurley
Staff Appreciation Day ~ Barbara Zabatta
Special Person Day ~ Pamela Milinic
The Stewart Manor Spotlight Ivy Belardo and Joanne Dominguez, Co-Editors
Pam Milinic, PTA President 38 Stewart Manor
Stewart Manor, NY 11530 516 326-5530
The Spotlight is a Nassau Region PTA® publication. PTA is a
registered service trademark of the National Congress of Parents
and Teachers.
Websites to check out: www.pta.org
www.elmontschools.org/schools/stewart/ www.nassaulibrary.org/elmont/
Thank Y
ou!
Thank you to the PTA Executive
Board, all the parents, students, and fac-
ulty who have volunteered for school
and PTA sponsored events. Your self-
lessness and enthusiasm embodies the
spirit and greatness of the Stewart Man-
or School.
A word of thanks to all the Class Parent
volunteers. Being a Class Parent is a
great way to be involved in your child’s
class and to assist the teachers with vari-
ous classroom festivities and PTA relat-
ed activities.
"Volunteers don't necessarily have
the time, but they have the heart." --
Anonymous
Volunteer’s Corner
Elmont Dads’ Service Club The mission of the Elmont Dads’ Service Club is to foster the bond between parents, grandparents, relatives and their children. The Club holds food drives, coordinates nursing home visits and holds fundraisers. The next club meeting dates are March 14th, April 20th, May 18th and June 13th. Contact the Elmont School District Main Office for more information on membership or check out the elmontschool.org website for more information and upcoming events.
Thank you to the blood donors that came out to give a little bit of
themselves to help others, and to the volunteers that helped make
this year’s Blood Drive a very worthy event! This year our Blood
Drive took place on Thursday, February 7th. We were able to
collect 28 pints of blood, which helped to save about 84 lives!
Thank you to Barbara Torres, Mirella Avalos-Louie, Ivy Belardo,
Shirelle Pearson and Alice Batting for coming out and volunteering
their time!
Mother’s Day Flower Sale May 10th (School Hours)
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