CONGRATULATIONS ON A GREAT YEAR!

MWPTA would like to thank our entire parent body and school community for all of your help and support this year.  Together we raised over $47,000, we clocked you in for over 11,000 volunteer hours, you participated in 24 Fundraising events, you attended 27 Programs, you received 49 flyers and you read 222 Blog posts.  No wonder we have the most amazing parent body out there :)  Congratulations to us all!!!

MWPTA would also like to congratulate the parents of the 6th grade Culminating Class of 2012.  May your children continue to thrive and make you proud.  We wish them much success at their middle schools and best of luck for all of their future endeavors.  We hope you will come back for a visit often.

To all of our returning families, have a wonderful summer, you have earned it, and see you back at school August 14th.

PARENTS RAISE $82,697 FOR NEXT YEAR'S PROGRAMS & SAVE FOCUS FISH – THANK YOU!

This year parents, via participation in PTA and Friends of Mt. Washington School fundraising, Direct Appeal donations and Fresh & Easy receipt program (yes, it paid off at $4,000!), helped generated a total of $82,697.

Your efforts will fund the following programs:

Lastly, a huge thank you to parents who opened their wallets one last time this year and helped save our physical fitness program Focus Fish.  We were able to bridge the funding gap needed to keep that program.

As always, many, many thanks for your continued support and commitment to making quality education for our children a priority.  It certainly took a Mountain – and we did it!

SAFETY VALET NEEDS YOU FOR 2012/2013!

The Safety Valet would like to congratulate the children of the Class of 2012 on their achievements and culmination, as they move on to middle school!  Sadly, many of their parents are also moving on with them, and we will miss them greatly!  This also means we are losing half of our Valet team, leaving the program greatly understaffed.  The morning drop-off at school is vastly different than it was just three years ago, and we owe that to the efforts of all of you, and the dedication of our Valet team.  As we prepare for the new school year, we need your help!  If you are able to give just 30 minutes of your time each week (from 7:45am to 8:15am, one day a week), please contact our Safety Valet Coordinator at mwvalet@gmail.com and we'll find a shift that works for you.   Without new volunteers, we will not be able to maintain this vital program.  It is an easy way to help our school and keep our kids safe, with minimal time commitment or fuss.  Thanks to all who are able to step up and help out.

VOLUNTEER THANK YOU BREAKFAST, MONDAY, JUNE 15TH

Please join our Volunteer and Room Rep Coordinator Anvi Kevany for a thank you breakfast, on Monday, the 15th, at the front of the school right after drop off.  Thank you again for your 11,000 volunteer hours!!! Have a great Summer.

GREEN TEAM

One last Monday for The Green Team collection. Together with the help of the girl scouts, the cub scouts and the parents that supported The Green Team with the collections each Monday morning, we have been able to add $2000 to the general PTA fund for the school. This has been a fantastic first year for The Green Team - thank you one and all. Let's keep it up next year - don't forget - save all your bottles and cans over the summer and bring them in on the first Monday when we come back to school! Let's make that a "mountain" of a collection!!

FRESCO MARKET FUNDRAISER FOR OUR READING GARDEN

The Gardening committee has partnered with Fresco market to raise money for the reading garden to replace the current "dirt patch." 

END OF YEAR SURVEY

Please take a few minutes to fill out our end of year survey by clicking this link End of Year Survey.  Your feedback will help our PTA Board plan for next year, please respond to the survey by June 24th.  As always, thank you very much for your help and support.

FINAL PTA GENERAL ASSOCIATION MEETING MONDAY- JUNE 11th AT 8:30 a.m.

Please attend the LAST PTA membership meeting of the year this Monday, June 11th in the Library, directly following the morning assembly.  This is a very important meeting as we will discuss the budget allocations for the 2012-2013 school year.  A workshop will follow from Echo Parenting Center.  Please join us!  

Below is our Agenda for the membership meeting:

I.   Call to Order (Ariella Roberts)
II.  Welcome. 
      Introduction of the 2012-2013 Executive Board 
III. Approval of Minutes from March 21st 
IV.  Principal’s Report (Elizabeth Valentino) 
V.   Financial Report. 
     Adoption of the 2012-2013 Budget 
VI. Executive Board Reports. 
     Volunteers (Anvi Kevany)i. Volunteer Breakfast – June 18 
VII.Adjourned

ECHO PARENTING WORKSHOP WILL FOLLOW AT 9:00 a.m.
*Meeting and Workshop is for adults only.

SAFETY VALET IS STILL LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS

It is not too late to sign up and help with our Safety Valet Program.  If you are able to give 30 minutes (from 7:45am to 8:15am) once a week or be on a rotation schedule once a month, please contact our Safety Valet Coordinator, by emailing Eric Ragno at mwvalet@gmail.com.  This is a very important program in making sure our children stay safe in the rush of the morning of trying to get to school on time.  If we do not have enough volunteers, we will not be able to maintain this program.  Thank you very much to those who are able to step up and help out.

TALENT SHOW THANK YOUS

Thank you to Ms. Sosa, Ms. Porter and Ms. Gonzalez for all their hard work on putting on another amazing Talent Show and creating the opportunity for our Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser.  Congratulations to all of the performers who treated us to an incredible show on Friday night.  On behalf of our entire school community we would like to also thank Alan Palmer for stepping in, when Ms. Sosa was unable to be at the talent show, and needed to find an Emcee last minute.  Great job Alan - the evening went perfectly!   This event has shown us once again that our school is full of wonderful talent.

GRAZIE TANTO!

Mt. Washington Elementary School PTA thanks you for your participation in another phenomenal Good 'Ol Fashioned Spaghetti Dinner!  We had a great turn out, fabulous food, wonderful atmosphere and all of that before a stupendous Talent Show!  We sure know how to 'do it' at MWE!  Thank you to all the PTA volunteers who set-up and served food and sold merchandise on Friday night.  Without volunteer help and parents' participation we wouldn't have these wonderful evenings.  We are proud to announce we had gross sales in food, drinks and merchandise of $1,531 for the evening...a super success!

SWING INTO SUMMER WITH THESE DISCOUNTS

Summer discounts for members of the PTA! What a great way to keep our summer costs down a bit.  Click on this link to see all the savings:  http://www.capta.org/sections/membership/perks.cfm

TALENT SHOW AND SPAGHETTI DINNER, JUNE 8th MPR, 5-8pm

Come join the PTA for a good 'ol fashioned spaghetti dinner starting at 5:00pm, then sit back and enjoy the talent show at 6:30pm.  Good luck to all our wonderful performers, hope to see everyone there.

YEARBOOKS ARE HERE

If you have not preordered a yearbook for your child, there is still time to get one.  Yearbooks will be sold for $25 in the mornings starting on Monday by the parent center.  Pick one up before they are all gone.  

A HUGE thank you to our yearbook committee of 5th and 6th graders: Isabella Martinez Bernall, Jeannette Macias Chavez, Taylor Correa, Zoe Garcia, Liana Kaye-Lew, Julianna Keipp, Madeline Keipp, Monica Keipp, Kaelyn Lee, Miranda Lopez, Joseph Moreno, Molly Morris, Tattianna Sidhorm, Kestrel Valdez, Chyna Wong to Mrs. Mori and Ms. Ryan our teacher advisers.

FINAL PTA GENERAL ASSOCIATION MEETING - JUNE 11th AT 8:30 a.m.

Please attend the LAST PTA membership meeting of the year on Monday, June 11th directly following the morning assembly in the Library.  This is a very important meeting as we will discuss the budget allocations for the 2012-2013 school year.  A workshop will follow from Echo Parenting Center on Discipline.  Please join us!

GREEN TEAM

A  big thank you to the Girl Scouts who helped The Green Team for the month of May, collect the recycling every Monday morning. And a thank you to Nina Zippay for organizing them all to help with it.  Go Girl and Cub Scouts - thanks for two months of help.  Our Green Team to date has raised close to $2,000 so far.   Thank you for everyone's continued support

PARENT CENTER CLEAN UP AND PICK UP

Please come to the Parent Center and pickup your Bake Sale dishes/trays.  Also, our "almost new" donated refrigerator has a peculiar smell, please pick up any food items left in the refrigerator so that we can thoroughly clean it out.  Any unclaimed dishes/trays or food items will be donated or trashed, by the last day of school.
Thank you for your cooperation.

CPK THANK YOUS

OH WHAT A NIGHT!  California Pizza Kitchen Restaurant Night was a SUPER success!  Thank You to each and every one of Mt. Washington Elementary School parents, families, friends, teachers and Mrs. Valentino who joined us for a wonderful FUNdraising event!  We surpassed all expectations ~ even CPK's.  We know that some of you endured a 40 minute wait, while some of us already were enjoying dessert.  We know that some of you closed the place, while others of us opened it!  No matter how or when you participated, MWPTA THANKS YOU!  We are sooooo proud to announce this more than successful event made us a whopping $1,100.  Doesn't get much better than that!