Sangster Elementary PTA

Major changes and opportunities are coming – now and potentially soon – in the use of computer technology in FCPS schools. Those changes and opportunities are the
result of new developments in computer capabilities as well as in FCPS and FCC technology related programs. Some of those developments are:

• Tablet computers
• Smartphones
• Digital textbooks
• FCPS’s BYOD – Bring Your Own Devices –
  Program
• Online Courses
• Online Learning resources like the
  KhanAcademy.org website
• Federal Communication Commission’s
  “Connect2Compete” Initiative
• Virtual Mentoring

To fully take advantage of these developments, FCPS – and our children — will benefit from parents who are aware of their potential and, whenever
appropriated and possible, are engaged in helping make them of value to the students in our schools.  Consequently the FCCPTA is exploring how it
might facilitate effective use of these developments by communicating news about them and establishing, if possible, an FCPS-wide technology committee.

To help the FCCPTA do that it would be appreciated if you would forward this message to your unit’s membership and ask any interested parents contact Walt Carlson (wcarlson1@cox.net), our Technology chairman.

Thank you for your help in this effort. The FCCPTA will let you know of parents who express interest and also keep you informed with any plans that result from this effort.

Regards, Mona

Ramona Morrow, President

Fairfax
County Council of PTAs

571-235-6547

FCCPTA Executive Officers Support Immediate Restoration of 5 Honors
Courses to High School Course Catalog

Letter to School Board Members Cites iPetition and Teacher Association
President

MERRIFIELD, VIRGINA – January 26,
2012 – Ramona Morrow, president of the Fairfax County Council of PTAs, issued a
letter today to the Fairfax County School Board in which she stated that the
Executive Committee (officers) of the FCCPTA “believes
that the following five Honors courses – World History 2 (10th grade), English
11 and US History (11th grade), English 12 and US Government (12th grade) -
should be offered live starting the first day of the
2012-2013 school year.” 

More than 1,600 signatures were gathered in a joint FairGrade and Restore Honors Courses in Fairfax
County (RHC) iPetition that opened on July 1, 2011.  The FCCPTA Executive Committee believes this indicates deep and wide support for the
restoration of the five honors-level courses listed above.

Additionally, the FCCPTA Executive Committee supports the following recommendations made by Fairfax County Federation of
Teachers President Steve Greenburg:

• Restore the
  ‘live’ Honors sections now
• Consider
  ‘on-line’ Honors as a supplement /option for students
• Begin forming
  task-forces and focus groups of teachers, students, parents, school board
  members, and FCPS administrators to examine how to revise Honors courses
  to best meet the needs of all (content, process, selection, etc.)

Ms. Morrow’s letter is available by CLICKING HERE.

Fairfax County Council of PTAs (FCCPTA) cultivates meaningful partnerships among stakeholders (i.e., parents, students, school
system, and community) while serving as the primary resource for parent advocacy and involvement within Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS).

Help make great things  happen for our school.  Our school has joined the My Coke Rewards for Schools program.

That means by drinking the Coca-Cola products your family already enjoys, you can get My Coke Rewards points and donate them to help our school.

Your donations will go towards rewards like sports equipment that will help our students learn, play and have fun.

It’s easy to donate:

1) Purchase your favorite Coca-Cola products to get codes (they’re on hundreds of different packages, in a variety of sizes and flavors).

2) Go to mycokerewards.com/school & sign in (register if you aren’t a member).

3) Enter your codes to collect points – then search for our school to donate points.

4) Enter the amount of points you’d like to give, then click “Donate”.  for more information and start turning My Coke Rewards points into rewards for our school.

Visit www.mycokerewards.com for full details. © 2011 The Coca-Cola Company.

When:  February 2nd, 2012

Location: R4

Time: 7:00 PM

New Schedule for PTA Meetings:

Mar Meeting: 9:30 AM

Apr Meeting: 7:00 PM

May Meeting 9:30 AM

June Meeting 7:00 PM

Ms. Jankovich and Ms. Bodnovich just collected, counted, boxed, and sent in 174,930 box tops.   A great big thank-you to them both for volunteering their time to make this happen.  Sangster will receive $1749.30 for this first submission.

WAY TO GO SANGSTER!!  Keep collecting, we have another submission in March!

Parents/Guardians,

We want your ideas to improve the building and grounds!

Do you have an idea or need on how to improve the school building or grounds?
The PTA Buildings and Grounds Committee wants your ideas and needs.   

We are looking for a few good projects to devote our energies and funds to make a difference. Be part of the solution by sharing your idea or need with Dave Berchtold, berchtold.dave@gmail.com, or at 703-571-9082.  Please submit ideas and needs by 15 November, although they are welcomed year round.

Feel free too to comment on any of the following so that we can be aligned with you and the school faculty on where you would like us to focus

Weed, mulch, flower beds, leaf raking, improve weed barrier of benches at back of school, paint curbs, weather protection at kiss and ride, sound attenuation cafeteria, sound attenuation classrooms, classroom shelving or storage, sports turf and drainage on fields and/or playground, outdoor fitness stations, track drainage, goose dung minimization/elimination on grounds, augment grounds maintenance crew for grass cutting, create emergency snow removal team, providing sand/salt for de-icing, picnic shelter in back of the school, etc.