The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Eric Hoffer

September 15 to September 19

Mon 9/15  3:45 AVID

Tues 9/16 8:15 Safety Meeting

                     3:30 SRC Meeting rm. 12

                     KG DIBELS Begins

Wed 9/17  8:15 Viking Support Center Meeting 1/2

Benefits Depot (ESC 10:00 to 2:00)

KG DIBELS

Thurs 9/18       PTA Read-A-Thon Fundraiser begins

                     KG DIBELS

Fri 9/19

September 22 to September 26

Mon 9/22 

Tues 9/23 3:30 SRC Meeting          

Wed 9/24  8:15 Viking Support Center Meeting ¾

                     1:00 to 4:00 Benefits Depot ESC

                     3:30 CSIP Meeting

                     6:30 PHS HIV/Sexual Health Preview

Thurs 9/25      

Fri 9/26

2nd Annual Puyallup Festival of Books

Sammy Keyes Goodbye Party with author Wendelin Van Draanen, Saturday, October 4th , 7 pm, Liberty Theater, 116 W. Main, Puyallup

The Puyallup Public Library and Puyallup School District are excited to partner on the 2nd Annual Puyallup Festival of Books. On Saturday, October 4th, we will welcome author Wendelin Van Draanen as we celebrate the conclusion of her Sammy Keyes mystery series, with the publication of Sammy Keyes and the Kiss Goodbye, the 18th and final book in the series.

Every student who comes to the party will receive a pair of shoelaces with the titles of all of the Sammy Keyes books printed on them. We will have catering with food prominently mentioned in the Sammy Keyes books, including God-like Macaroni and Cheese with Salsa. The program will include an interview with Wendelin by Walter, the Giant Storyteller.

For more information contact the Puyallup Public Library or visit the Spinning Library Services page on the Spinning website.

Reminder about IXL!

·       We continue to have IXL available to all of our K-6 students this year.

·       If you are a new teacher that needs an account please email Cynthia Russell with your school name in the email. She will set up your account for you.

·       If you have changed schools please let Cynthia know which school you have moved to and she will update your teacher account, you DO NOT need to create a new account.

·       All new students to the district will need to be added into IXL by the teacher. ONLY students new to the district. Please make sure to use the students district ID numbers as the IXL ID number to ensure we do not have duplicates.

·       If a student has moved schools within the district and you need them changed to your school please send Cynthia their student ID#, name and the new school they are at.

More EDLINE Suggestions

Taken from How to Market Your School: A Guide to Marketing, Communication, and Public Relations for School Administrators

by Johanna Lockhart pages 141-142

E-mail messages face the same obstacles as other communication pieces. They have to compete for the time, attention, and interest of the receiver. Use these suggestions to make the school's e-mail messages reader friendly.

Include graphics (sparingly). A picture may be worth a thousand words, but not if it takes too long to display or overwhelms the message. Graphics can be invaluable in an e-mail. Most e-mail systems now have the ability to read messages in an HTML format. Make sure that the graphic is relevant to the message or the school. Also check the layout between graphics and text in the message by sending a version to yourself.

Keep your message short. While e-mail is becoming a larger part of people's daily business and personal lives, they still do not expect the body of the text to contain the same amount of information that might be sent via fax or mail. It is better to create a large document in another format and attach it. As an attachment it is more likely to be read than a multi-page e-mail.

Link to the school website. Encourage users to click on a link that will take them to the school website where you have the space and ability to present them with more information. This also allows the school to track the number of users that come to the website from a link in e-mails.

Test the message before broadcasting it. To confirm that the format of any e-mail the school is planning to send to a broad audience looks acceptable, and to ensure that the e-mail will not get trapped by spam filters, test it by sending it to members of the team.

Help to get the word out to parents…

Parents or guardians of elementary students in grades four through six and of junior high students in grades seven through nine are invited to preview the school district’s approved sexual health and HIV/AIDS curriculum.

The elementary preview for grades four through six will be held between 6:30 and 8 p.m. on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 in the Puyallup High Commons.

The junior high preview for grades seven through nine will be held between 6:30 and 8 p.m. on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 in the Puyallup High Commons, 105 Seventh St. S.W. in Puyallup.

Parents wishing to exclude their child from the state-required HIV/AIDS curriculum must preview this curriculum and sign an exclusion form.

Questions or concerns may be addressed by attending this parent information meeting, contacting the child’s teacher, or contacting Rick Wells, director of athletics, health, and fitness, at (253) 841-8785.