Hula on over to the upcoming Central School Book Fair Luau !

Location:  Hauser Auditorium

Dates:  Monday, January 30th – Thursday February 2nd

(Friday the 3rd will be spent tying up loose ends)

Time:  8:00 am – 3:30 pm

During the week of January 16th your child will bring home a Scholastic insert advertising a very small portion of the books that will be available at our upcoming fair.  Please preview this with your child.  Every child will shop the book fair during the week of January 30th and will bring their wish list home for you to review.  If you decide to purchase any of the books your child picked out from the fair, he/she may return the wish list, along with payment (please do not forget to include sales tax), back to school. If you prefer to look at the books yourself with your child, feel free to stop by before or after school hours when you can shop together. We are also open during the Luau Social during the evening of Thursday, February 2nd.

And, this year we will have a book fair website where you can shop for everything that we have to offer at the fair plus much, much more.  If you or other family members or friends choose to shop online instead, the books will be delivered to Central for free AND we still earn money from your purchase!

Every $10.00 that you spend at the book fair is worth $5.00 in free books for our school. The books we earn go to our school library and classrooms and to book grants for Central School students in need.

Whether or not you purchase a book, we hope your child enjoys the fair!

Get Ready for the Auction!

We are already preparing for the second Central School Auction!  We are tentatively scheduling it for early November 2012.  We need many volunteers to make this event a success so please consider adding your name to the list now!

Do you have something that you would like to donate to the auction?  Sports event tickets?  Gift certificates?  A weekend at a vacation home?  We are aiming high!

If you would like to be involved in planning the event or to make a donation, please email Stefanie at communicationsdir@centralptonews.org.

Here is the agenda for our upcoming PTO meeting on Friday, January 13th in the Hauser auditorium at 9am.

Hope to see you there!

Agenda PTO Meeting, January 13, 2012, 9 am

Volunteers Needed!!

On the heels of a very successful Science Fair, the ever-popular Science in a Can will be returning for 4 weeks in February.  Science in a Can is a science enrichment program that is offered to Kindergarten, 2nd and 4th grade students at Central School. Students bring home a weekly age-appropriate science experiment. The science cans will be distributed to students typically on Fridays and must be returned with completed experiment sheets by the following Tuesday. Most of the materials needed to perform the experiment are contained within the can.  We need volunteers to help stuff the cans and deliver them to the classrooms.

Volunteers are needed the first four Wednesdays of February (Feb. 1, 8, 15, and 22)  from 8:30 to 10 AM.

We will need at least 3 volunteers each week, but the more the merrier.

Traffic Safety around Central School is a top concern and requires ongoing evaluation.  Please note the following important change for drop off and pick up procedures for children in 3rd Grade:  To reduce congestion at 61-63 Woodside, 3rd graders will be picked up and dropped off in Zone C, in the back of Central School.  Third graders also will line up in the back of school.  This change becomes effective on Tuesday, January 3, 2012.

The pick up/drop off areas for all Students is as follows:

• Zone A:  Kindergarten, front of school on Woodside, near Kindergarten doors, before stop sign
• Zone B:  Grades 1-2, front of school, 61-63 Woodside
• Zone C:  Graders 3-5, back of school
• Zone D:  Hauser students

Please review the Traffic Safety Plan for complete information.

Central Safety FLYER_K-2

Central Safety FLYER_3-5

A few important reminders:

(1)  Arrive no earlier than 3:10 pm for pick up.  This allows your child to exit the school and be ready for pickup.  If you arrive earlier, you may be asked to circle the block while you wait for your child to exit the building.  If you would like to wait for your child on  the sidewalk or playground, please find a legal parking spot and feel free to do so.

(2) Display your “name placard” in your front window.   When there is inclement (raining hard, heavy snow, etc.) weather at pick up, it is especially important to arrive no earlier than 3:10 pm, with the placard clearly displayed in your car front window.  In this circumstance, once the parent or caregiver arrives at pick up, your child will be released.

(3) Please remind your child to cross the street only at crosswalks supervised by crossing guards to ensure his/her safety.

(4)  Please pass this info along to your caregiver and anyone else that may be picking up your child.  If you need a second placard for a caregiver please contact the office.

(5)  Remember, the key to the success of this plan is COMPLIANCE!  Thank you for your cooperation with these procedures.

Please remember when dropping off and picking up:

NO CELL PHONES
NO PARKING IN YELLOW MARKED CURBS
NO PARKING IN ZONES DURING DROP-OFF/PICK-UP TIMES

ZONE A – KINDERGARTEN (near playground)

ZONE B - GRADES 1-2 (front of school)

 ZONE C – GRADES 3- 5 (back of school)

Thank you for your cooperation with these procedures.

The Holiday Specials Collection has been extended until Monday, December 12th.  Please send your donation in with your child in an envelope marked “Specials Collection” or drop it off yourself in the PTO mailbox.  Happy Holidays!

The holiday season is upon us and let’s be sure to remember how hard ALL the staff works at Central School!  Each year the PTO takes up a collection and distributes gifts in the form of gift cards to 30+ staff members that are not classroom grade level teachers.

Please see the attached flyer for information.

Specials_Collection_2011

Questions?
Contact Jeanine Vaia at thirdvp@centralptonews.org

Pre-Order and Get the Early Bird Discount

- Yearbook orders placed before Winter Break are only $5.

Wonderful memories of Central School are in the making.
Hold onto them with the 2011-2012 Roadrunner Yearbook.

see the attached flyer for forms and more information.

RR Preorder Form

In light of the upcoming school renovations, the district has created three different drafts of the 2012-13 school calendar.

For your information, the possible scenarios that they are considering for the next school year are attached. 

calendar 1

calendar 2

calendar 3

Mark Your Calendar!

Learn more about the upcoming renovations to Central School.

The architect will be taking attendees on a tour of Central on Wednesday, December 7th at 7pm. 

All are welcome.

Original Works artwork is here!

Pickup will take place on Friday, November 18th from 2:45p-4pm in the Multi-Purpose Room at school.