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Volume 5.1| August 2022

Your Brightwood PTA Monthly News & Updates

Presidents Message:

Dear Parents, Teachers, and Friends of Brightwood,

Welcome back returning families, teachers, and staff! To Kindergarten and new families: WELCOME to the Brightwood Community!

Brightwood is a wonderful elementary school with dedicated teachers, devoted staff, and an invaluable administration who provide an excellent learning experience. And our parent community is like no other!

My name is Duly Wong, your 2022-2023 PTA President. This is my second year serving as president on the PTA Executive Board. This year, as President, my goal is to strengthen our sense of community through more active parent participation in school meetings, programs and events. I want to encourage both returning families as well as new families to take advantage of the many volunteer opportunities throughout the school year.

I encourage all of you to renew or start a new PTA membership for only $10 per person. Your membership gives you a voice at our PTA meetings, entitles you to vote on important school issues and, most importantly, it benefits our children. It demonstrates to your child the importance you place on education, volunteering and community involvement. You will meet other parents and teachers (like I mentioned, a parent community like no other!), and by attending monthly meetings, you can provide direct input to enhance our school.

Some of the important annual programs and events sponsored by the PTA include the Youth Fair, Fall and Spring Book Fair, Movie Nights, Field Trips, Student Enrichment Programs, , the Holiday Boutique, Talent Show, and the Fun Run and Read-a-thon. In addition, our PTA provides essential items like academic software, technology upgrades, and teachers with supplies and materials.

To get started and stay up to date on school happenings, please be sure to do the following:

Join the Brightwood PTA

Visit our website www.BrightwoodPTA.com

Follow us on Facebook and Instagram
Attend our monthly PTA meetings, starting with next month, Wednesday, September 14th, 7pm in the Cafetorium

We have something for everyone and I would love for you to get involved. If you have questions or want to figure out what opportunity is the best fit for you, please contact us at brightwoodelementarypta@gmail.com.

Have a great school year!

Duly Wong

PTA President

PTA Announcements and Reminders

Join the PTA! Membership Open!

When you join the PTA, you join a community that encourages student achievement and enriches the learning environment. We believe in building partnerships between our families and our school. We believe TOGETHER we can help our children be successful. We know that children learn more and have better lives when everyone in the school community works together to share thoughts and information and work on projects to benefit children. We welcome you to get involved with the Brightwood PTA!

Classroom that signs up the most PTA members gets a popsicle party in September!

8th Grade In-N-Out cookout fundraiser

Support our Eighth Graders

We are excited to announce that 8th Grade has won the In-N-Out Cookout Fundraiser lottery. This is a great opportunity to raise money that will go towards various eighth grade promotion activities. We will get to keep 75% of the money raised and 25% will be donated to the In-N-Out Burger Foundation to help support non-profits that work to serve abused and/or neglected children in local communities.

We need your help to make the fundraiser a success! Our goal is to sell 800 meal tickets and each ticket costs $5.00. Each meal includes a hamburger (with or without cheese), drink, and chips*.

Please download our order form (https://sites.google.com/view/brightwood8thgrade/fundraisers/in-n-out-fundraiser)

and fill out the bottom tear-off portion and return it back to your child’s teacher, along with payment by August 24, 2022. Cash payments only please. Tickets will be sent home with students on August 29th.

The In-N-Out Burger Cookout truck will be in front of Brightwood School on August 31st from 5-7:30 pm for meal pick-up. Must present pre-purchased meal ticket during pick-up. No tickets will be sold on August 31st.

Thank you for your help and support!

Back to School Night

We are excited to have Back to School Night back in-person this year. In an effort to accommodate families with multiple children, each class/grade will offer two identical sessions during BTSN. Adults only please. It is not recommended to bring your children to this event. Teachers will share classroom procedures, information and policies. This is NOT a time to discuss individual students. Teachers will have a sign-up for parent conferences available for parent conference week (the week of Sept. 19th). We look forward to seeing you there!

8/24/22 1st-5th Grades

Session 1 5:30pm-6:!5pm

Session 2 6:15-7:00pm

8/31/22 6th-8th Grade

Session 1 5:30pm-6:!5pm

Session 2 6:15-7:00pm

Hooray For this years Spirit Wear!!!

8/22-9/2 SPIRIT WEAR ONLINE STORE

Spirit Wear Link

Our 2022-2023 Brightwood Bengal spirit wear is finally here. Order yours online today before our store closes after September 2nd! Choose from a variety of hooded sweatshirts and t-shirts available in youth and adult sizes. Shirts are also available in navy and light blue colors.

Shipping to your home is $8 per order, with free shipping for orders over $50. Shipping to the school is free (no minimum)! When shipping to school, orders will be distributed via homeroom teachers.

Sales will remain open until 9/2, and all orders are expected to ship by 9/26.

**Please note that due to Covid disruptions to some suppliers, some featured items may become unavailable after purchases are made. Comparable items will be substituted, or refunds issued in those cases.**

**RETURN NOTICE:** Orders cannot be returned or exchanged unless defective.

Disney Spirit Day 8/26/22

Brightwood’s first spirit day will be anything Disney themed. (Ex. Mickey ears, Pixar themed like Toy Story shirts or Disney Princesses tiaras etc.)

Students still need to follow the district’s dress code policy on non-uniform days

Youth Fair November 2022

This year's Youth Fair is on November 10, 2022. We will post more information as the date gets closer. In the meantime, please save the date!

Youth Fair 2022

2022 Important Brightwood Dates

Click HERE to view all of Brightwood’s important dates including planned spirit days! Check out the October Calendar attached

Non District Fun Activities

Click HERE to view approved for distribution flyers for non-district sponsored activities.

Brightwood Yearbook school year 2022-2023

We’re very excited to announce that we are trying to bring back the Brightwood Yearbook this year. Last year was a success. It’s been awhile since we’ve had a school-wide yearbook and we can't do this project without your help. We are asking for help with submitting photos that we can use for the yearbook. If we have an event, such as Spirit Day, we ask that you email us a photo if you'd like to be featured in the yearbook. You can easily submit the photo* by emailing us at:

BrightwoodSchoolYearbook@gmail.com

Please label each email accordingly. ie. Subject: Crazy Hair Day. When submitting photos please keep it to a minimum. We do not need several photos of the same child in different poses. Pick your best and send it our way! *note: all photos submitted are not guaranteed to make the yearbook

We need YOU! Join the Brightwood Team!

We are looking for community members who are interested in joining the Brightwood team. We are in great need of classified noon duty staff. Filling these positions would assist us in keeping students safe during unstructured time. Like many industries, we are facing a labor shortage in some positions and would appreciate you spreading the word to those who may be interested. Details of available positions and the online application can be found at www.EdJoin.org.

Don’t Forget! Bell Schedule

To address overcrowding and long lines during lunch on short Wednesdays and minimum days the school day will end 30 minutes earlier with a grab and go lunch students eat at home. Please see attached updated bell schedule.

Executive Board led by new president, Duly Wong and the rest of our 2022-2023 Board members.

Important Meetings

PTA Board Meeting

Our next PTA Board meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 17 at 6:30p.m.

The meeting will be held via Zoom. If you would like to join, please email brightwoodelementarypta@gmail.com for the Zoom link. Also, check out our Facebook or Instagram page for more updated information.

Zooming with the Principal

Please join us next month for Zooming with the principal to talk all things Brightwood!

Stay tuned for information for Septembers meeting

COMMUNICATION

Volunteer Information: bit.ly/Brightwoodvolunteer

Suggestion box: http://bit.ly/PTASuggestion

Our website: http://www.brightwoodpta.com

EASY WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT BRIGHTWOOD

ALL YEAR LONG

1. Amazon Smile

Do you shop on Amazon.com? You can support Brightwood by shopping through https://smile.amazon.com instead. Just log in, choose Brightwood Elementary School PTA as your charity of choice and then shop as you normally would. Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to Brightwood Elementary PTA.

2. Box Tops

Help Brightwood earn Box Tops! Collect them throughout the year and drop them off in the Box Tops collection box at the Brightwood front office. Monies raised directly support our school.

3. Ralphs

You can now donate to Brightwood PTA every time you shop swipe your Ralphs Rewards card! This program does not cost you a penny. Up to 4% of your purchases will be donated to Brightwood PTA. You must first follow the steps below to connect your Ralphs rewards card to Brightwood PTA.

Start by going to the Ralphs website: www.ralphs.com
Click on either “sign in” (if you have a log–in password) or “create an account” on the right. If you’re creating an account, follow the steps on the website. You’ll need your email, a password and your zip code. You can apply for a Ralph’s card if you don’t have one yet, or use your Ralphs card number or telephone number linked to your card.
When you see the confirmation page, make sure to check the box that says “I have read and agree to the Terms and Conditions”. From there, you will be notified by email that your account has been created. Go to your email and click the link in the email sent by Ralphs. (If you don’t see an email from Ralphs, check your spam folder.)
Now you can log in with your Ralphs online account using the email and password you just created. After you log in, you’ll see a page with My Account. At the top of list is “Account Settings”. Click on this tab and then the “Community Rewards” tab. Select the “Edit Community Contribution Program Information”. On the next page, enter “Brightwood Elementary School PTA” or our nonprofit number “93885” into the first field, then click “search”. Select “Brightwood Elementary School PTA” in the list then click “save changes”.

Your Ralphs Rewards card is now connected to Brightwood PTA. And you’re all finished! Encourage your family & friends to sign up too.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

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Brightwood Elementary PTA | Email: BrightwoodElementaryPTA@gmail.com

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