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Biltmore Prep PTO
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Co-Presidents
Sandy Kukla
Karin Szymanski
Vice President
Tiffany Zook
Co-Treasurers
Terry Mealman
Alberto Fernandez
Secretary
Heather Jenkins |
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Biltmore Prep PTO
Newsletter
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Renee Sandler Shamblin
Karin Szymanski
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Biltmore Prep Neighborhood Parents.
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3501 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 246
NE corner of Osborn & Scottsdale Road
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Proud Parent of a
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c: 602.206.4905
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Rob Kukla
Realtor & Biltmore Prep Parent Neighborhood Resident
Looking to buy or sell a home? I will donate $250 of every commission back to our school!
Direct: 480-650-3966
Office: 602-212-1600
robkukla@cox.net
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Biltmore Prep Calendar: Upcoming Events Nov 7 - Dine-Out Fundraiser at Culver's
Nov 9 - School Picture Re-takes
Nov 9 - Fall Carnival
Nov 9 to 15 - Donation drop-off for the school-wide YARD SALE
Nov 12 - Veterans' Day - No School
Nov 13 - PTO Meeting, 6:30 pm
Nov 16 - School-wide Yard Sale
Nov 17 - Campus Beautification Volunteer Day with "Hands On"
Nov 19 - 21 - Winter Book Fair
Nov 21 - Special Person's Day
Nov 22 - 23 - Thanksgiving Recess - No School Dec 11 - PTO Meeting, 6:30 pm
Dec 12 - Violin Recital, 5:30 pm
Dec 14 - Biltmore Singers Showcase, 6:00 pm
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* Clean out your closets and garage! We will be having a school-wide Yard Sale on November 16.
* Join us this for the Fall Carnival on November 9.
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Culver's Dine-Out Fundraiser
Wednesday, November 7, from 1 to 7pm
|  Leave the cooking to someone else, and take the family for a quick & easy dinner at Culver's. Our school will receive 10% of every Biltmore Prep family's purchase - just be sure to bring this FLYER so our school receives credit. 825 E. Camelback Road.
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Phoenix Symphony Special Offer &
Biltmore Prep Violin Recital
|  Come hear Biltmore Prep mother and our violin teacher Thula Ngwenyama perform as a soloist with the Phoenix Symphony on November 8 - 10. Thanks to Thula, all Biltmore Prep families can obtain tickets for 50% off with the promo code: BILTMORE. Click HERE for more information. Click HERE to purchase tickets online. Also - please mark your calendars and join us on December 12 at 5:30 pm for our students' Winter violin recital. Pizza & refreshments will follow. Come out and see how well these young string players are doing!
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Fall Carnival - November 9th
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Come enjoy a fun family event on a  Friday evening from 5:30 to 8:00 PM at the school fields. We will have game booths, inflatable sports games, Spider Man, balloon figures, face painting, a DJ, a dance group, the Fire Department and an AZ Science Center booth, plus amazing food, raffle items and prizes. We are pre-selling Food Vouchers, Raffle tickets and Game Tickets. Save money and pre-purchase! This also helps us plan how much food to provide. Please click HERE. Remember this event is put entirely on by parents and teachers. We are in need of a few things. Click HERE to help donate or lend items. We are need of volunteers before and during the event, please sign-up HERE. Thank you!
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Congratulations Chess Champions!
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Congratulations to our Biltmore Prep Chess Team for their continued success! Out of the 43 elementary schools that competed in the "Twister" tournament on October 20, our Kindergarten Team took FIRST PLACE, and our K-3 Team took FOURTH PLACE! The Biltmore Prep Chess Team members who played in the above tournament include: Alix Ssennya, Owen Rathvon, Trevor Gordon, Dominic DeMar, Blake Shamblin, Daniel Vasquez, Nicholas Vasquez, Thomas Bull (not pictured), Grace Vasquez, Oliver Brink, and Otto Brink. Come by and see their trophies in the front office, and tell the kids "Congratulations!"
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Biltmore Prep Yard Sale
Drop off donations Nov 9 - 15
The Yard Sale is Friday, November 16
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Starting on Friday, November 9, you can drop off all items in the multi-purpose room for the Yard Sale on the following Friday, November 16. If you have questions or would like to help at the sale (this counts for your volunteer hours), please contact CarolAHardin@gmail.com. |
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"HandsOn" Campus Beautification Work Day
Saturday, November 17 from 8am to 12pm
|  Our school was selected to be a beneficiary of the 13th Annual "Day for Downtown" organized by the non-profit volunteer organization HandsOn Greater Phoenix. On Saturday, November 17 from 8am to 12pm, HandsOn will mobilize more than 500 corporate and community citizens in a rewarding day of service to benefit the downtown Phoenix community, and 50 of those volunteers will be coming to our school! We will have 50 volunteers from Accenture and Unum to help us make some important physical improvements to our campus. We need approximately 20 parent volunteers to help - please join us for a few hours to show our appreciation to HandsOn for selecting our school for this wonderful opportunity, and to help make our campus more functional and beautiful! Thank you to Carol Hardin and Lisa Stevenson for their efforts in bringing HandsOn to our campus. Questions? Contact Carol at CarolAHardin@gmail.com.
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PUBLIC SCHOOL TAX CREDIT -
Make a Donation - Take the Credit.
It Won't Cost you a Dime!
| If you must pay taxes anyway, why not help our school at the same time? Arizona law allows taxpayers to make a donation to a public school and deduct the amount of their donation (up to $400) from their state tax bill. It is called the public school tax credit, and schools use tax credit funds to pay for athletics, field trips, clubs, and extra-curricular activities. By using tax credit funds whenever possible, we can put more money back into our budget for teachers and programs in our classrooms. Last year our school raised almost $34,000 in tax credit donations, and this year our goal is to increase that to $40,000! Please help by asking your family, neighbors, and friends to make their tax credit donation to our school. Tax credit donations may be dropped off at the school office (until December 21), mailed to the school (must be postmarked by December 31), or donated online. For more information, click HERE.
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Book Fair
Monday, November 19 to Wednesday November 21
|  Do your holiday shopping early, and support our school at the same time, by shopping at the Biltmore Prep Book Fair! Teachers will be taking their classrooms through the Book Fair in the multipurpose room during the school day on Monday, November 19 and Tuesday, November 20. If you would like your child to be able to make a purchase, please send them to school with money in an envelope marked "Book Fair." (Books are typically $3-$10 each). Teachers will also be filling out a "classroom wish list" where you can donate a book for your child's classroom. We will have parent volunteers and National Jr. Honor Society members helping the youngest students and will put their change back in an envelope. If you would like to shop from an expanded book collection, please click HERE to go to our Online Book Fair from November 5-November 25! All books ordered online will be sent home with students before winter break. Parents are invited to shop on Monday or Tuesday in the multipurpose room, or on Wednesday, during lunchtime on Special Person's Day, in the breezeway by the front entrance gate. We have expanded our Book Fair to 3 days this year, and need volunteers! If you would like to help out at the Book Fair, please contact Jennifer at aznewmans@cox.net. Thank you!
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Special Persons Day
Wednesday, November 21 |  Biltmore Prep is hosting Special Person's Day on Wednesday, November 21, 2012, during lunch. Parents, grandparents, aunts & uncles, or anyone who is special in your child's life is invited to join us to join us for lunch and learn a little more about what our students do during the day. Come have lunch with the children in the cafeteria, enjoy some music, browse through the book fair, and be a part of a school wide art project. A professional photographer (thank you to Biltmore Prep parent - Jason Grubb), will be here to take complimentary family portraits. The cost for a cafeteria lunch is $2.25 per adult or you may bring your own lunch.
Lunch times are:
10:50-11:10 3rd and 4th grade
11:10-11:35 Kindergarten
11:35-11:55 2nd grade
11:55-12:20 1st grade
12:20-12:40 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade |
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Biltmore Singers - Winter Session
|  The Biltmore Singers Club Winter Session is underway, but it's not too late to register for the tuition-free program! While the tuition-based program is for 1-5th graders, the tuition-free program is now open to Kindergarteners too! Any BPA student in K-5th grade is welcome to register at no charge. Parent volunteers will be needed to assist with these classes. Registration deadline is Friday November 16. Click HERE for more information, and contact Jessica Elder with your questions: JessicaElderVoiceStudio@hotmail.com. |
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PTO Election
|  We will be having an election to vote for a new Co-Secretary and a new Co-Vice President at our November 13 PTO meeting. We are still taking nominations. Please email Blair with suggestions for people to sit in the board positions mentioned above. |
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Box Tops
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Thank you to our wonderful families for saving and turning in Box Tops for Education! We have already earned $345 for Science Camp!
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Biltmore Prep Dad's Club
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Don't miss your chance to volunteer for Dad's Club! We put a Dad on Campus every Friday of the school year. Give us just 1 single Friday this year, and come be a part of Dad's Club 2012-2103! We're now booking in February, do you have a day to give?
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Catalina Island Marine Institute Fundraiser
|  Did you know that our 7th and 8th grade students have the opportunity to go to the Catalina Island Marine Institute each year? This trip helps to further our students' understanding of marine wildlife and oceanography by experiencing it firsthand. Students will be dissecting, snorkeling, and learning about ocean geology. Please consider making a tax credit donation toward this program now. To make an online donation, click HERE. At "Program Preference" write: Catalina Island Marine Institute. Each student needs to raise $300. Questions? Amy@chilipepperproductions.com.
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Fundraising - Highlights
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There are many ongoing opportunities to raise funds for our school that don't cost any extra money! You just do your regular shopping but use gift cards or shopping reward cards that are linked to our school. If everyone participates, the profits will really add up! Every penny raised is used to help enrich the educational experience of our children. We are highlighting a few options each month so stay tuned!
Safeway  eScrip is Safeway's school rewards program. Link your Safeway Club Card to our school, and we will automatically receive 1% of everything you purchase! Anyone can do it - even friends and family who live out of state (the program is linked to Vons, Carrs, and many other grocery stores as well). Go one step further and register your debit and credit cards when you eat at the many different participating local restaurants in the eScrip dining rewards program. Just go to www.escrip.com, click on "about the program," then "sign-up," then follow the prompts to enter your Safeway Club Card number. Note - if you don't know your Safeway Club Card number, you can call Safeway Customer Service at 1-877-723-3929 to get it. Click HERE for more information.
www.ShopwithScrip.com.  This is a program that enables you to shop for your usual things with gift cards linked to our school, (e.g. gas, clothes, iTunes, school uniforms at Lands' End, restaurants, gifts) and the school earns a rebate from each of your purchases. You can purchase Scrip gift cards for over 500 different retailers. Many of the scrip cards [such as the scrip for Lands' End, Staples, Old Navy, and more) are completely electronic! You can place your order 24 hours a day, and in just minutes you will receive an e-mail with the code and can begin your shopping, whether online or in person. It is so easy! Click HERE for registration instructions. School Uniforms at Land's End.  When you buy school uniforms at Lands' End and use our school code, 3% of your purchase goes back to our school. Our school code is "900138173." If you make your purchase with a "Scrip Now!" Land's End gift card purchased at the www.shopwithscrip.com website (described above), an additional 16% of your purchase price will be rebated to our school! Fresh & Easy.  The Junior Ambassador Program is for 4th through 8th grade students who are selected to participate in educational field experiences that include visits to Washington, D.C., a Phoenix Zoo internship, and exchange activities with students in Japan and Germany. The Junior Ambassador Program is raising money by collecting Fresh & Easy grocery store receipts - each $20 receipt is worth $1! All you need to do is save your Fresh & Easy grocery store receipts and turn them in to the school office. Questions about any of the above fundraisers? Contact us a biltmoreprep@gmail.com. |
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Biltmore Prep PTO is on Facebook!
| You can keep up to date with the latest Biltmore Prep news, see pictures from school functions, and post your own updates & events on the new Biltmore Prep PTO facebook page. Please click the link below and click "like" in order to receive the school updates.
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