The Beacon
Olive Chapel Elementary PTA News & Information
~ November 26 - November 30 ~
CALENDAR
November 29 - STEM Night (Details below)
December 4 - Clipper Coffee for new and veteran parents
December 5 - Walk to School Wednesday
December 5 - Spirit Night: Glory Days Bar & Grill
December 13 - PTA Meeting, 6:00 p.m.
December 21 - Spirit Day: Holiday Sweater Day
December 21 - EARLY RELEASE DAY
December 24 - January 1 - Holiday Break: NO SCHOOL
ALL HANDS ON DECK
Walk to School Wednesday: December 5
Walk to School Wednesday is December 5th! Here are a few updates:
More community helpers will be walking with us on the 5th including the Apex Fire Department, Town Council member Brett Gantt, Officer Patel and the Apex PD.
Let’s continue the giving spirit and bring donations for Western Wake Crisis Ministry’s food bank. Boxes of Mac 'n Cheese and toilet paper are especially welcome as well as lightweight to carry!
The first graders had the most walkers in BOTH October and November’s raffles.
Grab your friends and neighbors and we'll see you walking on the 5th!
Calling All Handy-Men and Women
This would be a great way to get some dads involved ready to show off their skills! We have a grant writer happy to work with you to try and secure funds and supplies from some of the big box hardware stores and plenty of PTA parents ready to assist with getting the work done. In other words, if you haven't volunteered with the PTA before, you'd have lots of support.
If you are interested, please reach out to Mandy Wagstaff at oce.pta@gmail.com for more information.
Grandparents Breakfast
TREASURE CHEST
Tis the Season to Shop!
It's easy! There is a complete list HERE on our OCE PTA webpage complete with all you need to know to link OCE to your loyalty cards.
A few items of note: ALL purchases made at Publix are eligible - there are NO restrictions! So your turkey and all the trimmings and your football snacks and that special birthday cake you ordered - it all counts! And don't forget to make your Amazon purchases through Amazon Smile - gifts, books, that monthly order of paper towels, whatever you go to Amazon for, OCE benefits from it all!
Loyalty programs that benefit OCE include:
- Harris Teeter
- Lowe's Foods
- Publix
- Office Max and Office Depot
- AMAZON SMILE
So get out there and shop til you drop, Clippers!
Spirit Night: Save the Date
Where: Glory Days Grill, 1413 Kelly Road (in the Publix Pointe Shopping Center)
When: Wednesday, December 5th
Why: Good food, friends, no dishes to clean up, and it's a fundraiser for your school? That's a win-win-win-win!
CREW NEWS
STEM Night
OCE will be hosting its first STEM night on November 29!
STEM night will provide a unique opportunity for our students and community to explore the world of STEM by tinkering, experimenting, asking questions, and much more!
N.C. State STEM and R.T.N.N. students will be here performing hands-on activities with all families. Green Hope High and Apex High Robotics Teams will showcase their competitive robots. And we have a number of additional presenters from our community participating, eager to make this experience meaningful and exciting for all families.
The event will run from 6:00- 8:00 p.m. at the school. This is a night you won't want to miss.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: If you can help with set-up and/or clean-up, please sign-up here. Kids are welcome to join you to help as well!
Fitness Photo Fun!
During the next several weeks we will practice Physical Fitness and its components
(cardio, strength, muscle endurance and flexibility) in PE and learn all about why it is so
important to stay physically fit.
Please send in a favorite photo of your student being physically active. They can bring it with them to PE class. We will place them on the PE bulletin board to see what the students at OCE are doing to stay fit.
Thank you! ~ Coach Roberts
Crayola Color Cycle Program
Send in those used markers for recycling before November 30th! A box for collection is located just inside the lobby (under the Box Tops mailbox).
The Crayola ColorCycle program repurposes used markers rather than sending them to landfills.
Students and teachers all around OCE will be collecting used markers that are ready to be discarded. Please help support our efforts by sending in any used markers you may have around the house -- even non-Crayola brands! Highlighters and dry erase markers can also be included.
CREW BIRTHDAYS
11/26 - Julia DeLaRosa
11/28 - Adam Carter
12/3 - Stephanie Abramo
12/3 - Wendy Lodato
12/4 - Anthony Jenkins
12/5 - Debra Sonnhalter
12/12 - Lauren Sullivan
12/19 - Angela Johnson
12/19 - Denise Walsh
12/25 - Jennifer Bell
12/28 - Melissa Dickens
12/30 - Sandra Burnham
SAFETY PATROL
Track 1 - November 12 - November 30
Track 4 - December 3 - December 21
Track 3 - January 2 - January 18
THANK YOU TO OUR 2018 PLATINUM LEVEL SPONSORS:
To submit to the Beacon, please email oce.communications@gmail.com
Olive Chapel Elementary PTA
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