Arts Magnet News!

Dear Altadena Eliot Arts Families,

February is Black History Month!

"Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. Also known as African American History Month, the event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. Other countries around the world, including Canada and the United Kingdom, also devote a month to celebrating Black history."

You can learn more about Black History Month here.

We will be featuring our Black History Fact of the Day at both campuses. This is a practice where students are selected and volunteer to read a Black History Fact of the Day as a daily announcement. We also have our PUSD African American History Bee coming up. Mr. Maynard and Ms. Ellison are working on putting our teams together to prepare for this annual competition.

Husky Honors Night is this Wednesday at 6pm in the Eliot Arts Auditorium! If your child has a 3.0 GPA or above, you should have received an email from me last week. If you have any questions, please email our counselor, Mr. Jody Simmons at simmons.jody@pusd.us

This past week, we celebrated the end of The Great Kindness Week and the 100th Day of School. Middle School ASB had a spirit week and we've completed our first month of Peter Pan rehearsals. Wow, what a month!

As we move into February, we have two three day weekends coming up in honor of Lincoln's birthday and President's Day.

Please support our middle school shoe drive fundraiser now- March 17th! Clean out your closet and drop off your gently used and no longer needed new shoes at Eliot’s main office or in the bin at AAM. Your shoes will receive a second life, helping those in need and you will be helping Eliot’s PTSA. It’s a win-win!

SAVE THE DATES:

February 17, 6-8 pm Middle School Sweetheart's Dance.

Be sure to purchase your tickets for our Eliot Annual Fund Tower Tour happening on February 24 from 4-6 pm. See flyer below!

FYI, if you receive attendance notifications and have questions or concerns, please email Rosa Magdaleno at magdaleno.rosa@pusd.us for our elementary site or Felicia Lee at lee.felicia@pusd.us for our middle school site.

Please visit our Middle School Attendance Corner:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wGodwhIZgzNfEut0ascrp53lcLQkIu0JwABK3VTSte4/edit

It's a great week to be a Cougar and a Husky!

Yours in Service,

Dr. Scheckel, Principal

Thank you to all who participated in our annual Great Kindness Challenge! Students filled out checklists and should turn those in to their teachers, who will then turn them in to the Principal's mailbox for review.

Families,

Thanks to our Uniform Exchange Parent Leader, Ms. Charlotte DeWaele we have a new process. All lost items will be added to our Uniform Exchange receptacle in front of the school. Charlotte will notify parents to come look through the items at our next Uniform Exchange event and then the rest will be donated to Full Circle Thrift.

Additionally, parents are welcome to come go through the bin at any time to search for lost items. We've already overfilled it! Lastly, labeling your child's items is the best and most surefire way to ensure we can match your student with their lost items. Questions? Please reach out to Charlotte or the PTA.

Thank you,

Dr. S

Don't miss our annual spring Gala and Auction at the beautiful Altadena Country Club on March 30! This event supports the middle school annual fund but all families K-8 are welcome to attend. Get your tickets by scanning the QR code below.

• Open Enrollment Dates for the 2023-24 school year are now posted on our website. All current PUSD families will receive a hard copy of the Open Enrollment calendar in the mail in mid-October, and we will send extras to your school sites in October.
• Sibling and Program Priority Registration applications go live online Oct. 24, 2022, 9AM - Nov. 14, 2022, 4PM.

Hello Huskies!

This week I made public comment at the PUSD Board of Education meeting and saw Dr. Scheckel's presentation of updates on the future of Altadena Eliot Arts Magnet, One School, Two Campuses.

The Board had a few questions but overall appeared to like what they heard and were supportive.

Students, Teachers, Parents we are at the start of great things!

The PTSA has started a shoe collection fundraiser. This will be going on through March 17th, with a drive-by drop off day on Saturday March 11th. Please donate your gently worn, used and new shoes. There are bins on campus.

Looking for donations and help for the upcoming Altadena Eliot After Dark Family Fun Night. More information to follow, but it's going to be fun.

Michael McCarthy

Eliot Arts PTSA President

"Many hands make light work"

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Please consider making a recurring donation of $45 to one or both of our Annual Funds! Our annual funds help to create a bridge for special services and arts programs at each of our campuses. Our annual funds are separate. Altadena's annual fund is chaired by Ms. Tasiah LeConte and Eliot's annual fund is chaired by Ms. Wendy Silva. Please join their committees and consider making a donation today!

January

• 9 School Resumes
• 10 Elementary SSC @ 3:00 pm and joint PT(S)A meeting @ 6pm
• 12 Elementary School Tour @ 9 am
• 13 Cougar Values Awards Assembly @ 7:50 am
• 14 Middle School Discovery Day @ 9am, Tower Tour @ 4pm
• 16 NO School in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Handel's FUNdraiser!
• 17-18 Middle School Photo Days
• 21 Design Team Meeting @ 9am at Eliot Arts
• 25 District Spelling Bee @ 4 pm

February

• 1 Husky Honors Night @ 6 pm in the Eliot Arts Auditorium
• 9 Elementary School Tour @ 9:00 am in the Parent Room
• 13 Lincoln's Birthday NO SCHOOL, CAMPUSES CLOSED
• 17 Middle School, Sweetheart's Dance 6-8 pm
• 20 NO SCHOOL, PRESIDENT'S DAY
• 23 Middle School Tour 8:30 am Auditorium
• 24 Black History Assembly
• 24 Eliot Tower Tour 4-6 pm
• 27 Read Across America Week begins at Elementary

March

• 2 Elementary Family Reading Night 5:30-7:00 pm
• 3 Altadena Eliot After Dark Family Fun Night