Washington Elementary
February 13, 2017
Happy Valentines Day!
Family Engagement Night: Visioning for the Future
Washington Elementary hosted Family Engagement Night on Monday, January 31st. The Culture of Leadership and Excellence Team partnered with the PTO to develop a venue for collaboration and engagement. We were seeking input for several reasons:
1. It’s the opportunity to personalize the learning for our students and staff.
2. We will sunset our 10 year Operating Levy June 30, 2018.
3. What are we going to ask our community to support when it comes to renewing our Operating Levy on November 7, 2017?
The key question presented to the group of over 40 teachers, students and parents was what do we need to serve our students in the future? It is our desire to personalize student learning and meeting the learning needs of the 21st Century learner. We know that organizations that practice vision-like thinking are more likely to be prepared to serve the learning needs of all students.
Students, parents and teachers learned and shared about how Washington students are developing as leaders through our Culture of Leadership and Excellence. We brainstormed ideas on what our collective vision is for the future of Washington. We also considered the input shared by many of you through Thoughtexchange in 2015-2016 and we gathered new ideas about current hopes and dreams. Both parents and students joined us for the conversation in this visioning process.
Click here to see the results from the visioning process
Click here to see the results from Thoughtexchange last spring.
Important Dates!
Family Fun Night: March 9, 2017
No School: March 10, 2017
PTO Meeting: March 13, 2017 at 6:30- 7:30pm
Science Fair: March 15, 2017
Kindergarten Family Day: March 17, 2017 at 1-2:30pm
No School: March 24, 2017
You can help raise money for Washington Elementary School!
It’s easy to support your school with items you already use in your home or receipts from stores you already patronize! Below is a list of the collection programs we are currently participating in.
Feel free to send any of the following to school with your student or there is a set of drawers in the hallway next to the lost and found to drop any of them off.
Each box top through Box Tops for Education is worth 10 for our school. If each student turned in just 10 box tops during the year the school would receive around $400. Watch for Bonus Tops on participating products or as a coupon from your store purchase. Go to www.boxtops4education.com to sign up, enter sweepstakes and to see a list of the participating products. Box tops do expire so be sure to turn them in on time!
Through Kwik Trip’s Milk Moola program, each milk/juice cap and bag top is worth 5 cents. Please remember to rinse the caps and bag tops before turning them in.
With Campbell’s Label’s for Education program, the school can earn points to purchase items for the classrooms and gym/art equipment. Remember when clipping be sure to keep the point value logo and the UPC (barcode) together. The face of the can label is NOT redeemable, only the UPC portion of the label. Go to www.labelsforeducation.com to see a list of participating products.
Save your Hy-Vee receipts from both Mankato locations and they will donate $1 for every $150 spent through the Hy-Vee Kash 4 Kids program. The receipts must be dated during the current school year (Sept. 2016- May 2017) to qualify. Every little bit will add-up!
We have set up our PTO as an organization you can support through AmazonSmile. Once you select us as an organization to support, we will receive 0.5% of the price of your eligible smile.amazon.com purchases. Our unique link can be used to automatically ask to support Washington Elementary PTO. It is: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/90-0542342