A Special Message From Mr. Fillman

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The Great Gator 5K and Fun Run
Racing Toward the Future

Whether you tread the early morning paths, take solace in dusk as the sunsets, or thrive in the satisfaction of squeezing in a run as your schedule allows, few things in life provide the psychological and physical gratification of running. Swift Creek Elementary School PTA is exploring the possibility of hosting the first annual Great Gator 5K and Fun Run, April 28, 2012. The course would traverse the roads and pathways throughout various local neighborhoods, beginning and ending on the elementary school’s campus. This event would focus on celebrating healthy living as a community while benefiting Swift Creek Elementary School’s technology initiative. Our goal is to transcend the physical walls of the school building, not only by running 3.1 miles throughout residential neighborhoods, but by funding access to technological devices. These devices would provide opportunities for our students to participate in an increasingly global society. A vote will be conducted February 27, 2012 at the next PTA meeting. If approved, flyers and information will be forth coming.

Bruce A. Fillman
Assistant Principal

A Note From the PTA:
Planning this event will require a change in our yearly budget because this item was not on the original budget present to and voted on at the September General PTA Membership Meeting. PTA guidelines require that this change be put up for a voted during a General Membership Meeting. Here are the proposed budget changes:

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Participant T-shirts:  1500
Participant Gator Medals:  1050
Post Run Party Entertainment and Food:  1100
Equipment, Prizes and Advertising:  1350
   
Total 5000
   
   
   
Income:  
All Sponser Donations 2100
5k fees- Adults 3750
5k fees- Children 375
Kids Fun Run Fees 600
   
Total 6825
   
(Note: These numbers are conservative estimates of amount of participation)

 

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We will be voting to approve this change at a General Membership Meeting on Monday, February 27th at 7pm in the school library. All who wish to be included in the voting are encouraged to attend. We know this will be a positive and exciting event for our school and our community! If you would like to volunteer to help, or if you have any additional questions, please contact our Race Director, Kim Williams.

Yearbook Order Update

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Update: There are only a few more copies of the yearbook left- online ordering is now closed. If you want to print an order form to turn in to the school, download another copy here on our PTA website. If you have any questions or would like to confirm if your order has already been placed, please email Sarah Holloway at Yearbook@SwiftCreekPTA.com

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Yearbook order forms have been sent home in your child’s folder. The price includes free personalization until January 23rd, 2012. There are only 100 copies left, so please send your order in order now to ensure your child gets theirs. There are several ways to order: you can use the order form that has been sent home, download another copy on our PTA website, or if you like to pay by credit or debit card, you can order online at Yearbook Order Center, using our school code: 13701. Contact the Yearbook Committee with any questions.

Check out this year’s cover art and contest winners here!

Winter Carnival

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On Saturday February 18th, 2012 from 12-4pm the SCES PTA will sponsor its annual Winter Carnival. There will be carnival games, concessions, inflatables, a prize room, cake walk, and much more!

In order to make this event a success we need LOTS of volunteers! Please sign up online to help at the carnival. If you can donate a baked item for our very popular cake walk, signup here.

Thank you so much for your support.

If you have any questions please email me at programs@swiftcreekpta.com.

A Message From the SCES Library

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READ IT! WRITE IT! LIVE IT!

Please join us as we celebrate a love of reading and learning.

January 26, 2012
6:15-7:00 (Families with last names starting with A-L)

7:15-8:00 (Families with last names starting with M-Z)

Labels for Education

Some updated info for those who collect these for our school:

These includes Campbell Soup, Pepperidge Farm (Goldfish, too!), Swanson Broths, V8, and Prego.Â
YOU MUST CLIP THE UPC CODE and NOT THE ENTIRE LABEL. Â
These are collected throughout the year in the Library and may be turned into
your child’s teacher.
Please do not mix Labels for Education with the BoxTops. 

Visit labelsforeducation.com for more information.
Check LAST Sundays newspaper….
Check out the coupon section of the Richmond Times Dispatch on Sunday January 8, 2012!  (LAST WEEKEND)
 
There is a “labels for education 100 bonus points collection sheet”. 

Send it into the school attn: Library  if you find it! 

 No need to send it labels too (unless you have some!). The library has plenty it can attach. 

Thanks so much for your continued support of Swift Creek Elementary and the PTA!

 

Winter Carnival Date

save the date

This year’s Winter Carnival will be held:

Saturday, February 18th
12:00-4:00
$5 per child
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Volunteer sign-up and more information coming!

Teacher Awards

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The 2012 R.E.B. Awards for Teacher Excellence

Nominate an outstanding teacher at our school for an R.E.B. Award of up to $12,000.
The R.E.B. awards are designed to identify, recognize, and support teaching excellence in the metropolitan Richmond public school systems. Professional development grants ranging from $4,000 to $12,000 each will be awarded to teachers who have distinguished themselves by their inspiring classroom performance.

Nomination forms are available online at http://www.tcfrichmond.org/.  Nominations are due by February 25th, 2012.

Order Spiritwear Online

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New! Now you can order your favorite Gator Spiritwear items online and have them shipped directly to you! Choose from hundreds of items and customize them however you’d like. 25% of all purchases go to our school! Click here to order from Spiritweardirect.

Helping Gators Go Green

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Swift Creek Elementary School participates in TerraCycle’s Juice Pouch Brigade and Lays Chip bag Brigade Programs. The school earns 2 cents for every juice pouch and chip bag the school ships to TerraCycle (shipping costs are covered by TerraCycle). TerraCycle turns these juice pouches and bags into backpacks and other neat school supplies. This past year we collected over 4,800 chip bags and 6,700 juice pouches. 

In order to make this program successful, volunteers are needed! Please sign up online to help. Email Pam with any questions.

Ancient Civilization Day

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Ancient Civilization day is a huge 3rdgrade tradition at SCES! It is a full day event highlighting the SOL information for the ancient civilizations of Egypt, China, Greece, Rome and Mali. The day is packed full of fun learning activities, crafts, games, and lots of wonderful food! The children, teachers, and even many of the volunteers wear costumes representing one of the five countries. The one-day event takes much planning and lots of volunteers to be successful!

Third grade parents and families who would like to join the fun can sign up online to help. If you have questions feel free to email.

Yearbook Cover Artists Winners

contest

Each year our 5th graders have the opportunity to enter our yearbook cover contest. We are pleased to show you the fabulous artwork that was chosen for our 2012 “Super Gators” yearbook front and back cover! (Click on the images to see them larger)

Our front cover was drawn by Ashley Bann. Her design was used to help create the comic books themed cover seen here and that will carry on through the book.

2012 Yearbook Front Cover

Our back cover was drawn by Alaina Jencik. Her design was used to help create a very important reminder to all of our Super Gators to “Dream Big!”

2012 Yearbook Back Cover

Congratulations to each of the winners and thank you to everyone who submitted art for all your hard work!

Chick-fil-a Week

chickfila

Chick-fil-a has given SCES a very special full week of fundraising! Go to Chick-fil-a any time during December 5-9th and let them know you are with SCES and a portion on the proceeds will go to our resource teachers. Drive-thru counts too! Just make sure you say Swift Creek Elementary because Swift Creek Middle school will also be doing some fundraising during that time. Thanks for your support!

Fundraiser pick-ups

fundraiser

The orders are in from our fall “Believe” fundraiser! The pick up date is December 1st from 3-8pm in the SCES cafeteria.
This will be the ONLY date these items can be picked up so please mark your calendar!!! If you have questions, please contact Amy Deady.

Turket Trot Photos

The 2nd Annual Turkey Trot was a huge success! Here are some photos from the event- click on any of them to open a slideshow:

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Johnny Rockets Spirit Nights

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New this year-Swift Creek Gator night at Johnny Rockets! Join us at the Hancock Village location (near the new Walmart) on select Monday evenings. Good food, good friends, and face painting for the kids.  Hope to see you there!

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