About Your PTA

Every member of the St. George Community is a member of our PTA. We welcome your involvement and we NEED your help! PTA meets regularly at 5:30 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month in Mrs. Plehal's 4th grade classroom. Come and learn on how you can get involved!

Shopping Cart Fundraising

Raise money for St. George While Doing Your Everyday Shopping Scrip is Fundraising While you Shop^TM Did you know you can raise money for our organization while doing your everyday shopping? All you have to do is purchase gift cards from America's favorite retailers and use them in place of cash, checks, or credit cards for purchases you were going to make anyway. Each card purchase carries an associated "contribution" of 2-15% or more.

Gift cards are available from over 300 national and local retailers. Groceries clothing, dining out, home improvement, even gasoline can all be purchased with Scrip. An organization of over 150 families easily spends between one and two million dollars a year on these purchases. If they do the majority of this shopping with Scrip, they can raise as much as $40,000 to $80,000 per year for our organization - without spending and additional penny!

Make shopping count for St. George School! Contact Teresa Jensen for more information.

You can visit www.glscrip.com to read more about how GLscrip works.


Gift Card Order Form and Deadline

Box Top for Education

Students at St. George are encouraged to go on a scavenger hunt in their own homes to look for the pink Box Tops on hundreds of products. Clip Box Tops and earn cash for our school. Deposit in the container near front office.

For more information on how this program raises money for our school, visit the official website at http://www.boxtops4education.com. Information includes fun recipes, coupons and complete product lists.

Labels for Education

Earn cash for our school just by saving the labels from some of the foods that you already eat at home. Many food labels can be collected and turned in to raise money for our school; not just Campbell's Soup Labels. Check the attached page to see other participating products. Deposit the labels in the Campbell's Soup container near the school office. For more information on how this program raises money for our school, visit the official website. http://www.labelsforeducation.com

St. George School
PTA "Fun"draiser
Spring Carnival
Saturday, June 5th
12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
School Hall and Gym

St. George School is holding a spring carnival to end yet another fabulous school year. All are welcometo partake in the fun filled activities which include:

• Carnival Style Games
• Vendor Booths
• Food
• DJ from HotJamz 94.5
• Cake Walk and so much more!

There is no entry fee*, so bring the kids or the kids at heart to have fun or just mingle with classmates, alumni, school parents and parishioners!

*tickets will be sold for playing carnival games

The PTA is hosting a spring carnival Saturday, June 5th from noon to 4pm. One of the invited guests is the Humane Society. They will be bringing animals available for adoption. The school will hold a pet food drive starting tomorrow and running until next Friday, June 4th. We are collecting dog and cat food, cans or dry food to donate to the Humane Society when they come to our carnival. Please encourage your students to try to help out. Collections can be kept in the classroom until Friday, June 4th. Please drop them off in the 4th grade room on Friday.

Thank you!

This Sunday, May 23rd, Deacon Pele will facilitate Called to Protect for Parents and Families. The class will take place in The St. Francis of Assisi Hall at the church at 4:00 p.m. To register for the class go to http://www.seattlearch.org/sep/training2.html and click on Register for Classes.

Coaches, Overnight field trip chaperones: Those volunteers who need to renew may go to the same site and register. Remember to log in with the same address you used when you first took the training.

May God bless and protect our children.

Download flier for descriptions of all the programs.

Yearbooks are wonderful keepsakes of all the exciting memories experienced by the St. George students during the 2009-2010 school year.

Download order form here.

Please be aware that $1 of each candy bar goes to pay for the candy and the other $1 goes towards your fundraising commitment.

Thank you for supporting St. George School and Fair Trade Chocolate.

Candy sale ends April 1, 2010

Please turn in your money by Friday, April 2, 2010.

• Chocolate bars sell for $2 each.
• Milk chocolate and dark chocolate boxes have 30 candies in each.
• Chocolate crunch boxes have 36 bars in each.
• We still have boxes of chocolate crunch bars left if you would like more.

Save the Date!

Saturday, March 20, 2010
St. George Parish School Auction
5117 Thirteenth Ave. S.
Seattle, WA 98108


Silent Auction-Adults Only Event
Free Admission and Appetizers
5:00-7:00 p.m. Miracle Gym
No Host Bar (cash only)

Live Event and Dinner
7:00-9:30 p.m. School Hall
$50 per seat advanced purchase required
No Host Bar (cash only)

We are ready to board! Sail on in to the school auction and get ready to bid on hundreds of great items. Here are just a few:

• a spa package
• a week in Maui
• fresh water black pearl necklace
• a wine tour and night's stay in Walla Walla
• take a tour of KCTS 9 studio
• a basket of baby items for the new baby girl or boy
• a weekend on Lake Quinalt
• a hand-stitched quilt
• kitchen appliances, bread machine, deep fryer, rice cooker
• fours of open use of the Miracle Gym
• pizza and a movie with Mrs. Plehal and Ms. Andersen
• ride the Ducks with Mrs. O
• an afternoon off while Miss Paguio and Mrs. Sacramento baby-sit the children
• Your dream come true - be the principal for a day!
• Autographed baseball by Edgar Martinez
• a Sounder jersey signed by Freddie Montero

2010 Auction Catalog is now available to download!



Download Auction Invitation

Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye...this is the "State of the School" information night. Learn about our budget, how we calculate tuition, why we need fundraisers. How is our PTA doing? What is Fair Trade chocolate? This is the time to hear all the answers.

This Friday, February 26, PTA will be hosting a Family Social. Where you can play up to 8 games of BINGO! Games 1-7 will be awarded non cash prizes and the 8th game will be a cash prize!

Where: St. George School Hall
When: Friday, February 26
Time: 6:00 pm till the last BINGO is called!
Cost: $5.00 for 7 games of 3
$2.00 for the 8th game

Bring your own dauber or they will be available for $1.00. Come for the food, fun or just hang out!

Please consider volunteering to watch the students during lunch recess, which is from noon until 1:00 p.m. The children enjoy seeing parents here at school and your help gives the teachers time to enjoy their lunch. If you can commit to a day, we would be so grateful. Sue Byrd may even reward you with a free bag of popcorn! We will give you one and a half service hours per day to cover the recess time and some of your travel time.


Recess duty volunteer form

CARNIVAL FEEDBACK:

• Leah: Parents were coming and just dropping off kids, we need to stress in flyer that kids MUST have chaperones, parents hanging out buy more food! We need to strictly enforce parents being with kids. Maybe parents need get free admission?
• Food needs to be more basic and have kid appeal, go back to simple for ease of planning, purchasing.
• Profit: $421 PTA snack stand, $1, 837 admissions (109 presale bands were sold)
• Food from kitchen - we think profit was about $400, with $200 coming to PTA and $200 going to Church? Check with Grizelda about this. Kristen believes $70 was spent on prizes, there is one box of prizes left. In the future we may need to spend more money - Kristen bought and donated items.
• Leah: We need to track attendance! Next year let's have a counter at the door.
• Kristen would like to see better games, Russ and Ben would like to see Carnival expanded by inviting other schools - get carpet tiles cleaned up so gym could be included.
• Hallway and Hall need to be set up during the school day, so no classes should be using those spaces the day of the carnival.

HOLIDAY BAZAAR:

• Teresa Brown is chairing this, she has the original volunteer sign-up sheet
• GOAL: raise $1,000 with breakfast, photos, tables rented, and raffle
• Santa photos - Teresa will look into a photographer from K or 1st
• Kristen will run kitchen, profits coming back to PTA biscuits and gravy with sausage, fresh fruit
• Holiday wreaths can be picked up at bazaar
• Raffle: who can procure items? Ideas: football, jersey ...
• Tables will be $25 and they can be split/ hours are from 9 - 1, 12/6
• Post date on Facebook for guests - ask Mike Rittman to do this
• Post date on Craigslist for vendors - Teresa or Kristen?

CONCESSION STAND:

• Can volunteers sign up for basketball season concession stand on website?
• Stock: hot dogs, donuts, coffee, etc
• PTA will not do concession stand during school hours
• Spring Carnival Committee will need to be formed, Kristen and Russ are all over this!

Way to go St. George. We raised $22,692! The Jog-a-Thon was a HUGE success! Thank you, thank you, thank you, to all of our fabulous volunteers. We couldn't have done it without you. A special thank you also goes out to Mrs. Schroeder, Mr. Michael Rittman, Mr. Paul Rittman, and Mrs. Plehal for all of their extra help.

Class Winners:
Highest Participation: 1st Grade (95%)
Most Money Raised: 7th Grade ($3,530)

Individual Winners:
Most Money Raised: Kylee T ($810)
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth M ($500)
There were many other students who raised $400 or more!
Most Donors: Alexa A (55 Donors)
Honorable Mention: Caleb and Maya L (48 Donors)

Hooray!!!! The Harvest Festival was a very successful event!! I want to thank all of you for a great job!! Everyone worked so hard and it paid off! We raised over $1100.00 after expenses for the PTA fund. This is $300 more than we brought in from the same event last year.

The second graders won the Pumpkin Carving contest and will receive an ice Cream party for their efforts. Joy Aquino won the teacher drawing and received a $25 Barnes and Nobel gift card.

Next event is the Halloween Carnival. Lets all start concentrating on that. Cindy will be heading this event. Remember this is really big and she can't do it herself. She will need a lot of help.

PTA will have a table to sell items, As of now, we will be selling; cotton candy, popcorn, dragon snot (slime) and maybe some stash bags. All ideas are welcome. BUT REMEMBER....... We don't want to pay much for these items. The object is to raise funds not spend them!

Keep those ideas coming!!

Kristin Agbalog
2009-'10 PTA President