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Cougar Connections
May 15, 2023

Happy May! We would like to thank everyone who contributed last week to Staff Appreciation! We heard so many wonderful things from staff - thank you for showing them how lucky we are to have them!

The Nominating Committee is accepting nominees for the PTA Executive Officer Slate for the 2023-24 school year.  Please consider running!

Please Volunteer! These events cannot happen without help!

Please email info@clydehillpta.org if you'd like more information or to volunteer. 

Contribute Photos for Year Book

The 2022/23 yearbooks should be delivered the week of June 16th. Please use this Microsoft Form to reserve your student's yearbook (complete one form for each student). Payment information will be sent soon.

Please use the links below to contribute photos to the yearbook pages. Links are organized by grade first, then by teacher name. There are also links for school events, which begin with the number "0." 

Cougar Connections
May 8, 2023

Happy May! We hope everyone is able to enjoy the sun this week!

 

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Science Fair! We have more fun events for our community coming up. It is Teacher Appreciation Week - so please everyone help show our teachers and staff how amazing they are!! We also have the School Dance coming up and then the Walk-a-thon and Fun Day! Please join us!

Please Volunteer! These events cannot happen without help!

  • Budget Committee -  Help put together the '23-'24 budget; treasurer@clydehillpta.org

  • Staff Appreciation Week - (May 8 - 12) - Lets all show our amazing staff some love!

  • School Dance - (Sat May 20 5-7pm) Thank you Kelsey Gordon!  Help her out!

  • Walk-a-thon - (Fri June 2) Please help run this event!

  • Fun Day - (TBD) Thank you to Eileen Sun and Rachel Raff!  Help them out!

  • Call for submissions: Celebrating our Community Families - please share with us!

Please email info@clydehillpta.org if you'd like more information or to volunteer. 

Cougar Connections
April 30, 2023

We hope everyone had a good week and came back to school refreshed!

 

Reminders:​

Please Volunteer! These events cannot happen without help!

  • Budget Committee -  Help put together the '23-'24 budget; treasurer@clydehillpta.org

  • Staff Appreciation Week - (May 8 - 12) - Lets all show our amazing staff some love!

  • Science Fair - (April 27) - Please help run this event! 

  • School Dance - (Sat May 20 5-7pm) Thank you Kelsey Gordon!  Help her out!

  • Walk-a-thon - (Fri June 2) Please help run this event!

  • Fun Day - (TBD) Thank you to Eileen Sun and Rachel Raff!  Help them out!

  • Call for submissions: Celebrating our Community Families - please share with us!

Please email info@clydehillpta.org if you'd like more information or to volunteer. 

Cougar Connections
April 3, 2023

Happy April! Thank everyone for their support of the Clyde Hill Elementary Community! 

 

Reminders:

  • Spring Break next week - April 10-14

  • March Read-a-thon BINGO cards due April 3! (Keep reading though! See "Keep Reading and Eat Cake" below!)

  • April Math Challenge starts April 3! (March grade winners announced April 6! March solutions posted April 6!)

Please Volunteer! These events cannot happen without help!

  • Budget Committee -  Help put together the '23-'24 budget; treasurer@clydehillpta.org

  • Staff Appreciation Week - (May 8 - 12) - Lets all show our amazing staff some love!

  • Science Fair - (April 27) - Please help run this event! 

  • School Dance - (Sat May 20 5-7pm) Thank you Kelsey Gordon!  Help her out!

  • Walk-a-thon - (Fri June 2) Please help run this event!

  • Fun Day - (TBD) Thank you to Eileen Sun and Rachel Raff!  Help them out!

  • Call for submissions: Celebrating our Community Families - please share with us!

Please email info@clydehillpta.org if you'd like more information or to volunteer. 

Cougar Connections
March 20, 2023

Happy Spring and Nowruz Mobarak and Good Luck in the Read-a-thon! Start filling out those reading Bingo Cards and send us book suggestions and reviews!  Let's celebrate the spring by being together!

    Read-a-thon (March 20 - March 31, submit BINGO card by April 3)

    PTA General Assembly Meeting (March 31)

    PTA Nominating Committee (meeting for Nominating Committee - March 31)
    March Math Challenge (launch March 6, submit by March 31)

    School Dance (May 20)

    Walk-a-thon (June 2)

    Final PTA General Assembly Meeting (June 9)

    Volunteer to help with Science Fair and Fun Day! info@clydehillpta.org

Cougar Connections
March 27, 2023

Happy Spring! As we start the last third of our school year - we have a lot going on. First up - items with a deadline of this Friday March 31:

Volunteer!

  • We still need 2-3 PTA members to join the Nominating Committee!

  • Signup for the School Dance (May 20 5-7pm) to go up soon!

  • We are also looking for a team of parent volunteers to help host and put on Walk-a-thon, Science Fair and Fun Day.

  • Please email info@clydehillpta.org if you'd like more information or to volunteer. 

Cougar Connections
March 13, 2023

Spring is coming!  Come celebrate the spring by growing friendships in your community with some of our upcoming events!

    Heritage Festival (March 16) 

    Read-a-thon (March 20 - March 31, submit BINGO card by April 3)

    PTA Nominating Committee (meeting for Nominating Committee - March 31)
    March Math Challenge (launch March 6, submit by March 31)

    Walk-a-thon (May TBD)
 

Cougar Connections
March 6, 2023

Happy March! The current newsletter includes news and updates from the school and community such as:

    Heritage Festival (March 16)
    March Math Challenge (launch March 6, submit by March 31)
    Pi Day (3/14) √-1 8 π
    Read-a-thon (tentative March 20)
    Call for submissions: Celebrating our Community
    Rising 6th grade class selection (March 14)
    PTA General Assembly Meeting - Nominating Committee (March 31)
    Message from PTA President Myers about school consolidations
 

3-6-23 consoldation message

3/6/2023 Message from PTA President Myers about school consolidations

Remaining School Board Meetings about BSD Elementary School Consolidations

March 9 - Regular BSD School Board Meeting Last opportunity for public comment!

March 16 - Special BSD School Board Meeting about consolidations

 

Greetings Clyde Hill Cougars, 

 

By now, all BSD families have received messages from the district with information about the impending elementary school closures and the consolidation of those students and staff into other schools. If you want to review the information and public comment sessions about the school closures, the recordings are available on the District website (the hearing recordings are linked on their web page and open on YouTube). The school board members did not respond to any comments or questions during these hearings; they were simply meetings for the affected communities to be heard. The district is still working with the community committee to review recommendations and public comments from these hearings.

 

If the Board votes to approve the recommendation on March 16, our school will likely receive around 150 students from Wilburton. We may receive additional students from other schools facing closure and the greater BSD area, since the district is allowing open enrollment through the end of March. 

Some families in our school community have expressed concerns about students from other schools enrolling at Clyde Hill. I hope that we can all move forward with empathy and welcoming to all families new to Clyde Hill. This consolidation process is devastating to the students and staff whose schools are facing closure and disbursal amongst the other elementary schools. Clyde Hill Elementary is in a privileged position to not be facing closure and losing our community. 

 

The school administrators do not have any news or information about how school staffing will be handled. Any information about staffing will be shared after the board and the district makes their determinations, at the earliest. Each school facing closure has a building full of dedicated staff that will no longer be with their beloved students. Again, Clyde Hill Elementary is in a privileged position to not be facing closure. 

 

What We Know: 

• Clyde Hill Elementary enrollment numbers will return to what they were before Wilburton Elementary was built. Our school has enough capacity to add classes for every grade. 

• School staffing is determined based on seniority and contracts. How many teachers and for what grades we will receive is unknown until a much later date. 

• Principal Garcia de Leon will offer a community get-together after we received the final determinations to discuss all of these changes to come. 

 

I hope that we can move forward in support of every student, teacher, and staff member who is losing their neighborhood school. It is yet another, huge disruption in all their lives to which they have to adjust and accept many changes. You can read about Wilburton Elementary PTA’s efforts to save their school on their PTA Website. Also, if you’d like to send a comment to the district about the consolidations, use this link from the BSD website (below):

The community is invited to continue to provide their feedback, input and suggestions through the district’s Let’s Talk platform. Please use the “2022 Planning for the Future” button to share feedback on this topic.

 

If there are questions or comments you’d like to share with our PTA, please email me at Shera@ClydeHillPTA.org.

Thank you.

Shera Myers Clyde Hill PTA President

PTA Weekly Newsletter

Our PTA Weekly Newsletter is delivered to all the subscribers on most Mondays during the school year. Stay current on all news, including:

  • Clyde Hill Elementary School news

  • Upcoming PTA events and activities

  • Important deadlines

  • PTA meeting agendas and updates

  • Community events

If you would like to share something with the Clyde Hill Elementary community, such as information about a community event (like the Farmers’ Markets), a students’ sports league, or other activity, please send your submission request to editor@ClydeHillPTA.org

Newsletter Editor:  editor@clydehillpta.org

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