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PTO Meetings
3RD Tue, 9am
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| High Plain Elementary PTO Website and Facebook links | Visit the HPE PTO website or Find us on Facebook
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**Spring Social RSVP for Fri 16 7-11pm , social and auction to raise PTO funds. $30per person. Contact: Rachel Hemman ( RachelHemman@hotmail.com)
**Square One orders,If we do not hear back from you, we will be sending the products home via back-pack this Wed, May 14th. Contact: Tricia Brown ( pttkbrown@gmail.com)
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| HPE PTO WEEKLY NEWSLETTER |
Spotlight Blasts need to be submitted by Friday for the upcoming week. It works best that we don't send out multiple blasts on the same day.Spotlight Blasts will be spread out over the week.
Newsletters go out every Monday. Requests for submission are due the previous Friday. Contact the PTO to make a submission or with any questions at webmaster@highplainpto.org
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| Dates to Remember |
May 5,12 (Full weeks of) MCAS Lunch Room Helpers Needed
May 16, Fri. 7pm Annual Spring Social RSVP NOW!!!
May 30, Fri 1:00pm 5th Grade Talent Show
(Wed., May 28th at 1:00 pm. Dress rehearsal (for kids only)
June 2-5 Book Fair
June 5th, Thr. Mother & Sons Ice Cream Social 5:30-7:30 at JayGee's
June 14th, Sat. Spinners Night at 5:05pm.
2013/2014 Andover Public School Calendar available: Click Here
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PTO Events
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Teacher Appreciation Luncheon
Thank you to all the parents who have generously donated their time and culinary skills to help us prepare for the Staff Appreciation Luncheon. Parent volunteers have been instrumental in making this event a great success. We hope that we can once again count on your assistance to make this event a success.
Date: Friday, May 23.0, 2014
Location: HPE Teachers Lounge
Set up Committee: (3 people) Time needed - 9am - 10:45am
Assist with Luncheon Service : (1 person) Time needed - 11am - 1:00pm
FOOD AND BEVERAGE ITEMS:
Salads (garden/ceasar/pasta, etc.)
Desserts (always a teacher favorite)
Please contact either Gail Saunders (saundersjg@verizon.net) or Nadia DiCenzo (mndicenzo@verizon.net) if you are able to volunteer for this year's Staff Appreciation Luncheon. Thank you very much for all your help.
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Square One Orders Pick-up
We still have quite a few Square 1 Art orders that didn't get picked up last week.
We are planning to send them home via back-pack but wanted to give you a heads up first (especially for those who have perishable items).
Please let us know if you would like to make alternate arrangements to pick up your products.
If we do not hear back from you, we will be sending the products home via back-pack this Wed, May 14th pttkbrown@gmail.com
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Available for sale Spirit Wear Stock
High Plain T-shirts cost $15.00
Crew cut Blue Sweatshirt with Andover logo $20.00
1 Youth Small
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Annual HPE Night with the Lowell Spinners.
Tickets are going on sale for the Annual HPE Night with the Lowell Spinners. Join us at the ballpark on Saturday, June 14th. Limited tickets are available and must be purchased by
Spinners Night Flyer
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RSVP NOW!!. Annual Spring Social Fri, May 16th, 7pm
This event is very special to HPE in that it helps to raise funds for our students and school for enrichment activities, additional classroom materials,
and playground equipment.
The Spring Social will be held at the home of Laura and Mike Putnam. We will have the event catered by Andover's very own Mess Haul with a variety of beverages, appetizers, and delicious desserts available as well. The cost of ALL drinks and food is covered in the $30 per person price.
Additionally, there will be a silent auction this year... an opportunity to win a
variety of awesome prizes while supporting the PTO.
So please join us on Friday, May 16th from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Putnam home located at 7 Newport Circle, Andover.
An invitation was sent home before spring break, but if you are in need of another one or have any questions at all, please email RachelHemman@hotmail.com
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Mother & Sons Night Out
CALLING ALL HPE BOYS AND MOMS
Join us for an evening of fun on Thursday, June 5, 2014
from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm at Jay Gees Fun Center in Methuen
$19.00 per person will include pizza/drink and a Jay Gees
Fun Pass good towards:
1 Go Kart, 1 Round of Mini Golf
1 Bumper car, 1 Batting Cage Token
1 Ice Cream or Slush
(this pass never expires)
Please fill out the form and send cash/check (payable to "HPE-PTO") in an envelope labeled "Mother/Son Outing",
Attention Sarah Etner before Friday, May 30, 2014.
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Book Fair June 2-5
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Direct Donations Campaign
To ensure continued support of programs that are offered at High Plain Elementary School we ask for Direct Donations from High Plain families.
Our goal this year is to collect $4,000.00 through Direct Donations.
Please consider contributing and help us continue to support our wonderful school community!
Cash or checks made payable to: HPE PTO
Attn: Sherriden Sweeney
Or to make a donation through paypal click this link:
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PTO Service Opportunities
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Lunch Room Composting Program Helpers
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Dear Parents,
We have a fun opportunity to help our children contribute
and learn more about composting.
Each day during the lunch hours the PTO assists the students as they clean up and properly sort their trash into the composting and recycling bins. For us to get the full use and full fill the desired purpose we need parent volunteers to guide the students to where they can recycle and compost specific items.
You can sign up whenever you want to and no regular
commitment is needed .
This composting will be sustainable only with the help of our school community.
(This is a great chance to show your children your school spirit and sneak them a hug in the middle of the day.)
Your service is appreciated.
High Plain PTO
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Lunch hours are 11:30-1:15pm.
Check to see which days you are needed and sign up on the attached form. Sign up here.
Contact Person: Kiruthiga Thirumalai
Email: tkiruthiga@hotmail.com
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We need to get helpers for MCAS lunch and recess coverage. It looks like we'll need couple parents from 11:00 to 1:00 for
lunch/recess time slot for the weeks of:
May 5th and May 12th.
Please sign up for certain days,
and if you can't do the whole 2 hours, maybe you can sign up for an hour.
High Plain Lunch Schedule*
Recess: Lunch:
FDK 10:30-10:55 11:05-11:30
Spiegel, Mohan, Knepper, Thomas, Newton
Gr. 1 11:10-11:35 11:35-12:00
Freeman (lunch only), Langevin, Manuel,
Newcomb (recess only), Walsh
Gr. 2 11:20-11:45 11:45-12:10
Brackett, DiCenso, Hamlin, Napolitano, Richard,
Shah, Racicot
Gr. 3 11:40-12:05 12:05-12:30
Combs, Doyle, Green, Magner, Marini, Nash, Newcomb, Poirier, Simard
Gr. 4 11:55-12:20 12:20-12:45
Field, Geffken, Gencorelli, Jacques, Kremer, Morrison, Muirhead, Perry-Schoen, Tenters
Gr. 5 12:10-12:35 12:35-1:00
Anguin, Epstein, Ingraham, LaBonte, Mistry,
Stuart, Wells
*Please Note: Grades 1-5 will have Recess and then Lunch.
Full Day K will have Lunch and then Recess.
It is critical that all classes leave the cafeteria on time. Otherwise, there will not be enough seats for the incoming class.
- Classes should not be excused individually to go back to class, but should line up and go together with their assistants.
- Students should sit together by grade. Open seating.
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Community Summer Programs
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Interested in Girl Scouts?
Come to our fun event to learn about Girl Scouts and our Summer Camps!
When: May 6th from 6-7:30
Where: Camp Maude Eaton, 141 Abbot Street, Andover, MA 01810
Who: All girls K-12
Fill your summer with fun, excitement, and adventure! Camp offers girls opportunities to explore personal interests, creativity, and the environment. Imagine a summer full of art and drama, sailing and science, hiking and biking, photography, computers, and so much more! Sign up for Day Camp or Resident Camp at 12 different properties in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Each session offers new and exciting programs tailored to each age level in Grades 1-12. No prior Girl Scout Experience necessary! For non-scouts there is a onetime fee of $25 to cover their annual Girl Scout membership.
For more info: www.hercamp.org
Or Contact Sian Leach -
sleach@girlscoutseasternmass.org /
978-701-6364
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Broadway Break Thru!
Theater Arts Summer Intensive
for Aspiring Performers!
Andover DCS is proud to introduce:
Broadway Break Thru is a summer intensive program providing outstanding opportunities for aspiring performers through
thoughtful arts education.
Some of the incredible programming includes:
★ Celebrity guest teachers such as Darin Criss GLEE's Darren Criss, Amber Riley and Heather Morris, SMASH's Megan Hilty, Brain d'Arcy James and Krysta Rodriguez, Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson, So You Think You Can Dance Champions Melanie Moore and Chehon Wespi-Tschopp and Dancing With The Star's Lindsay Arnold.
★ Over 15 Entertainment Industry leaders, including EmmyR Award Winning Producer & Directors, Talent Agents, Casting Directors, and high level instructors in every medium.
★ Over 20 classes such as Acting 101, Acting for Television & Film, Improv, Scene Study, Arts & Technology, Song Selection, Headshots & Resumes, Film Making, Vocal Performance, Song Interpretation, Dance, Theatre Tech, Film Editing & Sound, Professional Auditioning, High School College Advisory..just to name a few.
★ Our Broadway Break Thru student film lab. During the week, students conceive, write, direct, cast, shoot, edit and produce their own short feature films. At the end of the week, the films premiere in our student film festival, along with live performances of the students'
MINI MUSICALS.
Date: Mon-Sat, July 16-21
Location: J. Everett Collins Center for the Performing Arts
Director: David Petro, NY casting director for Disney, Nickelodeon, and Broadway & former Broadway performer.
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COMMUNITY LINKS
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The following events and announcements are submissions from the general High Plain Elementary and Andover community and are not PTO-sponsored. Have something to include? Send your submissions each week by Friday at 5p to webmaster@highplainpto.org. Submissions may be edited for length and will be published for no charge the following Monday or Tuesday. Interested in a bigger listing or dedicated email for your community event or offering? Contact webmaster@highplainpto.org for advertising opportunities as well.
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Hello To All Our Fellow SEPACs and SEPAC Members,
We here at Methuen SEPAC would like to invite all of your officers/board members and all of your parents to our May monthly meeting! We are very excited to be having author Jan Hanson coming to speak. She is the author of a great book: Food Allergies: A Recipe For Success At School. She is also founder of Educating for Food Allergies, LLC and has been providing consulting and education workshops since 2001. We feel that this is such a hot button and life affecting topic that we wanted to open up our meeting to help spread some very valuable information with as many parents as we could. We've even reached out to our school nurses as well and encourage you to do the same.
Specifically, our meeting is Thursday, May 15th from 7:00-9:00PM. It is being held at our Timony Grammar School located at 45 Pleasant View St in Methuen.
Please consider coming and we look forward to hopefully meeting some of you that night!
Sincerely,
Carolyn Wilkinson
Vice-President
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CHALLENGE ME FOR A WHOLE AFTERNOON!
Exciting challenges set up for your student by the Destination Imagination teams. Tower building, improvisation acting, bridge building and balancing are just a few of the Instant Challenges that will be available! Come have fun and be challenged!
WHEN: Wednesday May 14th 2:45-5:00pm. Pick up promptly at 5:00pm
COST: $5.00 per child WHO: Grades 3-5 eligible
WHERE: High Plain Elementary Cafeteria and playground
Please pack a healthy snack for your child. Limited concessions available for $1.00 each.Come have fun and learn more about DI!
All proceeds are to help the Andover DI teams go to the Global Competition where they will represent Massachusetts and the USA against other countries. All monies are completely tax deductible. Any questions, feel free to email Katie at ktbud22@gmail.com. Please send in money or check made payable to Challenge Me Inc via backpack. We look forward to seeing you there!
Get flyer and permission form here.
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Treble Chorus of New England
Get your advance ticket order form for the
May 11th concert. If you submit this form and payment to us by May 5th
(Training, Concert, Scholar) and May 6th (My Own Voice), you will get to buy ALL tickets for the low price of $12/each regardless of
whether it's an adult/student or Senior.
Tickets sold on the day of are $18/adults and $12/students and seniors.
Please encourage your friends and family to buy tickets as a special
Mother's Day event! Thank you!
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Solarize Andover invites K-12 students to
Design a banner with the theme"My Friend, the Sun"
for the Solarize Andover website.
In the coming weeks, we will proudly display selected
designs on the Solarize Andover home page.
Please create your Doodle on a letter-sized white
background, in landscape orientation. You can
draw it on a computer; or if you prefer, create it by
hand using materials such as paint, pencil, pen,
crayon, marker, pastel, charcoal, Cray-Pas, or even
paper collage. Please note: Hand-made Doodles
must be flat, so they can be electronically scanned.
Submit your Doodle in any of the following ways: Bring it to school
Email it to the Solarize Andover team
Upload it to the Solarize Andover website
Get all the details here:
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New STEM offering open to Andover Students in Grade 5-10:
Announcing the newly created
Science & Invention Factory @ YDO
Lawrence Youth Development Organization,
Everett Mills, 15 Union St. 5th floor
Spring 2014
This spring the Lawrence YDO built a new science & technology center that will offer fun, challenging, hands-on science, computer and "kid engineering" workshops for students in grades 5-10. Our after school, vacation & summer programs will be open to YDO students, as well as students from other surrounding towns. For our spring programs, there are only 6 regional slots available for each workshop section, so register ASAP.
Electric Jungle, Gr. 5-6 $240 tuition
Design & build electromechanical animals that have light up eyes, voices or sounds and motorized moving parts, all triggered by hidden switches. You could make a parrot with flapping wings, a monkey with a spinning tail or a snake with a flicking tongue. You will learn how to wire circuits to control your animals, how to design mechanisms to create different motions, and
how to use many different.
day/time: Tuesdays & Thursdays Section A: 3:45 - 5:15 pm
Section B: 5:30 - 7:00 pm
dates: APR 29; MAY 1,6,8,13,15,20,22,27 & 29; JUN 3,5,10 & 12
Mini Golf Course Engineering, Gr. 7-10 $400 tuition
Design & build a 9-hole mini golf course that will open in June for a YDO fundraiser. The theme is "Jungle Paradise" & will feature animals created by the Electric Jungle students. Learn to use many different tools, including power tools to build the course platforms; then create challenging motorized moving obstacles - like pop-up snakes, moving palm trees and falling nets
Section A: begins April vacation,APR 22-24, 12:00 - 2:20 pm*
Meets WEDNESDAYS, 3:45 - 5:45 pm:
WED dates: APR 30; MAY 7,14,21 & 28; JUN 4 & 11
* vacation days Include lunch- pizza or sandwiches
Section B: begins April vacation,APR 22-24, 10:00 - 12:20 pm*
Meets SATURDAYS, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
SAT dates: MAY 3,10,17, 24 & 31; JUN 7 & 1
For questions and more information: call Doug Prime 978-688-4300
(Former Executive Director & Co-founder of Future Engineers Center at UMass Lowell and Founder of Design camp)
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"Healthy Kids Running Series"
Is your child looking for a sport that does not require a huge commitment, gets them outdoors, is FUN and cheap? Healthy Kids Running Series is a non profit organization started to help tackle childhood obesity and instill a love of running in kids age Prek-8th Grade. We are in 48 towns nationwide and all our programs run during the same weeks in both the spring and the fall! So it is quite an operation! Families meet for 5 Sunday afternoons to watch their kids run. Each child receives "race bag" with a bib # for each week and other goodies supplied by our sponsors and other local businesses (so they get a feel for what running in a real competitive race is like) and all kids get a medal at the last race.
It may be a good "pump up" for middle school kids who are looking for an alternative sport, good practice for the Presidential Fitness Award for elementary age children as well as plain old fun for the preschoolers and their parents. Let's celebrate the spring and enjoy running outdoors!
See attached flyer for registration details.
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Cub Scout Troup 79 meets Thursday nights, 6:30p at St. Roberts Church. Contact Amy Hubler or see the website for more information.
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GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
Interested in joining Girl Scouts? Contact Lora Goldenberg or see the website for more information.
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ANDOVER SOCCER ASSOCIATION
is pleased to announce that online registration has begun for the
Spring 2014 soccer season.
Players born 8/1/95 - 7/31/03 (or grades 5 and up) are eligible
to playin the travel program.
Please visit www.andoversoccer.org to register.
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LITTLE LEAGUE 2013
Click here for the flyer
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Girls Lacrosse
1st, 2nd and 3rd grade girl's lacrosse
This spring let your daughter continue playing lacrosse or start to learn the game for the first time. All 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade girls are welcome to sign up and be part of this new and improved in-house spring lacrosse program. Practices will be once a week and all games will be held on Sundays in an in-house fashion. Teams will be established once sign-ups are completed. All teams will practice and play at the same time. If your daughter is returning to the program or starting brand new please know that all are welcome! Keep your eyes open for winter and early spring clinics that will dust off your lacrosse sticks and get your feet moving! All players must have own sticks, goggles and mouth guards!
Please go the the Andover Youth Services website to sign-up.
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