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Parent Leadership Opportunities
Looking for a way to excite your community about parent leadership opportunities on school committees such as BSEP, SSC (the new committee that replaces SGC next year), and the Safety Committee? For the most up-to-date, concise, and accurate information available, pick up "Be the Voice/Sea la Voz," a brochure created by members of these committees. A limited number of brochures are now at the front desk, with a full print run (photocopying) scheduled for July. Please pass them around at your back-to-school event. For more info, please contact Janet Huseby or Belinda McDaniel.
Karen Laws
BSEP Site Committee Member
510-597-1029
Welcome Back! from PTSA President Natasha Beery & Mark Van Krieken
Welcome back to everyone in the Berkeley High community! We hope everybody had a wonderful summer and that you and your children are ready for what looks to be an exciting and rewarding year at Berkeley High.
Big Back-To-School PTSA Meeting - Sept. 16 th : The first thing we would like everyone to do is to mark your calendars for Thursday, September 16 th for the big back-to-school PTSA meeting. The meeting will take place from 7:00 to 9:00 PM in the Florence Schwimley Theater ("The Little Theater" - entrance on Alston Way). This is one of the most important events held at the school each year as we present a tremendous amount of information, introduce our new principal Pasquale Scuderi (followed by a Q&A), and hold Berkeley High's all-important school-wide elections for parent representatives for School Site Council (SSC), Berkeley Schools Excellence Project (BSEP) Committee and the PTSA Executive Board. We are currently preparing descriptions of the various committees, explanations of what can be expected from each committee's parent reps, election timelines, and translations, and will post everything on the PTSA Website by the weekend (at which time we will also make another announcement on the etrees).
Information Night For Potential Parent Candidates - Sept. 8 th : For those of you who are thinking of joining a committee or running for office, we will be hosting an information night for potential candidates next Wednesday, September 8 th from 7:00 to 8:00 PM (location still to be determined). We will have parent representatives present from Berkeley High's BSEP Committee, School Site Council, Safety Committee and PTSA to give short presentations and answer questions about what is involved in serving on each of these committees. We hope the more informed you are, the more likely you will want to serve on one of these organizations. We will provide more information about the meeting as soon as we finalize a location.
PTSA Memberships: To those of you who have already sent in their membership envelopes - thank you very much! If you have not already done so, please take a moment to send in your membership envelope from the summer mailing and join the PTSA today. It's always very much appreciated.
Once again, welcome back to Berkeley High! We look forward to serving you during what should prove to be a very productive year!
More About Power School
A number of people have asked why the Parent Portal of PowerSchool--the part that allows parents and guardians to access their student's grades and attendance online--will not be fully operational until second semester. The reason is that the teachers must be trained on this PowerSchool application before it is opened up. Meanwhile, if you want to know your child's attendance, please call the Attendance Office at 644-6209. If you want to be in contact with a teacher about your student's academic progress you may email directly. All staff email addresses may be found at the PTSA website.
9/1: PowerSchool Portal Open 9/10
Good Afternoon Berkeley High Community,
We will be opening the parent and student portals within Powerschool next Friday September 10th. The portals will be closed to allow for additional student enrollment and schedule fluctuations that will take place over the next ten days. As we get closer to the opening of the portal we will be updating the BHS website with current instructions for accessing the portals. We apologize for any hardships this delay will cause but we are excited to provide the Berkeley High community access to student achievement data starting next Friday.
Matt Albinson
Berkeley High Technology Coordinator
PE Uniforms Explained
Physical Education Announcements:
Anyone taking a PE class is required to wear a red uniform (any combination
of red t-shirt, shorts, and sweats). These uniforms can be bought in the PE
office (Old Gym at Durant and Milvia) starting August 30th, or on August
23rd (Freshman Orientation) in front of the Donahue Gym. Prices are $10/ea
for BHS T-shirt/short, or $15/ea for BHS sweat top or bottom.
Students are offered lockers with built in locks, but bringing your own lock
to double protect your valuables is not frowned upon.
We thank you for your support, and look forward to celebrating a new
generation of PE: Playing, Lifelong interest in Body/Mind building,
Social/Emotional confidence building, and did I say we like to Play? All
are welcome, relax and enjoy yourself.
Michael P. McEvoy
Berkeley High School P.E. Dept. & LIPHE Program
Michael_Mcevoy@berkeley.k12. ca.us
Family Directory
In December we began distributing the BHS Family Directory with lukewarm success. This is an excellent resource and we hope to get one in the hands of each family.
The directory is divided in three sections:
1.Staff contact information. This section includes emails and phone numbers for members of the administration, clerical staff, lead teachers, teachers by department, English Learners Faculty, College and Career Center, directors, coordinators, and supervisors.
2. Support Resources and Services. This section has contact information and descriptions of the dozens of resource programs and services available to our students including the Student Learning Center and its free drop in tutorial schedule, Writer-Coach Connection, the Biotech Academy, Y Scholars, RISE, Teens Teaching Tobacco, the Health Center, BHS clubs, the PTSA, the Parent Resource Center, the City of Berkeley Youthworks, Student Court, Special Education, Workability, Vera Casey Teen Parenting Program, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund and MORE.
3. The third section includes the names and contact information of the students who turned in signed release forms.
The directory is clearly a valuable resource--especially for parents and guardians. The trick is to get it in your hands. We tried passing them out at lunch time. Many if not most students declined to pick up the directories. We will continue to pass out periodically at lunch time. Meanwhile, we have directories at the front desk and we plan to pass them out at as many evening events as possible. Please have your child come pick up a directory at the front desk or pick one up yourself!
GIVE SCRIP A TRY IN 2010!!
Please sign up for Escrip at www.escrip.com (BHS Group ID#137646958). Through this program, 2 to 4% of your shopping dollars are donated to the BHS Development Group at no cost to you. 25% of those funds are put aside for the Athletic Fund. Even if you already signed up for Escrip, you MUST sign up again each year to participate. It's very easy-go to the Escrip website and click the RENEW NOW button. If you have questions, or if you prefer not to enroll online, please contact: [mailto: marianberges@ earthlink.net ] and put "escrip" in the subject line.
E-Scrip volunteers needed!
The scrip program needs an infusion of new energy!
A. We need a monthly deliverer for North Berkeley, north of Solano Ave. This is a good route to walk/hike and takes about an hour or so.
B. We need a co-coordinator. For the last 4 years, there has been one person doing purchase, distribution, deposits, and accounting. That person is getting tired! We're looking for someone to share the coordinator job. A new volunteer could do one of two aspects of coordination:
1. Purchase scrip from stores, process monthly orders, distribute those orders to neighborhood deliverers, and fill occasional orders as they come in throughout the month. Depending on the number of requests for scrip during the month, this job takes 7 or more hours per month
OR
2. Make deposits and do the accounting at the end of the month. This is the smaller of the two jobs. We usually do 3 deposits each month. This work takes 4- 5 hours per month.
IF you are the least bit interested or just want to find out more about the jobs, please contact Linda Safarik-Tong at scrip@bhsdg.org . No pressure, I promise!
Upcoming Events and meetings
9/1: First Day of School
9/3: BHS Jazz Auditions
The BHS Jazz Auditions are scheduled for Friday, September 3, not Friday, September 13 (as erroneously noted in the heading for the initial posting).
For questions, please contact:
Scott Dailey [mailto: sdailey@berkeley.k12. ca.us ]
9/8: Information Night for Potential Parent Candidates
For those of you who are thinking of joining a committee or running for office, we will be hosting an information night for potential candidates next Wednesday, September 8 th from 7:00 to 8:00 PM (location still to be determined). We will have parent representatives present from Berkeley High's BSEP Committee, School Site Council, Safety Committee and PTSA to give short presentations and answer questions about what is involved in serving on each of these committees. We hope the more informed you are, the more likely you will want to serve on one of these organizations. We will provide more information about the meeting as soon as we finalize a location.
9/9: College Admissions overview
6:30pm, BHS Library.
9/16: PTSA meeting
Big Back-To-School PTSA Meeting: The first thing we would like everyone to do is to mark your calendars for Thursday, September 16 th for the big back-to-school PTSA meeting. The meeting will take place from 7:00 to 9:00 PM in the Florence Schwimley Theater ("The Little Theater" - entrance on Alston Way). This is one of the most important events held at the school each year as we present a tremendous amount of information, introduce our new principal Pasquale Scuderi (followed by a Q&A), and hold Berkeley High's all-important school-wide elections for parent representatives for School Site Council (SSC), Berkeley Schools Excellence Project (BSEP) Committee and the PTSA Executive Board. We are currently preparing descriptions of the various committees, explanations of what can be expected from each committee's parent reps, election timelines, and translations, and will post everything on the PTSA Website by the weekend (at which time we will also make another announcement on the etrees).
10/7: UC, CSU, private colleges overview
6:30 pm. BHS Library
Have an upcoming BHS event? Contact Matthew Wong for posting.
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