School Announcements

Remember your School Supplies and Field Trip Donations

If you didn't get your field trip and school supplies donations made at Back to School Night, please give them to your classroom teacher.  Please make the checks out to “Gardner Bullis School” and be sure to include your child's name and grade on each check.  Also, please write two separate checks for these expenses.  School supply donation is $40 per child.  Field trip donations are $50 per child for all grades, except for 4th ($350 — includes Coloma overnight) and 6th ($325.)  We need to get these in.  Please see Cathy Voelker in the office if you need assistance with these payments. 

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Gardner Bullis WoW Trip Trackers

Each month (starting in September) your student can complete a Trip Tracker form to track your Green Trips that your student took to and from school for that month. Whether you walked, biked or carpooled with another family to and/or from school.  The forms each month can be found in the office WoW box or online at gardnerbullis.org under "Walk or Wheel"

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2016-2017 Online Directory (Fourleaf) is Live!

Class lists and room parents for the 2016-2017 school year have been added to the online directory in Fourleaf. To access the online directory, download the Fourleaf app from the Apple App Store or go to fourleaf.net and enter your email and password (or create a new account). For Android users, bookmark Fourleaf to your home screen for easy access to your directory.

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Excused Absences for Religious Holidays
Observed religious holidays are considered excused absences as long as the absence has been requested in advance in writing by the parent or guardian and approved by the principal or designee (E.C. 48205, B.P. 5113).

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Medication at School

If you need to find medication forms, please follow:  LASD Los Altos School District website  Go to “Parents & Community” —> “Health Services" —> "Medication at school" (http://www.losaltos.k12.ca.us/District/5361-Medication-At-School.html)  A link to this page is also on the Gardner Bullis School website in the top menu called "About Us" -> "Medication at School".

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Box Tops!  Start collecting today! Class contest ends in December with a Popsicle Party for the winning class.

Annie's Organics, Nature Valley Granola, Honey Nut Cheerios, Ziplocs, and Scott Paper Products are just a few of the many products that can earn $0.10 a clip for our school. Your classroom has a Box Tops deposit box. Please click this link for participating products by category or download a PDF of all:

http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/participating-products 

Coupons and special promotions can also be found on the boxtops4education.com website.  Last year we earned almost $550 from Box Tops!  Thank you for your efforts! 

Monique Rogers, your BTFE Coordinator

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Walkathon … GO!

The Gardner Bullis PTA is excited to host our 2016 Pokemon Go themed Walkathon! Will you catch a Charmander? Pikachu? What about the rarely sighted Gardner Grazzle Bear??? Come out early and see how many laps you can log, and how many prizes you can catch. This annual, student-powered fundraiser brings the whole school together for a fun-filled day of exercise and community building for important PTA school programs. Siblings encouraged to join the fun!

Go to http://www.gardnerbullis.org/gardnerbs/4891-Walkathon.html to register a walker, order a T-shirt, sponsor a walker, or get your family’s name listed as one of our underwriters on the back of the shirts for just $45! Or if you prefer, turn in the Pre-Registration Form that was sent home in theThursday folders. They must go to the Walkathon box in the school office.

All T-shirt orders must be received with payment by 9/30.

We need volunteers for the morning of the event. Sign up online!

http://signup.com/go/Xvg4pq

We can’t wait to get out there and get walking!! See you there!

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2016-2017 School Directory (Print Version) Coming Soon

Paid PTA members will receive printed school directories by the end of October. Thank you!

PTA memberships are $15.50 each. Every membership includes a copy of the Gardner Bullis Student Directory. A family membership costs $25 and includes two memberships plus two copies of the directory. Additional memberships and/or directories may be purchased for $15.50 each.

Join the PTA today!

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Still Searching for Hot Lunch Servers!

Thank you to the three new moms and one grandpa :-) who heeded our call for volunteers to serve hot lunch!  We are almost across the finish line, but are still desperate for a volunteer for every other Wednesday and once a month on Mondays!  This is only a ONE HOUR commitment every time you serve, , and it means we get to serve hot lunch on Mondays and Wednesdays.  We must have someone in these slots to continue to serve hot lunch on Wednesdays and Mondays!  

If our pleas are not working - how about feedback from a new mom to Gardner?  She told me the other day that she is sooo happy to be able to volunteer because it is such a feel good volunteer opportunity!  The kids are sooooo happy at lunchtime, they are so nice and thankful they get such great food (it's hard to replicate a hamburger in a lunch bag from home...) Join the fun - please!! Email gbhotlunch@gmail.com to volunteer.  

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Grizzly Academy (after school programs)

Sports!  Languages!  Science!  Art!  Whatever your child enjoys, we have it after school! For more information go to the Grizzly Academy web page.