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Published by the Foothill PFA January 10
, 2018
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Important Dates
Jan 15 -
NO SCHOOL; Martin
Luther King Jr. Day
Jan 26 - Coffee with Dave @7:45 am in the Library
For the complete Foothill calendar, click
here
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 Happy New Year from the Foothill PFA!
We hope you all enjoyed the break and are looking forward to a great 2018 at Foothill!
If one of your New Year's Resolutions was to get more involved in your child's education, the PFA has lots of opportunities for every skill set and degree of time commitment. The upcoming Book Fair, Career Day, Open House and Lunch Patrol could all use some extra parent volunteers.
Come to our next meeting on Wednesday, January 17th at 7pm in the library to learn more.
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Keep Shopping with Foothill's Special Link for Amazon
Remember, you can support Foothill every time you shop Amazon. Foothill's special link earns up to
5% for Foothill each time you shop!
and then bookmark it to the top of your browser. Ask your student to help you :)
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Give to the Foothill Education Fund
It's never to late to make a tax-deductible gift to the Foothill Education Fund. We are still short of our budgeted goal year-end donations greatly appreciated.
The Education Fund supports:
- Reduced math & science class sizes in all grades
- School-wide technology upgrades
- Lunchtime library access for students
- Computer lab instructional assistant
- Crossing Guards
- Technology support for students and faculty
Click Here to access our online donation link
Don't forget to get your donation matched by your employer. This is FREE MONEY for our school!
It only takes a minute to submit a matching request and it makes a really big difference for our school. The information you will need is simply:
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Help feed our hardworking Foothill faculty and staff!
The second Faculty and Staff luncheon of this school year is coming up soon, on Thursday, January 25. If you are interested in donating food or gift cards for this date to show your appreciation for our fabulous Foothill staff, further information and items needed are
listed here.
You can alternatively contact
Kathy Lawrence if you have any questions or issues signing up.
Thanks for your support of Foothill!
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We Need You at Foothill Career Day 2/21/18 8am-10am
Thank yo
 u to all those who are signed up already to volunteer to tell their career story at Foothill Career Day on
Wednesday, February 21, 2018. We still need a few more speakers and volunteers! Please contact
Cathy O'Sullivan or
Bob O'Sullivan if you'd like to be part of a great day for our students.
Whether or not you're directly involved in Career Day, please encourage your students to think about good questions for our speakers - each one of them were once in middle school... how did they get from there to where they are now? We're presenting a broad array of vocations and careers and look forward to sparking more than a few forward-looking ideas.
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Lunch Activity Volunteers Needed:
Make one of your 2018 New Year Resolutions to be more involved!
Date
s have been added to the
noon
time volunteer calendar through Spring Break.
We count on our parent volunteers to keep lunch time running smoothly for our kids and we need your help. Click below and sign up today - volunteering at lunch is a great way to help on campus and connect with your child(ren). There is a wide variety of jobs available from library to recycle monitor.
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2nd Quarter/1st Semester Report Cards
The end of the 2nd quarter/1st semester was Friday, December 22, 2017. Do to the Winter Break, final grades will not be viewable until Friday, January 12. 2nd quarter/1st Semester Report Cards will then be mailed the week of January 15.
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The City of Walnut Creek After School Sports Program at Foothill
Boys Intramural Basketball is starting very soon!! There is still time to sign up!
Boys Intramural Basketball
Registration deadline: 1/9
Season dates: 1/16 - 2/22
Practice times: Tuesday - Thursday; 3:30 - 4:30
Location: Foothill Gym
Some of our other sports are beginning to creep around the corner! Sign up early!
Coed Intramural Beach Volleyball 2.0
Registration deadline: 2/8
Season dates: 2/20 - 3/29
Practice times: Tuesday and Thursday; 3:30 - 5 PM
Location: Heather Farm Park on the sand courts
Coed Competitive Golf
Registration deadline: 2/15
Try outs: 2/27 & 3/1
Season dates: 3/5 - 5/23
Practice times: Tuesday - Thursday; 3:30 - 5:30
Location: Boundary Oak Golf Course
Sign-ups are now online!
Click here
to get registered and check out some of our other programs!
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Don't Forget to Order Your Yearbook!
Yearbooks
for the 2017-2018 school year are available to purchase online.
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Online Parent Community
Need to ask a question, get reminders about upcoming PFA activities or connect with other parents at Foothill? Join the
Foothill Middle School Parents group on Facebook. Once logged in, request to join the group.
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Community Announcements
Seven Hills School Parent Lecture Series:
"The most devastating moment of my life" is how Jason Dorland used to describe Olympic final failure in rowing at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games. Now, he describes that moment as a gift-the catalyst to his most transformative life experience ever. An author, Olympian, coach, entrepreneur, and storyteller, Jason will challenge us to rethink our traditional perspectives on high-performance in business, sport, and life, and ask us to explore how we can achieve personal success with greater fulfillment and joy.
"The Gift of Adversity"
Olympian, coach, entrepreneur, storyteller, and author of
Pulling Together: A Coach's Journey to
Uncover the Mindset of True Potential
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 7:00 to 8:30pm
The Seven Hills School
975 North San Carlos Drive, Walnut Creek
Adults-only tickets for each individual lecture are $20 per person and $10 for educators. Click here to register now.
Click here
for event flyer.
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Boy Scout Troop 810 Open House Walnut Creek
Boy Scouts Troop 810 invites all interested 6th graders and up and their parents to attend our Open House on
Tuesday, January 23 from 7:30 - 8:30 pm.
The Open House will take place at Foothill Middle School at
2775 Cedro Lane, Walnut Creek
. Our scouts will be showing you how to put up a tent that stays up, how to pack a backpack and not make it so heavy you can't carry it up a mountain, and how to tie knots. Games and snacks will also be provided. Come learn about the many things Troop 810 has to offer - monthly overnight camping trips, ziplining, snow camping, canoeing, just to name a few. This year we will be going to Emerald Bay and Wolfeboro for our summer camps.
Troop 810 is a boy led troop that values and promotes leadership development, community service, scout skills, fun and adventure. We were established in 1966 and have over 150 Eagle Scouts. We meet most Tuesdays evenings at Foothill Middle School. For more information and to RSVP, please contact Dorene Soe at
dalouie8@yahoo.com or
925-932-0733. We look forward to meeting you. You can also check out our website at
http://www.bsa810.org/
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foothill.enews@gmail.com so we can pass it along. Community Announcements will be included in the regular e-Gazette that is published the first and third Wednesdays of each month.
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