Newsletter 05/07/2017

ICS PTSA NEWSLETTER

May 7th, 2017

Upcoming Important Dates

Date	Event/Activity	Time	Location
May 9 th	Principal Chat PTSA Meeting	6pm - 7pm 7pm - 8.30pm	LWSD Resource Center
May 22 nd - 26 th	Focus Week	All Week	Various

FROM THE PTSA

PTSA Parent Meeting this week

The meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 9th, at LWSD Resource Center. It will start with a Principal chat from 6:00-7:00pm followed by a parent meeting from 7:00-8:30pm.

This is the last parent meeting of the year. We will vote on the 2017-18 interim budget and will celebrate parent volunteers, faculty and administration with our annual award ceremony.

It's also Dr. Moncada's last principal chat, so please make every effort to attend. Subject to scheduling we also hope to have our new principal, Ms. Kinney stop by.

Here are the links to the PTSA meeting:

1. Agenda

2. Draft Minutes April Parenting Meeting

3. Treasurer's Report

If you missed any parent meetings/principal chats, all the presentations are posted here.

PTSA Budget for FY2017-18

The PTSA budget for FY2017-18 was presented in the last parent meeting and posted for your review and comments - Draft Budget for 2017-2018. We will be voting to approve the interim budget in the upcoming parent meeting on Tuesday. The PTSA board will also recommend amending the budget and support Senior Year Books, a $4000 addition to our planned expenses. Please reach out to Doron Avitan with any questions or comments.

VOLUNTEERING

Parent volunteers needed for Student Summit Planning Committee - more information added

Parent volunteers are needed to help plan and develop three days of relevant, inspiring and college planning related activities for our Grade 9-12 students on September 5-7, the start of the new school year. In order to continue to grow this into an event that the students look forward to attending every year, we need your help! **Parent volunteers will be able to either fulfill or be very close to fulfilling their volunteer hours for the next school year by volunteering at this event, in addition to time spent planning this year.**

The Committee's first meeting will be held during Focus Week next month between May 23rd-25th. The volunteers will work directly with counselor Lis Christiansen and utilize the template and contacts that have been established from the previous two very successful years of implementation.

If you are interested in joining this committee, you must be the parent of a 9-12th grade student next year and be available for the first meeting, future planning meetings and to assist at the event, September 5th-7th, 2017.

Please email Kathy Thompson and Julie Kotler, to express your interest in helping with this event. A copy of last year's agenda and other information can be found here if you are unfamiliar with it. We hope to have a mix of parents from all high school grades who can help.

Volunteer Chaperones Needed For Grades 6-7-8 Camp in September 2017

Camp will be September 6-8, 2016 at Camp Cispus near Randle, Washington. We need 17 parent chaperones to attend camp with the students and staff. Please apply via email by May 19.

Requirements:

6 Male chaperones
6 Female Chaperones
Male or Female Chaperones (Kitchen help for mealtimes, no cabin duty)
1 parent (preferably a nurse or doctor) to offer first aid for campers

Approximately 6 of the chaperones need to be available to leave for camp on the afternoon of Tuesday, September 5 to drive the camp counselors and several staff to camp to set up. On that afternoon, we need one of those parents to drive a trailer (or large pick-up) with supplies to the camp also. These chaperones will return home Friday afternoon with the camp counselors and staff after the camp is cleaned up and the supplies reloaded in the trailer.
The remaining parent chaperones will be leaving the school early on Wednesday, September 6 with the camper students and the remainder of the staff on buses. This group will also return on Friday late afternoon.
Parent chaperones are responsible for their cabin groups at night and attend to their assigned groups during the daytime leading them to class locations. Campers attend classes and activities during the day that are led by student counselors; parent chaperones are usually free during the class time.
Kitchen help at mealtimes works with the Camp Cispus kitchen staff and are bunked in with the other parents.
All parent chaperones will attend an informational meeting before we leave for camp on August 30, 2017 at 5pm. This meeting is followed by the general parent meeting for camp at 6pm. This is the same date that ICS registration day is expected to be on.

If you would like to apply to be a parent chaperone for ICS Camp next fall, please email Kelsey Cummings and respond to the following questions:

1. Name?

2. Student's Name/Grade Level?

3. Phone?

4. Email?

5. Male or Female?

6. Kitchen Help? Yes or No

7. Go early to camp on Tuesday? Yes or No

8. If you can go on Tuesday, how many passengers can you take in your vehicle?

9. Can your vehicle pull a trailer or is it a pick up? Yes or No

10. Why do you think you would be a good camp chaperone?

11. What kind of training will you need or expect to be able to fulfill your duties?

12. Are you willing and able to enforce ICS rules both during camp activities and at night in the student cabins?

The deadline for applications is May 19, 2017.

NEWS

Matching Funds - Thank You and End of Year Reminder

Thank you to all parents who have submitted your family donations and your volunteer hours for a matching gift. Through the month of April you have matched over $50,000. This is a reminder to parents who work for a company with matching gifts program, to please submit your matching request (donations and hours) if you have not done so. When submitting your donation for a matching gift, please be sure to make the submission to ICS PTSA and not to ICS (the school). ICS PTSA and ICS are two separate organizations.

For questions regarding your company matching gifts program, please refer to ICS PTSA FAQ PAGE or if you are not sure if you have matched your donations, please contact the Matching Funds Team.

Lake Washington Schools Foundation News

Thank you to our incredible community for helping us raise $230,000 at our Spring for Learning Luncheon and Breakfast. Thank you for helping us to ensure that every one of our students has the skills and confidence to be successful, from kindergarten through senior year, from Juanita to Sammamish. Every student succeeds!

If you didn't have a chance to attend one of our spring fundraising events you can make a difference for LWSD students and GiveBIG! Donations can be made all day on Wednesday, May 10. Look for more information on our website soon.

CELBRATING ICS

USA Biology Olympiad (USABO) Finalist

C ongratulations to Kartik Iyer (senior from ICS) for making it to top 20-Finalist of USABO competition. Out of 16,000 high school students, only 20 are invited to CAMP as Finalist. He is only one representing Washington State.

Also he is the first student to be selected from Seattle in USABO in last 14 years. A proud moment for the Seattle community and ICS. Click here for the full results and here for more information about this competition.

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