UPCOMING DATES AND EVENTS
THIS WEEK:
- Thursday, 8/30 • First Day of School (Periods 1, 3, 5 & 7)
NEXT WEEK:
LOOKING AHEAD:
- Monday, 9/10, 8:15 AM • High School Parent Tailgate (more details below)
- Monday, 9/10 • Fall Play Auditions
- Tuesday, 9/11, 5:00 PM • New to IS Info Night (more details below)
- Wednesday, 9/12 • First EVEN Wednesday (Odd/Even Schedule Here)
- Wednesday, 9/12, 8:15 AM • Middle School Parent Tailgate (more details below)
- Saturday, 9/15, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM • Bellevue PTSA Council Back-to-School Fair (more details below)
- Thursday, 9/27, 6:30 PM • Curriculum Night
- Friday, 9/28, 7:00 PM • Middle School Social
- Tuesday, 10/2 • Picture Retakes
- Tuesday, 10/2, 6:00 PM • Navigating Math Curriculum Algebra I/II & Geometry
- Wednesday, 10/10 • Super Wednesday Testing
- Wednesday, 10/10 • PTSA General Meeting & Pasta Dinner
- Friday, 10/12 • No School—Professional Development Day
- Friday-Saturday, 10/19-10/20 • Fall Play Performances
- Monday-Friday, 10/22-10/26 • Spirit Week
- Saturday, 10/27 • Homecoming Dance
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ISPTSA PARENT TAILGATES
ARE BACK!
High School: Monday, 9/10, 8:15-9:30 AM
Middle School: Wednesday, 9/12, 8:15-9:30 AM
Both at Kelsey Creek Park parking lot
Come to greet and catch up with parents of other IS middle schoolers and high schoolers. These tailgates are a great place to meet the parents of your kids' friends, ask questions of veteran parents, and find out how much other families are spending on styluses each month. Plus, there will be refreshments!
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ISPTSA MEMBERSHIP NEWS
September Membership Campaign
Our goal this year is to again reach 100% Membership
of our IS community
in PTSA. That means we need 583 PTSA members—or, one member for every student.
Dual membership of $35 supports two students. Single membership of $20 supports one student.
ISPTSA has kicked off the 2018-19 school year with over 200 supportive parents and guardians either becoming members or renewing their memberships with ISPTSA.
Thank you!
Our new membership chair is Sharon Chen,
membership@isptsa.org. She is looking forward to meeting you at various upcoming ISPTSA and school events.
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THE FALL FUNDRAISER IS
COMING SOON!
Look for the official kick-off of the Fall Fundraiser next week! For now, when you
join the ISPTSA
online, you can add a tax-deductible donation in addition to your membership fees which will help kickstart our campaign. Any level of support is greatly appreciated and makes a difference to the IS Community!
Your ISPTSA donation supports programs such as:
- Curriculum Enrichment
- Student Activities
- Staff Appreciation
- Community-Building Events
- And much, much more
Go Titans!
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CARPOOLING KEEPS US MOVING
To help keep congestion down at drop-off and pickup, please consider carpooling. Many families are looking for carpooling partners. If you are interested in forming a carpool, please contact Meribeth at:
vpoutreach@istptsa.org
and provide your name, your student(s) name(s), grade(s), and the area from which you would like to carpool. Also indicate if you would like to participate in morning or afternoon carpools, or both.
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BELLEVUE PTSA COUNCIL 2018 BACK TO SCHOOL FAIR
Saturday, September 15, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Bellevue High School
This district-wide community fair will have representatives from community partners and the Bellevue School District. Resource fair organizations will be able to provide information on after-school programs, human services, and district offerings, plus so much more. There will be over 60 organizations represented and many parent education session offerings for K-12 families.
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VOLUNTEERS MAKE US RUN
ISPTSA is looking for volunteers for many positions. The ISPTSA not only supports our school financially, but also with volunteers. Don’t have much time? No problem. There are opportunities that fit all types of schedules and time constraints.
Please take a moment t
o visit
this page to see how you can support IS by volunteering. Community Creates Success at IS.
Here are some of the possibilities:
- Parent class representatives
- Spring auction committee members
- Runners for PE
- School chaperones
- Office helpers
- Campus improvement leadership
- Book Fair leadership
- Safety and traffic coordinators
- Reflections leadership
- Computer Club leadership
- ISPTSA Senior Scholarship Committee
- Plus many more . . .
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BACK-TO-SCHOOL INFORMATION
If you have missed all of the Back to Business Days, you may visit the school office on weekday mornings between 9:00-11:00 AM before the first day of school. Students will be able to get their schedules, lockers, and ORCA cards, as well as pay fees. Students will not be able to get their computers until the first day of school.
For more information, please visit the school website
here
.
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PARENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR TRAFFIC HELP—FIRST TWO WEEKS OF SCHOOL
FREE COFFEE IN THE MORNING!
Assistant Principal Robin Moore is looking for volunteers to help direct parking lot traffic for the first two weeks of school. She is looking for morning support from 7:45 - 8:30 AM for the first two weeks, as well as after-school support on the first two Wednesdays from 1:15 - 1:45 PM.
She and her team will be happy to train volunteers; it's quick and easy. They will supply vests, signs, light sticks, coffee, and huge amounts of gratitude to any family members willing to help.
Please consider helping out—student safety in the parking lot is a huge priority, and it can be a very busy place during the few weeks of school.
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SIDEWALK PROJECT TO TEMPORARILY IMPACT TRAFFIC, THEN IMPROVE STUDENT SAFETY
The City of Bellevue is going to be conducting a construction project along 128th Avenue that will impact the first month or so of school. While this timing is not ideal, it will provide sidewalks for the community that will improve pedestrian safety and allow International School students in particular a bit more space delineated away from traffic when they are out on their PE runs.
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HIGH SCHOOL RETREAT CHAPERONES NEEDED
Thursday, September 6, 8:00 AM through Friday, September 7, 3:00 PM
The school is in need of chaperones for the High School Retreat at Warm Beach. Their
greatest need is for overnight chaperones—both male and female—to stay in cabins with students. They also need some of those same chaperones to ride to and from the camp on buses, chaperone during the Thursday afternoon sessions and Friday morning meetings, as well as chaperone during meals and evening events. They understand that some parents can be available overnight but may need to drive separately after work or late in the afternoon.
Please consider volunteering for this valuable student experience!
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NEW TO INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL INFO NIGHT
Tuesday, September 11, 5:00 PM
This presentation is for families new to International School and will cover many topics, including much of the technology used by teachers, parents, and students. It is
not a repeat of the 5th Grade Barbecue presentation, so even if you attended that event, you will want to attend this one too.
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TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION
Click
here for Bellevue School District Transit information.
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MAKE SURE STUDENTS ARE READY FOR LUNCH ON DAY ONE
Check out the BSD lunch menu
here, and remember that because IS is a combined high school and middle school, our cafeteria only offers the high school menu (at the high school price).
Set up school lunch payments at
PayPAMS.
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IMPORTANT SCHOOL DROP-OFF AND PICKUP
INFORMATION
Drop-off and pickup are very busy times in our small lot, and our number one concern is the safety of your children. Please respect
these rules
:
- Stay out of the bus lane at all times.
- Be courteous and allow vehicles—alternating from the north and south—to enter from 128th Avenue S.E.
- Try leaving just 10 minutes earlier in the morning. It can have a significant impact on how long you wait in line to drop-off.
- Make sure students have all of the items they need for school ready to go upon approaching the drop-off zone so they can exit your vehicle quickly.
- Do not cut through the permitted parking area during morning drop-off.
- Do not allow your child to exit your vehicle on 128th Avenue S.E. Allowing your child to jaywalk across the southbound lane is especially dangerous!
- Help to decrease unnecessary traffic at drop-off and pickup by using BDS's Metro Transit bus services. Information can be found here.
- Parking is very limited at IS. Only park in the visitor spots located directly in front of the school—all other spots are assigned to staff and students. Please do not park in any assigned spots before and during school hours, even if you plan on only being in the school a minute. If there are no spots, you will need to find a legal spot to park on the street. The streets closest to the school are permit-parking only.
Thank you for driving carefully!
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SUPER HANDY SCHEDULE!
Try filling out
this handy schedule with class, room, and teacher info to help your student remember where to go, at what time, on which day.
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THE SUN IS SETTING ON TIME TO COMPLETE SUMMER HOMEWORK
Math and Science packets can be found
here.
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STUDENT SPORTS & OPPORTUNITIES
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INTERESTED IN GAINING HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE LEARNING AND APPLYING STEM FIELDS IN REAL LIFE?
Titan Robotics Club has been promoting STEM education in today’s youth for over 17 years. Their three programs task students with addressing a challenge by applying the concepts they have learned in the classroom into creating a robot!
First Lego League [FLL]
Parent & Student Interest Meeting: September 4th, 6:30-7:30pm, Room 209
Open to 4th-8th graders. Students work with trained high school and adult mentors to build and program lego robots and design a solution to a real-world issue and create presentations to address this issue.
Registration opens after interest meeting.
Parent & Student Interest Meeting: September 4th, 6:30-7:30pm, Room 209
Open to all high schoolers. Up to 15 students work together with mentors to design, build, and program an 18-by-18 inch robot. Students are also tasked with documenting their engineering process.
Student Interest Meeting: September 11th, Lunch, Room 209
Parent Interest Meeting: September 11th 6:30-7:30pm, Room 209
Open to all high schoolers. After training in the fall, students attend Kickoff in January, where they will learn this year’s competition. After Kickoff, students work alongside mentors to design, fabricate, build, and program their robot in six weeks. In addition to gaining important practical skills, such as programming and marketing, students are eligible for over $80 million in scholarship money.
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JUBILEE REACH REGISTRATION OPEN FOR 2018-19 SCHOOL YEAR
Boys and Girls Soccer, Coed Cross Country, and Girls Golf are all available for IS Middle School students this fall through JUBILEE Reach. As always, there is no cost to participate; donations are accepted at registration.
If you have any questions,
please contact International's Jubilee REACH site coach, Jake Nelson: 425-746-0506
jaken@jubileereach.org
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STUDENT NEWS & COMMUNITY EVENTS
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DONUT FUN RUN
Four local BSD high school students are holding a charity Donut Fun Run at Interlake High School in Bellevue! 100% of proceeds benefit the Ronald McDonald House Charities, which provide families with hospitalized children a home away from home during their child's stay at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
“Raise Love, Raise Dough” by signing up at
donutfunrun.weebly.com
for a morning of fun for the whole family—d
onut giveaways, fun raffles, and refreshments included!
Family and student discounts apply! Follow on Facebook and Instagram: @donutfunrun.
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MASTHEAD / DIRECTORY / LINKS
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President
Ching Guo
Secretary
Zena Heywood
Treasurer 1
Beverly Ni
Treasurer 2
Kishore Karanam
VPs of Community
Liying Tan & Qiong Chen
VP of Communications
Li Wu
VP of Fundraising
Dori Kelleran
VP of Outreach
Meribeth Nordloef-Pedersen
Membership
Sharon Chen
Advocacy
OPEN
Monday Messenger
Julie Molinari
Website
Sylvia Abrahamsson
IS Staff Liason
Taylor Tillotson
PTSA
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SHOP FOR THE BELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
Enter Amazon.com through this
link
and Amazon will donate 8% of every purchase you make to support Bellevue students, including those at IS! Share the link and spread the word to family and friends anywhere.
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CONFUSED ABOUT SOMETHING?
The ISPTSA is always here to help answer your IS questions.
Email us
here
, and we'll help you find the answers you need.
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SCHOOL DIRECTORY & LINKS
Attendance 425-456-6545
Main Office 425-456-6500
MS Counseling 425-456-6546
HS Counseling 425-456-6542
Registrar 425-456-6535
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SUPPORT YOUR PTSA
Donate Anytime
Write your check to the International School PTSA and send it to:
ISPTSA
445 128th Ave. SE
Bellevue, WA 98005
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ISPTSA TUMBLER
Support your school community and the environment by buying an ISPTSA Tumbler
These great-looking 14-oz dual-wall insulated stainless-steel tumblers have a swivel lid with drink-thru opening and a plastic-ring seal to stave off spills. With the ISPTSA logo, it will keep your drink hot or cold while you look cool handling the morning commute or afternoon pickup, and your purchase will benefit the International School PTSA!
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MONDAY MESSENGER
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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- Please submit articles by FRIDAY at 12:00 PM (noon) to news@isptsa.org.
- We encourage submissions that align with our mission.
- Submissions are subject to review by the ISPTSA and may be accepted, rejected, or edited.
- Please use a separate email for each article submitted.
- Documents in plain text are preferred, however, you are welcome to include an image or icon.
- If you need to link to a registration form, send us either the address of the link or a pdf copy of the form.
- For the Help Wanted session, feel free to also contact the ISPTSA to ask for support.
- Note: you will receive an automatic confirmation email response once you submit material to the Monday Messenger.
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International School PTSA
445 128th Ave. SE
Bellevue, WA 98005
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