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USEFUL LINKS

Bellevue PTSA Counsil Back-to-School Fair Information

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BSD Transit Information

BSD Lunch Menu (IS uses High School menu)

PayPAMS

Information regarding upcoming construction near IS:

City of Bellevue website page describing the project and the project flyer

IS Parking Lot Safety Information

Previous Editions of the Monday Messenger

PTSA NEWS

THE FALL FUNDRAISER IS OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY! 

 

Let’s  RAISE THE TORCH for IS as we begin a new school year!

  

Thank you to the over 50 families who have helped kick-start the campaign through generous donations made during Back to Business days! We’ve already raised nearly $7,000 toward our $30,000 goal! We’re just getting started.

  

We invite all families to participate in this campaign because your contribution, no matter the amount, makes a difference! We ALL benefit from the community, academic excellence, and reputation our students were fortunate to join. This is our chance to give back and build on that legacy.  Choose a support level that works for you:  Gold $500,  Silver $250,  Bronze $100, or define your own amount. For those families who can, we ask you to consider becoming a  Titan Torch supporter with a donation of $1,000 or more.  

All donations to the Fall Fundraiser that you give today are tax-deductible, and 100% goes back to the community through:

To see a more robust list, please check out  What Your Donation Supports .

DONATE ONLINE NOW!

Prefer to write a check? Fill out and mail back this  donation form  to the ISPTSA.  

Questions?  Please contact  [email protected] .  

ISPTSA BOARD NEWS

New Teacher Liaison, Taylor Tillotson

The ISPTSA Board welcomes our new teacher liaison, Taylor Tillotson. Taylor teaches US Government, Senior Project, and 8th Grade International Studies.

Treasurer 2 (Cash/Deposits) Position Open

If you are comfortable handling cash, spreadsheets, and detail minded, the Treasurer 2 position with the ISPTSA Board would be a perfect volunteer position for you—and it takes a few hours a month! Available Immediately!

The duties for this position include:

 

 

We would like to fill this position as soon as possible. Board meetings are in Oct, Dec, Feb, April, June. If interested, please contact Ching Guo,  [email protected] .

REFLECTIONS VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

The 50th anniversary of the National PTA arts program Reflections is being held this year with the theme Heroes Around Me .  The Reflections program provides an opportunity for students to express their creative talents through their own original works. Young artists get involved through their local PTA or PTSA. A student may submit an entry in any of six arts areas: Visual Arts, Photography, Literature, Music Composition, Dance Choreography, and Film Production/Special Artist. 

IS has a great history of participation in the Reflections program, having sent the artwork of many students to the state competition. 

 

Approximately three volunteers are needed to run the Refelections program from September through November. The main duties are to promote via a display board (already completed) the applications for the various art areas during student lunch in September and make sure the applications are full by checking once a week in October and November. Students will submit their art and applications at the end of November. Volunteers must then collect the art and submit it to the Bellevue PTSA Council in December. In April, volunteers return the art to students. 

 

We thank Josephine Anderson, who has run this program successfully for many years at IS. We need some new volunteers to step up run the Reflections program at IS it so that our students may continue to participate. 

 

If you are interested, please contact Meribeth:  [email protected]. We are looking for our volunteers to start the week of September 13.

JOIN US FOR COFFEE AND TREATS AT AN ISPTSA PARENT TAILGATE!

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

Visit with other parents and caregivers of IS middle schoolers and high schoolers while enjoying free coffee and other refreshments. These tailgates are a great opportunity to get to know the IS families in your student's community.

Contact [email protected] with questions.

ISPTSA MEMBERSHIP NEWS

Thanks to our many supporters who have brought us to almost 300 members so far! Our membership listing is a great way to see who attends our school!

Our goal is to have each student at IS supported by a PTSA member. That means we need 583 PTSA members. 

A dual  membership of $35 supports two students, a single membership of $20 supports one student. Dual memberships need to have two different adults or one adult and one student listed.

You can sign-up online here, or download our form and drop it off at the office with cash or check. Any questions, please contact Sharon Chen: [email protected] .

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR COMING NOVEMBER 26-29

Each year, the Scholastic Book Fair offers a great opportunity for you to support the IS library through the purchase of terrific, popular books for students—and get some holiday shopping done, too!

If you are interested in volunteering at the book fair (super fun, and not a big time commitment), please sign up here . A sign-up with a more detailed schedule will be sent out closer to the book fair. 

CARPOOLING IS GREEN!

 

Please consider carpooling to help keep congestion down at drop-off and pickup. Also, what's more fun than a car full of teens?!

We currently have families interested in carpooling from the following areas:

Bridle Trails

Crossroads / Lake Hills

Issaquah

Medina

Newcastle

Somerset

Tam O’Shanter

Woodridge

Yarrow Point /Hunts Point / Clyde Hill



If you are interested in forming a carpool, contact Meribeth at:  [email protected]  with “carpooling request” in the subject line. Please provide your name, your student(s) name(s), grade(s), and the area from which you would like to carpool. She will connect interested parties for possible carpools this week.

Apologies for listing an incorrect email address last week and any difficulties that may have caused. 

6TH GRADE RETREAT

Wednesday, September 5, During School Hours

What to expect:

Email Jill Follett with questions or concerns : [email protected] .

Volunteers Needed for 6th Grade Retreat

Wednesday, September 5, From 8:00 - 10:30 AM

Arty Christianto, MS counselor, is requesting 4-6 adult volunteers to help with the registration for the 6th grade retreat and would prefer not to have sixth grade parents unless they have an older student at IS. If you have time and are interested, please sign-up here . 

Any questions, please conta ct Arty Christianto:  [email protected].

THE TITAN TIMES IS AVAILABLE ONLINE

If your student doesn't always come home and tell you everything that's going on at school in a timely manner, you can check in on the school's daily announcements yourself by reading the Titan Times online!

And remind your student to check the posted Titan Times—at the attendance window, inside the office window, and by the 6th grade locker bay—for info about student club interest meetings, socials, dances, and other school goings-on.

Questions? Contact: [email protected]

STUDENT SPORTS & OPPORTUNITIES

RED CROSS CLUB AT INTERNATIONAL

Is your student interested in contributing to worldwide disaster relief and potentially earning community service hours? Then International’s Red Cross Club is the perfect match! Possible events include CPR trainings, first aid drives, and more. Please contact Anthony Le at  [email protected]  for more details. Meeting dates are pending.

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 4, 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.

First Technical Challenge [FTC] LINK TO REGISTRATION

Parent & Student Interest Meeting: September 4, 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.

First Robotics Competition [FRC] LINK TO REGISTRATION

Student Interest Meeting: September 11, Lunch, Room 209

Parent Interest Meeting: September 11 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.

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.

Register now, so your student will be ready when practice begins. Online registration is quick and easy at:   http://jubileereach.bonzidev.com/home.php. 

If you have any questions, please contact International's Jubilee REACH site coach, Jake Nelson: 425-746-0506  [email protected]

STUDENT NEWS & COMMUNITY EVENTS

TYEE PTSA IS OFFERING COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS

Tyee Middle School PTSA is offering community service opportunities at student social events and Tyee PTSA clubs. All events are after school. High school students seeking hours can sign up for specific events or be on the volunteer call list. [email protected].

Student Social Events:

Halloween, October 30 — 2-5 hours

Holiday Bazaar, November 30 — 2-5 hours

Neon Social Dance, March 8 — 2-5 hours

Game Night, April 26 — 2-4 hours

Field Day, May 31 — 2-4 hours

Tyee PTSA Clubs:

Coding Club, Tuesdays — 6-30+ hours

Competition Math Club — 6-30+ hours

National Geographic Bee, Fall/Spring — 6-30+ hours

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.