ICS PTSA NEWSLETTER

December 4 2022

See the ICS Calendar for more upcoming event dates.

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Reflections 2022 -23 ICS Winners

The below are the winners from ICS who are moving to the LWSD council level of the competition. The theme for this year is "Show Your Voice". Congratulations to all the winners and good luck to the next round of the competition!

FROM PTSA

Hello ICS Parents,

Great thanks to all the families who have donated to ICS PTSA.

A gentle reminder to families who have donated: Please submit your donation matching to International Community School PTSA 2 8 89 [Tax ID/EIN Number: 911801111].

Requesting a matching gift or volunteer grant is normally a five-minute process that must be initiated by you or your spouse, the donor/volunteer. You can do this by filling out and submitting through an electronic submission process or a paper match form provided by your employer.

If your company needs a donation receipt, you can send a receipt request to ICS PTSA Treasurers (treasurer@icsptsa.org)

Many companies have matching gift programs. Some, such as Microsoft and Google, do matching gift through an organization called Benevity; some do it on their own.

For questions regarding your company's programs, please contact your employer's HR or community giving department. Much of the necessary information is also available on your company's intranet.

If you have any questions, please email matchfundadmin@icsptsa.org

Thank you!

VOLUNTEERING

Seeking parent volunteers for Focus Week Committee:

We will be establishing a Focus week committee comprised of parents and willing teachers that would recommend a frame work and path forward for Focus Week for this year and next year.  The committee will work with the guidelines from the principal on what is in scope during Focus Week (during school curriculum time) and what activities will have to be considered outside of Focus Week (outside school curriculum time). 

The Committee is expected to be comprised of 2 parents from each grade and 2 co-leads - one for middle school and one for high school. The task is to have a dialog/feedback with parents, students and staff before making recommendations for Focus week this year (by Jan 15) and next year (by Feb 28).  

If you are interested to be part of this Focus week committee please send an email to president@icsptsa.org by 5pm Wednesday Dec 7.  We will select 2 parents from each grade through random selection if we receive more than 2 parent volunteers for each grade.  

Volunteers Needed for ICS FBLA’s donut fundraiser

ICS FBLA is looking for parent volunteers for 3 Mondays (11/28, 12/5 and 12/12) from 7:00-7:30 AM (just before school) to help out with our donut fundraiser.

The location will be in front of Ms. White’s room, which is under the FBLA banner. Parents would be handling cash transactions and sales, and can earn volunteer hours from this activity.

Parents, if you're interested, please email icsfbla@outlook.com and we will give you more details.

Volunteers Needed for Curriculum support

We need volunteers for the following roles in Curriculum support.

Community Education - We need one more chair or committee member. You will organize two or three events for ICS families, including the popular College Counselor Roundtable.

Scholarships - We need an additional committee member to work with the Scholarship chair. The Scholarship committee member will manage the scholarship process, including updating and sending out application forms, recruiting external judges, scoring, and notifying applicants with the results.

Grants - We need one chair or committee member to cover the grant application review and approval.

If you are interested, please reach out to Lei Kou.

REPEATED ARTICLES

 From The SKI Bus Club

Familiarize yourself with the program here before the meeting and use contact information in the document to ask questions if you cannot make it.

Please use email contact of Boris Baryshnikov or Katherine Crowley regarding Ski Bus Info

2023 Art Day

2023 Art Day which will be on Jan 30 2023.

Planning for classes Movement and Dance, Cooking , Art

Please submit the ideas for Art Day with 2023 Art Day (pollunit.com)

If you have any questions for a classes or for volunteer, please contact us at artday@icsptsa.org

ICS National Honor Society

NHS Tutoring is back! This year, ICS National Honor Society is offering drop-in tutoring every Monday from 2:30-3:00PM after school and every Wednesday from 12:25-12:55PM during lunch in Ms. Sullivan's room. All grades are welcome to stop by and our members can help you with any subject.

NHS is also offering individual tutoring for those who want to work more consistently with one designated tutor. Please email icsnhs@outlook.com with the subjects you want help on and we will pair you with one of our amazing tutors!