Edison Middle School PTSA Announcements
306 West Green Street
Champaign, IL 61820-5099
Phone: (217) 351-3771 Fax: (217) 355-2564
Edison's Mission
It is our mission at Edison Middle School to work collaboratively to place the focus on the academic, social, and emotional needs of each individual student first and ensure that ALL students are prepared for post-secondary education.
Important Dates:
November 21–Thanksgiving Family Feast and Movie Night 6–8pm
November 27-29–THANKSGIVING BREAK
November 19
Mini-Grants: Edison PTSA Mini-Grants are now available to teachers and staff! Mini –Grants are intended to support special projects that cannot be funded with allocated classroom budgets, and can be especially helpful when serving a large number of students. Ten grants of up to $150 each will be awarded. Applications will be accepted until December 13, 2014 and approved requestors will be notified by December 20. Contact Gretchen Pein at pein@illinois.edu if you have questions.
Have You RSVPd Yet? Edison's 3rd Annual Thanksgiving Family Feast and Movie Night is coming up on Thursday November 21st. All are welcome to come join us and the event is FREE. (Donations are accepted). Dinner begins at 6pm in the cafeteria and the movie will start at 7:15pm in the auditorium. See attached form to RSVP and to find out more.
November 15
Sign Up to Work Concessions at State Farm Center: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0945ABAA2FA13-state
There are two more dates of events to work in November and one event for December that was just added for the State Farm Center.
***The December event is NCAA Volleyball Tournament and this information could change depending on regionals and who goes on!!!***
Please sign-up for any event you are interested in working. Stand managers that have gone through training can sign-up for the stand manager slots. Anyone else that is at least 18 years of age or has graduated from high school can work on behalf of your Edison Band student.
I will be sending this out to the PTSA if there are those that would like to sign-up to help raise money for any other Edison organization or the 8th grade field trip.
If you sign-up to work an event please email me at hlf33@hotmail.com let me know your students first and last name or if you are working on behalf of another organization. Once it is close to the event I will send out information about your event. This will include parking pass information, dress code and any other details.
Society of Women Engineers: The University of Illinois Society of Women Engineers Outreach is offering your students the opportunity to explore engineering as a possible career. The SWE BELIEVE Newsletter provides the students with an insight into the professional engineering world and the life as an engineering student. We are hoping to introduce engineering as a career possibility to students that may never have considered it before. Below is a link to our monthly newsletter on the SWE website. Any student or parent can also subscribe to the newsletter through the website.
http://societyofwomenengineers.illinois.edu/outreach/
November 12
Book Fair Was a Big Success: Thank you all so much for your support of the Fall Book Fair! Because of your support, Edison's book fair is one of the most successful fairs in the area. I use all of the profits from the book fair to purchase books for the library so that all of our students have current, desirable books available to read.
Some of you mentioned at open house that you may have gently used, middle school appropriate books you could donate to the library. We always especially need any graphic or manga books or any Wimpy Kid, Big Nate, Harry Potter, or Rick Riordan books, etc. Please email me or drop the books off at the school. smithde@champaignschools.org
November 5
Dear Edison Families,
I would like to invited each of your families to Edison's 3rd Annual Thanksgiving Family Feast and Movie Night!
"What is this?" you ask.
I will tell you what it is. In order to show appreciation for our students, families, teachers, and staff, Edison is having a Thanksgiving Dinner on November 21 from 6-8:00pm. The dinner will begin at 6:00 and at approximately 7:15pm, families are invited to go to the auditorium for a viewing of "Charlie Brown Thanksgiving." Take a break from cooking dinner for your families and enjoy one on us. This event is for ALL families!!! ALL are welcome! All you need to do is complete the attached invitation with your student's name and the number of people attending and we do the rest. We hope to see everyone on the 21st! Have a great week!
Thanks,
Justin Uppinghouse
Principal
Edison Middle School
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