Edison Middle School PTSA
Athletic 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.
Congratulations to Coach Breitbarth and the 7th grade Lady Comets on their sectional win last night against Unity. With this win they are now headed to the State Series to be held at Central Junior High in East Peoria this Saturday. Our first game is at 3:30 pm. The next game is at 5:15 pm if we win the 3:30 game.
Track: Track begins on Tuesday, March 10 with a required parent- athlete meeting to be held in the cafeteria beginning at 5:30 pm. The date of the meeting was rescheduled from March 2 to March 10. Please contact Jackie Borchardt if you have any questions (borchaja@champaignschools.org). All paperwork from parent meeting is due to Ms. Borchardt by Thurs., March 12. All volleyball players out for track will begin their track season AFTER their volleyball season.
Volleyball: just a reminder you CANNOT be on any travel volleyball teams or any other volleyball team while you are playing volleyball for Edison.
Golf:
Any current 6th and 7th grade boy or girl interested in participating in the IESA state golf tournament in September please stop by Ms. Borchardt's room to let her know.
Upcoming Events in Edison Athletics:
Tues., March 10
8VB regionals at Urbana, 6 pm versus Urbana
Track parent - athlete required meeting beginning at 5:30 pm in the cafeteria.
Wed., March 11
8VB regional championship game at Urbana, 6 pm
Fri., March 13 and Sat., March 14
WR state in DeKalb
7VB State Series in East Peoria, 3:30 pm Saturday
Mon., March 30
Track meet at St. Joe
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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.
We need your feedback! The Illinois State Board of Education conducts a survey every other year to help drive school improvement initiatives at the state, district, and school level. Your feedback is completely confidential. Please visit https://survey.5-essentials.org/Illinois/survey/parent/login/ to log on and take the survey.
Band Concert: reserve Wednesday March 11 for the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade band concert, 7 pm in the Edison auditorium.
PTSA Meeting: the next Edison PTSA meeting will be Monday March 16, 6 pm in the library. An agenda is attached, as well as notes from the February meeting.
Band Trip to Disney: Edison Bands has a Sign-Up Genius page asking for snacks, water, and other assistance. Please look it over and sign up if you are able to help: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c094fa8ab28abff2-wdwsnacks
Seussical the Musical Correction: The recent school newsletter incorrectly listed March 5-7 as the school musical dates. The new dates are April 16- 18, all at 7 pm in the auditorium. We will be presenting Seussical, the Musical.
Yearbook Pictures needed! We need candid photos from band, strings, boys basketball, girls basketball, and wrestling. Please send them or share them with Mrs. Easton via: CD, flash drive, email (eastonka@champaignschools.org), or Google drive (eastonka@u4sd.org). *Please include the activity and grade level of students participating.
Box Tops for Education: Mrs. Wells is still collecting Box Tops for the school. Please send yours to Mrs. Wells or give them to any teacher to put in her mailbox.
Edison PTSA recently awarded 15 mini-grants to teachers and staff for classroom needs, extracurricular club activities, and learning software! If you'd like to help PTSA develop additional fundraising events, contact Gretchen Pein at gretchenpein@gmail.com
Extracurricular Clubs: attached is the official list of Edison student clubs and extracurricular activities, including sponsor contact information.
PTA Reflections: Thank you to all students who participated in this year's PTA Reflections contest. Congratulations to the following Edison students whose Reflections entries advanced to State: Grace Rispoli, Leah Courtney, Sara Dickerson, Vanessa Lopez, Michaela Patton, Sia Dey Koontz, and Emily Anderson. Mark your calendar for March 28, 2015 for the SPOTLIGHT event, presented by Illinois PTA in partnership with Millikin University to celebrate children from across the state. This free event is open to all children in Illinois. The afternoon, held on Millikin University's Campus in Decatur, Illinois, celebrates Reflections artists, scholarship winners, and students who serve their communities. The afternoon will include workshops for children and adults presented by faculty and students from Millikin University, an art gallery of almost 500 Reflections pieces, and a reception with light refreshments. For updates and registration information to this amazing event, please visit www.illinoispta.org/spotlight.html. *UPDATE*: registration for the Spotlight workshops is now open; visit this site for details
College Gear Fridays: Students, wear your Avid or college gear on Friday. Every Friday!
Building Council –What do we do? We don't discuss district issues, personnel or curricular matters, or discipline problems, but we do brainstorm ways to improve and enrich our school environment, and make things run more smoothly for Edison students and staff. We would like to recruit more parents to building council meetings. Consider attending a meeting (held in Mrs. Borchardt's room):
March 12 – 3-4pm
April 9 – 3 – 4pm
May 7 – 3 - 4pm
Friday Night Basketball will be held at Vineyard Church from 7p-8:30p during the second semester on the dates listed below. Vineyard is located at 1500 N Lincoln at the corner of Lincoln and Bradley in Urbana. Basketball is open to boys and girls ages 11-17. Text or call 217-299-0013 for more information.
March 6, March 13, March 27
April 3, April 17, April 24
Social Probation: Please talk to your students about social probation, which is exclusion from participation in and/or attendance at an extracurricular school-sanctioned activity like ball games, concerts and dances. A student will be placed on social probation if/when:
•He/she has not served the assigned detentions minutes
•He/she is failing one or more classes
•Administration places him/her on social probation.
County Market Max Dollars for Education: if you're a County Market shopper and wish to designate Edison as your Max card school, sign up at www.myCountyMarket.com or at the customer service desk at any store. Our school code is 14088.
Student Council meets in Mrs. Altenbaumer's room, 234 from 2:45-3:30. We meet on the first and third Wednesday of each month. All students are welcome to join. If you missed the first meeting, talk to Mrs. Altenbaumer or Mr. Freeman, our two Co-Sponsors. You can join anytime during the year. Come make a difference in your school.
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The Announcements are managed by the Edison Middle School PTSA. If you would like to submit information, please send your content to <mailto:announce-request@edison.u4friends.org>announce-request@edison.u4friends.org. The PTSA reserves the right to deny or edit submissions. If you would like to unsubscribe, please send an e-mail to <mailto:ptsa@edison.u4friends.org>ptsa@edison.u4friends.org and include "Unsubscribe" in the Subject Header or go here: <http://edison.u4friends.org/mailman/listinfo/ptsa_edison.u4friends.org>http://edison.u4friends.org/mailman/listinfo/ptsa_edison.u4friends.org. Archives of the announcements can be found at <http://edisonptsa.blogspot.com>http://edisonptsa.blogspot.com or <http://edison.u4friends.org/pipermail/ptsa_edison.u4friends.org/>http://edison.u4friends.org/pipermail/ptsa_edison.u4friends.org/.