Week of May 23rd – 27th Summary

May 27, 2011

Important Upcoming Dates:

• Monday, May 30th there will be NO SCHOOL in honor of Memorial Day and the SPMA Booster Club will be hosting a “Reel in the Redfish” public fishing tournament & music festival. Please tell your friends! EVERYONE is invited to the music and food festival whether fishing or not.

• The Middle School students will be handing out class-created educational materials about Hilton Head Island beaches at Coligny Beach Park on Thursday, June 2nd at 10 am. If you are available, please come by and show your support.

• A private ceremony for the Eighth Grade graduates will be on Thursday, June 2nd at 6 pm. A school-wide family potluck picnic will take place afterwards at 6:30 pm on the back porches and playground. Please bring a dish and family place settings. PRE-ORDERED yearbooks will be distributed!! Bring a pen for gathering autographs! And, one last thing, please bring a book to donate for our sister school in Tanzania, if you haven’t already.

• Register now for the June 7th Daddy/Mommy & Me Class for parents and their children ages 12 months to 2 years old. Please register by Friday, June 3rd.

• The last day of school is Friday, June 3rd. Lower School will dismiss at 11:30 am and Upper School will dismiss at 12 pm.

School Notes:

• 2010-11 Yearbooks can be ordered online through Shutterfly here. (Scroll down and look on the left.) There is a hardback version and a softback version from which to choose.

• The Environmental Committee would like to thank Jim Van Dijk and The Greenery for the donation of soil and mulch for one kitchen garden raised bed, Tom Curry and Lowcountry Pavers for the donation of the grey bricks and supporting materials, Mike Novitski and his team for laying the pavers at cost, Marc Bergman and Island Improvements for the setting of the fence and removal of construction debris, Spring Island Trust for the donation of native plants, and Derek Franks (a Bluffton firefighter) who graded the garden area at a much discounted price. All these donations were to supplement the Palmetto Pride grant awarded to SPMA for the creation of a living fence, to increase our recycling and to enhance environmental education. Be on the lookout for many new “green” titles in the school library and for the outdoor compost bins to be installed by Casey Honowitz this summer as his Eagle Scout Project!! Next school year we will be able to compost lunch and snack scraps!

• SPMA Shutterfly photos!

• SPMA is collecting Books for Tanzania through the end of the school year. Please bring in any gently used or new books to donate and place them in the large baskets in the foyer.

• Watch WHHI/Lowcountry Child SPMA videos here. The latest May episode is about the Preprimary Program and Brain Development.

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