Please see the attached Fall Festival Tips with more information about t-shirts and tickets going home today and about the Festival tomorrow.
http://briarmeadowpto.digitalpto.com/files/2018/11/Fall-Festival-Tips.pdf
Hello, Broncos!
In this post:
- Fall Festival Volunteers Needed (31 Slots)
- Fall Festival Early Bird Pricing Ends Today
- Fall Fundraiser Buy-out Payments are Due Today
- Fall Festival Volunteer Count
- Register with VIPS Now
Fall Festival Volunteers Needed (31 Slots)
Our Fall Festival is in three days on Saturday November 3rd 10am-2pm. Thank you so much to the families and classrooms that have filled their 8 one-hour volunteer sign-up slots. Those classrooms have earned a popsicle party for the students! Pre-K and Kinder are receiving their popsicles today.
31 slots remain open in First – Fifth grades. Please see below for the class count. We need these slots filled to make the Fall Festival a success. Classrooms that are full by Friday will earn a popsicle party. If your classroom is not full, please sign-up to help. If your classroom is full and you can help, please sign up for any open slot.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0f44aaac2daaff2-fall6
If you cannot sign-up on your own, please email us your name, teacher name, and what hour you’re available and we can add you to the sign-up.
Fall Festival Early Bird Pricing Ends Today
Wednesday October 31 is the last day to order Fall Festival Bronco Bracelets at the $30 early bird price ($35 regular price). Please order your bracelets, tickets, and meal tickets. They will be delivered to your student on Friday and you won’t have to wait in line at the Festival.
https://squareup.com/store/briarmeadow-charter-school-pto/
Fall Fundraiser Buy-out Payments are Due Today
Fall Fundraiser buy-out payments are due Wednesday October 31. The buy-out form is attached. PTO representatives are in the lobby before and after school this week accepting payment.
https://squareup.com/store/briarmeadow-charter-school-pto/
Fall Festival Volunteer Count:
| PK | Andress | FULL |
| PK | Ramos | FULL |
| K | Preston | FULL |
| K | Reichert | FULL |
| K | Lam | FULL |
| 1 | Stewart | FULL |
| 1 | Loan | FULL |
| 1 | Spradley | 2 slots open |
| 2 | Jackson | 2 slots open |
| 2 | Brown | FULL |
| 2 | Loomis | 3 slots open |
| 3 | Lucas | 1 slot open |
| 3 | Pacheco | 2 slots open |
| 3 | Williamson | 3 slots open |
| 4 | Rebullida | 4 slots open |
| 4 | Pham | 1 slot open |
| 4 | Perotti | 1 slot open |
| 5 | Dede | 2 slots open |
| 5 | Russo | 6 slots open |
| 5 | Bender | 4 slots open |
| Total | 31 slots open |
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0f44aaac2daaff2-fall6
Register with VIPS Now
Register as a Volunteer in Public Schools (VIPS)
- Every year all parents and caregivers need to register with VIPS for a background check.
- To Register:
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- Register online (no paper form this year):
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- AND present photo ID at the Front Desk to scan into the Raptor system.
- You may use the school lobby computers.
- We need everyone to register now.
- You cannot help at school or field trips without VIPS.
- Don’t know if you’re in VIPS? Ask the Front Desk.
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Good morning, Broncos! Today Tuesday is the day!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0f44aaac2daaff2-fall6
On Wednesday the PTO will deliver popsicles to classrooms with full Fall Festival volunteer sign-ups. Please check your class and sign-up today for any open spots. 37 spots remain. Each Elementary classroom has two spots for each hour (10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm). Click all the way through until your sign-up is confirmed. Keep scrolling to get a class count update below.
Wednesday is the last day to order Fall Festival Bronco Bracelets at the $30 early bird price ($35 regular price).
https://squareup.com/store/briarmeadow-charter-school-pto/
As of Monday mid-day, these are the class counts:
FULL
Andress
Preston
Lam
Reichert
Stewart
1 Left
Loan
Pham
2 left
Ramos
Spradley
Brown
3 Left
Jackson
Loomis
Lucas
Williamson
Perotti
Dede
4 left
Bender
Rebullida
5 Left
Pacheco
7 Left
Russo
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- Fall Festival Volunteer Sign-up: 45 (30%) of our volunteer spots are unfilled. We need your help please! Each classroom has a booth/activity to staff with eight volunteers for one hour each on Saturday. Please check the sign-up to see your classroom’s booth/activity and sign-up for a volunteer shift. Your classroom appears four times (10am, 11am, 12pm, and 1pm) and all slots must be filled. Click all the way through until your sign-up is confirmed. Classrooms who fill their eight spots by Wednesday earn a popsicle party for the students!
- All Week: Fall Festival Bronco Bracelets and tickets are on sale in the lobby before and after school and online in the PTO Website Store. After Wednesday, the Bronco Bracelet price increases from $30 to $35. Buy now and avoid the long line on Saturday.
- Monday: Turn Your Back on Drugs! Wear your shirt backwards.
- Tuesday: Rally in Red! Wear red.
- Tuesday 6:00-7:30pm: Weekly Fall Festival Planning Meeting
- Wednesday 8:30-9:00am: Drugs Aren’t in our Character! Storybook character parade. Dress as your favorite storybook character and bring the book to carry in the parade. More details are on the PTO Calendar. Parent are invited to watch in the lobby.
- Wednesday: Fall Fundraiser buy-out payments are due. You can pay in the lobby or pay online.
- Friday 9:00am: School Tour for prospective families.
- Saturday 10am-2pm: Fall Festival—come out and have fun! Volunteers are still needed. See above and please sign-up.
- Pre-K and Kinder Puppy Play Date PTO Auction: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0f44aaac2daaff2-prek
- 4th Grade Karaoke & Cupcakes PTO Auction: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0f44aaac2daaff2-4thgrade
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Parent Information Meeting on Facebook Live
This morning we broadcast most of the Parent Information Meeting on Facebook Live, but missed the beginning. Hopefully next time we’ll get the whole meeting. The first part of the meeting is about dyslexia; the second part is about our Fall Festival; at the end we circle back to dyslexia and constructivist learning. If you’d like to watch it, the meeting video will remain on our Facebook page for the next week.
You can watch it on Facebook, even if you don’t have a Facebook account. Go to our page and look for the video pinned toward the top of the page: www.facebook.com/bcspto. Click “Not Now” when Facebook asks you to create an account, scroll down until you see the video, and click on play.
If you do have a Facebook account, please like our page to stay informed.
Fall Fundraiser
Our Fall Fundraiser ends tomorrow Friday October 26. Chocolate sales dollars are due. Cookie dough orders are due. http://briarmeadowpto.digitalpto.com/fundraising/
Fall Festival Volunteers Needed
Our Fall Festival is in 8 days on November 3. We need 8 adults from each Elementary classroom to sign-up to volunteer at our Fall Festival for 1 hour at 10am, 11am, 12pm, or 1pm. Please sign-up now; don’t put it off. 68 spots are still open. Classrooms that fill all their volunteer spots earn a popsicle party for the students. Thank you, Broncos! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0f44aaac2daaff2-fall6
Click on the links to see our 7th issue of the PTO newsletter:
New Fall Fundraiser details posted Tuesday morning to the PTO Website and Facebook that did not fit onto this newsletter are:
- The PTO is allowing partial Fall buy-out payments. (Partial boxes of chocolates are NOT allowed.) Buy-out levels are now $30, $60, $90 or $120 depending on how many boxes of chocolates you’ve sold.
- For example—if you have one student at the school and you sell one box of chocolates, your buy-out payment would be $30 to meet the minimum.
- If you have two or more students at the school and you sell one box of chocolates, your buy-out payment would be $90 to meet the minimum.
- Payments for boxes of chocolates are being accepted in cash or credit card.
Tomorrow Thursday October 25 is the last day to send in Box Tops for the Box Tops Contest.
Links:
October 15-26 Fall Fundraiser (chocolates & cookie dough) details
Register with VIPS to volunteer at school (required annually for ALL volunteers)
November 3 Fall Festival details
Pre-K & Kinder Puppy Play Date (PTO auction for Pre-K & Kinder families)
4th Grade Karaoke & Cupcakes (PTO auction for 4th Grade families)
- All Week: Our Fall Fundraiser continues through Friday. Chocolate distribution (Elementary) is in the lobby before and after school. The Otis Spunkmeyer cookie dough (Middle School) online school code is BRIA28.
- All Week: Fall Festival Bronco Bracelets and tickets are on sale in the lobby before and after school and online in the PTO Website Store.
- Tuesday: Lei Off Drugs! Wear Hawaiian themed attire or school uniform.
- Tuesday 4-10 PM: Los Tios Family Night Out—Please join us for a fundraiser to benefit BCS! 20% of proceeds will be donated to the school–bring in the flyer or mention Briarmeadow Charter School to make sure your purchases are included.
- Tuesday 6-7:30 PM: Weekly Fall Festival Planning Meeting
- Wednesday: Don’t Get Mixed Up with Drugs! Wear a mis-matched outfit or school uniform.
- Wednesday 8:30-11:45 AM: Closed Campus for 8thGrade PSAT test. Visitors are not allowed beyond the lobby or cafeteria.
- Thursday: Put Drugs to Sleep! Wear pajamas or school uniform.
- Thursday 7:45 AM: Monthly Parent Information Meeting with Mr. Heinze.
- Thursday: Last day of Box Tops contest for free dress passes.
- Friday: Be a Part of the Cure! Wear pink or school uniform.
- Friday: Fall Fundraiser sales money is due.
- Friday: Middle School only—the last Friday of the month is Free Dress day. See Middle School Student Handbook for details.
- Fall Festival Volunteer Sign-up: Each Elementary classroom has a booth/activity to staff with eight volunteers for the Fall Festival on November 3. Please check the sign-up to see your classroom’s booth/activity and sign-up for a volunteer shift. Your classroom appears four times (10am, 11am, 12pm, and 1pm) and all slots must be filled. Click all the way through until your sign-up is confirmed.
Register as a Volunteer in Public Schools (VIPS)
- Every year all parents and caregivers need to register with Volunteers in Public Schools (VIPS) and get a background check.
- Registration takes two steps:
- Register online at houstonisd.org/vips (Last year it was a paper form.) AND
- Present your photo ID at the Front Desk to scan into the Raptor system.
- If you don’t have access to a computer or smartphone, you may use the computers in the school lobby when you’re here (drop off, lunch time, pick up, etc.).
- We need everyone to register now please to allow time for your background checks—especially volunteers at the Fall Festival on November 3.
- You cannot help in the classroom, volunteer, or chaperone field trips unless you’re registered with VIPS and your annual background check has been completed.
- If you’re unsure if you are cleared in VIPS, please check with the Front Desk.
- Thank you for helping make Briarmeadow a great school for our kids!
Fall Festival Volunteer Sign-Up
- It is time to sign-up to help at the Fall Festival.
- Each elementary classroom has a booth/activity to staff with volunteers on November 3.
- It’s our biggest event of the year and we need all classes to participate.
- Please check the sign-up to see your classroom’s booth/activity and sign-up for a volunteer shift.
- Your classroom appears four times—under each hourly shift (10am, 11am, 12pm, and 1pm) and all slots must be filled.
- Be sure to click all the way through until your sign-up is confirmed.
- Volunteer responsibilities generally include:
- Managing the kids in line (no cutting ahead of people),
- Counting and taking tickets or checking for wristbands,
- Telling people where they can buy tickets (if they don’t have them), and
- Supervising and enforcing safety.
- If you would like more information about the Fall Festival, please check the PTO website.
Thank you, Broncos!
Fall Festival T-shirts ($12) are pre-order only, due tomorrow Thursday October 18 (paper order forms due to the PTO by the end of the school day and PTO on-line store orders must be completed by 9pm). Only pre-ordered t-shirts will be printed. These t-shirts can be worn most school days as a uniform top (except for school picture days when a collared shirt is required). Thanks for supporting Briarmeadow!
- Tuesday 3:45-4:45: Weekly Name That Book team meeting for 3rd-5th Grades.
- Tuesday 6:00-7:30 PM: Weekly Fall Festival Planning Meeting—We need lots of help and volunteers to plan the Fall Festival. Please come.
- Wednesday 5:00-8:00 PM: Beck’s Prime Family Night—Fundraiser for 8thGrade DC Trip. Let the cashier know you’re there for BCS.
- Wednesday 6:00-7:30 PM: Dads Club Meeting—All interested dads are invited to join us at El Patio.
- Friday: Wear Hispanic Cultural Attire (free dress).
- Friday 7:45-8:30 AM: Pastries with Parents—Come enjoy donuts, coffee & juice with your student. Photo mementos are $3.
- All Week: Through October 19 our Girl Scout troop is collecting donations for the Houston Food Bank. If you have pantry items to share, please bring them to the lobby. Highest need items are:
- Canned meat, poultry, fish
- Peanut butter
- Canned fruits and veggies (low sugar, no salt)
- Cereal
- Soups, stews
- Pasta (whole grain)
- Dry beans
- Rice.
- All Week: Through October 18 you can pre-order Fall Festival T-shirts. Sales are pre-order only. You can purchase on-line or turn in a paper order form with payment. Fall Festival pre-selling has also begun in the lobby before and after school, by paper order form (also in Spanish), and on-line.
- Look for Fall Fundraiser materials to come home this week. Selling is Monday October 15—Friday October 26. Families are required to participate or buy-out.
- Monday: Free dress for students who WEAR PINK for breast cancer awareness. Students who do not wear pink should come in uniform.
- Tuesday: National Custodian’s Day—Thank you, Mr. Rey and Ms. Domitila!
- Tuesday 3:45-4:45: First weekly Name That Book team meeting for 3rd-5th Grades
- Wednesday: 4th Grade field trip to HMNS—remember chaperones MUST already be cleared in VIPS. Adults who have not completed the background check for the current school year cannot chaperone the field trip and cannot meet the students at the museum.
- Wednesday 5:30-6:00 PM: Fall Festival Planning Meeting—We need lots of help and volunteers to plan the Fall Festival. Please bring your ideas to our meeting.
- Wednesday 6:00-7:30PM: Monthly PTO Meeting—We need you! All parents and caregivers are invited to the PTO meeting to see how you can help and volunteer.
- Open PTO positions include chairpersons for:
- Fundraising and
- Volunteers.
- Upcoming PTO events include:
- Pastries with Parents,
- Fall Fundraiser sales and
- Fall Festival.
- Open PTO positions include chairpersons for:
- Friday: Wear Astros Gear or Hispanic Cultural Attire (free dress)
- Friday 9:00: School Tour for future families
This year’s BCS Fall Festival is scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 3rd from 10AM – 2PM.
We will have games, inflatables, DJ, Face Painters, Balloon Artists, a new Game Truck, a Petting Zoo and Pony Rides, Dad’s Club Grille cooking lunch, and much more food and all the fun you can handle!
Mark your calendars now for Nov. 3rd and get ready for the fun.
All parents please look to sign up with the various volunteer opportunities that will need to be filled. This is made possible each year through everyone’s support and it’s our largest volunteer event of the year. Volunteer Sign Ups will be posted soon.
Attached please review the Fall Festival Sponsorship Opportunities. If your family or a business you have or know of a company that is wishing to support and sponsor our annual BCS programs for the 2018-2019 school year, please contact the Fall Fest Planning Committee or contact John Weatherly at 832-419-3252 / [email protected] to secure your sponsorship today.
We look forward to seeing everyone on November 3rd.
Fall Festival Planning Committee
