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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Don’t forget about our affinity programs. You can help fundraise for our school just by doing what you are already doing whether it’s grocery shopping or ordering through Amazon!
From now until November 2nd, Amazon will donate 5% of your purchases (at no additional charge to you) to our school. That is 10X more than their usual donation so now is the time to make that order! To date, Amazon has donated over $212 to us. Make sure you use the smile.amazon link and set your organization to Briarmeadow Charter School Parent-Teacher Organization.
To find out about our other affinity programs, click on the link below.
http://briarmeadowpto.digitalpto.com/fundraising/affinity-programs/
Let’s make the most of these programs but we need your help Bronco families!
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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
Wondering how to get the outdoor birthday signs for your student? Turn in the form and payment to the Front Desk. You can get the form at the Front Desk or from the PTO Website –> http://briarmeadowpto.digitalpto.com/files/2018/09/Birthday-Application-2018-19.pdf
Good morning, Broncos!
Three things today in the second and final week of our Fall Fundraiser:
(1) Please join us tonight Tuesday October 23rd at Los Tios Restaurant. Eat with your friends. 20% goes back to BCS. The flier is on the PTO Calendar.
(2) 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. 2018_2019_FF_Buyout_Form.pdf
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.
(3) Payments for boxes of chocolates are being accepted in cash or credit card.
Come and get your chocolates if you haven’t already.
- 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!
FALL FUNDRAISER BUY-OUT—Buy-outs of the Fall Fundraiser (World’s Finest Chocolates & Otis Spunkmeyer sales) can be paid through the PTO Online Store. Scroll down until you see “Buyout – Fall.” https://squareup.com/store/briarmeadow-charter-school-pto/.
VOLUNTEER BACKGROUND CHECKS—Every year all volunteers must be registered with a background check through Volunteers in Public Schools (VIPS). Please register online at www.houstonisd.org/vips. If you are unsure if you are cleared in VIPS, please check with the front desk.
VOLLEYBALL—No practice today due to wet weather.
There is no Volleyball after school today Wednesday October 3.
Six volunteers are still needed for Pastries with Parents the morning of Friday October 12. Please help and sign up so we know you’re coming: SignUpGenius.com. Be sure to click through all the sign up steps until your sign up is confirmed.
We need volunteers for our Pastries with Parents event please.
Come help set up, take pictures, greet parents and tear down the Pastries for Parents festivities Friday, October 12th 7:30-8:45 AM in the Lobby and the Multi Purpose room.
Please sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4cafaf23a5f85-pastries
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
Don’t forget to come support Briarmeadow! 20% of proceeds will go to our school!
When: September, 25th
Time: 4:00pm-9:00pm
Where: Texadelphia
DonorsChoose.org is an amazing website that lets teachers post about necessary projects for people to help fund. Currently, we have four teachers who have projects posted and would love your support. If you go to www.donorschoose.org, enter Briarmeadow, and you can see all four: Mrs. Lam, Ms. Pacheco, Ms. Pham, and Ms. Harris. You can donate any amount. And trust me, it all helps.
Many thanks!
There is a special HEB offer to help us get more Box Tops! On your next trip to HEB between 9/5/18 – 9/18/18, buy 15 Box Top for Education products in a single transaction and get 100 bonus box tops ($10 value) or buy 10 Box Top for Education products in a single transaction and get 60 bonus box tops ($6 value).
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Are you more of a Kroger or Randall shopper? Click on the link below to see how your grocery trip can help through the Kroger Community Rewards program or the Randalls Good Neighbor Program!
http://briarmeadowpto.digitalpto.com/fundraising/affinity-programs/
