A Message from CFF Co-Presidents
Dear Community Families -
What a year it’s been. We started the year with the very ambitious goal of fundraising $340,000, not knowing that we wouldn’t be able to fundraise like we normally do, that we would have less families enrolled at our school this year, and we’d be limited with the number of volunteers allowed on campus for events and fundraisers. Yet despite these challenges, and more, we met and EXCEEDED our fundraising goal for the 2nd consecutive year! We won’t have final numbers for a another few weeks, but we know that we have fully funded all our enrichment programs and support staff for next school year. Not only that, we will also be purchasing a new projector for our auditorium and will be able to help fund some of the new security measures that Toni is requesting for our school.
Thank you so much, Community! Have a wonderful summer break and we hope to see you at one of the summer playdates.
Best,
Kate Harrington and Stefania Willens
CFF Co-Presidents
Our Reflection and Gratitude
Reflecting back on this school year, we are so grateful and proud of how our community came together to support our school and our students.
THANK YOU to all of our families who supported our school financially, we couldn't have done it without you! We are GRATEFUL to our school staff, teachers and our principal for their unwavering support to our students and families.
We would like to extend our sincere APPRECIATION to the CFF Board of Directors and Committee Chairs, "It Takes A Village!" - is how we roll, we couldn't have done it without them!
We accomplished a lot and created something new and continued a variety of CMCS tradition this school year, including:
- Daily Morning Check In and Valet Support Volunteers
- Summer Play Dates Host Committee
- Pledge Drive Committee
- Parade of Mask Committee
- Book Fair Committee
- Readathon Committee
- Sweethearts Dance Committee
- Dine and Donate Committee
- Year Book Committee
- Garden Committee
- Spirit Store Team
- Social Media Team
- Culmination Committee
- Hospitality Committee (Appreciation Week)
The 2022 - 2023 Board has started planning for next school year already and will be ready to serve and support! Have a great summer and before we know it, we will be back in person in August!
SAVE THE DATE FOR SUMMER PLAYDATES!
Summer playdates are a fun tradition at CMCS. It's a time to meet new families, re-connect with old friends, and for new families to get acquainted with our school community. Save these dates! Specific locations to be determined.
Saturday, 6/25 - Valley from 10 AM - Noon (location TBD)
Sunday, 7/24 - Mid City from 10 AM - Noon (Memorial Park on Olympic and Rimpau, across from LA High)
Sunday, 8/7 - West LA from 10 AM - Noon (location TBD)
Students have had an AMAZING couple of weeks from Field Day on the upper yard to an offsite 5th Grade Only (Dance) Party, Year Book Signing and Ice Cream Social to 5th Grade Culmination Ceremony on the Upper Yard and wrapping up their last day with an End of Year Party.
THANKS: We can't give enough thanks to the entire Culmination Committee led by Amy Bishop, Karika Thompson, and Stefania Willens, and to all the other individuals who have worked so hard to make this year's 5th grade experience and culmination AMAZING for our students!!
And of course, thanks to the students for their hard work and dedication -- without them, none of this would be possible!
DINE & DONATE RESULTS
Special thanks to Lynda Andrews for all her hard work this year with the Dine & Donate program!
PLEDGE RESULTS
Congratulations To 9 classrooms who reached 100% participation:
Kinder: Room 5, Room 6, Room 7,
1st Grade: Room 24,
2nd Grade: Room 8,
4th Grade: Room 15,
5th Grade: Room 3, Room 13, and Room 14!
MANY THANKS to the 362 Families participating (88.51% participation) with $213,460 Pledged. Another great year of participation compared to previous 6 years:
2021 - 2022 ... 88.51% (expected to collect $213,460)
2020 - 2021 ... 91.18% (collected $214,435)
2019 - 2020 ... 53.86% (collected $189,418)
2018 - 2019 ... 83.48% (collected $219,009)
2017 - 2018 ... 78.13% (collected $197,441)
2016 - 2017 ... 72.51% (collected $202,251)
2015 - 2016 ... 70.82% (collected $213,331)
Thanks to all the families who supported the Pledge Drive!
Hats off to all the CFF Grade Level Rep and Room Parents for communicating and encouraging families to participate!
GOT GAME SUMMER CAMP!
The Got Game Camp has the go-ahead and is BACK this summer in Mid-City for their 11th year! Registration is now open and space is very limited, so sign up today!
Summer Camp runs all day, Monday thru Friday, with a wide and diverse range of options from active games, sports, projects, creative outlets, performances and much more for campers ages 5-12! Come see why Got Game is the best summer camp experience in LA!
Visit www.GotGameCamp.com for more information and to register!
Got Questions? Get answers! Email Admin@GotGameCamp.com or call (310) 975-8524 ext. 1 for more info and let's have some FUN this summer!!
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