Osprey Family Update

3/4 - 3/8 - Spring Break

3/11 - 3rd Grade Master Gardeners

3/13 - Kinder District Community Event and Registration

3/14 - 1st Grade Master Gardeners

3/15 - OMKC

3/15 - End of 3rd Quarter

3/18 - 3/22 - 3rd grade Gogat testing

3/21 - No School - Staff Development Day

3/22 - School Wide Stunt Show

3/27 - School Improvement Team Meeting

3/27 - Report Cards go home

3/29 - No School

4/1 - No School

Pender County Schools calendar: 23-24 PCS School Calendar

Our school is participating in a creative fundraiser with Art to Remember that allows you to purchase keepsake products customized with your child's art. There are over 60 products and many are less than $15. Shipping to school is FREE this year! These make great gifts and a percentage of every purchase goes right back to our school. Click on the link below and enter the online order code shown on your child's order form or to search for your child's artwork. Order forms are being sent home this week, and are due 3/24.

https://arttoremember.com/school/GW2L5W

Just a small reminder, now that the warmer weather is coming that we are mindful of students wearing school appropriate clothing.

Registration for Operation Military Kids Club is still open! If you have not already, please sign up today at http://operationmilitarykidsclubs.com! If your child is registered by March 1st, we will be able to put your child's first name on a star to be placed in front of our school in April, the month of the Military Child!

Please come and browse the lost and found this week. We will be donating anything unclaimed during spring break.

We have a partnership with Access Family Services that helps provide therapy for kids during the school day to make it easier on families. See the info below for more information. If this is something you think your student could benefit from, please use the QR code and submit a referral.

This spring, we are thrilled to announce our participation in Neighborhood Forest's 15th Annual Free Tree Program as part of our Earth Week celebrations from April 22nd to 26th!

Since 2010, Neighborhood Forest has engaged over 1,500 institutions, reached over 500,000 families and planted over 130,000 (mostly urban and residential) trees through the hands of children and parents across North America.

We are excited to be participating in this wonderful program that teaches youth about the importance of environmental stewardship through the magic and wonder of planting and watching trees grow.

Please fill out the following online registration form by March 15th and receive a free tree (6-12 inches in size) during Earth Week (April 22-26). The tree species will be announced in early April. Neighborhood Forest aims to provide native trees in all regions they serve.

Register to receive a free tree for Earth Day to plant with your child:

https://www.neighborhoodforest.org/parent-registration/?school=54941

You will also have the option to donate and / or purchase additional trees and tree-related educational products (via the registration form). Please note this is optional and any purchases/donations will help fund more free trees for kids in the program.

Trees will be delivered to us and we will arrange to get the trees in the hands of your children on or around Earth Day (April 22nd).

Instructions on planting and caring for the trees, along with species details, will be emailed a few days before the tree delivery and will also be accessible in the “Resources” section on the Neighborhood Forest website. For further questions, please check out the Parent FAQs.

Practice for registered students will begin the Monday after spring break!

All PCS schools will be hosting a kinder registration event on March 13th. This is a great event to get your kinder students registered for the 24-25 school year! Come out and play games, eat some good food, enter some raffles, and have some fun!

One of Pender County's initiatives this year is to bolster student attendance. We know that the more students are in attendance, the more successful they are. Our goal is to have a 95% average attendance. See below for our current attendance data.

Students:

September 96.57%

October 94.74%

November 95.12%

December 91.58%

January - 95.48%

Yearly Avg - 94.69%

Parents, we invite you to follow us on social media:

Follow us on twitter: @tes_ospreys

Find us on Facebook: Topsail Annandale Elementary School

Find us on Instagram: topsailannandale

Be sure to join the PTA! Join by clicking on the link below. If you have more than one student, be sure to note all teachers

https://tes.memberhub.com/store

Be sure to follow us on Facebook at Topsail PTA and on Instagram at @topsailannandalepta

And please also mark your calendars to join us at Phroyo in Surf City from 12-9pm on March 29. Let them know you’re from our TAES and 15% of your sale is donated back to our school.

Mark your calendars to join us at our next spirit event on Wednesday March 20 between 4 and 9pm at Oval And Ale. The next day is a teacher workday, so make plans to meet your friends and hang out for a while! A portion of your purchase to be donated back to our school.

Spirit wear orders have been placed. Be on the lookout for your orders to be delivered in the coming weeks.

Our teacher appreciation week committee will hold its first meeting soon. If you’d like to join, please send us an email Ptatopsailelementary@gmail.com

YEARBOOKS are on sale now! Early registration is over so the cost is now $20. Please use the link below to order:

https://strawbridge.fotomerchanthv.com/search/YB28096

Do you have pictures for the yearbook? Please upload them to the link below. It is IMPORTANT to give us as much info as you can (teacher, grade, student names, etc). 4th grade parents, if you would like a baby picture of your student in the 4th Grade Dedication page you can upload them at any time, YOU MUST include their name as a label. https://plicbooks.com/go/UUCZEU

Are you interested in joining a committee? We have many volunteer opportunities to choose from! Summer splash (May), concession sales, winter family event/glow bash, monthly teacher appreciation events, teacher appreciation week (May) and bus driver appreciation week (February) are just a few of our opportunities. If you’d like to volunteer, please send the PTA a message on Facebook or to our email Ptatopsailelementary@gmail.com for more information.