Pontiac School News

March 15, 2018

Barber Bulletin

Parents,

As principal of this school, I want to publicly thank our PTO board and PTO members for their continued support of our school. These PTO parents are such advocates for our students and for Pontiac Elementary.

Most recently, PTO provided a generous donation to our school in order to provide additional Spring field studies for our students. Teachers will be able to schedule an additional field experience for students that is congruent with their grade level content standards. Field studies enrich and enhance instruction.

Additionally, following the events around school safety recently, a few of our PTO board members met directly with our school district superintendent, Dr. Baron Davis and advocated on our school's behalf around our physical building and safety structures that can be enhanced. As a follow up to this conversation, the PTO agreed to allocate funds to fill the contents of a "Grab N Go" bag for every classroom in the event of an emergency on site that would require us to evacuate the building. We are so appreciative that PTO recognizes the importance of school safety and is willing to fund such initiatives for us.

Our PTO has done a great job of building community support and engaging our families!

We had over 150 families join us for the Daddy Daughter PTO dance!

We have almost 120 participants signed up to attend our Mother Son PTO bowling event on Friday evening!

Please show your support to our PTO during the upcoming MARBLE SLAB fundraiser that will kick off after Spring Break!

Thank you for encouraging your child to participate in this fundraiser.

PTO funds raised continue to benefit and support our students and teachers.

If you are interested in becoming more involved with PTO, please plan to attend our next meeting, April 10 at 6:30pm in our school media center.

March is Music In Our Schools Month!

Help us celebrate by participating in music spirit week, March 19-23rd!

MUSIC GENRE WEEK

Monday - “Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay” - Tease it! Spray it! Color it! Spike it! Go all rock and roll on your hair as you dress like a bona fide rock star!

Tuesday - “A Little Bit Country” - Don your favorite boots and cowboy hat as you dress like a country singer!

Wednesday - “A Night at the Opera” - Dress in your finest clothes to celebrate a night at the opera!

Thursday - “Throwback Thursday” - Pick your favorite decade and dress like a music star from that era!

60’s Motown
70’s Disco
80’s Pop
90’s Grunge

Friday - “Hip Hop” Hooray It’s Friday! - Dress like your favorite hip hop artist

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Rising Sixth Grade Students

Richland School District Two is pleased to offer band, string, and choral instruction to 6th grade students. Music teachers from the middle schools recently visited Pontiac and gave an orientation session for the 5th graders. No previous musical instruction is required to sign up for the classes. Students received a brochure at the visit to sign up for middle school music. Please complete, sign and return the brochure by March 29th to Ms. Rayner OR you can register online:

1. Go to www.richland2.org and click on Explore at the top.

2. I'm a Richland 2 Student/Parent.

3. Scroll down and click on "Middle School Music" button on the right.

Questions? Contact Stacey Dobyns at sdobyns@richland2.org

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Mission Statement

The Community and Action Team hope that you and your family have discussed your vision, plan, or goal for your family. Below are the next steps for creating the Mission Statement.

Creating a Mission statement

After defining the outcome, next is to create a family mission statement. In order to do this, figure out what is most important to your family by answering these seven questions:

What is the purpose of our family?
What kinds of things do we want to do?
What kind of feeling do we want to have in our home?
What kind of relationships do we want to have with one another?
What are our family’s priorities?
What are our responsibilities as family members?
How can we contribute to society as a family and become more service-oriented?

Give your children the opportunity to express their feelings of what they think is important to your family. Mission statements do not need to be long or formal, they just need to represent what is important to you and your family. Don’t try to rush this process. This may take a few months! Make sure that your family feels that the mission statement clearly represents what is important to everyone.

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IT'S SPRING PORTRAIT TIME!

Strawbridge Studios will be at Pontiac on Friday, March 16 to photograph our students for Spring Portraits. Individual notices of picture day are being sent home in your child's folder.

This not a pre-pay program, you do not have to fill out any order forms or send any money at this time. All studednts will be photographed.

Portraits will be sent home once Strawbridge returns them to the school. You will have a choice to purchase the packet or partial packet at that time.

Health Room Donations

Parents,

This has been a difficult cold and flu season with a lot of illness. With that, comes a lot of cleaning going on and as a result our supplies have dwindled. The health room would be very appreciative of any donations of Lysol spray, Clorox wipes and Kleenex! We want to be PROACTIVE in the fight against germs!

Thank you,

Nurse Larck

Scholarship Opportunity

Greetings,

Please find attached scholarship applications for elementary and middle school students. These scholarships are made available by the Columbia SC Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

Applications are due Saturday March 17, 2018. Please contact Mary Ann Smith with questions or concerns at 803.206.8885 or dst56mas@aol.com

Sincerely,

Brenda B. Branic

President

HYDROCEPHALUS WALK

Dear Parents & Students:

Thank you all for your support in helping us raise Awareness and funds for research, support and education of Hydrocephalus. As we sent home papers last Thursday, we have to make a slight change, we had issues with our web address to sign up on-line. It has been fixed and this is the new Web address

http://support.hydroassoc.org/2018PontiacWALK

The Hydrocephalus Association’s mission is to “eliminate the challenges of hydrocephalus” through the support of innovative research, support, education and advocacy. That’s why our school is proud to participate in the Hydrocephalus Association Kids to Cure Hydrocephalus WALK. In addition to learning about hydrocephalus students will learn about helping others. We encourage children to ask family and friends for donations (donations may be made online using a credit card for those children registering online.) Participants collecting $10 or more will qualify for WALK prizes. More information on how to register online is please use the address http://support.hydroassoc.org/2018PontiacWALK

We are looking forward to seeing everyone on Saturday, March 24, 2018 beginning at 9am on the playground / track field, we will enjoy a fun silly run and celebrate our success. We invite your whole family to participate. We will be starting March, 1, 2018 – March 31, 2018.

The money raised with the Kids to Cure Hydrocephalus WALK will be used wisely and well – to fund HA program services and research aimed at finding a cure. HA is the largest, nonprofit non-governmental funder of hydrocephalus research in the U.S. and the largest organization focused on improving the quality of life for those living with hydrocephalus.

Thank you for your support of this worthy cause. For more information contact:

Jessica Caulder

803-730-4703

pontiacwalk@hydroassoc.org

http://support.hydroassoc.org/2018PontiacWALK

Students registering online and raising money will receive a HA bracelet!

Prize List:

For On-line Sign-up – Kids 2 Cure Hydrocephalus Bracelet

Kids 2 Cure Hydrocephalus Notebook – Raise $10

Kids 2 Cure Hydrocephalus Earbuds – Raise $25

Kids 2 Cure Hydrocephalus 2018 Pontiac Shirt– Raise $50

Kids 2 Cure Hydrocephalus Water Bottle Raise $75