School Announcements

Gardner Bullis WoW Trip Trackers

Each month (starting in September) your student can complete a Trip Tracker form to track your Green Trips that your student took to and from school for that month. Whether you walked, biked or carpooled with another family to and/or from school.  The forms each month can be found in the office WoW box or online at gardnerbullis.org under "Walk or Wheel"

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Join Cub Scout Pack 78!

Calling all 1st through 5th grade boys!  Cub Scout Pack 78 is our thriving local Cub Scout Pack serving Gardner Bullis, Bullis Charter School and local private schools.  Campouts, rocket launching, overnighters and Cub Scouting await!  We'll have an information night and slideshow on Thursday, September 8th, 6:30pm at the Gardner Bullis multi.  Our first Pack Meeting of the year (with a special guest!) will be Tuesday, September 13th, 6:30pm at the Gardner Bullis multi.  Questions, please email Committee Chair Jason Biggs at jason@pack-78.com.

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Excused Absences for Religious Holidays
Observed religious holidays are considered excused absences as long as the absence has been requested in advance in writing by the parent or guardian and approved by the principal or designee (E.C. 48205, B.P. 5113).

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Medication at School

If you need to find medication forms, please follow:  LASD Los Altos School District website  Go to “Parents & Community” —> “Health Services" —> "Medication at school" (http://www.losaltos.k12.ca.us/District/5361-Medication-At-School.html)  A link to this page is also on the Gardner Bullis School website in the top menu called "About Us" -> "Medication at School".

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Box Tops!  Start collecting today! Class contest ends in December with a Popsicle Party for the winning class.

Annie's Organics, Nature Valley Granola, Honey Nut Cheerios, Ziplocs, and Scott Paper Products are just a few of the many products that can earn $0.10 a clip for our school. Your classroom has a Box Tops deposit box. Please click this link for participating products by category or download a PDF of all:

http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/participating-products 

Coupons and special promotions can also be found on the boxtops4education.com website.  Last year we earned almost $550 from Box Tops!  Thank you for your efforts! 

Monique Rogers, your BTFE Coordinator

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First General PTA Meeting of the year!

We invite everyone to join the first general PTA meeting of the school year! We will provide a brief overview of the PTA and our key programs/events. Our special guests for this meeting will be our second grade class. The teachers, Ms. Laura Wiley and Ms. Natalie Larsen, will present the newly implemented team teach model for the second grade and we will also hear from some of the students. Please join us on Friday 9/16/16 in the staff lounge, after Friday Flag Salute. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Remember your School Supplies and Field Trip Donations

If you didn't get your field trip and school supplies donations made at Back to School Night, please give them to your classroom teacher.  Please make the checks out to “Gardner Bullis School” and be sure to include your child's name and grade on each check.  Also, please write two separate checks for these expenses.  School supply donation is $40 per child.  Field trip donations are $50 per child for all grades, except for 4th ($350 — includes Coloma overnight) and 6th ($325.)

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Join all GB families for our first Third Thursday of the year — Fiesta Time!  

Mark your calendars for a repeat trip to school on Thursday, September 15th from 6-8 PM. Come hungry to enjoy delicious tacos and other south of the border fare!  Kids can play on campus and adults will have a chance to catch up with old friends and meet new ones. The PTA will provide drinks and dessert. See you there!! 

See Flyer for details

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DESPERATE FOR HOT LUNCH SERVERS!
The hot lunch program is off to a great start in terms of families getting registered, re-registered and placing MANY orders.  We are very lucky to be offering hot lunch right from the first day of school.  As you have read, this lunch program depends on our parent volunteers to serve the lunches. Without them, WE CANNOT SERVE LUNCH TO OUR STUDENTS.  We have had several new families/new servers step up and fill many of our volunteer spots, however, we have several spots open and if we do not get them filled, we may be in a situation to NOT OFFER HOT LUNCH FIVE DAYS PER WEEK.  We have the following spots open:

ONE server for every other Monday
THREE servers for every other Wednesday
ONE server for every other Thursday
TWO servers for every other Friday

Fridays are very busy because it is pizza day and we have hundreds of lunch orders.  If we don't fill Wednesdays, we are in a position to possibly CANCEL hot lunch on Wednesdays.

Please contact gbhotlunch@gmail.com as soon as possible to let us know you want to help keep hot lunch at our school and can help!

Thank you,
The Hot Lunch Team

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Grizzly Academy (after school programs)

Sports!  Languages!  Science!  Art!  Whatever your child enjoys, we have it after school! For more information go to the Grizzly Academy web page.