Hi All –
Unfortunately our key speaker will not be able to make the joint meeting on Tuesday, January 21st so we will instead be meeting at DaVinci Communications in Kim’s room at 6pm.
Meeting agenda will follow. Please make every effort to attend so we can discuss important items that are coming up for 2014!
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Winter break has finished and we are ready for an exciting 2014!
Thank you parents, students and staff for ALL your assistance with the TEDx event! It was a roaring success!
Please review the Sports tab for updates for Basketball – Practice is tomorrow morning at Dana Middle School, athletes need to be there at 8:45 with their packets.
Review the Family Association Tab for updates for Volunteer NEEDS and Opportunities for your Service Hours.
Next Family Association meeting – Tuesday, Jan 21 – Combined meeting at Science School
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Parents were asking about Dances – Winter Formal, Prom, etc. We need to start working towards both a student committee and a parent committee. Please email me directly if you and/or your student is interested in participating.
Reminder – Seminar selections are due soon! Please have them completed ASAP. The link is in the previous post
Annual Giving Campaign pledging time is expiring soon. Please complete your pledge and support your school!
As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!
Don’t miss TEDx@Da Vinci Schools featuring 26 Ted Talks by our very own Da Vinci Communications and Da Vinci Design 9th grade students!!
Thursday, December 19, 2013 (tomorrow) @ Del Aire Park Gym – next door to DVC/DVD
Session 1: 9:30-10:40 am
Session 2: 11:00 am-12:30 pm
Session 3: 1:20-2:20 pm
(Please note: Audience members may only enter at the start of each session and cannot leave until the end of the session.)
A sampling of student topics:
Our students are hard at work preparing for tomorrow. Please join us!
Seminar Sign Ups for next semester are now available on the seminars page! Descriptions are attached here.
To sign up, use this link…
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18finmkdKsVKSslhoxVpWBRBcMCFC6IlMO_aASXxwdag/viewform
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Hello Families – let me first, thank all the families that have generously donated time, money and resources for our TEDx event! We are over $550.00 and even have one parent who is working with friends to supply the food for the event as well! We TRULY have the BEST group of parents anywhere! We need all monies in by Wednesday to prepare for Thursday. We DO have all materials to build the stage and sets so thank you for the offers there. Your monetary donations are going to pay for those materials as well as video editing and other fees we may incur in putting on this production. Please email me if you can help in any way – briankimc@gmail.com
School Update and Schedule this week – Nathan sent a letter to all families this morning via email. I have copied the letter here (in pieces) and attached it for your review under the Faculty and Staff tab.
School hours are as follows for this week:
Monday – 8:00am to 12:00pm
Tuesday – 8:00am to 12:00pm·
Wednesday – 8:00am to 3:55pm (TEDx preparation all day)·
Thursday – 8:00am to 3:55pm (TEDx Event)·
Friday – Professional development day, no students on campus
We would love for as many of you who are able to come to stop by for a part or the entire TEDx event, with the following schedule:
TEDx DaVinci Schools
Thursday, December 19th 2013
9:30am to 2:30pm
9:30 – 10:40 – Session 1
11:00 – 12:30 – Session 2
12:30 – 1:10 – Lunch
1:20 – 2:20 – Session 3
SPORTS Update – PLEASE review the SPORTS tab for new updates for Basketball and Volleyball practices. REMINDER – Please return your contracts and packets for your chosen sport ASAP so that you can continue to play!
CLUB INFORMATION – Da Vinci has an Archery Club and it meets at DVD/DVC, Tuesdays and Thursdays until approx 5:30pm depending on light. It is open to ALL DV students, they just need to join if interested.
FUNDRAISING – Don’t forget about the Annual Giving Campaign. Any donation is greatly appreciated.
SERVICE HOURS – Remember parents we all have service hours we need to meet for DaVinci. Please let me know if you are having any challenges and we will see what we can do. I know we have the Talent Show coming in spring and can use help there! Additionally, set up and break down from TEDx and your time volunteering there helps towards your time as well.
REMINDER – the last day of first semester is Thursday, December 19th. On Friday December 20th, the DVC campus will be closed to students as teachers spend the day completing their grading and writing personalized comments about your children on the report cards. The report cards will be printed and mailed out on Saturday, December 21st. The DVC office will be closed until Monday, January 6th, and we will be looking forward to welcoming the students back for second semester on Monday, January 13th (this is also when teachers will be available to reply to emails).
COMMUNICATIONS DURING THE HOLIDAY BREAK – As I get information I will update the blog and send you emails to keep you posted of anything new that comes to my attention. As always, please let me know if you have any questions, suggestions or concerns (or if I have left anything out).