Clothing Drive - Clean out your closets!

The Safety Harbor Middle School PTSA is sponsoring the second annual Clothing Drive to support SHMS students in need. Donations of gently worn boys and girls clothing in all sizes will be accepted April 26 thru 29 in the front office and at the morning car circle during collection week. Clothing will be sorted and provided to SHMS students in need May 4 thru 6 in a store-like setting.

Please consider this worthwhile cause while cleaning out your closets. This project was a huge success last year benefitting our own SHMS students. Volunteers are needed to help with this rewarding project. If you have any questions or would like to help, please email shms.ptsa@gmail.com Thank you for your support.

Honor Roll and Principal List Celebrations

PTSA is sponsoring upcoming celebrations!  Congratulations to our SHMS students.  We are proud of you! 

6th Grade - February 8
7th Grade - February 10
8th Grade - February 11

Mark your Calendars! SHMS Clothing Drive

Please mark your calendars for the 2011 Clothing Drive at SHMS.  The PTSA will be collecting and sorting gently worn clothes for donation to SHMS students in need.  Clothes will be collected April 26-29. 
If you are cleaning out your child's closet, please save items for this worthwhile cause.  We thank you in advance for your help.

Proposed Zoning Changes

https://sap.pinellas.k12.fl.us/PubInfoNY/  Click on the link to see if your students are effected by the proposed rezoning changes.  If you are concerned about maintaining neighborhood schools, please voice your concerns at the Listening Sessions below.  The PCSB will vote for middle and HS rezoning changes on February 8 and elementary changes on March 2. 

Upcoming Rezoning Listening Sessions - (Citizens will have the opportunity to be heard.)
February 3 - 6:30 PM:  Countryside High School
February 17 - 6:30 PM:  John Hopkins Middle School
February 21 - 6:30 PM:  Countryside High School

Pinellas PTA Courier

Read About Upcoming Events of Interest in the Pinellas PTA Courier.

January PCCPTA General Meeting & PCS Superintendent's Address

PTA & Community Members Are Invited to Attend the January PCCPTA General Meeting & PCS Superintendent's Address

Date:  1/20/2011

Time:  6:15 pm (meeting at 7:00)

Location:  Lakewood High School, 1400 54th Avenue South, St. Pete

Join us Thursday, January 20th for our PCCPTA General meeting. Our guest speaker will be
Superintendent Julie Janssen, Ed.D. Dr. Janssen will present a mid year State of the District report and answer questions regarding the new Student Achievement Plan. Join us for hospitality beginning at 6:15 pm.

Department of Education - Success Measures Website

The Department of Education has a new website for administrators, students and parents outlining new statewide assessments.  The site will help guide parents and students through the upcoming changes to Florida's assessment program. There is an interactive online tool to help you research and learn more about Florida's standards and assessments. 


The Success Measures page will continue to be updated with important information on Florida's assessment programs including details on what your children are being taught in our classrooms and how their learning will be assessed.

http://www.fldoe.org/successmeasures/

Five Questions Parents Ask About Bullying

Bullying is a topic that has been getting a lot of media attention recently. Dr. Andrea "Andie" Weiner, a child therapist and author of "More Than Saying I Love You: Four Steps That Help Children Love Themselves" answers the five questions parents ask most about bullying.

The latest statistics show that 77 percent of students say they have been bullied. Because many children do not like to appear as a "tattletale" or "snitch," they often do not report a bullying incident to the teacher or parent and that is why half of all bullying incidents go unreported. For are answers to important questions parents typically ask about bullying please click on the link provided by the National PTA.

Reflections Entries Due December 10

This year's theme is Together We Can 

Each year, the PTA Reflections Program challenges students to create art inspired by a specific theme. Themes are selected from hundreds of ideas submitted by students to the PTA Reflections Program Theme Search. Past  themes have included "Exploring New Beginnings," "If I Could Give the World a Gift...," "A Different Kind of Hero," and most recently, “I Can Make a Difference by…” and “Wow!” The 2010–2011 theme is “Together we can…”

 

Students participate in the Reflections Program by submitting entries to a local PTA or PTSA. Nationally, the program has six arts areas—dance choreography, film production, literature, musical composition, photography, and visual arts—and four grade divisions—primary, intermediate, middle/junior, and senior.


For an entry form, see the link below.
http://www.floridapta.org/Reflections%20Packet/10-11%20Student%20Entry%20Form-Florida.pdf

Great American Teach-In - Thursday, November 18

Please contact the front office ASAP if you have a profession, hobby, or talent to share with our students.  Stay the entire day or just an hour or two.  Call 724-1400 for more information on how to register.