Highland View PTO: Correction and Major Highland View Parking Upgrade!

Hello Highland View Families!

Just a real quick correction and an announcement:

1)  I gave the wrong date for Meet Your Teacher Night in the last PTO email! That was actually the date for the Meet Your Nobody Night.  Sorry!  The correct Meet Your Teacher Night date is August 26th.  

We still need help scooping ice cream, and maybe arranging games for the kids?  Who knows!  Please let me know if you're interested in hanging out that evening and helping!

2)  And now the big announcement:  there's been a major parking upgrade at Highland View........for bikes!  I just finished putting together a brand new 18-bike rack for the front side of our school.  That doubles our bike parking space, and will make it a lot easier for students biking in from the east to follow the school's bike safety rules.  That was an idea that came in to the PTO from parents, and now it's a reality.  It's just one more example of how great it is to be involved!

Highland View PTO Important Summer Updates (Yes, it's still summer!)

Hello Highland View Families!

I hope summer is going great.  I was at the beach last week and would you believe there was a pig sunbathing there?  I walked by, and he sure was bacon!  (That joke doesn't work so well with our weather recently, sorry!)

In any event, there are a couple summer updates I needed to share with everyone, though if you were a fifth grade parent last year, they may not all apply to you (I'll make a new email list after we get our new membership list put together in September!):

First, we just got an email from Market Day which said that after being bought out by a different company, they're retiring the school-based Market Day program.   During the months of July and August, some Market Day products will still be sold at GFS stores, and they'll send 10% of the price to Highland View if you ask them to.  So, if you have Market Day favorites, move quickly, because this is the end of them.

Second, since we're losing Market Day, don't forget to save your box tops, Campbell's labels, and use your Target RedCard to support Highland View!  For the next couple days you can even enter to win the school 7500 Box Tops ($750!) at the site   And if you haven't linked your Target Card up to Highland View, click here to do it before you buy school supplies!

Third, Meet Your Teacher Day is coming up August 25th, and for the third year now the PTO is running a free Ice Cream Sundae bar for the evening.  If you can help scoop or serve, let me know!  Also, make sure to bring a dinner picnic and join other Highland View families for a fun time outdoors after you meet your teacher.  See you there!

Aleks Skibicki