PTSA Parent Email
June 11, 2012
THE ROOSEVELT PTSA PARENT AND GUARDIAN EMAIL BULLETIN
June 11, 2012
CALENDAR
June 11 – PTSA Meeting & Election of Officers, 7pm
June 19 - Graduation - 5:00 PM, Memorial Stadium
June 20-22 – Finals (grades 9-11), see schedule.
TONIGHT - Final RHS PTSA Meeting of Year
June 11, 7pm at RHS Library - with refreshments!
PTA Members: Please stop by and cast a ballot between 7 and 8:00pm even if you can’t stay for the whole meeting - we need your votes registered! Also we are still recruiting for a treasurer and one co-president for next year.
Join us to hear from Principal Brian Vance, meet other parents, elect officers and approve our budget for next year. We need a quorum of PTA members to elect officers for 2012-13 (candidate slate published in last week’s e-news), and vote on a budget for July 2012-June 2013. We will also present our Golden Acorn Award to an outstanding volunteer.
Roosevelt Jazz
Auditions for next year: Monday, June 11th at 3pm - returning saxophones
Tuesday June 12th at 3pm - returning brass
New RHS Sports Boosters website
Check it out for the latest RHS sports news: boosters.rhssports.org.
SENIORS
Graduation Tickets
Each family was allocated 8 tickets; if you need more than 8 tickets, please contact Marjorie Gamble in the front office. Families are asked to return tickets they will not need to the Roosevelt Front Office in order to accommodate those needing more than 8 tickets. As a reminder, Graduation will be held in Memorial Stadium on Tuesday, June 19th at 5:00 pm. Thank you, from the Class of 2012 Parent Reps
COUNSELING & CAREER CENTER NEWS
Summer HSPE
If you missed a day of the HSPE this year, you can sign up to take the summer HSPE at https://eds.ospi.k12.wa.us/TestRegistration/.
The dates for the summer HSPE:
August 14: Writing, Day 1
August 15: Writing, Day 2
August 16: Reading
You can sign up at one of the three testing locations; Ballard, West Seattle or Franklin. When you sign up you will need your SSID # for registration. If you need more assistance email Erin Bailey at eebailey@seattleschools.org
FREE SAT PREP FOR JUNIORS
Juniors, do you want to be prepared to take the SAT in fall 2012 but cannot afford expensive classes? 826 Writing Center at 8414 Greenwood Ave. N is offering free SAT tutoring July 10, July 17, July 24, and July 31, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Students will learn test taking strategies and take practice tests. Space is limited. Sign up by e-mailing Katie Robson, Programs Assistant: katie@826.seattle.org.
Scholarship Bulletin #13 now online
Find it in the list of links on the Counseling Center website. Look for more scholarship information on the RHS scholarship page.
2012 Summer Opportunities
Go to RHS website: www.rhsseattle.org and go to the Counseling Center website.
COMMUNITY NEWS
The UW Office of Admissions wants your opinion. We're redesigning our online college application and we want your opinion about the design. Who better than students? The UW will be at Roosevelt Monday 6/18 and Wednesday 6/20, in the library after school to conduct anonymous interviews with students interested in volunteering their time to help improve the form. We know this is a busy time of year so our thanks in advance — and rest assured that nothing you say in the interview will ever affect your application for admission to UW, should you choose to apply.
The review will take about 15 minutes. Your comments will directly influence the design as the UW updates and improves the online application experience for more than 30,000 students every year — here in Seattle and around the world. To show our appreciation, we have some small gifts for you. To participate, please go to www.admit.uw.edu/RHSResearchProject (site active as of 6/9/12) where you can sign up anonymously for a time slot on 6/18 or 6/20 that works for you. If you have questions, call Graham Gill, who is working with the UW on this web design project, at 206-288-5800.
FREE SUMMER LANUGAGE CAMP FOR ARABIC AND CHINESE OneWorld Now! is offering our summer language camp for Arabic and Chinese. Register today! Camp is July 2 to July 20, 2012, from 9:00am to 3:00pm (weekdays only), at Seattle University. The Arabic and Chinese camp is open to incoming 9th–12th grade students in the Seattle area.The summer camp is completely FREE! You can register online at www.oneworldnow.org Registration ends June 18, and spots are limited!
Host Families needed for exchange students
- The World Affairs Council in Seattle is recruiting local host families for our summer youth leadership programs for high school students between the ages of 15 to 18 years old from Mexico (July 20-August 4), Zambia (August 1-15), and Iraq (August 2-13). The students, who speak English fluently, have been selected by the U.S. Embassy in their respective countries from a pool of thousands to become ambassadors for their country. Host families with a teenage child in the household are encouraged to apply! We are also looking for families to host college students from the Middle East (July 28 - August 2). We have extended the deadline! Applications are still being accepted. Please direct any questions to Rachel Paris-Lambert at rparislambert@world-affairs.org. Further details are listed on the World Affairs Council Website on the Homestay Program page.
- HOST VISITING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS! FIUTS hosts help to welcome new University of Washington students and scholars from around the globe for their first week in the Pacific Northwest. By offering your hospitality and friendship as a FIUTS host, you can promote dialogue, cultural exchange, and international goodwill. Learn more about hosting and sign up today! This summer FIUTS has several programs that you can get involved with: WCE Summer China Programs: host visiting Chinese grade schoolers for a weekend in July, Host visiting high school students from Azerbaijan as they visit Seattle for 12 nights as part of a US State Department program to promote friendly relations and civic engagement between Azerbaijan and the US, Youth Leadership Program with Bosnia & Herzegovina: Similar to the Azerbaijan program, hosts can welcome visiting high school students from Bosnia as they study leadership and community building skills, or Welcome Week Hosting for Fall Quarter: For families that want to host new international students coming to the UW, our welcome week program is a great way to start learning about the world. Students come for their first week in Seattle, and homestay families help them to get acquainted with their new home in the Pacific Northwest to ease their transition into life in the US. Learn more here: http://www.fiuts.org/community/homestay.
- Host families needed in July for French students. Connections, Inc., based in Woodinville, WA, is again bringing a small group of teens from France to Seattle July 12 - August 2nd. Last summer we placed many with RHS families and it was a wonderful experience for everyone involved. The students will be taken on organized site-seeking trips Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. That leaves them free to spend weekends with their host families. If you can host during all or part of this time period, please contact Patty Turnberg, the Seattle Coordinator and former RHS mom, at p.turnberg@comcast.net.
RHS Annual Fund Drive webpage. It’s not too late: your contributions will still be an enormous help, so keep sending them in!
FIND OUT EVEN MORE.
Twitter: @RooseveltHS.
PTSA newsletter: Rider Record
Parent volunteers needed: Sign up online now to Volunteer!
RHS Health Center: Visit this free resource for students at www.rhsseattle.org/teenhealth.php.
Roosevelt News: An archive of the student published newspapers at www.therooseveltnews.org.
Senior events: A page especially for senior families to keep up with all their events at www.rhsseattle.org/seniorEvents.php.
RHS Science: Learn more about the world around you at the Science Department’s website.
RHS Sports: Find team links and athlete registration/forms at www.rhsseattle.org/athletics.php.
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What is the PTSA? The PTSA supports many programs at RHS as well as sponsors and maintains the RHS website, weekly bulletin communications and the monthly Rider Record publication. Without your membership and donations, we would not be able to support these communications. If you misplaced the PTSA membership envelope from your first-day packet please download the membership form and send it in with your check - thank you for your support!