LBES Newsletter #8 (11/22/24)

We are very grateful for this Bringhurst Community. We have noticed many adults in the community take it upon themselves to help in ways that they can. We have seen parents picking up trash in the mornings, help with crosswalk, open car doors when we are short handed at the valet loop, and organizing the lost of and found. There are so many seen and unseen help from our Blazer Village. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for making this place feel like a safe home for our students.

Angela and Robin

In celebration of Thanksgiving, the campus will be closed next week. School will resume on Monday, December 2nd.

The California Coastal Commission offers two student contests every year.

Entries can be submitted online by 5pm on January 31st, 2025. For prize information, rules, contest flyer, entry form, please visit https://www.coastal.ca.gov/art-poetry/ The instructions, flyer, and entry form are also available in Spanish.

Entries can be submitted online by 5pm on May 29th, 2025. For prize information, rules, contest flyer, entry form please visit https://www.coastal.ca.gov/climatechallenge/ 

Come to Bringhurst’s Winter Concert for that heart-warming holiday spirit! All are welcome to enjoy an evening of watching choir students sing beautiful songs. Hot Cocoa will be served!

This is not a drop-off event, and snacks will be sold.  Come play dice & whiteboard math games, learn the math behind the game of Spot It, make your own (simplified) deck, build Pascal’s triangle, explore factors & multiples with geoboards and string art, build a tetrahexaflexagon and more!  Tk-2nd graders will need to go through stations with their parents.  3rd to 5th graders can often do stations independently with a friend, so bring a buddy! 

At the CIPCF general meeting on 11/19/24 at we filled 3 vacant CIPCF Trustee positions. Thank you Karen Chiu, Thien Khuu, and Kelly Linn for stepping up to fill those vacant seats.

Our annual donation drive for CIPCF and MIP will officially kick-off on 12/1/24, but want to let all MIP families know we will be counting any donations received on or after 11/17/24 towards the classroom competition. We know some parents have company incentives for donations that end before December and want you to have the opportunity to use that if it's available to you. Please fill in the donation drive form so we can make sure your donation counts for your class, QR code attached. If you would love to help please use the QR code to join the CIPCF fundraising committee.

More info about CIPCF, our future fundraising goals, and past contributions will be included with information that will be distributed before the official start on 12/1.

PTO members voted to distribute $56,845 from Fun Run to teachers at our meeting this week. We want to thank you all again for your support. Please be on the lookout for the Fun Run survey and consider joining the planning team for next year. You can view our meeting agenda, presentation slides and minutes on our PTO website here.   

Still want a MAIN Bringhurst T-Shirt (note: NOT the Fun Run one). Please fill out an order from the T-Shirt Order Form!

PTO recently resubmitted paperwork with Benevity, and many companies that were not clearing Bringhurst PTO before are clearing them now! Hooray! All organizations should accept our PTO as an eligible non-profit for donation match now. Once you submit your company match, please kindly fill out this google form for us to systematically track all donation matching and to give you peace of mind that your company match reaches us. https://tinyurl.com/BHPTOCompanyMatch2425

Let's show our appreciation to our teachers by providing a delicious breakfast as a token of our gratitude for their dedication and the positive impact on our children. Please sign up to bring drinks, breakfast items, or tableware. We have about 64 staffers we can cook, bake, or purchase items you think they'll love. Any contribution will help make this a fantastic event. Sign up HERE

Kids are not allowed to play with balls before the start of school due to lack of supervision. We are looking for a core group of volunteers who is interested. Please sign up in this Whatsapp group to coordinate with others. Until an announcement is made that ball playing is allowed, please do not bring balls to the playground in the morning nor signing in at front office to volunteer to monitor kids.  Thank you for your understanding.