PTA NEWS AND EVENTS

PTA Business

1. Elections for new PTA Board officers will be held on May 29. Many positions will need to be filled for the coming school year. If you are interested, or would like to nominate someone, please contact Cindy Bonczyk at cindybonczyk@yahoo.com.
2. PTA Place (ES) needs volunteers. Please contact Kristina at kristinarudin@vasteras2.net if you’d like to help.
   
3. Please remember to use up the balance on your child’s PE Kit Passport. Any remaining balances will not be carried over into the next school year.
4. Thanks to your generosity and hard work, the Small Change Appeal raised over 85,000 RMB! On behalf of all the wonderful children you are giving the opportunity to attend school next year, we thank you. Your giving makes such a difference in other’s lives. Next week we will share the final number of children that were helped.
5. The Colored Pencil and Pretty Things collection ends one week after the May holiday, so you still have time after the break to donate small items. The children from the Jo Charles Foundation in Sichuan Province will be very grateful for donations of bracelets and necklaces, hair clips, head bands and small pretty bags as well as colored pencils, rulers, sharpeners, erasers and pencil cases.
6. The Spring Clothing Appeal is over! Your generosity will be much appreciated by all who receive these donations.

Journey in Space: PTA Fun Fair 2007

The 2007 PTA Fun Fair ‘A Journey in Space’, will blast off Saturday May 19 at 2:00pm. Mission Control volunteers have been busy since January planning an exciting journey through space.

The space travelers will encounter a well stocked food tent to help keep hunger away as they make their way through the games and fun.

Vendors offering food for our astronauts include Subway, Smallville and The Yard, Euro Bakery, Mrs. Shanen’s, the Korean Community, Beijing Pitta Bakery, German Food Center and of course popcorn and cotton candy. ‘Missions’ tickets will be used to purchase food and beverages.

Space travelers will be able to fight a Space Duel, Feed the Aliens, Soak the Astronaut, Hit the Asteroid, take a Space Walk, play Crater Golf and go on a treasure hunt.

Be prepared to get wet! Water plays an important role in several of the games the kids enjoy most, including the water slide.
Gary Agg will take the helm on the WAB stage and guide our travelers through a galaxy of WAB star performers including WAB bands and choirs.

There will also be a Fear Factor contest as well as many surprises.

WAB Wild will be offering students, Grade 4 and above, the chance to test their skill on the Vertex Climbing Wall. Proceeds from ticket sales for the climbing wall will be donated to WAB Wild and will be sold separately from the Fun Fair tickets. To help you prepare to have fun on our space journey, tickets will be available the week before the Fun Fair. Volunteers are still needed to help run the games.

Room parents will be organizing parent volunteers for the games so please sign up for a 30-60 minute time slot or express your creative talents at the weekly decoration meetings, held Mondays and Fridays from 9:00am - 11:00am in the ES Art wing. Please contact ZsaZsu at if you’d like to help blast off this fun event.

For enquiries, contact Zsuzsa at rozsu@hotmail.com.