November 2015
The Directories are Here!!!
After many hours of editing/formatting and proofing the 2015-16 Skyline PTSA Directories are in the
mail. If you have not received your copy by Monday, Nov 30, please let us know. NEW AND IMPROVED,
this year the directories include emails!!!! Trouble with your directory? Let us know @
[email protected].
Looking for a Tax Deduction?
The Skyline PTSA is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. 100% of the donations made to us are
used AT Skyline, FOR students and staff. Programs that impact the in-classroom experience for students
rely on PTSA donations. Please consider making a donation today.
Skyline PTSA 3020 Issaquah-Pine Lake Rd, #24, Sammamish, WA 98075 or via the Skyline PTSA Website:
http://skylineptsa.ourschoolpages.com/Home
Spartan Grants Fall 2015
The largest % of our budget and the easiest way for PTSA to immediately impact student is through the
Spartan Grant Program. This year the PTSA has budgeted $10,000 for the year to be used specifically for
grants to teachers and staff at Skyline. The Spartan Grant committee recommended, and the Board
approved, the following grants:
Department
Request
Amount Requested
Amount Granted
Humanities
IB Psych Curriculum Material
$240.00
$240.00
Science
Bio Paper Models
$408.05
$408.05
Math
5 Soldering Irons for EE Students
$483.75
$483.75
Robotics Club Laptop
$875.99
$500.00
Humanities
$2053.63
$2053.63
Lyceum Theatre Hanging Microphones
$1094.84
$1094.84
Music
Speakers
$378.45
$378.45
PE
40 Heart Rate Monitors
$3000.00
$1500.00
IB Psych Supplemental Textbooks
Special Ed
Sensory Tools
$120.86
$120.86
Counseling
Transfer Student Talks’/Lunches
$975.00
$975.00
Total Requested
$9630.57
Total Granted
$7754.58
Grant applications will be available to staff and teachers, again, for Spring 2016. We currently have
$3000.00 budgeted. The more donations we receive, however, the more we can funnel right back to
the school.
Community Giving Opportunities
Lunch For The Break is a community effort to provide food to kids who rely on the free & reduced
lunch program in the Issaquah School District. As we slowly expand, we are currently serving seven ISD
schools for school breaks: Clark, Issaquah Valley, Sunset, Maple Hills, Apollo and Briarwood Elementary
Schools and Issaquah Middle School.
All the donated food boxes will have the same contents, so please download and follow the shopping list
at our website. Each child in a family will receive one box, regardless of age. Please help support this
wonderful program !
Donation Drop-Off will be Dec 16, 2pm-7pm at 2 locations. Details at www.LunchForTheBreak.com
Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank Holiday Gift Barn is a program to help all families with holiday
cheer through the giving and sharing of gifts for children birth-18 years old. If you find something
wonderful while doing your shopping, bring an extra one to the Gift Barn ! Gift Drop Off at Pickering
Barn : Monday, December 7, 1:00pm-7:00pm, and Tuesday, December 8, 1:00pm-7:00pm
https://www.issaquahfoodbank.org/calendar/holiday-gift-barnk-donors/
Friends of Youth Rise and Thrive Breakfast – Please join us and support our community as we raise
critical funds to increase mental health and substance abuse counseling in the Issaquah School District.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:30am-8:30am at Pickering Barn, Issaquah To learn more, visit
www.friendsofyouth.org
In case you haven’t heard….
School Board voted unanimously for the Superintendent to prepare an election resolution for a
$533,500,000 bond measure targeted for an April 26, 2016 ballot measure. Over the next few
months we will be providing information about the Bond, its impact on taxes and its importance to
our community and students. The Skyline PTSA Board voted to endorse the Bond at the November
17 Board meeting.
What is in the 2016 Bond?
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The construction of four new schools: The District has grown by more than 2,000
students in the past four years and is conservatively projected to add an additional 1,500
to 2,000 students in the next five years. This continued enrollment growth requires the
addition of two new elementary schools, a 6th middle school and a 4th comprehensive
high school.
Property for school sites: The District must acquire the property needed for the new
schools in the 2016 Bond.
Rebuild Pine Lake Middle School: Originally built in 1974, PLMS will be completely
reconstructed on site, providing a new learning environment with updated technology
and energy efficient operations.
Critical Expansion/Modernization of six existing elementary schools: In order to
accommodate growing student populations and provide for State funded Full Day
Kindergarten; Discovery, Endeavour, Sunset, Cougar Ridge, Maple Hills and Clark
Elementary schools will all be expanded/modernized by four to eight classrooms each.
Save the Date:
January 19, 2016 – Join us for the Skyline PTSA General Meeting at 6:30 followed by:
Speaker: Robin Wallace-Wright – Certified Sexual Health Educator
Topic: Teen Sexual Safety
Robin will discuss teen sexual safety with regard to consent, sexual assault, how to
speak to your kids, and what to look for in college (consent, safety and assault). Although some
topics may be mature, students/teens are WELCOMCE and encouraged to attend. Please visit
her website at: http://www.thewrightconversations.com/ http://www.thewrightconversations.com/