Each e-mail sent out by the SHS PTA in 2005 to the Email Distribution list is archived here, with the most recent e-mails listed first.  

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 Please visit www.shspta.org to read the following December Highlights Columns:

Scarsdale PT Council Presents…
“Healthy Bodies/Healthy Minds”
 
Helping our children make good decisions
about nutrition, physical activity and recreational interests
 
Featuring a Panel of Experts
Joy Bauer, MS, RD, CDN, Joy Bauer Nutrition
Benjamin Roye, MD-MPH, Chief of Pediatric Orthopaedics, Mt Sinai Hospital
Marcie Schneider, MD FAAP FSAM, Greenwich Adolescent Medicine
 
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
8:00 PM
Scarsdale Middle School Auditorium
following individual PTA Meetings at 7:30 PM
 
Joy Bauer has built one of the largest nutrition centers in the country.  Joy Bauer Nutrition, located in Manhattan and Westchester, provides counseling to both adults and children.  Recognized as a leading nutrition authority, Joy has a clientele that includes high-profile professionals, celebrity actors, fashion models, Olympic athletes and the New York City Ballet.  She can be seen regularly on national television (The Today Show, Live! With Regis and Kelly, The View, and others) and has been featured in numerous publications (Self, Cosmopolitan, Harpers, Vogue, etc.).  She is the author of several best selling books, including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Total Nutrition (Alpha Books).
 
Benjamin Roye is the recently appointed Chief of Pediatric Orthopaedics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.  He works with patients and trains staff members on the particulars of young people with various orthopaedic conditions.
 
Marcie Schneider is an Adolescent Medicine Physician with a private practice focusing on eating disorders, obesity, menstrual function, growth and development, substance abuse and ADD.  She founded the Adolescent Program at Greenwich Hospital and before that was Associate Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and Medical Director for the Eating Disorders Day Program at North Shore University Hospital.  Dr. Schneider is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and of the Society for Adolescent Medicine and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition.  She publishes her original research, lectures to the medical community and parents, and is the mother of 3 children, including 2 teens.

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The College and Career Center, room 336, is open Monday - Thursday from 9:00-3:00 and on Friday from 9:00-1:00.  We offer college reference materials, CD's, materials to plan your college visits, and the new "College Book". We also have all the 2006 summer program materials presented at the Summer Activities Fair.  These materials have been categorized by programs offered. We welcome your visit.

Every Scarsdale household recently received an appeal for donations to support the SHS PTA Scholarship Fund. This fund provides grants to our own graduating seniors who need financial aid to attend college.

 

Even in Scarsdale there is great need. Job loss, corporate downsizing, divorce, illness, and death: these events can have devastating effects on a family’s ability to pay for a college education. Each year the need increases. The fund is administered under strict rules of confidence and 100% of all funds raised go directly to students.  The scholarship money comes solely from donations made by Scarsdale residents, businesses and organizations. Our donation envelope allows gifts to be made to honor a teacher for a special event or as a holiday gift. This is a gift teachers greatly respect. Honoring a teacher with a donation is a high school tradition, but one that is now available for all Scarsdale teachers.

 

Please consider a donation for your Holiday gift this year. In Scarsdale, we focus on our youth and enthusiastically support their educational goals.  Help us insure that all students in Scarsdale, who have worked so hard for acceptance to colleges, have the opportunity to attend.  Please be generous to this community-wide appeal.

 

Give the gift of education for the holidays.  Donations may be sent at any time to:

SHS Scholarship Fund

P.O. Box 147H Scarsdale, NY 10583

 

Questions: Debbie Miller 723-6293   

 

THANK YOU!

SHS PTA Scholarship Fund Committee

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December 15, 2005
 
Dear Parents,
 
Earlier this fall, we experienced several false fire alarms.  I spoke to students via the public address system and explained the dangers associated with a pulled alarm, most notably the diversion of important fire prevention resources where they were not needed and the implications for those who are truly in need of such assistance. Teachers also took the opportunity to reinforce this message with students in brief discussions. I also asked for any information about the individual(s) who may have pulled the false alarms.
 
For the next few weeks, we had no additional false alarms.  Unfortunately, on Wednesday, December 7, another false alarm was pulled during seventh period.  Students and staff members, most without coats, were forced to stand outside in frigid weather for over twenty minutes while the fire department located the false alarm and gave permission for all of us to re-enter the building.  I spoke to students the next morning on the p.a. and indicated that I would be consulting with the Principal’s Cabinet and with our teacher leadership about how we should respond to continued false alarms.
 
I am writing to inform you that in the event of another false alarm, we will impose a closed campus at the High School for a period of time.  Students who have free periods will be required to report to one of several locations, and no student will be allowed to leave the building during the lunch period.  I am aware that this action may be perceived as punishing the many for the acts of a single individual, but it is vital that we impress upon our students that false alarms cannot be tolerated in our school environment.  Our students enjoy considerable freedom of passage compared to other high schools, and it my hope that our students will be inconvenienced to the point where they will identify the person responsible for the pulled alarms.  At a minimum, this will serve as a statement of the extreme displeasure of the administration and faculty at the recurrence of false alarms and may foreshadow more permanent suspension of student freedoms in the building.
 
Clearly, this is not my preference for the climate of our school.  In the absence of any accountability for the pulled alarms, however, it remains our only recourse.  I want you to know in advance that we may have to invoke this sanction should another false alarm occur.  And, as always, I invite you to discuss the situation with your child and to reinforce the message we are trying to send.  We need to return to normalcy, and the continued interruption of classes and inconvenience to students and staff may become our most important priority in the event of another pulled alarm.
 
Sincerely,
 
John Klemme  

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Dear Parents,

The MOST UP-TO-DATE methods to find out about school delays and closings are to check:

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The Summer Activities Fair was a resounding success all around, thanks to the work of this year's committee members, the participating programs, the amazing custodial staff and all of the families who attended!  A special thank you to Karen Baranick, Susan Friedman, Beth Scharfman Shabto, Randy Stevens, Tony and Sal.

If you missed the fair, and/or would like to have easy access to contact any of the programs included this year, please Click here to see the list of Summer Activities.

We're already planning to make next year's fair even better!

Co-chairs
Leslie Berkovits and Debbie Miller

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Dear Parents of SHS Students:

The next two Board of Education meetings will be held on November 21st and December 12th. Public comments regarding your concerns about class size at the High School will be welcome and helpful, as the Board begins to formulate a plan for next year's school district budget.  Do not miss these opportunities to voice your opinion about what you would like to see happen for our students at SHS.  The meetings will begin at 8:00pm in Room 170-172 in the Board of Education wing of the High School.

What are your children planning to do this summer? Need some ideas?
Well, here's the perfect opportunity...

THE SUMMER ACTIVITIES FAIR 

Tuesday, November 29, 2005
7:30-9:30 PM
SCARSDALE HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA

Meet representatives from a wide variety of summer programs:
Pre-college enrichment, sports, music, theater, travel, community service, language immersion, outdoor adventure, environmental studies, travel in U.S.A. and abroad, leadership and more...

Speak with students who have participated, see videos, pick up brochures and get lots of great information!

Bring your friends!

Sponsored by the SMS and SHS PTAs 

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1. For retakes - please return original photos
2. To purchase new portraits - pick up flyer from school office and return completed form with check to photographer.

1. For retakes - please return original photos
2. To purchase new portraits - pick up flyer from school office and return completed form with check to photographer.

• Set limits without feeling guilty
• Deal effectively with anger - yours and theirs
• Find ways to decrease manipulation by your children
• Learn alternatives to threatening and bribing

Thank you to all volunteers who worked as  timekeepers for Parent/Teacher Conferences.  We needed over 200 volunteers and we couldn't have had the conferences without your commitment.  We so appreciate your time, energy, and feedback.  You helped to make the evenings a big success.

Hope to see you next year......

The Parent/Teacher Conference Committee

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• Show your support by attending the event on Saturday, November 12. Let the 55+ kids involved in "The Boyfriend" see that we appreciate their hard work. A list of the kids involved is at the bottom of this e-mail. Scroll down to see - there will be kids on this list that you know!
• We have many new sponsors this year including The Scarsdale Inquirer. A strong parent/student presence lets our sponsors see how committed this community is to SHS, and that their sponsorship $s are well spent.
  
  
  It will be a great event. Hope to see you there! If if you cannot attend, your donation is of course still appreciated. Any questions, contact Sandi Schwartz at 725-2205. Thank you!

Have you remembered to purchase a copy of this year's Student Directory?

Has your son or daughter already taken the copy you bought at parent/teacher
conference night?

Not to worry!

Beginning Monday, October 24th, copies of the 2005-2006 Student Directory
will be available for sale in the main office.

They will also be sold at both A-School Open Houses (November 7th and 14th)
at the A-School.

Cost: $5 (cash or check made payable to SHS PTA) for each directory. Exact
change preferred.

The Directory Committee 

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From the FOX MEADOW PTA:

Please go to the SHS PTA website: www.shspta.org to read the new "A Matter of Principal" Highlights Column from Principal Klemme.

This month's column discusses the Distinguished Alumni Ceremony on October 22, 2005 at 10:30 in the Brewster Lobby.  The community is invited to attend.

The SHS PTA Annual Fundraiser is filling up with some great raffle prizes – Everything from a catered gourmet hot dog party for 45 guests to fabulous wines, sensational jewels and designer coats. You could even win a limo ride for six people, anywhere for 5 hours.

It would sure be nice to take “A Night On the Town” in that limo to a great restaurant in NYC, or to a wonderful theater, concert or sporting event, wouldn’t it? We think so!

*If you have corporate seats or access to fine dining that you are willing to donate, please contact Maria Dabney at 713-8590 (Home) 826-1400 (Cell) mtd1015@yahoo.com.*

Thank you! And, be sure to look for your raffle books in the mail. After all, you can only win if you complete them.

SHS PTA Fundraiser Committee

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SCARSDALE TASK FORCE ON DRUGS AND ALCOHOL

                                                    Parent Coffees

Does your child want to earn some extra cash?

Send them to the Y.E.S. office at Scarsdale High School

We have over 80 jobs listed with salaries of $10-20 per hour.

We are currently located in Room 282B in the science wing.
Our hours are Monday through Friday from 11:00-2:00.

Students need to fill out a student registration form which is available
on our website www.scarsdaleschools.org/yes
Please note a parent signature is required.