Blake High School PTSA

If you missed the Senior Parent meeting last week, you may have missed obtaining a copy of the form to order tickets for the graduation bus. The Graduation Bus Form is now available on this web site, at our Documents and Forms page.

What are the Graduation Buses? The Blake PTSA hires buses to make getting to and from the graduation ceremony at DAR Read more »

Did you know that you can add all the events listed on the Blake PTSA Calendar into your own personal Google Calendar with the click of a button? Every event for the whole school year—including the Montgomery County school calendar—will then automatically appear there.

The beauty of integrating the PTSA calendar into your personal calendar is that it will provide seamless updates—if an event is canceled or rescheduled, or a new event is added, the update will automatically appear on your own Google calendar.

It’s easy—just follow these steps:

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Blake’10 After Prom
“Into the Night”

Hello Blake families,

By now you have received your 2010 After Prom donation letter.  To date we have received donations from 63 families totaling about 48% of our $10,000 goal.

First, we want to thank those of you that have sent in your donations and want to remind those of you that have not to pull out the yellow/blue paper from the inbox on your desk and send your donation in for the best Blake event ever!  Should you have misplaced your letter we have uploaded the After Prom letter on this web site for you to print out and send in. You may also pay online via PayPal—for more information, see our After Prom page.

For those of you who are Freshman and Sophomore parents, you may be wondering why you should help.  The After Prom is an event that your children will attend as upperclassmen and we depend on all Blake families to help make this Read more »

In case you didn’t receive it, or you’ve misplaced it, the After Prom donation letter is now available online. If you’d like to donate to the After Prom, you may print it out and send it along with your check to the After Prom Committee c/o Blake H.S. PTSA, 300 Norwood Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20905.

In addition, this year we now offer the option of donating to the After Prom festivities using your credit card or PayPal. For more information, see “After Prom Donations” on the After Prom page on this web site.

Minutes of PTSA meetings are available on this web site. The minutes are available once they have been approved by the membership (usually at the next month’s PTSA meeting).

Minutes for this school year are available from the About Blake PTSA page, under PTSA Minutes.

At the last After Prom Committee meeting, held on March 1st, the following items were discussed:

• Theme: We decided on “Into The Night” as the After Prom theme.
• Treasurer’s update: We are receiving responses to our Parent Letters but we still need a lot more donations.
• Current Fundraisers:
-Pizza sales have been going well. We have ~6 more left. If anyone wants to volunteer on Tuesdays at 2:00 please let Maura know.
-Fundraising letters were mailed. We have received donations from approx. 40 families and some businesses have sent donations and prizes.
-Dine-outs: Mama Lucia has been very successful. There is a dine-out planned at the Burtonsville Cheeburger on April 19.
• Bus Info.: We are offering one-way bus transportation from the Prom to the AP. Under the conditions Read more »

The Montgomery County Coalition is looking for students to help with our meal program at our Home Builder’s Care Assessment Center (formerly known as the Men’s Emergency Shelter) located off of Gude Drive in Rockville. We are currently serving over 200 men, 3 meals a day, everyday. A great Spring Break project; SSL hours are available for this activity. Our meal program guidelines can be found on our website at: http://www.mcch.net/howtohelp/programneeds.html.

To learn more about how this program works, please view this inspirational article about students from Winston Churchill High School. The students themselves have coordinated and prepared several meals Read more »

Give A Little Time… Make A Big Difference

The George B. Thomas, Sr. Learning Academy (The Saturday School) needs your help tutoring! They are a pre-approved service organization. Volunteer at any of the 12 centers on Saturday mornings from 8:15 to 11:45 and make a difference in the life of a child. Choose the center where you would like to volunteer and call today!

Centers are located at the following high schools: Montgomery Blair Albert Einstein Gaithersburg John F. Kennedy Northwest Magruder Paint Branch Rockville Sherwood Springbrook Watkins Mill Wheaton

Interested? Contact the GBTLA Offices at 301.320.6545

The Fashion X Program, which was originally scheduled for Friday has been postponed to the fall.

In light of the potential for home basketball playoff games this week, the Mr. Blake Pageant has been rescheduled to Tuesday, March 23 at 7:30pm in the Blake auditorium.