Blake High School PTSA

Please join us at the 10th grade parent/guardian meeting on Wednesday, May 12th at 7:00 p.m. in the Blake amphitheater! Ms. Beth Thomas, the 10th grade administrator, will discuss topics related to the Class of 2012, Ms. Bernadette White, Resource Counselor will be present to discuss APs and the college application process and Ms. Cindy Gleason will discuss her course, Career and College Development.

If you have any questions about the meeting or items you’d like to discuss at the meeting, please call/send an e-mail to Ann Joiner at 301-384-5339 or joiner457 AT aol DOT com.

Consider volunteering for a leadership position in the PTSA. If you don’t have experience, we’ll show you the ropes!

OPEN POSITIONS
• President or Co-Presidents
• Vice President
• Secretary
• Treasurer

If you are not ready to be a PTSA officer, consider being a committee chairperson. As a member of the PTSA leadership team, you can:

·  Make decisions that help enhance your student’s school experience
·  Support communications between Blake and the parent community
·  Organize activities that support student achievement and family fun
·  Meet new and veteran parents in the school community
·  Be “In the Know” about the many facets of Blake

Help Blake continue to be a leader in the school community. We have a higher PTSA membership than other schools in the NEC.

The next PTSA meeting will be held on Tuesday April 20, at 7:00 p.m. A slate of nominees for officer positions will be presented, and nominations can be made from the floor. We must fill the officer positions for the PTSA, and so the nominating committee is hard at work trying to identify parents willing to take on leadership positions at Blake. Please step up and volunteer for an officer position.

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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.

We will be having our next After Prom meeting on Monday, February 8th at 7:00pm in the Career Center. This will be our Parent Fundraiser Letter stuffing party. We have almost 2,000 letters to stuff so we appreciate all the help we can get! This is our biggest fundraising effort.

We also will be discussing Prom and After Prom themes, decorations, T-shirts, activities, prizes…

If you have any questions please contact Maura McMullen (mcmullens2ATverizonDOTnet) or Diane Bush (dbush10892ATverizonDOTnet)
We look forward to seeing you.

Our speakers for the January meeting will be Officer Lowry, our Educational Facility Officer, and Mr. Harper, Head of Blake Security, who will speak about Security at Blake, in the community, online, etc. All are welcome to attend this very important meeting. There will be a Spanish language interpreter in attendance, provided by MCPS. Please contact the PTSA, if there are other needs, for the meeting. If you have specific questions regarding security that you would like addressed, please forward them to president@blakeptsa.org, and they will be given to our speakers.

The PTSA General Meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 15, at 7 p.m. in the Media Center.  This month we will make award presentations to the student winners of the Reflections Contest, which recognizes achievement in the arts. At the PTSA meeting you will have an opportunity to see or hear works by the students. Thank you to all Blake teachers who encouraged your students to participate in this contest.

The PTSA asks that parents and all members please bring one or more canned foods, which we are collecting, but there is also a need for items for the Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless (see next message). Donate, if you can. If you have questions, please contact Robina Barlow at president@blakeptsa.org.

The PTSA is collecting items for homeless men and families. If you can contribute any of the items that are needed, and listed below, please bring them to the PTSA meeting on Tuesday, December 15, and the items will be taken to the MC Coalition for the Homeless to distribute. You may also bring items to the Main Office until December 18. Thank you.

Holiday Wish Lists

Home Builders Care Assessment Center (Formally Men’s Emergency Shelter)
Unwrapped toys, books, games (Ages 12 and under)
Underwear (Focus on large sizes 3x, 4x, etc., thermal in the winter)
Socks
Rosetta Stone Language Learning software- Spanish
Gift cards (Grocery Stores, Wal-Mart, Target) Read more »

We will be having our second After Prom meeting on Monday, December 7th at 7:00pm in the Career Center.

PTA volunteers have been selling pizza, buttons and sponsoring several Dine-Outs to raise funds for the After Prom coming up in May.

At our next meeting we will discuss the upcoming  business and parent letters which we will be sending out in Feb.  (our main fundraisers), we will discuss what activities we would like to have at the After Prom-Casino tables, key chains, tattoos……. and we have basketball concessions coming up (we have signed up for 4 basketball and one wrestling match concessions).

We are looking forward to hearing your ideas to make this a great After Prom for our students. Please come and help us plan this wonderful event.  It takes a village to put on this big an event.  We would love to have Freshman and Sophomore parents get involved-your students will be attending the After Prom before you know it!

Minutes from the October 2009 PTSA General Meeting (which were approved at the last meeting, on Nov. 17th) are now available on this web site, on the PTSA Minutes page. Final drafts of all PTSA meetings will be available on the PTSA Minutes page as they become available.

For more events and event details, see our PTSA Calendar page.