Blake High School PTSA

The next PALA meeting will be a general membership meeting. Blake Latino students who have been inducted into the National Honor Society will be honored at this meeting.

As the Association of Parents and Students Latinos in Action, and the whole school community Blake High School, we are proud to celebrate the success of Latino students at Blake. The recognition ceremony will be held on March 11 2010 at 7:00 PM in the Library / Media center.
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La Asociación de Padres y Alumnos Latinos en Acción PALA, y toda la comunidad de la escuela Blake High School, estamos orgullosos de celebrar el exito de los estudiantes latinos en Blake. La ceremonia de reconocimiento se llevara a cabo el dia 11 de Marzo 2010 a las 7:00 PM en la Biblioteca/Media center.

A Planning Meeting for the Silent Auction will take place next Monday night, March 8th, 2010 at 7pm in the Blake HS Career Center. The Silent Auction is now a mere 2 months away on May 7th, 2010!

The Auction Committee will discuss IMPORTANT next steps in the areas of:
Publicity and Marketing, Auction Dinner, Online Auction & “Night-Of” Logistics.

Blake families should be receiving an Auction letter this week, detailing this year’s event, along with a donation form.  We have already collected almost 100 donations from the business community who received letters earlier this February.

This is the PTSA’s largest fundraiser for our Blake students, staff and school. The Committee is deeply in need of Volunteers to help us support our school!  Please feel free to contact us at: auction@blakeptsa.org or either:
Dawn Dolan: (dtdolanATverizonDOTnet) or Maureen Hill-Gross (mhillgrossAThotmailDOTcom)

For more information see all posts for the Silent Auction on this web page.

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.