Brighten Bulletin
Thank you for a wonderful beginning to our 2009-2010 school year. Our students are ready to learn, and they have helped turn our building into a true learning community. One of our school improvement goals is to increase and improve school wide communication. We hope to send a school wide bulletin every other Wednesday. This newsletter will provide basic school information. Each grade level will send home a newsletter every other week which will detail the curricular focus and pertinent information related to your child’s classroom. Personal information will be communicated via the classroom agenda or binder. Our school website is also a great source for information. We are working on activating all of our links. Please contact Jessica Davis at jdavis@brightenacademy.com for more information related to the school website. Our middle school team (grades 7 and 8) will also be posting assignments and information at http://teachersites.schoolworld.com/webpages/LRogers. Please also know that the administrative team will be happy to help you in any way. It can be very difficult to reach me via phone throughout the day, so I encourage you to use email. I check my email several times throughout the evening, and I will do my best to respond within 24 hours. It will take all of us working together to effectuate our mission, and I can tell that we are well on our way to success. Thanks again for an incredible beginning to a successful year. Lisa McDonald
Lisa McDonald, Curriculum Director lmcdonald@brightenacademy.com (770) 615-3680
August 12, 2009
REFRIGERATOR REMINDERS
8/15/09 Saturday Work Day 9:00--- 4:00 Help Improve Our Playground! Brighten Board Work Session PTO Membership Meeting Student Half Day, Dismiss at 11:30 Chic-fil-A Spirit Night Holiday Volunteer Work Day 9:00-12:00 PTO Board Meeting 5:00 Governing Board Work Session 7:00 CCC Night 6:00 p.m.
Good Search is a search engine that donates to causes based on the number of times the search engine is utilized. When possible, please use www.goodsearch.org as a search engine. Please save the Coke Rewards numbers found on the packaging of Coke products and send them to the office.
8/24 8/27 8/28 9/1/09 9/7/09 9/12/09
9/14/09
Thank You!
Our Volunteer Work Day was a HUGE success! Thanks so much to each of you for your hard work! The Anderson Family The Morgan Family Steve Kloser Mike Pace Parents-Please return health information form and school admin forms ASAP.
Landscape Committee Forming
Mark Turner, Stoney Shoemaker and Dr. Mike Pace have voluntarily been handling the maintenance of our campus throughout the summer. If you would like to pitch in and help these gentleman keep our campus beautiful, please join the landscape committee. Contact Mark Turner at turnerlandscapingco@yahoo.com. Volunteer Work Day Saturday, 8/15/09 9:00 am—4:00 pm We have two projects that need immediate attention and many helping hands We need to make our playground safer by securing the fence and removing a tree. We also need to complete the outdoor dining area between the two main buildings by creating a stone patio area Please bring weed eaters, shovels, rakes, chain saw, paint scrapers and electric drills
9/17/09
`
Please continue to send in your box tops!!! Thanks Tammy Shoemaker for counting!!!
Teacher Needs Parent Volunteer! Please contact Ruth Alcala at ralcala@brightenacademy.com
Chick-Fil-A breakfast biscuits are available for pre-order by Tuesday every week for $2.50 and are served each Wednesday morning. Please use our Donate Now Button to contribute to our Capital Campaign. Your generous donations have helped to secure a part-time counselor and remedial services for our middle school students
We
The Irish Bred Pub is looking for teams to sign up for their upcoming Charity Basketball tournament on August 29th. The tournament winners will receive $1000 to be donated to their favorite charity (hint, hint). Registration is $20 per player and each player will receive a T-shirt and lunch. Help show off your skills and support for our Downtown and community by getting a team together. All levels of players are welcome! For more information contact Neil Jenkins at 678-324-1649 or email: Canned Food Drive 5th Grade Immigration theirishbreddouglasville@gmail.com.
Clothes Closet Committee
Happy Birthday Brighten Staff Still Accepting Clothing
April Birthdays… May Birthdays…
Contact Mrs. Gibbs 23rd Leigh DeNucci 28th Tonya Roskaft mgibbs30135@yahoo.com
Transportation Reminders:
Students arriving before 7:40 a.m. must enter the building through the cafeteria. Parents are expected to make sure a teacher on duty sees the child and welcomes him/her into the building The car pool line starts at 7:40 a.m. Please remain in your car and let our staff help your child safely exit. Please make sure you have your car rider tag displayed in your window or windshield and leave it displayed until you have picked up your child.
Computer Lab
We raised $5,020.00 with our Technology Sale at Open House. Thank You!