From PA President William Bird:
First things first. A big salute to the fifth grade committee for a great movie night last Friday. They have been amazing in the quality of the events they’ve run and we just want to say well done.
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Come out for Big Hero 6!
The 5th grade committee will be showing Big Hero 6 on Friday, April 17th, their last fundraiser. The doors open at 6 and the movie will start at 6:30. Please come out and show your support. There will be plenty of food, treats and refreshments sold. The admission fee is $5 per family. Thank you so much to each and everyone that has supported us this year. This has been such an amazing year.
Spring Auction Update
Spring Auction Fundraiser tickets to “A Taste of the Bronx & Surroundings” are now available for purchase online at amparkauction2015.zapto.org. If you are unable to purchase your tickets online, please see Maria Correa (AmPark’s Parent Coordinator) in order for her to accept your payment and give you a receipt for your purchase. Auction tickets are $20 in advance (price includes hors d’oeuvres, entertainment, two drink tickets and childcare for current AmPark students). The AmPark PA is also accepting checks made payable to “AmPark Parents’ Association.” If you send a check to the school, please ensure that there is some reference to the auction on the check itself and that it is made payable to “AmPark Parents’ Association.”
Everyone is getting very excited as the event gets closer and closer! Please take a sneak peek at the donations committed thus far. A huge thank you to all the parents and businesses who are helping to support this very important fundraising event. Keep ’em coming!
Getting Creative with Kale
In the fall, the kids cooked up some delicious and nutritious kale in a WITS lab. Here is the brochure, in English and Spanish.
Yummy Hummus
In the winter, the kids got to make hummus in a WITS lab. Here is the brochure, in English and Spanish:
Crazy for Carrots
At the last WITS lab, the students got creative with carrots, with a sweet and nutritious outcome. If you’ve misplaced your recipe booklet, you can download it here:
Meet our WITS chefs
Here are some pictures of our WITS chefs.
Take the school survey!
From PA President William Bird:Christine has informed us that the School Survey due date is extended until April 17th. If you haven’t already completed the survey, the school really needs you to do so.
Let me encourage you to take five minutes right now and complete the survey. The DOE uses this information to plan future education policies, to help rate the the success of our school, and to determine what changes may be needed. It also looks at the percentage of surveys completed to measure parent involvement, so it is important that we demonstrate our interest in our children’s school.
WITS March Update
From Chef Marion:
Greetings Parents, Partners, and Administration of AmPark!
This month we had our first Café Day with our new Chef Partners from Restaurant North. They created a great Hubbard Squash soup with Popped Sorghum and served it in the cafeteria. The students really enjoyed it, and it was made without cream or oil.
Fighting Hunger
AmPark parent Dean Parker is on a mission. He wants to make every child and parent at AmPark aware of hunger and its impact on kids in America. “Sixteen million children experience the sense of being hungry and they don’t need to,” said Dean, who heads the school’s service committee. “Every child can help make a difference.”