PTO News

Tuesday, April 17
PTO Lunch Meeting has been cancelled

April 25
Secretary's Day

HE Recycling Contest

HE is having a recycling contest for books & magazines. For easier drop off, the Green Team will be at the 4 Diamonds on M/W/F, 7:40-8:05 to measure your stacks and put them in the bins. You may continue to bring recycling stacks into the HE office other times.

Teacher Appreciation Week

Teacher Appreciation Week is coming up - May 7-11. Watch for info soon!

Welcome New PTO Board Members!

Jen Beadle, Julie Brissenden, and Cori Clements have agreed to hold PTO Board positions, filling openings left by Karen Girdler, Beth Guse & Deb Drueke. Welcome Ladies!

Box Tops

You can earn cash for your child’s school (HP & HE) by clipping Box Tops coupons from hundreds of participating products and sending them to school with your child. Here’s how our program works. Students bring all your Box Tops to your class! There are 6 levels of prizes. Each class will receive the indicated prize when they bring in that amount of Box Tops. The more Box Tops a class brings in, the more prizes awarded. The program starts September 6th 2011 and we will collect through the end of March. Prizes are awarded as each goal is reached. This is an accumulative based program, so every class can ultimately earn 6 prizes!

The prizes are:

Number of Box Tops	Prize awarded
500	Freeze Pops
1000	Laffy Taffy ropes
1500	Popcorn Party
2000	Ice Cream Sandwich
2500	Donut Party
3000	Pizza and Movie Party

We are excited about this program and reward ALL students for their hard work collecting Box Tops. Collecting is easy, Box Tops are found on hundreds of everyday products. Ask your friends, family, neighbors, co-workers to help collect Box Tops. We want to make this another big year for Box Tops!

For information about Box Tops and to see a participating product list please visit www.boxtops4education.com.

If anyone is willing to help us out, we could use boxes of snack size baggies necessary for submitting our Box Tops for redemption. We would greatly appreciate your help! Baggies can be donated in the Box Top bins located in the school hallways. Thanks!

For questions or comments about this Box Tops Program please contact coordinators Betty van Deelen or Missy Borror.

Labels for Education

Labels for Education UPC's include products such as Dannon, Bic, Glad, Pace, Campbells, Goldfish, V8 Splash, Pop Secret, Spaghettios, and more. Please use the UPC SYMBOL. Go to www.labelsforeducation.com for info about all participating products.

Other ways to save for your child's school

	Best Choice UPC's (Tru Buy Grocery brand)
	Abitibi Recycling (recycling of paper, clean cardboard, books, magazines, and junk mail in the green and yellow bins located at each school campus.

City of Highland Website

Highland Community Unit District 5

District Calendar:

	Thursday, May 3 Dismiss 11:20am
	Friday, May 18 No School
	Monday, May 21 Last Day of School - Dismiss 10:00am
	Tuesday, August 14 First day of 2012-2013 school year

PILLARS Thanks for all you do for your schools! Please complete and return your PILLARS form to the school office as soon as possible. A PILLARS form is required for all school and PTO volunteers. Note: Not all forms were collected at registration. Please check your registration packet. Only one form per family is necessary.

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