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September 2007
Dear Webster Parents,
To our returning families -- greetings, and we are so glad to see you back! To our new families -- our heartiest and warmest welcome, and be assured you won’t feel new for long! You’ll find the 325 families at Webster to be open and welcoming, and soon you will feel like experienced veterans at school.
We’re so proud of the school and community we’ve all built and nurtured here. It’s no wonder Webster students and families consider it the best school on the planet.
In addition, we’re excited about the campus improvements that occurred over the summer.
- 25 new computers – 15 iMac desktop computers in our lab and 10 new laptops. These purchases make it possible for us to provide 5 laptops in each 4th and 5th grade classroom that will connect wirelessly to the Internet and upgrade the computers in our Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade classrooms. (Funding from a combination of PTA and state grant.)
- All new science textbooks and accompanying materials for activities and experiments (state textbook funds)
- New "SmartBoards" in each of our two 5th grade classes (Prop. BB funds + PTA funds)
- New blacktop and striping
- Flower murals under ramps leading to bungalows, and decorating the backpack areas outside rooms 9 & 10
- New bathroom fragrance dispensers installed
These improvements are a result of the time, talent and generosity of Webster parents.
Speaking of parents, our active and engaged body of parents is part of what elevates Webster to the top tier of schools. Please join hands with the Webster community and get involved in whatever way you can at school.
FIRST, please make a donation to the PTA’s Direct Donation Drive. This raises the bulk of our budget, and pays for salaries of teacher aides, and teachers of art, gardening, technology, P.E., nutrition and science. These simply would not be funded were it not for your contributions.
SECOND, please find a spot that suits your volunteer skills. Whether it is working in your child’s classroom, monitoring the playground at lunch, helping to plan and execute a school event or tackling a role on the PTA, please find one of the hundreds of opportunities and claim it as your own! If you are stuck for ideas, please call or e-mail either of us (details below), and we can suggest areas of great need.
Thank you for everything you do for our school. Your generous contributions of time, skill, spirit and money are crucial and most gratefully appreciated.
Your PTA co-presidents,
CALIFORNIA PTA MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the PTA in California is threefold:
- to support and speak on behalf of all children and youth in the schools, in the community, and before governmental agencies and other organizations that make decisions affecting children
- to assist parents in developing the skills they need to nurture children
- to promote parent and public involvement in schools and communities
The objectives of the PTA are:
- to promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, community and place of worship
- to raise the standards of home life
- to secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth
- to bring into closer relation the home and the school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the education of children and youth
- to develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for all children and youth the highest advantages in physical mental, social and spiritual education
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