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PHE Families:

We had a great turn out at last Friday's movie night, and I loved seeing our community out and enjoying events together.  Also, we raised a great deal of money for the school!!! Thank you for your tireless support of our school, our students, and our staff.  We could not do this work without our family partnerships.

Thank you for attending Coffee with the Principal last Friday.  Below you will see a link to some of the information shared regarding Gifted and Talented services at PHE and DPS.  Please reach out if you have any questions, and I am looking forward to our next Coffee in October.  

PHE GE 101 Link

Enjoy this weekend!

Ken Burdette, Principal

No school Friday, September 27

We will have no school tomorrow. Please enjoy the extended weekend.

Lost and Found

A reminder to please label ALL coats, long sleeve shirts, other clothing accessories, and water bottles.  We can return anything we find with a name, but otherwise these items pile up in lost and found. We will eventually donate any unclaimed items, so please help us get your students' items back to them!  Please have your student stop by lost and found or families are welcome to stop by the school if you are missing anything.

Used Clothing needs

We are low on smaller girls underwear, leggings, and pants which we keep in the office.  We could also use some smaller size t-shirts for all students. If you have anything you no longer need, please drop them off in the office. We use these for bathroom accidents, spills, and other clothing mishaps.   

Mr Wiant’s Learning Videos

From Mr Wiant: As many of you know, I write a lot of songs to help teach concepts in my classroom. After many years of talking about it, I've recently started making videos to go along with the songs to help teach the concepts. I have begun posting these videos on my new Youtube channel. I wanted to make you aware in case they might be useful in your classroom or home, or in someone you know's classroom or home. I will continue to add videos, as I have many more to finish and am always writing new songs. Thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/@TheB.F.J-k2h/videos

Middle School Tours (5th Grade families)

Some schools have already started tours! Here’s a list of commonly attended middle schools for PHE 5th graders to consider. This is by no means comprehensive though so please do your research! 

Bill Roberts K-8 school         Denver Green School

Denver School of the Arts    DSST: Montview Middle School

DSST: Conservatory Green   Hill Campus of Arts and Science

McAuliffe Middle School       Morey Middle School

School Pictures
If you ordered pictures they should have gone home with your student yesterday (or yet today).  Otherwise, to order, log in to your account on mylifetouch.com or create an account using your student's student ID number. You can find ID numbers on Parent Portal or by contacting the office.

Reminder: October Count

On Tuesday, October 1, schools throughout the state of Colorado perform attendance counts.  These counts determine funding allocations for schools and are vital for our budget and ensuring staffing and school support for your children.  The district will receive ~$8400 per student this year. We request that all families have their children at school this day if at all possible.  The exception to this is if your child is sick, please keep them at home of course!

Reminder: Gifted and Talented Cognitive Testing

The fall nomination window is open for CogAT testing. You can use this link to sign up. All submissions are sent directly to the GT central office for rostering. 

Sign-up is available for all students except:

• Students in Kindergarten and 2nd grade (These students will take part in our GT universal screening this fall.)

• Students already identified HGT or ME (magnet eligible)

• Students who took the spring 2024 CogAT

The sign up window is open through October 11. For more information: DPS GT website.

School Hours

School Hours: 8:10 am-3:10 pm

Lunch Menu

schoolcafe.com/DPS

Upcoming Dates

Sept 27 - Professional Learning Day (No school)

October 1 - October Count Day

Oct 10-14 - Fall Break (No school)

Oct 22 - Photo Retake Day

Oct 31 - Halloween Parade

Nov 4 - No YMCA

Nov 25-29 - Thanksgiving Break (No school)

Dec 23-Jan 6 - Winter Break (No school)

2024/25 DPS Calendar

PHE School Calendar

Connect with the PTSA:

Direct Giving / Movie Night - Wrap Up!

What a success! Thanks to you, not only did we have a great night of food, laughter and cinema, but we blew away our fundraising goal! We raised just over $40K!

Walk & Roll to School - Wednesday, October 9

Walk & Roll to School Day is an annual event that involves communities from across the country (and globe!) walking and rolling to school on the same day. It began in 1997 as a one-day event. Today, thousands of schools across America—from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico—participate every October. Over time, this celebration has become part of a movement for year-round safe routes to school. We may also have a celebrity crossing guard.

Park Hill School Bike Bus - every Wednesday starting October 9

What is a Bike Bus? A simple routine; creating a safe and fun way for kids to get to school by bike and to help make the morning commute easy, reliable, and safe.

Where: The Bike Bus will run along 19th Ave. Bikes will enter the school at Fairfax St. where most bike racks are. 

Starting meet-up spots: 

• 19th & Niagra (led by Liz Brodahl)

• 22nd & Dexter parking lot (led by Bret Taber)

• 22nd & Kearney at Cake Crumbs (led by Lisa Brownlee + need another volunteer

• 25th & Holly (led by Shannon Spezialy)

When: Every Wednesday starting October 9. Meet at 7:40 am, roll out by 7:50 am, and arrive at the school at 8 am at the latest to avoid the heavy car traffic.

Questions / Interested in volunteering? Email Liz Brodahl at liz.brodahl@gmail.com

Grocery Gives Back Day - Oct 8

Tuesday, October 8th is Grocery Give Backs Day with Spinelli’s Market (4621 E 23rd Ave).  Spinelli’s is donating 10% of all sales from the day to PHE. Find the deli menu and place an order here.

Restaurant Night Out - Oct 10

Thursday, October 10th is Restaurant Night Out (RNO) with GB Fish & Chips (5325 E Colfax Ave).  GB Fish & Chips is donating 20% on any order that mentions Park Hill. Place delivery orders directly on their website and include Park Hill in the delivery notes. Find the menu and place an order here.     

We are excited to invite you to a Parent Night with Screen Sanity!

This a highly acclaimed national workshop is designed to help parents unpack today’s leading screentime topics. Featuring expert-led videos, discussion questions, and take-home tips, this interactive session helps parents consider the role technology plays in their lives as well as how to connect with their kids in meaningful ways. See more here. 

Joining us for the evening, to answer questions and provide additional context, will be our psych team (Ms. Emily & Ms. Cat) and a local child psychiatry expert.

Childcare will be available – and we will be partnering with Noodles & Co for a Restaurant Night Out, so you can order dinner to eat at the event. 

RSVP here. We hope you can join us!

Things to Remember

• Join or renew your PTSA Membership 

• Milk Caps for Moola - recycle your Longmont Dairy caps across from the front office

• Set-up Cashback programs: King Soopers and Give Backs

2024 - 2025 PTSA Calendar

• There will not be a PTSA Meeting in October, but we will be contacting those who expressed interest in volunteering for a committee. 

• Tuesday, Oct 8th: Grocery Give Backs at Spinelli’s Market - 10% of total daily sales will be donated to PHE

• Thursday, Oct 10th: GB Fish & Chips RNO - 20% of total daily sales will be donated to PHE

• Thursday, Oct 24th: Screen Sanity Parent Night (more info to come)

• Monday, Nov 11th: Tessa Deli RNO

• Monday, Nov 11th: PTSA Meet @ PHE 

•  Friday, March 14th, 2024: The Park Hill Elementary School Auction!

Community Item: Pumpkin Truck and Street Fair

The Park Hill Pumpkin Truck arrives at 9am on Saturday, September 28th! This fun “farm/back-to-nature family experience” has been a Park Hill tradition for the past 25 years (since 1999), so come join in. Kids can last maybe an hour… and then you can have a little mid-morning snack with us... The more the merrier, as long as we are organized, and not too fatigued. Wear gloves and bring your wheel barrow and wagon.

The Park Hill Street Fair on Forest Parkway will be the next day, Sunday, September 29th 11am -5pm, so we will open for those hours. Beginning Sept. 30, hours will be 11am - 6:30 pm (or dusk) Sunday through Friday. Saturdays we will open at 9am-5pm.

As you know, we raise the money for social justice trips for the youth planned this year in February and summer.

THANKS for being such a great neighborhood!!! Questions? Call/text JacquiO (Lantern) Shumway at 303-725-7482. Also, if you would like to help out at the patch or have a children's group that would like to do Story Time one morning in October, JacquiO can help you!

PTSA Contacts

President

Shannon Spezialy 

president@parkhillptsa.com

Vice President

Courtney Swearingen

vp@parkhillptsa.com

Secretary

Lisa Sarno 

secretary@parkhillptsa.com

Treasurer

Gregg Cassarini 

treasurer@parkhillptsa.com

Helpful Links

• PTSA Website

• Join the Park Hill Elementary Directory!

• Join or renew your PTSA Membership

• Follow us on Instagram & Facebook @pheptsa

• Set-up Cashback programs: King Soopers & Givebacks

  
  

Important Dates:

• Walk & Roll to School: 10/9

• Thursday, Oct 24th: Screen Sanity Parent Night (more info to come)

•  Friday, March 14th, 2024: The Park Hill Elementary School Auction!

About Us

The Park Hill PTSA is a volunteer-based service organization with two goals:

• Bridge the gap between school and home by building community.

• Raise funds to cover educational necessities that the district (DPS) does not cover. In addition to covering costs to better the school itself, our efforts in fundraising support essential school workers and programs that benefit our teachers and children. 

We’ll continue to provide more “what we do” information in the coming weeks and as the school year gets rolling!