Pudong PTSA Portal

Invitation to All SAS Pudong Parents jointly from the Chinese and Korean Liaison:

Lantern Festival Luncheon on Feb 26, Friday starting 11:00 am

Please join us to have fun in celebrating the traditional Lantern Festival and have delicious food and Tang Yuan

Place: Eton Hotel Pudong
Address: 535 Pudong Avenue (Corner of Dong Fang Road and Pudong Avenue)
Buffet Lunch: RMB 180 per person including free flow of soft drinks, tea and coffee
Note: free parking (parking voucher available from the Chinese Liaison)

To reserve a seat, please email zhangbingqing@hotmail.com; Walk-ins also welcome!

The Chinese and Korean Liaisons

See map for direction or check http://www.theetonhotelshanghai.com/location.php:

View The Eton Hotel Shanghai in a larger map

Come join our Quiz Hosts, Kimbra and Simon Power,
for an evening of questions, food and fun at the St. Regis Shanghai.

¥300 per person   -   8 adults per team

To reserve a spot for yourself or a table for your team,
please email: sas.quiznight@gmail.com

Warm up questions for the week…

Mt. Fuji is the highest point in what Asian country?
A: Bangladesh
B: Burma
C: China
D: Japan

When was the European Union established?
A: 1990
B: 1985
C: 2000
D: 1992

Which is the largest(not extinct)bird in the world?
A. Condor
B. Eagle
C. Ostrich

How many teams start out in the NCAA Division 1 championship tournament?
A.      32
B.      64
C.      65
D.      128

The PTSA will sponsor its popular Carpet Auction on Saturday, January 23rd at the Parkyard Hotel at the Hi-Tech Park Pudong. Tickets are 150 rmb if they are bought before the event and will be 200 rmb at the door on the day of the event. There will be a very limited number of tickets available at the door, so please reserve your place early.

Contact Amanda DeCardy (amanda.decardy@saschina.org) or Jill Du (jill.du@saschina.org) for tickets and/or more information about the event.

Thank you for coming out and supporting the Pudong PTSA for this wonderful evening event!

As we swing full speed into 2010, we want to welcome all our new SAS Pudong families! Orientation for new families will take place on Wednesday, January 6th.   If you are new to our community and have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact your grade level coordinators and/or Liane or me for elementary school PTSA support.

Treat Day is scheduled for Thursday, January 21.  It is sponsored by Pre K, K and grade 5.  Don’t forget to send in nut free snacks if you have a son or daughter in any of these grades.  Please also send your child in with 5 RMB so he/she can purchase a treat.

Our next ES PTSA meeting is also scheduled for Thursday the 21st at 10am.  Come out and join us and bring a friend.

Happy New Year and we are looking forward to a great 2010!

Heidi and Liane

As a follow up to his presentation on Shanghai’s Art Scene at our ES meeting last month, Mr Davis will lead 20 of us on a Gallery Tour next Thursday, December 10th.  Please RSVP to Heidi at heidelindeburns@gmail.com if you are interested in joining.

We will meet in the Tai Kang Lu area at 10am and plan to be finished by 2:00 that afternoon. More details will follow once we have our group.

Are you ready for the holidays? .
Come to the SAS Pudong PTSA Annual Winter Bazaar on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. The Bazaar will be held in the Orange Couch Room, next to the Library Lecture Hall. There will be 30 + vendors selling a variety of great gift items. We are complimenting a PTSA General Meeting, also to be held on Thursday, Dec. 3rd, starting at 8:30am.
Come join us and shop for your holiday gifts in one convenient location.

Looking for a special touch for your Christmas tree or a unique gift?  Denise Morency will be selling Christmas tree garland at the Winter Bazaar on December 3.  Each garland is hand-knotted genuine white pearls with crystals and is 25 feet (7.5 meters) long.  The price is 300 rmb per garland.  Special garland with Christmas charms can also be ordered for 350 rmb. ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE CHARLES FOUNDATION (www.charlesfoundation.org). Last year we raised enough money to buy the desks and chairs for the classrooms of the Happiness Village School. If you would like to pre-order garland to purchase at the Winter Bazaar, please contact Denise directly – chinamorency@yahoo.com

SAS Connects Thursday, November 26th 9:00am
@Vizcaya Clubhouse, Jinqiao.
Topic: Internet Safety
Please come join us!!

A very big thank you to our speakers / presenters at our ES PTSA meeting last week.  Liane and I will work on scheduling a gallery tour with Mr Davis and I am interested to hear how many of you are putting your strength and flexibility to the test.  I checked out Mr T’s blog and he has demonstrated most of the exercises we learned on his site.  In case you were still wondering how the caterpillar works, you can find this plus more at http://teachers.saschina.org/jthornbury/ .

Barbara Boyer and your ES team put on a great program this past Friday to kick off Love of Reading Week. our ES children will be asked to dress up this week acording to the daily themes; Monday is wear a word day, Tuesday is hats off to reading, Wednesday is exercise your mind day and Thursday is PJ day (or snuggle up with a book day). Don’t forget to add to our very hungry caterpillar by recording each book you and your child read as part of our Hungry for books Program. Your children can tell you all about it!

There is no school on Friday the 27th as we will be recognizing Thanksgiving.

The Giving Tree drive is underway, please note this only takes place for the next week and a half.  All information can be found under the Giving Tree Tab on the PTSA home page.

SAS Connects will be held this upcoming Thursday, November 26th at Vizcaya at 9am.  The topic will be internet safety.

H1N1 vaccines will be distributed to those who signed up on Monday, the 23rd. Please remember that a parent must accompany your child.

Have a great week!

With the holidays approaching quickly, it is once again time, to share our good fortune with the local community of Shanghai! As we have in previous years, we are donating Chinese New Year gift bags to the children of a migrant workers school, through the Giving Tree program. This program has grown by leaps and bounds in the last few years, and this year, is providing 10,000 Chinese children with bags!

We are sponsoring PuGuang migrant school in PuDong, and will be collecting bags for 527 students, one for each child in the school. There will be 2 boy, and 2 girl bags, put in each elementary school classroom, and any family who is interested in filling one of them can take one. It would be appreciated if you would give the teacher the bag number, your name, and cell phone number, so that we can keep track of where the bags are. If the bags for any given classroom are already gone, you can pick one up during the week in front of the HS cafeteria, or at the ES Literacy event.

The bags are to value between 150 and 200 RMB (the program asks that you not exceed this number, as they want all bags to seem fairly equal in value), and first priority is a coat, shoes, and a book or toy. The empty bags, along with all of the information regarding the child it is for (sex, age, sizes), will be available in the classrooms, as well as outside of the MS/HS cafeteria during lunch, at the MS/HS PTSA meeting, and at the ES Literacy event.

We are also collecting monetary donations for the Giving Tree program, to be used for other schools or organizations. If you are interested in making a donation, instead of filling a bag, any amount that you would like to give would be greatly appreciated, and can be placed in an envelope marked “Giving Tree,” and given to your child’s teacher.

Once a bag has been filled, the handles need to be tied to avoid anything falling out, and then returned to the school. Collection will be from November 23th thru December 4th. We need to have all bags and donations in by this date, as we are hoping to deliver the bags on December 10th.

Thank you so much for helping us with this cause! We will make so many less fortunately children happy, during this very important Chinese holiday!

Best Regards,

Beth Arnold

Giving Tree Chairperson

SAS Parents,

We have an opportunity/duty to be a part of the Middle School Principal Vetting Process.  SAS has narrowed down to 3 potential candidates for us to consider.

PLEASE go through the process and see all 3 candidates…so that when we wish to have our voices heard we can speak with knowledge & credibility!!

Parent Meetings in LLH
Nov. 16 Leanne Dunlap 10:30am
Nov. 19 Alicia Brown 10:00am
Nov. 23 Jeff Rosen 10:30am

Additional Dates to know:
Nov. 24th  – Board Meeting 6:30pm Puxi Campus
Nov. 26th – SAS Connect’s -  9am Vizcaya
Internet Safety
Dec. 3rd – General Meeting / Winter Bazaar -
Winter Luncheon – TBA

Santa’s Work Shop – Dec 7th – 11th
Our Lead Elf Chris Lomason is busy preparing the work shop…she will need lots of little helpers to make this the great     success it always is!!  Please contact her by click on this.. Chris the Elf!

Giving Tree - School wide Project
AT SAS many of us want to share the joy of the Holiday season, not only with our own families and friends, but also with others less fortunate. The Giving Tree provides you a Giving Tree Gift Bag with the name and details of a child for whom you can purchase gifts or you can also make a monetary contribution (of any amount) and we will fill the gift bag for you. The bags, filled by our generous SAS families, will be delivered to ALL 527 students at Puguang School at Dec 10 . Please join other SAS families, the Community Center Shanghai and the Shanghai Charity Foundation in making The Giving Tree a channel of joy for a special child.
Information will be in your classrooms/advisory or Homeroom!!  Parents please look for information coming home in a flier.  For additional info please contact Beth Arnold 139-1744-9152 ,Email : Giving Tree Coordinator