SAN JOAQUIN CREEKSIDE PTSA

Hope this finds you well!

In this edition, you will find information for the following:

1. Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week

2. Last SJC PTSA Association Meeting & Election

3. Executive Board Positions

4. PTSA Flower Fundraiser

5. May Dine-Out at Sessions

6. AmazonSmile - NEW!

Read on for more information!

We are super excited to celebrate our amazing San Joaquin Creekside Teachers and Staff this week, May 2nd to May 6th! We are organizing a surprise video for our superstars and we encourage our students to record a message of appreciation. Click here to upload your video by Thursday (5/5) and we'll compile them into a special video to be shared with all teachers and staff. We also encourage our parents and students to email a thank you note to their teachers and let them know how much they're appreciated. PTSA will provide on site staff a small daily gift and thank you note. Morning pastries are being provided to the staff every morning and a staff BBQ lunch is planned for Friday, May 6th. This is made possible by your generous donations and memberships!

Our last PTSA Assocation meeting is this Tuesday, May 3rd at 7:30pm. We invite you to join our last PTSA meeting of the year and we will hold election for the 2022-2023 San Joaquin Creekside PTSA Executive Board this evening. If you are interested in any board positions (see below for the list of positions), come to our meeting and we will take nominations from the floor. Please keep in mind that you must be a member of the SJC PTSA for 30 days to vote.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Zoom Link for Meeting

The San Joaquin Creekside PTSA Nominating Committee is currently looking for interested parents to serve on the 2022-2023 San Joaquin Creekside PTSA Executive Board. If you are looking for a wonderful volunteer experience, Irvine Unified Council PTA provides training! Students can also join PTSA as an officer or volunteer and receive volunteer hours. It's a great way to learn how non-profits run and see what happens behind the scenes in your PTSA! For our PTSA to exist, we need to fill the top 3 positions. Open positions are as follows:

1. President
2. Treasurer
3. Secretary
   
4. Executive Vice President
5. VP Membership
6. VP Program
7. VP Fundraising
8. Financial Secretary
9. Historian
10. Auditor

Click here - Job descriptions for required positions.

Click here - Job descriptions for other positions.

We welcome any interested parents to consider joining us. Please come to our PTSA Association Meeting this Tuesday for the election!

*Future board members must be a PTSA member for 30 days in order to be slated.

Ordering Flowers for Mother’s Day? Look no further. Order from Cyndiestyle Flowers and 15% of the proceeds will be donated to San Joaquin Creekside PTSA. Place your order as soon as you can while supplies last!

Use this Order Form to participate

SAVE THE DATE: MAY 11, 2022

This will be our last Dine-Out of the year. Join us at Sessions! 20% of the total sales will be donated to San Joaquin Creekside PTSA.

Date: Wednesday, May 11th

Time: 3pm - closing

Place: 4736 Barranca Parkway, Irvine, CA 92604

Happy Dining!

AMAZONSMILE - NEW!

We are registered with AmazonSmile! Do you shop on Amazon? If so, you can earn $ for our PTSA. Here's how:

1. Click here to direct you to our AmazonSmile Page

2. Click on the "Start Shopping" button

3. Shop as usual

4. For mobile devices: activate AmazonSmile in the Amazon Shopping app on your iOS or Android phone within the Settings or Programs & Features menu.

• Same products, same prices, same services as the Amazon you know.

• Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases.

Would you like to change your current charity to San Joaquin Creekside PTSA? Simply visit smile.amazon.com/change, or tap "AmazonSmile" within the Settings menu in the Amazon Shopping app on your phone and select "Change your charity". Your AmazonSmile purchases made after changing your charity will count towards your newly selected charity.

Are you new to Amazon? No problem! When first visiting AmazonSmile, customers are prompted to select a charitable organization. In order to browse or shop at AmazonSmile, customers must first select a charitable organization. Please choose San Joaquin Creekside PTSA.

The PTSA was proud to have students represent Creekside High School and San Joaquin High School respectively for the annual Irvine Unified Council Student Advocacy Program. This PTA program selects students from each of our 7 high schools to learn about educational issues culminating in a day trip to Sacramento to visit legislators and discuss the students concerns around education. Kru and Sathvik traveled to our capital on Wednesday, March 16th They are pictured here with Superintendent Terry Walker, IUSD School Board Trustee Lauren Brooks, and San Joaquin Creekside PTSA President Connie Stone.

Congratulations to all of our students who submitted entries for our 2021-2022 Reflections Program!

Our theme this year was: "I Will Change the World by...."

Student's entries were awarded Honorable Mention, Award of Merit or the highest PTSA award: The Award of Excellence.

The following four student's entries were awarded the Award of Excellence:

-Monica Pal won the Award of Excellence for her Photography entry entitled "The Power of the Sun"

-Neil Pal won the Award of Excellence for his Literature entry entitled "Our Words Can Change the World"

-Caroline Robbins won the Award of Excellence for her Literature entry entitled "The City of Selection"

-Jaehee Jeung won the Award of Excellence for his Visual Arts entry entitled "A Ray of Hope"

These entries were forwarded on to the Irvine Unified Council of PTA's Reflections judges but were not awarded at that level. All of our participants will be receiving their certificates via mail and our Award of Excellence entries will also receive an In and Out Burger Gift Certificate from a generous PTSA donor.

We are excited that ASB is almost finished with our new logo and PTSA will be offering spiritwear as soon the new logo is approved.

Membership and Donations - Your support is crucial to our success. Please consider joining our PSTA. Your voice makes a difference by being an advocate for all our students. Your membership and donations help PTA fund amazing student programs like Reflections, Red Ribbon Week, Fall Festival, Teacher Appreciation Week, and more!

Members enjoy many benefits including Membership Perks and voting rights at our meetings. Our Membership Goal is 100 members for the year. We encourage everyone to become a member (parents, grandparents, any family members, friends and neighbors just to name a few). Donations of any amount are always welcome.

Membership - $20.00

Student Membership - $7.00

Company Match Program - Check with your company/employer to find out if they match donations.

To join the SJC PTSA and/or make a donation, please visit our TOTEM link: https://jointotem.com/ca/irvine/san-joaquin-creekside-ptsa or scan our QR code below by opening the camera on your phone and point it at the QR code below. Anyone is welcome to join: parents, staff, students, grandparents, community supporters!

May 3, 2021, 7:30 pm, Virtual

Meetings will be held via Zoom, dates and times subject to change.