Benny Bengal's News Brief

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a joyful and refreshing Winter Break. Please join us for our general meeting on January 26 at 6:00 p.m. to hear what we have planned for the upcoming semester.

Congratulations to all our PTA Reflections Arts Contest winners! Boggess students always amaze us with their creativity. Check out our winners and some of their incredible artwork below.

Our scholarship committee is now taking applications for our Boggess PTA scholarship, which goes to a deserving senior who attended Boggess. Please spread the word and encourage any former Bengal you know to apply.

Thanks,

Sylvia Roy

• 26: General PTA Meeting & Parent Program "Social Media Wellness for Tweens and Teens" (6:00 p.m.)

FEBRUARY

• 17: Friendship Class Parties
  
• 23: Cultural Diversity Museum (6:00-7:30 p.m.)

MARCH

• 16: Boggess Book Club begins (3rd-5th grades)
  
• 30: Bike Rodeo

APRIL

• 13: Fun Run
  

Sophia V. (3rd grade)

*Advancing to District/Council Level Contest

Ezra L. (3rd grade)

• Zachary M. (1st grade)
• Elliott G. (2nd grade)
• Carley H. (1st grade)
• Nithya Y. (1st grade)
• Anonymous Artist
  

• Elizabeth M. (4th grade)
• Cheyanne G. (3rd grade)
  

Keaton Cox (3rd grade)

*Advancing to District/Council Level Contest

Calla V. (1st grade)

*Advancing to District/Council Level Contest

Maya Y. (1st grade)

*Advancing to District/Council Level Contest

Juliana L. (3rd grade)

Benny wants to give a shout out to Nermeen Louis for chairing the PTA Reflections Arts Contest and Family STEAM Night in December. Thanks for all your hard work making these events fun and memorable for our students!

Welcome to our new VP of Ways and Means, Gloria Williams! Gloria has served Plano ISD PTAs for multiple years as a mother and now as a grandmother. Gloria has twin grandsons in Boggess first grade. She serves on our campus School Based Improvement Committee, and you may recognize her as a volunteer at many of our PTA events. A native Texan and Texas A&M Aggie, Gloria brings more than 25 years of experience as an IT project manager to her role on our PTA board. Feel free to say hello to Gloria and talk Dallas Cowboys and fantasy football with her anytime!

Each year, Boggess PTA awards a scholarship to a graduating senior who attended Boggess for at least two years of elementary school. The winner must be planning to attend an accredited college, university, or technical school.

Last year, PTA parents stepped up to equip our classrooms with air purifiers. Now those purifiers need new air filters to give our classrooms an extra layer of protection this winter. Our goal is to have at least two purifiers up and running in each classroom at all times.

Please visit this Sign Up Genius to donate. Purchases can be dropped off at school with the designated class/teacher's name.

Thanks once again for keeping our students and staff safe and healthy!

Create a poster with this year's theme and submit it to the Murphy Community Center by February 17 for a chance to see your art on the Murphy recycling truck.

Click here for the rules and entry form.