Capitol Hill Weekly Update

Capitol Hill is focusing on supporting our students in having full access to their education by improving their school attendance rates. Our goal is to decrease the number of students at our school who attend less than 90% of the time and thus are at risk of falling behind academically.

Our goal this year is to have 90% of all students with good or acceptable attendance. During the first quarter of school, 88.72% of 332 students had good or acceptable attendance. Good or acceptable attendance means missing no more than 2 days per month. This also means that we had 11.28% of students who were chronically or severely absent and were not here enough to participate fully with their classes.

If your student is out of school due to health exclusion, please connect with your student's teacher about accessing educational resources that can be done at home while your student is recovering. Two applications accessible to all students at Capitol Hill are iReady and FUN HUB which support math and literacy skills respectively.

Please help us reach our attendance goal and help your child reach their dreams by making school attendance a priority for your family

Every winter holiday season we create a giving tree and help provide holiday cheer to some families at Capitol Hill. Beginning November 17, our giving tree will be up and available for gift tag taking. If your family needs some help for the holidays, please reach out to mlight@pps.net.

Start your holiday shopping early while helping raise money for school programs and activities. 30% of all sales from this site will be donated to the Capitol Hill Elementary School PTA to support their school programs. Orders by December 5th!

Link: https://capitolhillpicturebookfundraiser.square.site/

We have some wonderful events coming up this month and we need help from the community to make them successfully!

Auction Lead:

We are on a tight schedule to make our auction happen this year. We are looking someone to help organize the auction. You can organize a event or organize a online silent auction. We have other volunteers lined up to help out we just need a lead.

Please reach out to Tabitha Ames or Jean-Francois Ortiz at volunteer@capitolhillpta.org if you have any questions or are interested.

Monday-Teriyaki Chicken or Tofu with Brown Rice
Tuesday-Mozzarella Breadsticks

Wednesday-Pancakes with Chicken Sausage and Berry Compote

Thursday-Cheese or Pepperoni Pizza

Friday-Turkey Chili with Cheese & Tortilla Chips

Our school year calendar has all of the important school-related dates for your reference.

• 11/14-Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day
• 11/17-Holiday Giving Begins
• 11/24-25-Teacher Conferences
• 11/26-28-No School-Thanksgiving Break

Where: Panda Express, any location nationwide

When: Wednesday, November 19

On Wednesday, November 19 order Panda Express online or on the app using code 9008538 and Capitol Hill PTA receives 28% of the sales!

Must be ordered online but can be anywhere in the country so share with friends and family far and wide!

As a token of appreciation, Lifetouch is offering discounts on school photography!

• 50% off a purchase of $50+ with code 50THANKS
• 40% off a purchase of $40+ with code 40THANKS
• 30% off a purchase of $30+ with code 30THANKS

Valid through 12/01/25

To order, log in to your account on mylifetouch.com or create an account, find your student and order using your student's student ID number (if available at your school).

Don’t forget to order your FREE Digital SmileSafe card! More about the Smilesafe program here.