Farquhar Middle School PTA

The LEO Club and the Math Team will hold a competition between grade levels to raise donations for Haiti. The donations will go to the American Red Cross. The grade level with the most coin donations for Haiti will be rewarded. The competition begins Feb. 1. Look for the coin jars at lunch, after school [...]

Blake High School is gratefully accepting contributions of the following items for the Blake PTSA Used Book and Media Sale, which will be held on February 19-21, 2010, at 742 Cloverly St. in the Cloverly Shopping Center:
New or gently used books (hardcover and paperback) — fiction, nonfiction, mystery, science fiction, romance, young [...]

This is a link to the Superintendent’s SSL Award Flyer for this school year. Please note: This award is now given to any student who has documented 75 SSL hours (met the state SSL graduation requirement) by the first Friday in April of a middle school year.
THIS YEAR: (due [...]

Sherwood Cluster’s Scoop On School, Resources,  & How To Get Ahead
Check out the PDF flyer:  Here’s the Scoop!

Check out the attached PDF to find out more about the upcoming seminar on November 13, 2009 on School Connectedness. School Connectedness to Enhance School Climate (.pdf)

Celebrate Montgomery County’s Community Service Day and earn SSL Hours!
Make a Difference – Saturday, October 24th or Sunday, October 25th
Montgomery County Schools and their students have always been an important part of Community Service Day. We hope you will join us once again on the weekend of October 24! What began as Community Service [...]

The 2009 Parent Information meetings for the MCPS high school magnet/special application programs are:
Monday, October 12 @ 7 p.m. Poolesville HS - Global Ecology House program
Thursday, October 22 @ 7 p.m. Montgomery Blair HS - Science, Mathematics, Computer Science program
Monday, October 26 @ 7 p.m. Richard Montgomery HS - Internat’l Baccalaureate program
The deadline for all applications [...]

The Gazette is asking for students grades K-12 to nominate their favorite teacher at www.favoriteteacher.net through Friday, Oct. 16.
The Gazette will select the finalists, and then will post the finalists online for everyone (adults included!) to vote on in November.

The Board of Education adopted a resolution proclaiming October 7, 2009, as Walk to School Day. Children, parents, and community leaders again are joining together nationally and internationally to walk children to school or to the bus stop to promote traffic pollution awareness, health and physical fitness, and pedestrian safety in their communities.

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development seeks teens ages 13-17 to participate in a research study of eating habits.
Participation involves eating a meal at the NIH on two separate weekdays and blood draw.
Teens who qualify to participate in this study will be financially compensated for their time and inconvenience.
For more information, please call [...]