Announcements:
PTA Activities and Events Going on now:
- DEI:
The moment you all have been waiting for...The Virtual World Showcase is coming! Please use the following links to submit your entry. You can video your entry easily on flipgrid https://flipgrid.com/showcase8250 OR you can make a video and upload it on this google form https://forms.gle/39ZBjDos3SSrK2i66 (Max 1 GB). Remember we are looking for entries in the following categories:
Performances: Share your cultural performance with dance, music, readings, or anything on the virtual stage. Looking for video submissions that last up to 3 minutes in the horizontal screen (movie theater-like). We will also be looking for translations of music lyrics to enhance our experience this year.
Virtual Cookbook/Tastes of the World: Prepare your favorite cultural dish or family traditional dish to share. Take a photograph of the finished product, write down your recipe, or better yet film yourself preparing the recipe on the horizontal screen (movie theater-like) to share with our community.
Cultural Webpage/Displays: Prepare a small presentation of some aspect of your heritage or family tradition to share - fun facts, maps or writing, objects or artifacts, or a fun game. This can be in the written form, pictures, a video, or in photographs prepared on a document or powerpoint.
Deadline for submission is February 5, 2021. Release date February 19, 2021.
Questions? Contact ptaworldshowcase@gmail.com - Science Fair:
The Science Committee is happy to share we are bringing back the Science Fair, virtually, on Wednesday, March 17, 2021!! Don't forget to mark your calendars now and we hope you take some time to sharpen those scientific skills, or you can even bring back the project that you were planning to present last school year!! More information to come - until then, keep healthy and safe, and happy sciencing :)- 2021 Science Fair Handbook: https://centenniallanepta.weebly.com/science-fair-handbook.html
- Yearbook News:
Remember to include an email subject line: Grade/ Teacher and Event/ Activity
New this year our CLES PTA Yearbook will be all virtual! Parents/ Caregivers PLEASE send the following to our wonderful Yearbook Chair Angela clesptayearbook@gmail.com- A headshot of your child(ren) so class pictures can be put together. Note: Take a picture of them with a plain background (like a wall).
- Pictures from any school fundraising events
- Any picture of your child(ren) at their home school station
- Any picture of your child(ren) during lunch/recess at home
- Any holiday festivities/crafts
- Any PE or Arts your child(ren) do at home…
- Band / Chorus / Orchestra Note: Half body recommended so their faces can be easily seen with their instruments once these are all put together and (should also be taken with a plain background).
- Any picture with their spirit wears.
- Any first day of school pictures.
- 5th graders
- Parents / Caregivers please start putting together the traditional 5th grade dedication messages - please keep them short with a picture attached.
Currently Collecting in Vestibule of School:
- Classroom Supply Donations: This is a sign up for parents who want to donate needed items to CLES teachers. Teachers provide their needs to the CLES PTA, and we solicit your assistance in fulfilling these needs.
- Box Tops: Scan or forward your emailed grocery receipts to: receipts@boxtops4education.com (Click Here to submit PDF receipts.)
- Pull Tab Program: The Green Committee and Community Outreach Committee are teaming up to participate in the Ronald McDonald House of Baltimore’s Pull Tab Program!
Supporting your CLES PTA:
- 2020/21 Membership is OPEN, join today!
- Shop with AmazonSmile and Community Offers for a portion of qualifying purchases to benefit the CLES PTA
- Direct Donation to help support your CLES PTA
Open Positions 20/21:
- Classroom Supply Donations
- Book Fair
- Front Lobby PTA information board (updated twice monthly)
- Outdoor Recess Carts
- SCH Lunch
- Family Fit Night
Shadow positions: (A Shadow position is one where people interested in running the position the following year (21/22) can work side by side with the PTA volunteer this year to learn how the position is done before being that position's lead the following school year.)
- 1st VP
- Treasurer
- Staff Appreciation
- Reflections Co-Chair
- Green Committee and Conservation Landscape
*As our children grow and our oldest move on to Middle and High School, parent volunteer hours become stretched between schools. If you have time to volunteer at CLES this year and/or next please let us know!
About The Centennial Lane ES PTA:
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Welcome to the Centennial Lane PTA. This is a group of parents and teachers who volunteer their time to provide academic, social and cultural enrichment to each student at CLES throughout the school year.
With togetherness, humility, compassion and respect; at the heart of all we do, the CLES PTA will work hard to uphold the PTA Mission of:
With togetherness, humility, compassion and respect; at the heart of all we do, the CLES PTA will work hard to uphold the PTA Mission of:
- Support and speak on behalf of children and youth in the schools, in the community and before government bodies.
- To assist parents in developing the skills they need to raise and protect their children.
- To encourage parent and public involvement in the public schools of this nation.
