Parent Letter

Good Afternoon 8th Grade Parents,

I wanted to share a quick update on our first fundraiser.  Many of your children have volunteered their time and several of you have helped with our first Washington Fundraiser at this year's Pizza Social.  The students will be hosting a Silent Auction at our Pizza Social.  We will have three fantastic offerings, and we hope you will help us talk up each of the auction items.  We will be auctioning off (via silent auction with bid sheets) a brand new iPad Mini with a hard cover case and screen guard, a sports package with autographs, tickets and a photographer who will photograph your child at their next sporting event, and our third item, a La Jolla/Del Mar basket with hundreds of dollars worth or gift cards and gift certificates!  We hope to see you all at the Pizza Social on September 27 at 5:00.

Students are already working on their next Washington Fundraiser and are designing TCS logo socks!  Keep an eye out for these as they will make fun and affordable gifts for family and friends.

If you were not at our Back To School Night, you may have missed this year's dates and schools planned to assist you with high school transitions.  We have four events planned and may have more to come.  Here are the dates and schools schedule thus far:

     October 2 - High Tech High

     October 8 - Army Navy Academy, Bishop's School, Francis Parker School, La Jolla Country Day School,                             Pacific Ridge High, and Sand Diego Jewish Academy

     October 17 - Grauer School

     October 29 - Cathedral High

Lastly, TCS is still looking for an organizer of our Fall Festival!!  This year the 8th graders will play a small roll in the event, so please consider helping make this year's Fall Festival a great experience by volunteering some time.  If you are interested, please let me, Kelly or Evelyn know and we will point you in the right direction.

Your children are off to a great start this year.  They are thinking hard in math class, isolating variables in science class, writing persuasive essays and reading Shakespeare in humanities class, using antique photos with a modern twist to express ideas in art class, and looking for music on the internet to personalize in music class!  Welcome back to school and fall 2013.

Best, David