Collet Park PTA

Join us on Tuesday 12/07/21 for a free class for parents, educators, school staff and anyone in our community!

Listening Well: The Art of Empathic Understanding
December 7, 2021 from 2:30-4:30 pm MST

Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvdemopjIuHdO-noagliYh7HwFTm9EaXXh

In this 2-hour online class you will learn about the experience and expression of empathy and how this skill can assist us when building and maintaining relationships with those around us.
How well do you really know the people around you? A capacity for empathic understanding is hard-wired in our brains, but its full expression involves particular listening skills that are seldom learned through ordinary experience. Based on the 2018 book, "Listening Well: The Art of Empathic Understanding", this class will offer clear explanations, specific examples, and practical exercises for developing your skillfulness in empathic listening. We will discuss skills for expressing yourself clearly, and for strengthening family communication and relationships. Through empathic understanding, you have access to life experience far beyond your own, and over time, listening well deeply becomes a way of being.

Presented by Alicia Shiver, MA, LMHC, LADAC, MINT member.

Reflections Arts Program | National PTA

We are in need of a Reflections Chair!
National PTA's Reflections program provides opportunities for recognition and access to the arts which boost student confidence and success in the arts and in life.

Each year, over 300,000 students in Pre-K through Grade 12 create original works of art in response to a student-selected theme. This 50+ year-old program helps them explore their own thoughts, feelings and ideas, develop artistic literacy, increase confidence and find a love for learning that will help them become more successful in school and in life.

The 2021–2022 Reflections theme is "I Will Change the World By…"

Students submit their completed works of art in one or all of the available arts categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, Visual Arts.

The Reflections Chairperon is responsible for advertising at the school, collecting student projects, and getting them judged. The winners in each category are then passed on to New Mexico PTA for the state competition, and then those winners go to National. We have had national winners from Collet Park in the past! Our school's winners are due to state in mid-January, so we have all semester to get this done. Who wants to help us with this amazing program?
https://www.pta.org/home/programs/reflections

Reflections Arts Program | National PTA Give students confidence in their abilities to explore ideas and learn through the arts in the areas of dance choreography, film production, literature, music composition, photography and visual arts. Encourage your school to imagine, create and celebrate with Reflections Arts Program.

See below for this free learning opportunity from National PTA! Keeping our school open is the big goal, we must all do our part to help our students succeed!

How do we ensure schools stay open this year while staying healthy?

📅 Tuesday 8/17
🕛 12PM ET
😄 Free RSVP https://pta.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A69lPI3CSza1OUFlgCInKw

In this Learning Lab with Thermo Fisher Scientific, we’ll look at potential COVID-19 risks and solutions that can help keep your children safe.

Fact Sheet: Biden Administration Announces Additional Actions to Help Kids Go Back to School Safely | The White House

From National PTA:

Fact Sheet: Biden Administration Announces Additional Actions to Help Kids Go Back to School Safely | The White House Over the next six weeks, more than 50 million students will head back to school, and more than 20 million students will return to undergraduate and graduate studies. For young people, getting vaccinated right away is the best way back to the things they love – like playing sports, completing their...

MemberHub

Time to join us for the 21/22 school year! For just $7, your membership goes all the way up to National PTA, which uses the power of our membership to advocate for children at the federal level. https://colletpark.memberhub.co/store

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BASP- Fee Based - Rio Grande Educational Collaborative

RGEC is back at Collet Park this year! After school care until 6 pm. https://rgec.org/before-and-after-school-fee-based/

BASP- Fee Based - Rio Grande Educational Collaborative To register at one of our Fee School programs, login to your EZ Child Track account and complete the Online Registration process. If you do not yet have an account with us, you can register HERE!

Collet Park Elementary School

Collet Park news! Every classroom now has a UV filtration system! The latest news also states that the school has plenty of supplies and not to pay attention to supply lists. Of course, be sure to bring your Chromebook fully charged, water bottle, and mask!
https://colletpark.aps.edu/pf4/cms2/news_themed_display?id=1627641168877

Collet Park Elementary School Every classroom now has UV filtration. Your tax dollars at work. We are thrilled to have the added protection installed and ready for the first day of school. 

Officers! Be sure to sign up!

www.newmexicopta.org/current-events

APS board votes 5-1 to require masks indoors regardless of vaccination status

Here we go from APS tonight, masks will be required for all, no matter you vaccination status. According to the CDC, Bernalillo county is considered to have substantial community transmission rate. Mask up, get vaccinated, and stay safe everyone!

APS board votes 5-1 to require masks indoors regardless of vaccination status This decision comes after the CDC issued new mask guidance Tuesday.

Teacher's Shelf - Walmart.com

Collet Park supply lists on Walmart:
https://www.walmart.com/lists/back-to-school/classes/42735

Teacher's Shelf - Walmart.com Walmart Shopping Lists; your go-to place to keep you organized

School List Assist : Target

Collet Park's school supply list can be found on Target:
https://www.target.com/c/school-list-assist/-/N-ojfyt

School List Assist : Target Finish your school supply shopping in minutes by instantly adding available items from your school's supply list to your shopping cart with School List Assist at Target.

Mask guidance for upcoming New Mexico school year released

The PED has released their guidelines for masking and social distancing, along with other COVID measures for the upcoming school year. Now we wait for APS to use these guidelines for our schools. Will update as we know more, in the meantime please get yourselves and your 12 yrs+ children vaccinated!

Mask guidance for upcoming New Mexico school year released NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The New Mexico Public Education Department released its updated school reentry guidance Monday. According to a news release, middle school and high school students, along with t…

PED urges kids to return to in-person classrooms in the fall

Important note, all online schooling will be through eCADAMY. If you plan to return to Collet Park in person, be sure to register through ParentVUE ASAP if you haven't done so already.

PED urges kids to return to in-person classrooms in the fall The New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) wants everyone back in the classroom in August.

Collet Park families! Please share with friends and family, you never know you might need this assistance right now.

Big news: today we announced the single largest eligibility expansion in the history of New Mexico's child care assistance program!

Effective August 1st, we will double eligibility for families, supporting tens of thousands more families in need all across the state – a true game changer for early childhood education, working families, and the broader New Mexico economy.

This is one of the most significant policy changes we can make to help New Mexico working families – and we’ll keep looking at ways to push the envelope even farther.

Find more information here: https://bit.ly/3qDm714

'Get them vaccinated': Kids need COVID-19 shots soon to be vaccinated in time for school year

So I know it feels like summer just began, but we need to start thinking about vaccinating those 12 and up now so they are protected as much as possible before school starts.

'Get them vaccinated': Kids need COVID-19 shots soon to be vaccinated in time for school year "People think that doing nothing is not a decision. But not vaccinating your child is a decision, and it's a decision that puts them at risk."

Hello Collet Park family! We received this request, sharing for anyone willing to participate.

So many beautiful Reflections winners this year from National PTA! Perhaps someone wants to be our Collet Park Reflections chair and get our students involved in this amazing program?

Congratulations, 2020-2021 National PTA Reflections Outstanding Interpretation Winners! https://onevoice.pta.org/congratulations-2020-2021-national-pta-reflections-outstanding-interpretation-winners/

Starting July 1st we will begin our 21/22 PTA journey, will you join us?

State of New Mexico releases updated back-to-school plan

Roadmap 2.0 is released!

State of New Mexico releases updated back-to-school plan The state Public Education Department has released a month-by-month summer plan intended to get New Mexico schools ready for accelerated learning in the fall.

The state needs your input!

We invite every New Mexico family with school-age students will take a few moments to tell us about this past school year.

The pandemic was impossibly hard. Educators, families and students were all affected. We've invested heavily in building and rebuilding New Mexico's public education system. And we will recover -- and we can and will, and must, create the best public education system in the U.S., with your help and input.

The Public Education Department's spring 2021 Community Survey is available at bit.ly/NMPEDSURVEY21.

New Mexico lottery scholarship to again cover college tuition in full

Excellent news! While our Collet Park students have a few more years before they get to college, some of our parents might be interested to hear this news for their older students!

New Mexico lottery scholarship to again cover college tuition in full It will be the first time since 2015 the state has offered free college tuition under the lottery scholarship program.

More New Mexico schools commit to in-person school in fall

For the fall, sounds like we will most likely be only in person. All online curriculum will be at eCADAMY. Hopefully us volunteers will be allowed on campus as well so we can have some fun events! 🥳 hope everyone has a great summer, stay safe!

More New Mexico schools commit to in-person school in fall The more cautious school districts are signaling that learning will be in-person this fall.

10 Non-Tech Summer Activities to Build Language, Literacy

10 Non-Tech Summer Activities to Build Language, Literacy TTo prevent overuse of tech devices, try these ideas for non-tech activities that are fun AND promote language, literacy and learning.

www.newmexicopta.org

New Mexico PTA is looking for a new Office Assistant. If you are looking for part-time work that is flexible with the school schedule, (and you love PTA) check it out: https://www.newmexicopta.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2021-Office-Assistant-Posting.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1GJeTomGJ5ylDyISzqkvtoDrqpZXl0aSGpHjy4UV9bavSDqm0WAwu09SQ

www.newmexicopta.org

As the state adjusts to the new CDC guidance, they have announced that for now masks are still required in school.

It was a great convention with awesome speakers we just can't get in person. And only $25!

Hey PTA leaders, check out this new training! We are so fortunate to have a such a strong relationship between our administation and the PTA at Collet Park. But you never know when there is something new to learn!

Today Collet Park PTA donated 60 boxed lunches from Chick-Fil-A for our Fabulous teachers and staff! We hoped they enjoyed their lunch and know just how much they are appreciated, each and every day. We love our school!

Hey teachers! Here is another one just for you. We love our teachers and staff at Collet Park!

We appreciate our teachers, and so do local businesses like our friends at B2B ABQ, who asked us to share this $10 gift card! Bistronomy B2B

A little something for the teachers!

We appreciate our teachers, and so do local businesses like our friends at B2B ABQ, who asked us to share this $10 gift card! Bistronomy B2B

Looks like Collet Park will be 11 AM dismissal on May 25th.

Dismissal Schedule for Last Day of School 2021

The last day of school for Albuquerque Public Schools is Tuesday, May 25. Students will be dismissed early on the last day of school.

The last day of school for schools on the Extended Learning Plan is Tuesday, June 9.

These schools include Barcelona, Carlos Rey, Hawthorne, Kirtland, Kit Carson, Los Padillas, Pajarito, Mountain View, Navajo, Tomasita, and Whittier.

Here are the dismissal times:

https://www.aps.edu/news/2020-2021/dismissal-schedule-for-last-day-o

One of the Collet Park Teachers, Stephanie Blythe, is looking for bubble wrap for a class project. If you have any you can send it in with your kiddos!