Welcome back to another great school year!  Your PTA is always proud to serve you and we have many wonderful upcoming events. It is important to us that you as parents and students are informed of the great programs and activities that PTA offers. There is a bulletin board across from the picnic tables that is always updated, so take a look as you go by. Also, we will display banners and send fliers home so you can note these important dates and events on your calendars. We all look forward to our annual events such as Fall Fest, Walk-A-Thon, Sock Hops, Book Fairs, McDonalds Night and Spring Fling, just to name a few. We sponsor the Recreational Reading program and we annually purchase an array of learning tools that your children use every day such as computers and equipment and classroom magazines and books. We hope to add even more fun events to our PTA calendar this year so we can continue making our school the best it can be for our students.

Please take a moment to look over the PTA letter in the first-day packet that comes home to your child and send in the $5 for your child's planner. These are important tools for the teacher and student alike. Please join PTA for $5 each or 2/$8 by filling out the membership information and sending in the money. Please specifiy either Planners or Membership. We accept checks made to S.H.E.S. PTA. These are just a couple of ways you can contribute to PTA so we can continue to offer all the wonderful activities that your children so look forward to every year. Also, on the PTA letter are the volunteer opportunities. PTA and all our events and committees are made up of parent volunteers. We cannot do all we do without YOU! If you can offer any time to the school, please check the box at the bottom of the form and someone will call you to find an area you can contribute your time. It's not only helpful, it's FUN!

Starting in August we will kickoff our annual Entertainment Book Sale Fundraiser. The kids love selling these money-saving coupon books to family and friends and earning fun prizes. And now the kids can sell the Entertainment Books to out-of-state family and friends online. It's easy and a great way to offer these valuable coupons while earning money for your school. The books are $20 a piece and $10 of that goes back to Safety Harbor Elementary School. Also, starting August 26th is our Book Fair which runs till September 2nd. This is a great chance to get the kids back into reading, reading, reading. This is also a way for PTA to purchase books for classrooms. So stop in the Media Center during that week and stock up on great-priced books.

Here are a few dates for your calendar: August 19th - First Day of school, BooHoo breakfast in Media Center for Pre-K and Kindergarten parents. August 21st 5:30-7:30 - Crispers night - Meet Mr. Kalach, our new principal. August 26th - Book Fair starts. August 27th - Back to school night and PTA general meeting September 18th - McDonalds night

2008 - 2009  PTA Board
Tamara Ham– PTA President
Denise Becker – 1^st Vice President
Charlie House – 2^nd Vice President
Jack Swift – 3^rd Vice President
Janene McKenney - Treasurer
Terri Dahl-Thomas – Recording Secretary