 eNews August 14, 2018
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McLean PTSA Welcomes You!
As a PTSA, we have the opportunity to support McLean’s mission through membership, donations, and volunteer service. Join us as we strive to serve the students, teachers, staff, administration, and families at McLean. And, know that none of this would be possible without your involvement and support.
Keep reading to find ways you can get involved and help support McLean HS!
With appreciation,
Sue Ellen Beggs president@mcleanptsa.org
MHS Back to School Teachers Breakfast - Monday, Aug 20
Help us kick off the school year and welcome back our teachers! You can greet staff, serve food, help with set-up or clean-up, or drop off food or beverages. With nearly 200 attendees expected, its a big undertaking so any and all of your donations and time are appreciated! Please click here to see how you can help.
Please call/text 703-932-7565 or email us at hospitality@mcleanptsa.org with any questions.
Thanks in advance for helping make this event a success!
MHS Hospitality Chairs, Sharon Sachs and Solat Zaidi
Welcome to the 2018/19 school year ! Please demonstrate your support for MHS students, teachers and staff by joining the PTSA and contributing to our fall Direct Donation campaign. Your membership dues and donations will fund our Teacher Grant Program, our teacher/staff Hospitality Committee, our student Health and Wellness programs and more. Joining the PTSA will also allow you to access the updated online AtoZ Family Directory APP for the 2018/19 school year.
This fall membership/donation drive is the PTSA's primary source of funding for all of our programs so JOIN NOW!
New this School Year
Recent changes in state regulations regarding data privacy are impacting the compilation of Student Directories at elementary, middle and high schools statewide. As a result, PTAs and PTSAs are no longer able to access information necessary to produce a comprehensive directory in an efficient manner.
The MHS PTSA will still be offering all of it's members access to the McLean Student Directory through the AtoZ directory app. Information that the PTSA can include in the app will be more limited than the information previously available in the printed version of the directory, but families will have the opportunity to personally augment their own entries with the additional contact information that is no longer provided to the PTSA by the school.
We regret any inconvenience, but we believe the directory app will still be a valuable MHS community resource.
In mid-to-late September, look out for an email about how to log into AtoZ and update/augment your directory entry.
 Help and Supplies Needed for Celebrate McLean
Volunteers and supplies are needed for Celebrate McLean, a fun festival which serves as McLean High School's school year kick-off on Friday, August 24th. Volunteers are needed for any time you or your rising 8th grader and older can spare during the day. Decorating and set up before the event starting at 10 am, manning prize tables during the event, or clean up after! Volunteers hours will be given! Please contact Tammy Piper or click on the Sign up Genius link to volunteer.
p.s. Not available to help out that day, but want to help in another way? The Celebrate McLean festival also needs help with supplies. Check out the Sign up Genius link for details.
Medication Drop-off
The Health Room will be
open for drop-off of emergency and daily medications on the
following dates/times:
- Aug 22
(Wed) 8-11am
- Aug 23
(Thur) 4-7pm
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Aug 24 (Fri) 1-6pm (during Freshman Orientation and Celebrate McLean) All medications may be
dropped off after the start of school M-F 8am – 3pm. All visitors
are required to check in at the Main Office.
All medications are
required to have an authorization: Epinephrine
Authorization, Inhaler Authorization, Medication Authorization
As needed
over-the-counter medications may be transported to school (directly to the
clinic) after the first day by high school students, however the
medication must be in the original unopened container and accompanied by an
appropriate Medication Authorization. All prescription medications must
be transported to school by a parent or designated adult.
Volunteers Needed
Are you interested in serving the PTSA but aren’t able to
attend meetings or have daytime commitments? Some positions can be performed remotely, are limited in duration, yet
involve working with others to build community and serve MHS. Please take a look at our current needs and
consider reaching out today.
Slideshow/Video
Volunteer – seeking someone with experience and interest in putting
together a 2-3 minute McLean PTSA welcome video for the fall. This volunteer would be part of the
Membership Committee. Please contact
Erica Glembocki at vp2@mcleanptsa.org for
more information and examples of what we hope to create.
WordPress
Volunteer – seeking someone with WordPress experience to join the Website
Committee and support the technical side of our PTSA Website. We hope to continue to grow the website into
an important tool for communication within our community. Please contact Linh Nham at vp1@mcleanptsa.org
for more information.
MHS All Night Grad Party Co-chair -- seeking a junior or senior parent to serve as co-chair (psst, the other co-chair is a parent with prior experience leading ANGP at another high school, this is a great chance to step in an learn the ropes with an expert!) Please contact Sue Ellen Beggs at president@mcleanptsa.org for
more information.
Other - Do you have a skill you'd like to put to use, but haven't seen a job listed? Let us know by emailing president@mcleanptsa.org
We'd love to put your talents to use!
School Supplies Purchased Via MHS Amazon Link Earn Money for the PTSA (at no cost to you)
Simply bookmark: http://www.amazon.com/?tag=mcleanhs.20
And use the link to access Amazon BEFORE you add items to your cart and check out promptly. Items that are left in your cart for 24 hours or more do not qualify. To save items to purchase later, please use your Wish List. Every purchase counts!
Resources for Parents Related to Special Education
The FCPS Parent Resource Center (PRC) helps parents of students with disabilities. It sponsors workshops, has a lending library, and has Parent Liaisons to help parents solve problems. The PRC provides services relating to twice exceptional students, special needs life planning, parent stress, postsecondary education, resource fairs for students, access to support groups for students and adults, and many more!
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