STRATFORD SCHOOL NEWS

 Happy June, Stratford! 

This school year has flown by and summer is HERE!!!!! 

May was another awesome month at Stratford School!  Award-winning local author Amy McCoy visited the Stratford 3rd graders to talk about her popular books, Little Big Sister and Little Big Sister on the Move. This meaningful and interactive assembly was sponsored by the Stratford PTA. 

We celebrated and showed our appreciation to the amazing Stratford teachers and staff at the PTA Teacher Appreciation Luncheon on Tuesday, May 5th. We cannot thank them enough for all they do for our children and community. Thank you, Stratford teachers and staff!!! In addition, thank you very much to our Stratford community for all of your generous donations and volunteerism on that day. It was a beautiful day of community spirit. 

Some of our Stratford students were able to attend The Victory Games on May 29th both as athletes and as cheering, supporting spectators. One of the best parts of the games is the incredible support the athletes receive from their peers. SEPTA is a proud sponsor of the games and, this year, the PTA also contributed to the event. We are tremendously proud of the incredible athletes who participated and of the students who cheered on their peers with signs and more. It was another special, meaningful, and fun day, full of community spirit. 

Now that we're in June, the PARP committee will be placing collection boxes at each primary, elementary and middle school from June 1st through the 12th to collect gently used books to be sorted/ distributed across town for our annual Book Ninjas Scavenger Hunt. Books will be hidden at the parks, pool and 7th street the evening of June 18th, to be found the morning of June 19th. Please donate your gently used books and get ready for a super fun book scavenger hunt on June 19th! 

The PTA Health & Safety Committee is teaching students about the importance of bike safety and sun safety! The PTA will be distributing bike safety pencils and sun safety bracelets to every Stratford student. Please invite your child to make a bike safety poster and enter to win the Bike Safety Poster contest! Prizes include a No-HW pass and a small Stratford gift! The deadline to submit a poster is a June 9. Please remind your children to wear their helmets, bike safely, and wear sunscreen! 

We have so much to celebrate now that it's the end of the school year. The PTA has made beautiful yearbooks for our 5th grade class and those will be distributed in June. This month, the PTA will be helping distribute Italian Ices on the Stratford Olympics days and will also be helping distribute pizza at the 5th grade pool party! 

Our SEPTA director at Stratford is Michael Krumholz. Mike has made himself available to our entire Stratford community so if you have any questions about SEPTA or your own child's education, please email him at ohalui@gmail.com. 

Please feel free to contact me at stratford@gardencitypta.org anytime if you have any questions or concerns. And, please be sure to join the PTA and SEPTA so that we can all continue to support our students.

It is my privilege and pleasure to serve as the PTA Director for our amazing school.  Have the most amazing summer and I look forward to seeing you in September! 

Yours truly,
Yasmine Iliya Clark

Stratford PTA Director

stratford@gardencitypta.org

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