JOIN THE AWARD-WINNING SMS PTA FOR 2018-2019!
Support SMS students and staff by joining PTA. Your membership helps pay for student programs, teacher resources, student socials, staff appreciation and so much more! Your time and talents are always welcome, but joining PTA does not oblige you to volunteer. It’s simply an easy and affordable way (less than $12 a member) to support your student, all students.
Check our less expensive second household memberships and student memberships. As a benefit to members only, you will have access to an online directory as well as PTA member discounts. Click here for a list of discounts. Click here to see all of our PTA awards!
The first French Club meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 28th from 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm in F215 (Mrs. Morrow's room). Everyone is welcome! Click on the icon for the flyer with more details.
The City of Plano has introduced a new program – the Green Star School Certification Program - that will honor and reward schools for their efforts towards environmental stewardship. So, keep an eye out and join us for new and continuing green initiatives at Schimelpfenig!
We’ve already started on our path to being a 5 STAR GREEN SCHOOL – at our Panther Preview on August 1st, student volunteers broke down and counted up school supply cardboard boxes and ensured that 230 pounds of cardboard would be diverted from our landfills! Way to go, Panthers!
Plano Lacrosse is hosting FREE New Player Clinics for K-12
When: Aug 18th, and 25th 9-10:30am
Where: Plano Sr HS (fields behind baseball field)
Click on icon for more details.
PISD Council of PTAs put together this postponed event on Sunday, September 2nd to promote family engagement in Plano and create an easy fundraiser for the PTAs.
Click on the icon to get more info and to pre-purchase tickets or buy at the door. $5 of each ticket goes to the PTA of your choice.
Each PTA will have a cabana (including Schim) that we will decorate. Last year there are prizes for the most decorated and most attended. Only Plano PTA families will be there, and last year there were NO LINES!!
The Fall Open House will be on Monday, August 27th from 6:30-8pm. Please click on the title for more details. "First period" will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m., so please don’t be “tardy.”
Our first yearbook sales window will be September 4-14. Yearbooks will be $35.00 and include four free icons when you personalize it. Yearbooks can be ordered online at jostensyearbooks.com or with cash or check made out to SMS.
In addition to our newsletter, website, FB and Twitter, SMS PTA will also send information to parents via Remind.
Follow this LINK to sign up with the code @64hhke
Subscribe to eNews to keep up with what's going on in your child's school and the district. First time subscribers can go to https://elist.pisd.edu/# to register for this free service. Others can manage their subscriptions using Parent Portal.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer in Plano schools, please complete the district's online Volunteer Application even if you have filled one out last year since it resets at the end of June every year. Detailed instructions can be found here and in Spanish. Your children truly appreciate the work you do for their school!
Auditions are August 28-30 and open to 7th and 8th graders. Mandatory Parent meeting is on Thursday, August 23rd. More details coming soon!
Terri Richards, Coach for FIRST Tech Challenge Team 12900
Schimelpfenig Middle School CTE & PLTW Engineering
469-752-6536
Calling all artists! Are you looking for something to showcase your talent?
The 2018-19 PTA Reflections theme is: Heroes Around Me
There are six categories to choose from: Visual Art, Photography, Film, Literature, Music Composition, and Dance Choreography!
Start now! Be creative and have fun! Click
HERE for more information.
RECYCLING SHOES & CLOTHING NEVER MADE MORE CENTS
Help us to be a part of diverting thousands of pounds of shoes, clothing, and other textiles from local landfills by filling our donation bin with your worn-out shoes, clothing, purses, belts, wallets, hats, caps, backpacks, hard toys, stuffed animals, and pots & pans. For every pound collected from you, the SMS PTA receives $0.15 per pound. The benefit to you? Neater closets, drawers, toy boxes, and kitchens, and the knowledge that less textile waste will end up in our local landfills.
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