Wedgwood School PTA

There will be a PTA General Membership meeting on May 9th at 6:00pm (right before the Spring Dance).  At this meeting there will be a vote to elect the new board.  Nominees are:

Co-Presidents: Emily Maher and Rachael Weissman
Recording Secretary: Catherine Stine
Treasurer: Wendy Champagne
VP Membership: John Cahill
VP Volunteers: Julie Stevens
VP Programs: Sylvia Lago

The fundraising efforts of [...]

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The chess club will have its largest team yet, 16 kids, attending the state championship this coming weekend. Although over 1,400 elementary age kids will attend the event, we’re expecting a great showing from our relatively small contingent!
In other news, our top players participated in elite level play the past two weekends. Zhemin Shao represented [...]

Are you ready to taste some liquid nitrogen ice cream? Make a comet with your bare hands? Check out some world-class art? Then you are invited to attend Washington Weekend, the UW’s annual open house at all three campuses that runs from April 24-26, 2008.
This is the opportunity for you and your family to experience [...]

It’s time to celebrate all student council and patrol student’s for all their hard work in the Wedgwood community this year. We would like to go to the Wedgwood pool for swimming and a pizza party, but we need a few parent sponsors to make this successful. This means you simply show up for the [...]

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Wedgwood’s 3rd Annual Geography Bee was a lot of fun last Thursday evening. Every student who scored in the top 5 on the written test for their class participated in the bee, and all came prepared. It was obvious the students had worked very hard, with some adults commenting that the students knew [...]

Well, yes and no. The Seattle Audubon society has completed an 8-week program, which began in the fall and ending just last week. The FUN program has our third grade students to explore their schoolyard habitat from birds in the trees to millipedes on the ground. This program could not have happened [...]

There will be a planning meeting Wednesday, April 23 at 7 pm in the upstairs café area of Metropolitan Market (NE 55th St. and 40th Ave NE). This year’s carnival theme will be a Fiesta with live music of course. We are looking for a few volunteers to take charge of games/prizes and [...]

The PTA would like to thank Wedgwood parent Howard Muntz for writing and receiving a $3,000 grant from the Windermere Foundation for our Instrumental Music program. The WIM program costs $200 per student and this grant allows for scholarships to be granted to students receiving free and reduced lunch. The hope is everyone [...]