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 Avery's 5th Annual Talent Show
Friday, February 10 , 2012
Get Ready Sign-up January 17 -20
Start practicing now, get your act together! |
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Avery Elementary School Blood Drive |
 Avery will be teaming up with the Red Cross to sponsor our spring Blood Drive on Monday, February 6 from 2:30pm to 7:30pm in the Avery cafeteria. For more information or to schedule an appointment, go to redcrossblood.org and enter “averyelem” as your sponsor code. Or, you can contact Avery PTA Committee Chairperson
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directly and she can schedule your appointment for you.
Please remember that all donors must present a photo ID at the time of your blood donation.
We had a great turnout for the fall blood drive and hope to connect to even more donors this spring! Remember that each donation helps save lives!
Thank you for supporting Avery and the American Red Cross! |
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Avery ES reaches 100% PTA Membership!! |
We are delighted to share with you that Avery ES has reached 100% membership for the 2011-2012 school year! Thank you so much to all of our Avery families who not only bought memberships for yourselves, but also to those of you who encouraged friends and family members to support our school! There is strength in numbers, and joining the PTA increases our collective voice in both state and national issues that affect our children.
In order to achieve 100%, it means that we have issued one membership per each child enrolled at Avery as of a certain date at the beginning of the school year. So while the 100% membership level does not mean that every Avery family has joined the PTA, it does mean that we’ve had enough support from friends, family and the local community to reach the goal number based on the number of our enrolled students.
So thank you Avery families, friends and supporters! Let’s all celebrate by supporting our local businesses, including those that offer discounts and other benefits to our PTA members! 
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Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl |
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Several Years ago Mrs. Helen Ruffin, a very dynamic and innovative person, was the library media specialist at Sky Haven Elementary School in DeKalb County, Georgia. In 1985, she served on the selection committee for the Georgia Children’s Book Award nominee program. This literature program began in the Department of Language Education at the University of Georgia’s College of Education. The literature program inspired her to use the nominee books to encourage her students to read. Mrs. Ruffin created a unique reading competition in game format using the award nominees. It was called the Reading Bowl. Her vision was to have teams comprised of students from different schools compete to test their knowledge of the selected books. She shared this vision with her colleagues. They embraced her idea and pressed forward. Today, the Georgia Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl is open to students in grades four through twelve across the state. The first round of the reading bowl competition for Cherokee County elementary schools is on Tuesday, January 17 at 6:00pm at Freedom Middle School.
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