January Newsletter

Endeavor Hall Volunteer Organization

January 2013

Hello EH families!

It is the start of a new year and we hope that 2013 is a wonderful year for you and your family!

Upcoming Events
Quarterly VO Meeting: January 29, 2013 5-8 PM, Culvers, 3407 South 5600 West, West Valley.  10% of total sales this night will go towards the school!
Wendy’s Community Night: February 19, 2013, Wendy’s, West Valley. A percentage of purchases this night will go towards the school!  
SEP Conferences: February 27 and 28, 2013. We will be providing lunch for the teachers on these dates. If you are interested in helping out, please let us know.
Literacy Week: March 11-15, 2013, “Reading Helps Me Travel The World”
Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night: March 19, 2013, Chick-Fil-A, Jordan Landing. 20% of purchases with a flyer this night will go towards the school!
Spring Safety Fair: April TBD
Teacher Appreciation Week: May 6-10, 2013
Author Night: May 17, 2013
Field Day: May 29, 2013

Inspirations Winners

We had our Inspirations Awards Night January 10. It was a fabulous and wonderful night, thanks to Chantelle Ray and her team of wonderful parent volunteers! Every child who participated received a certificate, a ribbon and gift certificates from our sponsors. The winning and honorable mention entries for each category are as follows:

Theatre & Digital Art: We received 1 entry for Theatre Arts from Maya Jowers who won the Award of Excellence for grades 3-5. We received 8 entries for Digital Art. Of those entries, the following students won Awards of Excellence: Isaac Jowers and Aaron Jowers for grades K-2; Maya Jowers and Caleb Sim for grades 3-5; and Spencer Perry and Keegen McCurdy for grades 6-8.
Photography: We received 12 entries. Of those entries, the following students won Awards of Excellence: Frank Kramer and Alexander Straley for grades K-2; Jayden Ray and Jared Hetenhouser for grades 3-5; and Kylia McCoy for grades 6-8. Liberty Fink won the Honorable Mention for grades 3-5.
Literary Composition: We received 19 entries. Of those entries, the following students won Awards of Excellence:  Isaac Jowers and Citlalli Romero for grades K-2; Liberty Fink and Truman Barnes for grades 3-5; and Victoria Soper and Spencer Perry for grades 6-8.
3D Art: We received 20 entries. Of those entries, the following students won Awards of Excellence: Isaac Jowers and Aaron Jowers for grades K-2; Kayla Fahl and Abigail Kramer for grades 3-5; L. Gehrig Harris Jr. and Spencer Perry for grades 6-8. The following students won Honorable Mentions: Hailey Durfee for grades K-2 and Sam Minshew for grades 3-5.
Visual Art: We received 36 entries. Of those entries, the following students won Awards of Excellence: Grey Prieto and Isaiah Harris for grades K-2; Tyler Perry and Ammon Johnson for grades 3-5; and Cole Taylor and Maloa Johnson for grades 6-8. The following students won,Honorable Mentions: Isaac Jowers for grades K-2; Sarah Phillips and Kaitlyn Richards for grades 3-5; and Spencer Perry for grades 6-8.

All entries that received an Award of Excellence will be moving on to the region competition. All of the entries were truly wonderful. We hope to see many many more entries in next year’s competition!

Volunteers Needed
Writer in Residence is one of the innovative programs at Endeavor Hall.  As part of this program, nationally published authors are frequently at the school working with the students.  We are in need of volunteers to help while the authors are here.  This will provide you the opportunity to work with your students’ grades and with some of our wonderful authors.  More than two volunteers are always welcome, though we can make do with two in each class.  The more responders, the more attention and response each student receives--plus it gives experience to parents in how to respond constructively to their kids' writing.  If you would like to volunteer to help with this, please sign up here:  www.SignUpGenius.com/go/5080F44AEAF28A46-writer or contact Debbie Domenici at DebraDomenici@gmail.com or 801-634-5557.  Please check this site regularly as we update it regularly!

Quarterly VO Meeting: We will be holding our next Quarterly VO meeting at Culvers located at 3407 South 5600 West, West Valley, January 29, 2013 5-8 PM.  A percentage of purchases this night will go towards the school!  We need 4-8 volunteers to help as door greeters and to deliver food to tables.  If you would like to help please contact Debbie Domenici at DebraDomenici@gmail.com.  The more volunteers we have the shorter the shifts will be!

Volunteer Service Incentives!

Unlike some schools, we do NOT require a certain number of parental service hours, but we do need parental involvement to keep it going at its best. Please remember that any volunteer hours that you put in at the school or from home need to be documented in the volunteer sign-in binder in the front office so that you receive credit!

Last month we recognized parents who put in several hours of service at the school and also provided reserved seats at the holiday program for some of the parents. We want to clarify that these were based on the time that has been recorded at the school. Those who had two or more hours of recorded volunteer time were offered the reserved seats at the holiday programs. One seat was offered for each two hours of service.

Our next volunteer incentive is first pick for SEP Conference times for those who put in three hours of volunteer service.  So, please sign up for Writers in Residence or other hours to put your time in!

Later in the year, we will also be offering reserved seats for the spring concert and other incentives so please make sure that you are recording all service time with the office!

Fundraising
Tile Fundraiser:  We still have quite a lot of money to raise for the planned playground structure, to match the funds we received from our grant over the summer. A letter and brochure were emailed about this last month and are included with this newsletter.  Please let us know if you have any questions at DebraDomenici@gmail.com.

Other News
Cinch Sacks and Water Bottles:  We still have EH cinch sacks and water bottles available for sale.  These are very nice and good quality materials, and can be used often in your students classrooms. The teachers would love to have students leaving their classrooms less often to visit the drinking fountain, and another reusable bag (or several) to keep handy are always useful at home or school!  You may purchase cinch sacks for $10 each and water bottles for $5 each.  If you are interested, please notify us at DebraDomenici@gmail.com and we can arrange to get these to you.  The money from these sales also goes towards the playground!

Facebook: We have two Facebook pages that you can visit to get up to date information about upcoming events and incidents at the school. Please “Like” the following pages to stay informed:  Endeavor Hall and Endeavor Hall Eagle Power.

Wishing you a great January 2013!
Debbie, Anna, Jeanette, Stephanie, and Juliet
Endeavor Hall VO Board 2012-2013