Principal’s Corner: A Message from Principal Kamau
Hello Warner Community:
Happy Labor Day weekend to you! I hope you are having a relaxing time with loved ones.
Construction Project
I am aware of the difficulty and drain of energy that the construction project is taking on everyone. I meet with the District Project Manager at least twice a week and each week the completion deadlines are extended. He is not at fault for any of the delays. The delays have been as a result of: engineering redesign due undocumented piping on blueprints and the age-old, sub-contractors not showing up as expected. At our latest meeting the Project Manager is confident that the job will be completed in three weeks; let’s just say the end of September! Patience builds character.
Traffic Safety
Question: Has the construction project caused us to abandon all driving guidelines especially around our children? We (teachers and concerned parents) are appalled at the dangerous driving practices we are witnessing daily. How is it that parents are parking alongside cars in the carpool lane to let their children out, or screaming and insulting others for suggesting that they are not being safe? There have been several incidents of road rage and accidents that needed police assistance. Parents, we need your help to keep our children safe. Additional support around the carpool lanes to usher traffic in the right direction would be so helpful. Please consider taking a few minutes out of the day to assist. And most importantly, slow down, obey traffic and carpool rules!
Parent Meeting
On Friday, September 9, 2016 at 8:30am there will be a 45-minute presentation on the A-G high school graduation requirements that have been adopted by LAUSD to ensure that students are College and Career Ready. The presenter is LAUSD Ms. Traci Calhoun, Parent and Community Engagement Administrator, ESC West. The presentation is in the Banooni Auditorium. Come and be informed!
Parent Committee Elections – September 12, 2016 WAVE meeting
Elections for School Site Council – there are four vacancies. Nominations and elections will be held at the meeting.
Elections for Local School Leadership Committee – there are three vacancies. Nominations and elections will be held at this meeting.
Reminder
We return to school on Tuesday, September 6, 2016 an early release day, 1:43pm.
Be Well: Be Kind
Agnes Kamau, Principal
Thank You Book Fair Volunteers
Thank You Drop Off Lane Volunteers
We appreciate the parents who covered the drop off lane over the last three weeks:
Ben Austin
Carrie Casden
Dan Harrison
Dana Levertov
Farnaz Manavi
Holly Shuter
Jeannine Sehati
Jeffrey Lustgarten
Jelena Verny
Jessica Weisblum
Jon Grove
Julian Zolkin
Karen Hamilton
Kristin Grove
Lauren Polak
Michael Adler
Neda Rahimi
Nook Suphamongkhon
Ron Silverton
Rose Krieger
Sabrina Ishak
Sanjeev Narayan
Tracy Austin
BOO!!!
Warner Dance Team Auditions
Come audition for the 2016-2017 Warner Dance Team! The dancers will be trained in jazz, hip hop, and contemporary under the direction of SuperStars Dance Academy. In addition to performing at Warner events, the team will attend two competitions during the year.
Date: Friday September 23, 2016
Location: Banooni Auditorium
Time: 2:45-3:30pm
Junior Team: Grades 3-5
Petite Team: Grade K-2
The dancers will be taught a combination and then asked to execute the choreography with style, enthusiasm, and stage presence!
If you haven’t signed up for STAR Nova classes, don’t worry you still have time and we still have space available in many of our classes!
We will be sending class reminders to your children through their classroom teachers all next week and Monday, September 12th.
Please remind your children on their class day(s) to go to STAR and we will direct them accordingly. Remember, STAR will pick up Kindergarteners and make sure that they get to their STAR classes everyday, all year long!
Please come to the STAR office FIRST, with ID before picking up all Kindergarteners and 1st graders from Nova classes!
We look forward to seeing your children in Nova #1!
Welcome back (or welcome if you are a new family) to 2016-17 school year and launch of the Warner Annual Fund Drive!
WAVE Foundation established the Annual Fund to bridge the gap between basic district funding with essential 21st century resources, services and equipment necessary to promote a highly successful learning environment. We cannot afford to take Warner’s excellence for granted. Public funding alone does not guarantee academic excellence for our children. That’s why your donation is critical.
Your child should have brought home an Annual Fund brochure earlier this week in their backpack. if you did not get one, there are extra brochures outside the office or you can download a brochure by clicking HERE.
Annual Fund contributions can be made online via credit card or bill pay via your checking account atwww.warneravenueelementary.com/warner-annual-fund/. Donations are tax-deductible and can be made in full or in three or six installments.
The Annual Fund is the school’s highest giving priority as it supports the educational and enrichment programs that make Warner unique. Our children are counting on our support.
Please consider making your gift to the Annual Fund today! Each gift provides an immediate and direct benefit to our children.
Thank you in advance for your generosity and best wishes for a wonderful school year.
is the official website for WAVE, the parent-teacher organization that supports enrichment and education at Warner Avenue Elementary.
You will find links to our 2016-2017 calendar (download it to your phone!), a list of event chairs and committee heads, list of WAVE Officers and Directors, various downloadable and online forms, and much, much more.
Interested in Volunteering?
If you would like to volunteer in a classroom or on campus, or for a WAVE event, you must complete an online application and obtain a LAUSD volunteer badge from the district.
You must wear your badge while you are volunteering on campus. All volunteers are required to complete an online application every year. Please follow the steps below:
3) If this is your first time completing an application online, do not attempt to log in. Click “Register” to register first.
4) Once your account is set up with your email, log in.
5) Start a “New Application”.
6) On Step 4-School Placement, enter your child’s information.
*Please use your child’s classroom number as the School ID.
7) After you submit the application, print it out, sign at the bottom, and bring it to the main office with your new TB test results. If your TB status is already on file (valid for 4 years), you do not need to bring a copy.
8) Read and sign the Volunteer Commitment Form in the main office. This form is also available on www.warneravenuelementary.com in the Volunteer at Warner section.
Everyone who goes through the Amazon portal on Warner’s website before shopping can earn us a 4-10% referral kickback at no additional cost. This could be thousands of free dollars for our children’s school!
Here’s how:
(1) Send all your friends and family all over the world an email with a link to Warner’s website:www.warneravenueelementary.com
(2) Need to shop on Amazon? Every single time, go to Warner’s website first and click through our portal to get there. The portal will always be on the very bottom of every page on our site, and we’re trying to put up a more prominent portal as well.
(3) Even to browse make it a habit. Every new purchase has to be put in the cart and paid for ONLY after clicking through our portal or we are not credited.
(4) You will not get confirmation that the purchase earned us a referral reward, but if you follow these steps, we’ll get free money!
FAQ:
1. Can I shop, put stuff in my cart and then click through Warner’s website to buy? No. Your cart will be there and the purchase will look the same to you, but Warner will not earn any money from it. The system is setup to credit us only for funneling a customer to them, and a customer is defined as a person who goes on our site, clicks through to Amazon’s site, commits items to a cart, and eventually makes the purchase. You must go through our portal before putting items in your cart to benefit Warner.
2. What if i click through the portal, browse and don’t put anything in my cart. I leave the window up, and later that day I make an Amazon purchase? Once you click through our portal, you’ve activated a 24 hour session timer. Purchases made in that window should be credited. But you’re safer always, always, always clicking through Warner’s Amazon portal to browse or shop on Amazon.
3. What if I click through Warner’s portal, put stuff in my cart and then wait a while before I compete the purchase…like more than 24 hours? So long as you accessed Amazon through our Warner portal and put items in your cart in that session, the purchase is credited to us if made within 90 days. But again, you’re safer if as a habit, you always, always click through Warner’s Amazon portal before you even browse, or shop, or finalize a purchase on Amazon.
4. What about Amazon Smile? We are working to link the Associate program to our Smile program. It should be invisible to you, but if it turns out there’s another step to the process we’ll update this page. Otherwise, if you were to shop smile.amazon.com without going through our website portal, we only earn a fraction of 1%, instead of 4%10%.
5. How much money do we earn? Amazon’s formula is complicated, with the numbers depending on the type of items purchased, the amount of money spent, and the total volume of clickthrough customers we refer. Don’t worry about it! Just shop as you normally would, after always first going to Warner’s site and clicking our portal to Amazon. The more people do it, the more we earn.
6. How long does the program run? Amazon is running the Associate program year round without limitation. Unlike other promotions, it earns money for Warner even when school is not in session.
7. Will doing this mess up my Amazon Prime account? No.
8. Does Amazon allow Warner access to data about my family’s purchases or account? No. WAVE administrators can get frequent updates on how much the school has earned in total, and that’s it. We can’t tell you if a particular purchase was credited, and we don’t get customer account data at all.
So every time you shop Amazon, first go to:www.warneravenueelementary.com, Then clickthrough to Amazon from our portal, fill your cart and check out as usual. Every single time.
Thank you for supporting Warner Avenue Elementary!
Shopping in Century City? Earn Money for Warner
Earning money for Warner is easy when you shop in Century City.
Once your account is confirmed, you can submit receipts by signing into your account. Select the ‘Points’ tab, then ‘Add Points.’ Be sure to ‘Pick Partner’ and choose Warner. Or submit your receipts to the Westfield Customer Service Desk within 7 days.
Upload your receipts within 14 days of purchase.
Corporate Sponsors Wanted
Any parent or business interested in corporate sponsorship (advertising in the roster, banners at school corners, this newsletter) please contact Tracy Austin at tsue73@yahoo.com.
It’s a tax-deductible contribution to Warner AND a great way to advertise your business to all the parents and the entire neighborhood.
Lost And Found
The Lost and Found is located outside the kindergarten yard. Please check regularly for your children’s lost items. Lunch boxes will will thrown out at the end of the day each Friday. Unclaimed clothing will be donated monthly.
CLICK HERE to shop Amazon and earn free money for Warner. Click through the Amazon link at the bottom of our website.
Shop at OFFICE DEPOT and they’ll send Warner 5% of every purchase!! Simply mention WARNER School to the cashier if in stores or at the time of check out on line or punch in Warner’s NEW ID# 700-100-74. Thank you for supporting Warner!!
Box Tops
eBoxTops are worth 10 cents each, and they add up fast! Our school can use the money to buy whatever it needs! Here’s how:
There is potential for our school to earn thousands of dollars through these programs so PLEASE participate and sign up.
THANK YOU for supporting Warner!!
Please recycle your used ink cartridges. Drop them off in the containers by the Main Office. Look for more recycling drives coming to Warner this year!
Please mark your calendars for Beautification Day. It is on
