Principal’s Corner: A Message From Principal Kamau
Congratulations Warner Football Team
The Warner football team played three games on Saturday and won all three to advance to the next round!
WAVE meeting and Cyber Security Talk
Please join us for the next…
WAVE meeting and Cyber Security Talk Tuesday, October 4th at 8:30am in the Banooni Auditorium.
Keeping Your Kids and Yourself Safe Digitally by Alan Silberberg Tuesday, October 4th at 9am in the Banooni Auditorium
In 20 minutes or less get a campus update on all the happenings at Warner Avenue School. Immediately following the WAVE Meeting, please plan to stay and hear a special presentation from Alan Silberberg.
Our children are growing up in a digital, social media-saturated world. Come learn about family safety online, including your digital footprint and cybersecurity.
Alan Silberberg is a Founder of Digijaks, a cybersecurity company specializing in social media and mobile devices. He is a member of the California Cyber Security Task Force (established by Gov. Jerry Brown) and subject matter expert on cybersecurity for the US SBA. Mr. Silberberg is a Warner parent and his tech column is often featured in the WarnerWhat‘s Happening newsletter.
Parents, we would love to have your older students volunteer in exchange for community service hours! Please have your older kids (6th grade & above) contact: camilleanderson1@gmail.com for volunteer opportunities.
Warner STAR Wish List
Thank you to all those who have made the beginning of NOVA Session 1 such a wonderful success!!!! There are still some classes with availability, so should you be interested, please call us in the STAR Office at 310/470-1868.
Throughout the summer, STAR has realized that we need some items to get us through another school year here at Warner. Any and all donations are humbly welcomed and accepted.
****STAR’s WISH LIST****
1. A working refrigerator w/ freezer
2. A working iron
3. 4 square balls (2)
4. Basketballs (3)
5. Hand Ball Balls (2)
6. Soccer Balls (3)
7. New ball bin with lock
8. New electric ball pump
Thank you all very much and have a lovely week!!!!!
WARNER STAR TEACHERS
Join the Orchestra!
Open enrollment has begun for the school’s instrumental music program.
Woodwind, brass and string classes are now being formed for students of all levels.
Get all of the information online and register at:
(By Alan W. Silberberg, father of 2 Warner kids + 1 Alumni, and Founder of Digijakswhich is a cyber security company with emphasis on preventing socially engineered attacks. He is a member of the California Cyber Security Task Force + a Subject Matter Expert on Cyber Security for the U.S. SBA.)
App safety. That sounds a little scary, and perhaps for some people, if not many, like science fiction. Considering that the first thing most kids do when they get to use their parents’ phone or tablet (or use their own) is to use apps. Apps as games. Apps as communication. Apps as drawing. Apps as cameras. Sometimes the apps are combinations of things.
Why is this seemingly innocent thing such a problem?
Apps can serve malware and viruses through your devices once the permissions are granted. This can lead to identify theft, compromising of personal and or financial information and can provide information about your kids to strangers with ill intent. (While this is rare on the Apple store directly or Google play store, it is quite common for apps downloaded outside of the stores.) SOLUTION: Set all your devices to only download apps from the official app stores. Depending on your phone or device, you will need to check the settings, and specifically for apps and or the default download settings. Don’t download apps that ask for every permission unless there is a good reason.
Apps can record the user’s interactions on the device and/or online through various tracking software. This leads to profiling and creation of databases about our kids, with a permanence attached to their names that will follow them for the rest of their lives. Most of the time this is done in the background, ie, surreptitiously, and kids’ apps and games are highly vulnerable to this kind of intrusion and potential privacy breach. Delete apps that do this; look at permissions on each app to determine which ones can.
Apps can trigger the gps or “geo-location,” or the camera, or SMS messaging, or email, and/or contacts and also ask for permission to read the contents of all these files on the device. When they “read” them they are also building databases about your kids and you. These databases are used to profile you and your kids and to create permanent records that may or may not be accurate. There is no reason why an app outside of an email or social media app would need access to emails, and SMS messages, or photos, or your contacts, and or geo locations. Games do not for sure. Drawing apps do not.
Apps can be “trojan horses” for something else. Kids can be especially vulnerable online to clicking on things that look cool, or are flashing with bright colors, without thinking through the consequences of possible malware or viruses. Again, set your devices to only download apps from the official app stores. If the app starts acting weird, delete it from your device. There are ways to monitor usage by apps on phones and tablets. When you see high memory use or high cpu use by the app (depending on the device this can be found in settings,) and power. By using one of the tools listed below to find apps that are out of normal range;what you find is often an indicator that it is doing something over the internet that it should not with information on your tablet or device.
Solutions:
Find an app to scan other app permissions – – like Norton 360 Mobile or Malwarebytes or Lookout – – that will pre-screen new apps for problems, and they can be used to show the app permissions of apps you have already put on-board your devices.
Talk to your kids often about which apps they are using, and why. Look at the app permission settings. If the app is asking for everything the device can do, that is a big red flag, especially with apps that kids are using. The picture below is of an Android app that Digijaks created, that has optimal app permissions. In other words it asks for almost no permissions. No email access. No SMS access. No geo location access. No picture access. Contrast this photo the two bad ones below it; and to the app permissions of 99% of the apps you and your kids have on your devices. Unfortunately almost all apps do something that would be deemed unacceptable if you heard it in plain English, rather than as a box in a quick mobile authorization .
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Sign up your Ralphs Rewards Card — Get Free $ for Warner!
Ralph’s Community Rewards program just re-started in September. We have to enroll each year, but when you enroll your Ralph’s Rewards card and choose Warner as your charity, every time you shop at Ralphs, they’ll donate a % of your purchases to our school. That’s it! This could add up to thousands of free dollars for Warner. Tell your family, ask friends to sign up, register Grandma and Grandpa to help our school
at no cost to them!
Three ways to sign up: (1) online; (2) by phone, or (3) make us do it for you!!
(1) Online option.
Get your Ralphs Rewards number (back of your card). If you access Ralphs Rewards with your phone number, you have to call the 1-800 number to get your Rewards number or to enroll by phone. Click the link below and follow the directions. You’ll create an online account first, if you don’t have one – then you get to pick your “community rewards” organization.
Please be sure to pick Warner Avenue Elementary, #81123 (not a “pop warner” football team).
(2) Phone option.
Call Ralph’s Community Rewards, 1-800-443-4438 and the representative will enroll you. Be sure they enroll you for WarnerAvenue School, # 81123.
(3) Make us do it for you!
Volunteers standing by! Just send us your info and we’ll do the data entry. (Note – if all you have is a phone number, or if you already set up an account online with a password, we can not enroll you. In those cases, go online or call the 1-800 number) Email silverton.sarah@gmail.com with: Name, email address, home address. We will set your password to be “615Holmby” and refuse all emails. You’ll get a confirmation email when we’re done, and you can go into your account via www.ralphs.com to update it at any time.
Thank you!
Double Your Annual Fund Contribution With Matching Gifts!
Corporate matching gift programs are a great way to double your gift to the Annual Fund. Many corporations match your generosity dollar for dollar. This is a free and easy way to make your contribution go further.
Please CLICK HERE see a list of companies that offer matching programs for charitable contributions.
While this list is extensive, if it doesn’t contain your company and you aren’t sure if you have matching funds available, please check with your HR department. That one call can do a lot to help support Warner.
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.
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.
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 atWarner section.
Everyone who goes through the Amazon portal onWarner‘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 throughWarner‘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 Warnerportal 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 forWarner
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.
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 forWarner. 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:
