The parents of the Ross Global Academy community have worked incredibly hard for the students this startup year!!
The Parents Association would like to celebrate the last day of the 2006-2007 academic year by taking a moment to offer HUGE thanks to all of the hardworking and resourceful parent volunteers who have contributed so much of themselves, their creativity, energy, patience, resourcefulness and dedication to enriching our children's lives this year!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!
RGA Parents Association
• Launch of a Ross Global Academy Parents Association, January 2007
• Two Elections of Officers of the RGA PA
Fundraising
• School photos fundraiser (Irvin Simon Studio; $880)
• Scholastic Book Fair fundraiser (30 percent of $4100 sales)
• Scholastic One for Books Program: A donation of 160 books to RGA by parents and students.
• SchoolPop fundraiser (ongoing)
• GoodSearch.com fundraiser (ongoing)
• Time Out New York Kids subscription fundraiser (ongoing)
• UseYourPhotos.com fundraiser (ongoing)
• Five middle school bake sales ($500)
• Box Tops 4 Education/General Mills fundraiser (ongoing)
• Raffle for the community picnic on July 18th (so far give-aways include an iPod, New Victory 2007-2008 tickets, and Star Wars USPS gift basket, plus much more!!)
• Spearheaded and co-wrote three grant applications, including for Airborne Teachers Trust and Center for Arts Education Parents As Arts Partners; new grant application in process for Center for Arts Education Parents As Arts Partners.
Special Events
• Basketball Championship Celebration
• Diversity Day
• Stepping Up Ceremonies for Kindergarten (co-sponsored by parents)
• Schoolwide Community Picnic (upcoming, July 18th)
• Teacher Appreciation Day acknowledgments and classroom-specific events.
• Lunar New Year: Chinese stories and activities
• Several In-class Holiday, End-of-Year, and Pizza Celebrations
• Lower school: Snacks and drinks schedule—weekly rotation, by family
• Millennium High School Thanksgiving Collaboration; Pairing Millennium 10th and RGA 1st Grade Class
• Donated refrigerator to a Kindergarten class to provide healthier snacks like cheese and fruit; and kids can bring more choices for lunch.
• Gifts and loans to class libraries from teachers’ wish lists
• Entertainment for a final class picnic
Enrichment
Field Trips
Initiated, organized, chaperoned, and subsidized many field trips, including:
1. Carnegie Hall Educational Concert Woodwinds Concert
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art guided tour and hands-on sketching exploration (“The Four Seasons”)
3. Brooklyn Museum of Art guided tour/hands-on sketching exploration, Egyptian Collection
4. Museum of Natural History African American History Month Special Program: Hall of African Mammals Small Group Explorations; Special African American History Month Performance
5. Museum of Natural History Hall of South American Peoples: Small Group Explorations; Special South American Artist Performance
6. Museum of the American Indian: Special Native North American Performance
7. Mahayana Buddhist Temple (largest Buddhist temple in NYC), Chinatown: Lunar New Year celebration
8. Poets House: Tour and Reading
9. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: Guided tour and Robot Workshop
10. Paper Bag Players “Dandelion”
11. Ballet Hispanico @ City College
12. Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
13. New York Aquarium (Coney Island)
14. Charlotte's Web, the movie—school paid for the kids but parents arranged the trip
15. The Nutcracker at the Winter Garden
16. Rose Center for Earth and Space
17. Alexander Calder in City Hall Park: Walking Tour of Calder public sculpture exhbition, with video and book references.
18. Jazz at Lincoln Center's JazzED program with Wynton Marsalis at the Apollo Theater
19. Lombardi's (oldest pizzeria in America), luncheon and tour
20. Dim Sum Luncheon at Jin Fong Restaurant, Chinatown/Lunar New Year celebration
21. Central Park/Heckscher Playground Sprinkler Trip: Ice pops for all of first grade; served as chaperones.
In-school Authors/Artists Series
Parents initiated and set up special visits from many prominent authors and artists, including:
• Mary Ellen Mark and Martin Bell, well-known photographer and filmmaker
• Yibin Li, Chinese-born virtuouso violinist, play-and-talk session
• Laura Ljungkvist, Swedish-born, NY-based children’s author/illustrator
• Mari Takabayashi, Japanese-born children’s author/illustrator
• Kam Mak, Chinese-born children’s author/illustrator
• Jakob Trollbäck, Emmy-winning motion graphics designer/director
• Annie Wright (widow of James Wright) from the Poets House, Poetry
Reading
• Laurie Rosenwald, children’s author/illustrator (upcoming, fall 2007)).
Extracurricular
• Launch of a Girl Scouts Troop for Next Fall
• Coaching for the Step Team
• Launch of dialogues with Third Street Music School Settlement, Alvin Ailey, and Piano School of NYC for potential after-school and Saturday enrichment programming.
Community
• Launch of a Uniform Exchange Program (in progress)
• Service as volunteer school aides, and in other capacities, five days a
week, in the case of several parents, since October 2006.
Internet Community
• Launch of an active PA website within a month of forming the Parents Association.
• Hundreds of links to education organizations, news groups, educational sites, fundraising opportunities and much more.
• Online suggestion box
• Timely School information, updated daily
• Approx. 400 individual news items posted since the site’s inception
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