TEACHER AND STAFF FAVORITES LIST
Need to show your appreciation to your favorite Andrews teachers or staff? If you are needing gift ideas, here is a handy list of their favorite items!
TEACHERS AND STAFF - FAVORITES LIST
Thank you to Karen Checkon for compiling this list!
LIFE MEMBERSHIP NOMINATIONS - ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
The Texas PTA Honorary Life Member Award and Texas PTA Extended Service Award are prestigious honors to bestow on a deserving individual who has supported Andrews PTA in our mission of making every child's potential a reality.
If you would like to nominate a teacher, staff member, parent, or a member of our community to be considered for an Honorary Texas Life Member award, please print out and complete the Life Member Nomination form” and return it to the school front office by Friday, January 25, 2019, in a sealed envelope marked “Life Member”.
Alternatively, you may fill out our online submission form:
ONLINE LIFE MEMBERSHIP NOMINATION FORM
While a member of your PTA CommYOUnity may receive multiple Texas PTA Honorary Life Member and Extended Service Awards, they should not receive more than one from the same PTA. When selecting a candidate to nominate, please check the list below to see if they may havbe already been awarded Life Membership at Andrews:
Interested in getting involved? There are positions open on the Life Membership Committee to help publicize the request for nominations, review nominations, order the awards, and plan for notification of award recipients.
TEXAS PTA HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIP:
Since 1909, the Texas PTA has made available the Texas PTA Honorary Life Membership as one of the highest honors presented to individuals for outstanding service to children and youth. The recipient does not have to be a PTA member nor must the service for which the honor has been bestowed be connected with the PTA. The only requirement for receiving a Texas PTA Honorary Life Membership is that the recipient is making or has made a worthwhile contribution to the well-being of children and youth.
NOTE: Recipients of the Texas PTA Honorary Life Membership are exempt from paying the Texas PTA portion of dues for only one Local PTA of their choice per membership year . If they have received more than one Honorary Life Membership, they may register as a Texas PTA Life Member with as many Local PTAs as they have Honorary Texas PTA Life Memberships. Texas PTA Honorary Life Memberships do not carry with them automatic rights to vote or to hold office in any PTA. In order to participate actively in PTA, an honorary life member must enroll in a Local PTA by paying the local and National PTA dues and having his/her name included on the membership list sent to the Texas PTA Office.
REFLECTIONS CONTEST UPDATE
The Reflections Art Contest judging at Andrews is now over and the parents of those entrants who will receive trophies at the school's next assembly have been notified. Entries which qualified to be judged at the Plano ISD council level have been forwarded for further judging.
Thank you to all of the students who participated!
Special thank you to Deepa Shenoy and Rachana Gairola for coordinating the contest this year.
YEARBOOKS
Yearbooks Available for Purchase
The 2018-19 Andrews Yearbook is available for purchase online. The Yearbooks will be distributed at the end of the school year.
Help Make Our Yearbook Great!
Do you have photos of your child taken at school that you can share with the Yearbook? The best photos are of a group of 3-4 Andrews students looking at the camera (with high resolution). We have deadlines (TBD) to meet, so be sure to upload them at the earliest possible convenience. Some of the events are like 'First day of school', 'Dot Day', 'Walk to School', etc.
Please see our newsletter or send us an email for instructions on how to upload your photos.
Deadline to upload pics for the following events is Jan 31, 2019:
- Veteran's Day Assembly (Nov 12)
- 2nd 9 week Assembly (Dec 21st)
- Wednesday Walkers
- Thanksgiving Feast for Kindergarten
- Pioneer Day for Grade 1
- Colonial Day for Grade 5
- Field Trips for Grade 4 (& if any other grade completed)
- 5th Grade Choir Performances
- Year-end Party (Dec 20th)
- Misc.
Thank you to Vani Kota for all of your hard work organizing our yearbook!
