From The Principal's Desk |
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Dear Blossom Hill Families:
Thank you joining with us for Travel Safely 2 School Week by modeling the important safety guidelines below. Leading by example enables our children to see and make the right choice which helps keep all members of our community safe. |
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In education together, Lisa Reynolds Principal, Blossom Hill School Phone: 408.335.2100 |
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From The Home & School Club President's Desk |
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One and done. This mantra guides the Blossom Hill Home & School Club fundraising efforts and our partnership with LGEF through the One Community Campaign. Historically, Blossom Hill families have participated at a high level in our fall fundraising drive, covering most of our costs for the year without needing additional major fundraisers in the winter and spring. We need your participation today.
Many wonder why the Home & School Club partners with LGEF to raise money through the One Community Campaign. For several years, the H&SC and LGEF have jointly funded many of the programs that mean the most to our students. For these programs, the H&SC pays for supplies while LGEF pays for the staff. In music, the H&SC pays for instruments and LGEF pays for the teacher. Similarly, in art, the H&SC pays for art supplies while LGEF pays for our art teacher, Mrs. Anderson. And the pattern continues through many other programs. This partnership also aligns our organizations more closely to support the district’s strategic plan. At the Home & School Club General Member Meeting this morning, parents voted to approve our annual operating budget of $187,005. Nearly 95% of the budget is used to pay for teacher and student supplies, workbooks, pencils, paper, software licenses, instruments, instructional kits, copier and printer costs, campus safety equipment, assemblies, student activities and more. These books, tools, programs and supplies are the basic tools our staff and students access in their classrooms.
Our fantastic parents have donated almost $82,000 towards the H&SC through the One Community Campaign so far. Please be sure to donate to the H&SC and LGEF through One Community before the fall drive ends on October 1st. The first $350 of your donation goes to the Home & School Club. The rest of your donation goes to fund salaries for Blossom Hill teachers who lead our PE, Library, Art and Counseling programs. All of your donation goes directly to our school. And with your support, our community thrives.
Melissa Crow Blossom Hill Home & School Club President |
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September/October
- 9/20 - 9/24 - Safe Routes to School - Walk and Roll to School Week**
- 9/24 - 3rd Grade Bike Rodeo*
- 9/28 - 4th Grade Bike Rodeo*
- 10/4 - No School - Professional Development Day for Teachers
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*Scroll down for more details on these events. **See details above "From the Principal's Desk" |
| IMPORTANT SCHOOL CONTACT INFORMATION |
Office: 408-335-2100
Attendance: 408-335-2145
Office Hours: 7:30 am - 4 pm |
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Thank you One Community LG Supporters! |
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One Community LG, on behalf of the Blossom Hill Home & School Club and LGEF, thanks the families who have donated to our One Community LG Campaign for the 2021-2022 school year. To date, Blossom Hill families have contributed $81,670 to the Blossom Hill Home & School Club - funding school supplies, the principal’s site fund, technology, STEAM programs and supplies, student enrichment, and community building events. Our families have also contributed $206,644.31 to LGEF - funding counselors as well as art, music, library and PE teachers at Blossom Hill. 47% of Blossom Hill families have already participated in the One Community LG Campaign.
If you have not yet contributed, please consider contributing at any level before our campaign ends on October 1st. All contributions are welcomed and appreciated as our goal is 100% parent participation. You can pledge now if you wish to defer your contribution to a later date, or choose a monthly payment plan. Also, many companies will match your contribution. Double the Match lists companies that generously offer matching programs.
To contribute, please visit One Community LG. Thank you again for helping to continue our amazing programs and level of excellence at Blossom Hill.
Blossom Hill Donors to One Community LG (as of September 21, 2021) |
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Alipour Family Amirkhas Family Anonymous (17) Ardakani Family Atout Family Bakota Family Baldueza Family Barkhatov Family Bertsch Family Bettcher Family Billingsley Family Binkley Family Blaine Family Bluestone Family Brahmankar/Deshmukh Family Brown Family Carlisle Family Caruso Family Cassidy Family Cates Family Chan Family Chase Family Chen Family Chen Family Chen/Li Family Chintalapoodi Family Choi Family Crow Family Culbert Family Cummings Family Davis Family Decoin Family Drabkin Family Duke Family Dunmire Family Endweiss Family Engelman Family Eric & DeeDee Dunstan Escobar Family Fador Famiy Fang Family Farwell Family Feichtmeir Family Felice A. Miller Fletcher Family Frantz Family Freed Family Gang Li Garcia Family Goel Family Goldenthal Family Goldsmith Family Gomez Family Gregor Family |
| Hamsioglu Family Hancir Family Helwick Family Hodjat Family Howard Famiy Hsu Family Hu Family Huang Family Huo Family Hutchinson Family Ielceanu Family Irene and Grant Wong Isaac Family Jacob Kok Jayasinha Family Jog Family Kanungo Family Khazaal Family Khorshid/Wong Family Kim & Cortez Family Kim & Kwon Family Kim Family Kiselev Family Koo Family Kosior Family Kumar Family Kursawe Family Kwong Family Lal Family Lee Family Lee Family Lenz Family Liang Family Liu Family Liu Family Liu/Chiu Family Luo Family Luren Family Madduri Family Malhotra Family Margolis Family Mayworm Family Merz Family Milivojevic Family Mohan Family Moodalbail Family Mroczek Family Muino Family Murthy Family Nagel-Mermel Family Nevill Family Newman/Wang Family Nyland Family Okuyucu Family Orozco Family Pandipati Family |
| Pang/Torres Family Park Family Parrinello Family Peng Family Ping Family Poulsen Family Quesada Family Ross Family Saban Family Sagoo/Dhillon Family Salzer-Swartz Family Saunders Family Schmidt Family Scott & Libby Trevathan Seeman Family Shah Family Shapiro Family Shaqir Family Smita & Haresh Kripalani Sommerstad Family Stefan Family Stephens Family Su Family Suryadarmita Family Tejada Family Thompson Family Thyen Family Tiller Family Tran & Nguyen Family Tregoning Family Tseng Family Tucey Family Tuuyen Tran Wagadarikar Family Wang Family Wei Family Wiersema Family Willerer Family Winoto Family Wissolik Family Wong Family Wu Family Xu Family Xue Family Yamini Ghadge Yang Family Yang Family Yap Family Yoo/Valentine Family Yu/Zollinger Family Zafar Family Zeman Family Zenteno Family Zhang Family Zhu Family |
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*Please note: If you contributed to One Community LG directly through your employer, we have not received that information yet as there is a delay in their processing of up to 60 days. If your name is not on our list of donors, please complete the Payroll Deduction Form so that we know to expect your contribution and can properly thank you. |
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Bike Rodeos for 3rd and 4th Grades |
Los Gatos -Monte Sereno Safe Routes to School will be hosting Bike Rodeos at each school site at the end of September. Bike Rodeos teach students important safety skills on a bike including rules of the road, signaling, and how to wear a helmet properly. Blossom Hill will be hosting bike rodeos for third graders on Friday, September 24 and fourth graders on Tuesday, September 28. All third and fourth graders should bring their helmets and bikes to school on their designated day. For safety purposes, only students who have helmets will be permitted to ride their bikes in the activities. Students who do not have bikes will still be included in the Bike Rodeo. If you have any questions, please contact your child's teacher or email president@blossomhill.org. |
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The Town is looking to fill one permanent crossing guard position and also wants to hire a few people to be substitute guards to cover illness and planned vacations of regular crossing guards |
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Save the Date - Sign Up Parties are Back! |
Bend & Brunch Tuesday, October 12th 9:30 - 11:30am
Join us for an outdoor mat pilates/HIIT class with Yoga Source instructor, and Blossom Hill mom, Annie Zeid. Class will be followed by a light brunch. Details on sign ups to come. |
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No Cost Giving from AmazonSmile |
No Cost Giving is easy! Visit smile.amazon.com, designate Blossom Hill Home & School Club as your charitable organization, and shop away! Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the Blossom Hill H&SC. Last quarter, Blossom Hill Home & School Club received $253.20. Thank you! |
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Time to Order Your 2021-2022 Yearbooks! |
Big welcome back from the Blossom Hill Yearbook Committee! The Yearbook Committee relies on parents' help to supply photos of the students every year. Please upload the first day of school photos onto Treering. Our goal is to have every Blossom Hill student represented in the yearbook. |
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To Purchase, Upload Photos & Customize Your Yearbook*: *Must be a parent or student 13 years or older.
Yearbook Regular Price: $16.00
Note: The 2 Custom Pages are FREE. The pages are personalized by you and are printed ONLY in your book. |
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Los Gatos Union School District Parcel Tax Measure B on November 2nd Ballot |
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Quality schools are at the heart of our town. For over 30 years Los Gatos and Monte Sereno students have relied on locally controlled funding. But the funding level has not increased in 20 years...and the current measure is about to expire. If not renewed, our schools will lose $2.7 million in funding each year requiring deep cuts, including layoffs of teaching staff.
Measure B will renew school funding at $335 per parcel, providing approximately $3.2 million in annual funding for local elementary and middle schools. Measure B would expire in 8 years. To learn more about Measure B and its impact, visit www.lgusd.org/renewalmeasure. |
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Don't Forget - Fridays are BH Spirit Days! |
We invite all students (and staff) to show their Blossom Hill spirit by wearing the favorite BH Spirit Wear each Friday. Don't have any Spirit Wear? Please visit our online store, Rokkitwear, for a great selection. Limited t-shirts and sweatshirts, as well as BH masks, will be on sale at (We accept credit cards, Apple Pay, and cash.) |
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Blossom Hill Vision Statement (Abilities and skills we expect our students to acquire and take-out into the world) All students will have the necessary skills to become enthusiastic, life-long learners and productive, empathetic, respectful members of society. Blossom Hill Mission Statement (What we need to do as a school community to ensure this happens) The Blossom Hill School community takes pride in providing an enriched standards-based curriculum in a safe, nurturing environment. We strive to appreciate an awareness of students’ developmental needs to help them progress towards independence. |
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Blossom Hill Elementary School 16400 Blossom Hill Road, Los Gatos, CA 95032 Phone: 408-335-2100 | Fax: 408-356-0887 Attendance Line: 408-335-2145 |
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Blossom Hill Home & School Club |
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*The Beehive newsletter is approved by Principal Lisa Reynolds and the H&SC Board and is written exclusively to provide the Blossom Hill community with pertinent, weekly school information. Articles, information, calendars, etc. may not be duplicated or re-printed in any manner without the permission of the Home & School Club or the Blossom Hill school administration. |
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Submissions can be made to The Beehive editor, Jennifer Shapiro, |
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