SCHEDULE AND EVENTS FOR WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 16

PAC

Dear Ryan School Families, I hope that everyone had a good weekend. The PAC will be meeting tonight at 6:30pm in the Ryan School Library (2nd Floor)- it would be great to see some new faces. We will be discussing the fall fundraiser.


PAC IMPORTANT DATES:
Monday, September 12th- PAC Meeting, 6:30pm, Ryan School Library
Wednesday, September 14th- Grade 5 Open House
Thursday, September 15th- Grade 6 Open House

Open Houses are scheduled; Grade 5 is on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, and Grade 6 is on Thursday, September 15, 2016 both beginning at 6:00 PM. Specialist teachers will be available from 6:00-6:30 PM in their classrooms (which will be posted in the main lobby), then a brief presentation in the cafeteria from 6:30-7:00 PM by Mr. Hart and Mrs. McInnes, and finally, classroom teachers/teams will have their presentations in their classrooms.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Dine-Out Night Coordinator- Organize monthly dine-out events.
For more information please contact Carolyn at ryanschoolpac@gmail.com - Please consider to help your school out!!!!

RECYLE THAT
Donate your unwanted books and clothing now in our purple and yellow bin at school! The bin will accept books, DVDs, used clothing in any condition, linens and clothing accessories. Good condition items are repurposed and resold, lesser condition items are turned into industrial rags and filling material. Please no encyclopedias or college text books. Lets earn money for our school and keep these items out of landfills!

INK RECYCLING PROGRAM                                                                                                                                    
The Ryan School participates in an ink recycling  program. Bring in your used ink jets, laser toner cartridges, and used cell  phones ( in a zippered bag) and the Ryan will recycle them. Proceeds will fund art and enrichment programming at our school! Save the earth and help  the school!

PAPER RETRIEVER                                                                                                                                                  
The Ryan School has two Paper Retriever bins.  Bring your newspapers, office paper and catalogs to be recycled. We receive money for this paper and the proceeds go directly to the Ryan School arts and enrichment programming.  Please no plastic bags or phone books

AMAZON                                                                                                                                                                  
Amazon has a shopping program that benefits non-profits and the Ryan School PAC is now registered. It's called Amazon Smile and will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to our PAC. If you shop on Amazon.com, go to smile.amazon.com to designate the "John Ryan School Pac" as your school. Another great way to earn FREE money for our school and kids!

TOWN NEWS
ZERO WASTE DAY
Tewksbury’s 8th Annual Zero Waste Day is scheduled for Saturday, September 24th, from 9am-1pm (rain or shine) at the Wynn Middle School parking lot.  ZWD is an opportunity for you to clean out your attics, basements, closets, and garages of gently used items and recyclables.  Fifteen local organizations will be on site with donation and recycling collection vehicles and more than 75 volunteers from will assist in unloading your vehicle and ensuring that your experience is quick and easy.  The organizations are collecting items like clothing, furniture, baby gear, bikes, off-rim tires, household goods, pet supplies, books, cell phones, , inkjet cartridges, batteries and – for a small fee – electronics, like computers and TVs.  Hazardous waste disposal is not available at ZWD.  Facebook users are asked to help promote the event by LIKING Zero Waste Day, Tewksbury thru this link.  Please see the attached flyer for more details or visit their website at www.zwdtewksbury.org where you can find links to local non-profit organizations and opportunities for local business and civic groups to support this great community event.  For more information, please contact coordinators Beth McFadyen (bmcfadyen@comcast.net) and Loretta Ryan (macnmad@comcast.net).

TEWKSBURY EDUCATION FOUNDATION

The Tewksbury Education Foundation would like to welcome all students and their parent’s for the 2016-2017 school year. To what we hope will be a great year for all. As the new school year begins, we look forward to our 5th Live/Silent & Raffle Auction on November 18, 2016 at Tewksbury Country Club. We will have a table at the 8th grade open house with information about the auction and tickets available for purchase.  Please stop by and see what we are all about!