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BECK ACADEMY eNews
A BI-WEEKLY PUBLICATION OF THE BECK PTSA Amanda Dease, EDITOR
What’s Happening
The Beck eNews is published every other week on MONDAYS. Submission deadlines are the Wednesday prior to publication week, by 5pm. Our next e-News publication will be sent out on
Monday, April 15th.
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April 1 Marvelous Monday April 2 3rd Quarter Report Cards April 9 PTSA Board Meeting 12:00PM April 11, 12 Sweet Treats April 11 SIC Meeting 12:00pm April 15-19 Spring Break-No School April 26 8th Grade Dance April 29 Marvelous Monday April 30 Progress Report 4th Quarter
Thank you to all that donated and volunteered for International Day!
The children had a great day! Check out our Facebook Video!
Help Us Help Beck!!
Publix Partners – There is a change this year from year’s past: no more school rewards cards. Publix is implementing a new way of tracking our reward dollars. Please go to PUB-LIX.COM. Choose MY ACCOUNT. LOGIN (create a login if you don’t already have one). Go to MY PUBLIX PARTNER. Then SELECT A SCHOOL. Then select BECK PTSA. When you check out at Publix, you will enter the phone number you provide on their keypad, which is also the credit/debit card reader, and Beck will receive a portion of your purchases. This adds up for us. Publix is very generous to continue this program year after year. As a bonus, if you’re into clip-ping digital coupons, all of your coupons will be linked to the same phone number on checkout. Digital coupons also available at PUBLIX.COM.
Lowe’s Foods – Lowe’s is proud to be a local grocery store, based in the Carolinas, and also proud to support local schools. You will need your Lowes rewards card, available for free at all Lowes stores. Go to LOWESFOODS.COM. Then to REWARDS. Then to BACK2SCHOOLS. Then to BECK ACADEMY PTSA. Link the number on your Lowes rewards card that is listed on the backside of your card above the bar code. That’s all you have to do to get rewards deals and for Beck to get a little extra change in our pocket from a generous grocery donor. And, as bonus from Lowes, you also can earn discounts on gas at the same time.
Smile.Amazon.com – Amazon has pretty much everything you need for back to school and supplies throughout the school year. Please consider going into smile.amazon.com (instead of Amazon.com), and registering for the charity of your choice to receive a bit of a rebate from Amazon. And we hope you will choose BECK PTSA. Please share this information with your family and friends. Even those who are not local can support our local school by making this one small change if they shop at Smile.Amazon.com!
Box Tops for Education – Please keep clipping those Box Tops and save them for our school. We will have a couple of Box Top drive programs this year with rewards going to the class with the most collected. Each Box Top might only look like a dime to you, but if we all work together, those dimes again add up. There is a box for BOX TOP donations located in the front office. Collect and drop off anytime.
Beck Backers – 100% of every dollar you donate goes to benefit this school, and it’s all tax de-ductible too! We use the money to fund teacher grants and supplies, and support school func-tions throughout the school year. Information about becoming a Beck Backer can be found in your back to school packets, on the school website, and on the PTSA website. Donations can be made by check or online.
Because we are a non-profit organization, and because public schools can use all the funding we can get, we try to make the most out of programs like the ones listed above. Please put these programs on your back-to-school checklist and help us help our school!
Thank you from the Beck PTSA Team!
Help support Beck Academy!
If you haven’t already completed the PTSA Membership form online or in your first day packet, you can go to
https://beckacademy.memberhub.store or get a form from the front office.
Memberships are $6 per membership.
Help Beck reach 100% participation AGAIN this year!
Go Beck Blue Knights!
Any questions, please contact PTSA Membership Chairs, Amanda Paton or Susan Shelley at [email protected]
Sweet Treat Days are back! Sweet Treat Days are two day sales of special
items offered during lunch. Under State law, we are allowed “exemption
days,” when groups can fundraise by selling snacks that are outside the
strict new USDA nutritional guidelines. We had more success with these
sales over the past three years than the school store, and the kids REAL-
LY enjoyed having the occasional treats. We’ll still need parent volun-
teers at these monthly events, so please consider helping. Sweet Treats
can only be purchased with CASH.
www.Greenville.k12.sc.us/Beck
Follow us on Twitter @BECKBLUEKNIGHTS
www.facebook.com/BeckAcademyMiddle
www.beckacademyptsa.weebly.com
2018-2019 L.I.F.T.
We are continuing our afterschool L.I.F.T. program this school year to pro-vide students with additional opportunities to receive instruction and retake assessments, if needed. Please click here for additional information on the program. If your student needs bus transportation home from the program you can find a L.I.F.T. bus permission form here as well as a tentative list of dates that the program will be held.
Please direct any questions to your student's grade level administrator. 6th grade - Jennifer Woody; 355-1413; [email protected]
7th grade - Sheila Green; 355-1412; [email protected]
8th grade - Gage McAngus; 355-1411; [email protected]
Want to have your business banner in the carpool line?
Interested in putting your logo on our events?
Looking for a special way to support our school?
Become a Beck Business Partner!
Contact Joy Ivester at [email protected]
The Beck International Academy PTSA would like to thank everyone who has contributed so far to this year’s Beck Backers fundraiser. A total of 70 families have donated over
$8,000. When you support this fundraiser, 100% of your contribution stays at Beck Inter-national Academy and supports the educational needs of our children.
Also, your contribution is fully tax deductible.
Donations are still being accepted so there is still time to contribute. THANK YOU!
Meredith Dobson
Beck Backers Chair
Email: [email protected]
Beck Academy is a very special place and we are excited about the new year!
The PTSA organization is an important part of our school. The overall purpose of a PTSA is to make every child's
potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children. PTSAs benefit
everyone. Strong schools mean stronger communities. Beck is well known as having one of the best and most active
PTSAs in Greenville County!
PTSA Executive Board Members
2018-2019
President - Rhonda Traynham
1st Vice President - April McClure
2nd Vice President - Mary Mac Williams
Secretary - Marina Lewis
Treasurer - Maria Vogt
Assistant Treasurer - Jana Scroggins
Past President - Angie Hill
PTSA Committee Chairs
2018-2019
Apparel/Merchandising - Jennifer Adams & Jennifer Vail
Awards - Katie Mitchell
Beck Backers - Meredith Dobson
Beck's Big Dodgeball Tournament - Kim Eades &
Kathy Rumchak
Birthdays for Teachers - Lisa Lockhart
Box Tops - Kerra McAdams
Business Partners - Joy Ivester
Cookie Dough - Tina Goumas & Jennifer Smith
Directory - Danielle Colby
E-Newsletter - Amanda Dease
Grade Level Coordinator 6th - Brianna Shaw
Grade Level Coordinator 7th - Jen Pestrak
Grade Level Coordinator 8th - Elizabeth Chambers
8th Grade Dance - Elizabeth Chambers & LeAnne White
Hospitality - Brooke Cremmins, Dawn Ridge &
Jeanne Anderson
International Day - Amanda Dease
Legislative - Gary Daniels
Membership - Susan Shelley & Amanda Paton
Reflections - Amanda Westmorland
School Store - Jennifer Lucas & Brittany Boleman
Staff Appreciation - Susan Elliott & Lauren Murray
Student Appreciation - Catherine Daniels & Mary Margaret
Bannister
Sunshine Committee - Tracy Chastain
Volunteer Coordinators - Jen Pestrak & Lyn Edmonds &
Katie Burns
Email: [email protected]
You can send an email to the above
address to reach any of the Executive Board or Committee Chairs
and it will be forwarded to the correct person!
Check out information on our Beck PTSA website. Make our webpage a FAVORITE.
Be sure to check it at least once a week!
BECK PTSA WEBSITE www.beckacademyptsa.weebly.com
