The annual CPMS Staff Appreciation Cookie Exchange will take place on Wednesday, 12/20. Cedar Park teachers and staff are given decorative boxes to take home their favorites from this historically impressive cookie buffet.
Volunteers are needed to provide a dozen homemade or store-bought cookies. All cookies must be at the school by 10am on Wednesday, 12/20. Sign-up now to provide a dozen cookies for our hard-working CPMS staff.
Cedar Park's PACK store (formerly the PBIS store) is open for business every other Thursday during students' lunch periods, allowing students to turn in their paper PACK tickets (earned from teachers) and choose from a variety of prizes, including tic tacs, pens, socks, games, and other novelty items.
This PTC-sponsored store is a part of CPMS's Positive Behavior Intervention System. Students earn tickets from teachers and staff by demonstrating behaviors that represent the CPMS pillars: Perseverance, Acceptance, Courage, Knowledge.
Students can save these tickets for larger prizes, spend as they earn them, or add them to the PACK raffle, which offers fun drawings for gift cards and school swag.
Parents are always needed to operate the PACK store. Login to myvolunteerpage.com, Opportunities—> School Support —> PACK store to see the available shifts. Any questions can be directed to CPMS's Director of Volunteers, Angela Redmon.
Earned PACK tickets decorate the cafeteria windows.
Cedar Park PTC's Staff Appreciation Committee is currently seeking a co-chair to help coordinate staff appreciation activities at Cedar Park. With December quickly approaching, leadership is needed to ensure a smooth cookie exchange event.
Historically, the Staff Appreciation committee has organized food-related events, such as monthly lunches, dinner on conference days, cookies for the winter exchange, and activities for staff appreciation week in the spring.
Generally, the work would include creating a donation list to be sent through mVP and organizing the food tables on the day of events. It's an excellent and fun way to be creative and bring smiles to all our hard-working CPMS staff.
If you are interested in bringing awesome events to CPMS teachers, please contact Angela Redmon for more information.
We’ve gone through a renaissance and we’re heading back to ancient Egypt!
Due to the customized nature of this year’s master schedule, it was difficult to carve out time when everyone in one grade was available simultaneously. In order to accommodate this tedious class schedule, we’ve moved to a different presentation/production model – smaller groups! And a new location - the library!
We look forward to more interaction with the students and the ability to coordinate with the
Humanities teachers to provide a relevant and interesting program. Our project this year will focus on ancient Egypt.
In order to ensure the success of the Art Literacy Program, we need volunteers and coordinators. To volunteer during the production part of the lesson, make sure that you checked the box next to Art Literacy in the MyVolunteerPage system. Once you do that, you will receive informative emails specific to your role in making Art Literacy possible.
We need Art Literacy Grade Level Coordinators for both 6th & 7th grades. You will work with the designated Humanities teacher for the grade to get dates for each group of presentations. You will give the presentations to that grade, or coordinate the volunteers who wish to present the lesson.
If this is something you would like to try, please email us at cpms.art.lit@gmail.com. Thank you for your help in continuing the tradition of supporting Art Literacy at Cedar Park.
Sincerely,
Daphne Teals & MaryBeth Piccirilli
Art Literacy Co-Coordinators
Facing a full classroom of 11 to 14 year-olds each morning is not for the faint of heart. It takes a lot to be an effective middle school teacher– enthusiasm, patience, passion... and for many, a decent cup of coffee.
Support our teachers and their sanity by donating to the PTC's monthly staff appreciation coffee run. Once a month, several volunteers sign-up to bring in a pound of pre-ground, non-flavored coffee to restock the coffee coffers in the staff lounge.
Donations can be left in the front office or in the teacher's lounge. The brilliance of this opportunity is that your child can transport your donation to the office for you. October's donations are due this Friday, 10/13.
Sign up here to donate a pound of coffee and save a teacher's morning. The sign-up lists the entire school year, so take as many spots as you can. CPMS teachers will thank you.
The annual CPMS Book Fair is scheduled for this October during the week of conferences. Our Library Media Assistant, Debbie Hernandez, is seeking out volunteers to help set-up and man the fair. The tentative schedule includes:
Two hour shifts are available on myvolunteerpage. An mVP profile is required to volunteer during school hours.
The all-school Art Lit presentation and project of Ancient Egypt, scheduled for Wed, 10/11, has been postponed. The new date will be communicated as soon as it is confirmed.
CPMS's Art Lit program is entirely funded and staffed by volunteers. If you are interested in joining this team and having an opportunity to volunteer within a classroom, please mark your interests in mVP by clicking My Profile–> Interests, filtering by Cedar Park, and then clicking the Art Lit box.
