Join us Thursday, April 23 at 6:30PM for our General Meeting. We are excited to have BLRB Architects visit and present a virtual tour of our new school building. Following their presentation we will provide an update on the name submission process.  If you haven’t had a chance to register your name preference, visit SchmitzParkPTA.org for details. And a reminder free childcare is provided for school age children in the gym.  Questions please contact your board at board@schmitzparkpta.org.

This past week, Mr. Kischner sent a letter to parents and the school community and neighbors asking for feedback in helping to name our new school.  The district will ultimately make the decision on the name but we would love to give them our preferred considerations and have until April 26th to do so.  If you would like to participate, please register your preference (vote) here. The Building Leadership Team has forwarded four names for consideration: Genesee Hill Elementary School:

Thank to all of you who were able to attend and/or donate to this year’s auction!  We raised approximately $135,000 (including MVG competition)! We are now at $215,000 raised for the year and need another $25,000 to meet our goal of $240,000. If you haven’t had a chance to give, please click on the following link to make your contribution to our amazing school: http://www.schmitzparkpta.org/givewhereyoulive/. And the online auction is still underway…there are 65 Schmitz Park Mariner’s

Please join Emily Giaquinta & Genevieve Carlson on Tuesday, April 7 from 6:30–7:30PM at Schmitz Park Elementary for a brief presentation on the Bell Time Proposal, Q&A session and to complete the family survey. You can also view information and submit the survey online at: http://neighbortoneighbor.www.seattleschools.org. For questions contact: Emily Giaquinta – legislative@schmitzparkpta.org The Bell Times Task Force is reviewing public input on whether to keep the bell time schedule the same, change it to a modified flip of elementary, middle &

Would you like your child to have an opportunity to practice with Social Thinking concepts?  Lisa Schubert, a parent of a kindergartner at Schmitz Park, is organizing play groups for kids who are socially shy or have trouble ‘staying with the group.’  While Lisa is familiar with the Social Thinking curriculum, she says, “What we do with these groups depends on the families who sign up.”  She imagines paired play dates and small group gatherings

Thank you to Zach at the Admiral Baskin Robbins for donating over $800 worth of ice cream to our MVG (Most Valuable Grade) competition winners. All Kindergarteners and 1st graders had a blast. Please show our appreciation by stopping by for your next ice cream cone or you can now order ice cream cakes online at: www.baskinrobbins.com.  

The West Seattle community, along with Schmitz Park Elementary families, staff and Genesee Hill School alumni, are being invited to submit suggestions for the name of the new school building being constructed to replace the old building on the Genesee Hill school site. This Seattle Public Schools Building Excellence IV (BEX IV) project was approved by Seattle voters in February 2013. The Schmitz Park Elementary program is scheduled to move into the new building at

We hope you can join us this Thursday, March 19th at 6:30pm in the school cafeteria for our General Meeting.  All our welcome and if you haven’t had a chance to sign up and be a member, you can do so at the meeting.  Ms. Minkin, Ms. Watts (School Counselor), Ms. Johnson (Special Education) and Ms. Christie (Speech and Language pathologist) will lead a presentation on Social Thinking and how this program is being implemented at

Seattle Public Schools is hosting a community meeting Tuesday, March 31, 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Fairmount Park Elementary (School lunchroom) 3800 SW Findlay Street to share information about the next Operations Levy and our Buildings, Technology, Academics/Athletics IV (BTA IV) Capital Levy on February 2016 Seattle ballot. The Operations Levy renews every three years, represents nearly 25% of the district’s annual general fund budget and supports basic educational programs not fully funded by the state. The Buildings, Technology

We have a two hour early dismissal on Wednesday March 25th.  We will be offering an Art Wizards camp from 1pm-3pm that day, $25 per student.  You can sign up ONLINE  or complete and return the PAPER FORM. Registrations will occur in real time and will close once the class reaches capacity.  Jen Schill, Enrichment Coordinator, will pick up paper forms once per day at 2:45pm and process them that evening.