Welcome Cougar Family!

Upcoming Dates

August 29: Back to School Picnic - TONIGHT!

August 30: Dollar Dress Day (students pay $1 to free dress. Dollars will be collected at school entrance or you can venmo PTA at @GHEPTA)

September 2: Labor Day - NO SCHOOL

September 3-6: MAP BOY

September 4: Attendance Dress Up Day: '70s, '80s, or 90's.

September 6: Coffee with the Principal & Spirit Shirt Friday

September 6: WWHS Football Feeder Pattern Night*

September 9-13: Scholastic Book Fair

September 12: Dad's Night Out

September 12: Pre-G Dine to Donate Event @ Pie Tap-Henderson

September 13: Grandfriend's Day

September 19: NTX Giving Day

September 20: Spirit Shirt Friday + In-School Clubs

September 27: Dollar Dress Day

October 4: Coffee with the Principal + Spirit Shirt Friday

October 10: Fall Break - NO SCHOOL

October 11: Fall Break - NO SCHOOL

October 14: Fall Break - NO SCHOOL

October 17: IB Cultural Night

October 18: Spirit Shirt Friday

October 21-25: Parent-Teacher Conferences

October 22-25: Camp Grady Spruce (5th Graders)

October 31: Trick or Treat Trail

Link to full calendar

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Announcements

Tonight - Back to School Picnic (5:30-7)

Campus Volunteer Needs

Lunch Room Volunteers - Click here to volunteer!

We’re looking for volunteers to help monitor student lunches!

Responsibilities include:

Ensuring students line up properly.
Assisting younger children with getting their plates and finding their seats.
Helping students stay seated and focused on eating.
Opening packaged items for little ones.
Encouraging students to clean up and throw away their trash when it's time to leave.

Book Fair Volunteers - Click here to Volunteer!

We are so excited to host our very first book fair and we will need helpers to make it a success!

Opportunities Include:

Set Up (9/6)
Book Fair Helpers (Daily week of Sept 9)
Tear Down (9/13)

Parent Volunteer Interest Form

We are looking for parent volunteers to help make our PTA events great!

Below are a few examples of PTA events:

IB Nights (Cultural, Math, Reading, Art, Science)
Halloween Trick or Treat Trail
Fun Run (Spring 2025)
School Garden
Field Day

Please see the form below for the many ways you can volunteer this year.

Parent Volunteer Interest Form

Dollar Dress Day THIS Friday

Our first Dollar Dress Day of the year is this Friday - August 30th! For a dollar donation, kids are allowed to free dress. PTA will be collecting donations at the school or you can venmo PTA (@GHEPTA). All donations go to the PTA.

Join PTA Today!

The class with the most PTA memberships will get a pizza party! Parents, students, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends...all are welcome to join the PTA!

Join PTA

September is Attendance Awareness Month!

There will be themed dress days each Wednesday during the month of September.

Wednesday September 4: Dress up as your favorite decade: '70s, '80s, or '90s.

Feeder Pattern Night for WWHS Football

Woodrow Willson HS Football is inviting all Cougars to their game for feeder pattern night! Kids will be able to run out of the Wildcat tunnel before the team and enjoy a performance by all our Cougars who worked so hard at mini cheer camp. We hope to see lots of Cougar families in attendance!

Click here for more info!

Feeder Pattern News

Favor the Kind Fundraiser

Previous Announcements

Voly Registration

If you would like to volunteer on campus (this include participating in class parties or in-school events) then you will need to register through Voly. This registration must be renewed annually - it expires on June 30th of each year.

Link to Voly registration: https://dallasisd.voly.org/

Make sure to fully complete your Voly registration - your screen will look like this when you are ready to go. All items must be green.

Mabels Labels Fundraiser!

Need labels for the upcoming school year? Buy your labels through Mabel's Labels and a portion of your purchase will go back to Geneva Heights PTA! Follow link below and search "Geneva Heights Elementary (Dallas)" to give back.

Mabel's Labels Link

Get the Geneva Gazette to your inbox!

To receive the Geneva Gazette directly to your inbox all you need to do is set up a Membership Toolkit account. This is not the same as a PTA membership - the membership toolkit is an account that allows you access to our PTA website & allows you to sign up for communications. If you have an account with another membership toolkit account, you can use that login.

If you already have an account, please make sure your information is correct.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, August 29

5:30p Back to School Picnic

Friday, August 30

Dollar Dress Day

Monday, September 2

Labor Day - No School

Friday, September 6

Spirit Shirt Friday!

6:00p WWHS Football Feeder Pattern Night

Friday, September 13

Spirit Shirt Friday!

SUBJECT: Geneva Gazette - PTA Newsletter - August 29, 2024