CES PTA

News

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We are looking for volunteers

We are looking for volunteers to help with the following: 

  • Spirit Wear – work with the vendor to purchase CES Spirit Wear and offer spirit wear for sale to CES families.
  • Spanish translation – we are looking for someone to assist us with some translation needs.

We are also looking for a volunteer who is able to donate accounting services to assist with

filing our annual tax statement.  The PTA spends about $1,600 annually on accounting services.  We’d like to use those funds for other purposes if we can find someone who can donate their time and accounting expertise.
Email cesptapresident@gmail.com if you are able to help.   

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2020-2021 School Supply List

Our revised 2020-21 school supply list is completed…please click to the link here.  

The PTA has arranged from the School Tool Box to provide pre packaged “boxes” for each grade. These boxes are customizable (remove what you already have) and are offered at a discount.  They will also ship directly to your home.  

Simply go to: https://www.schooltoolbox.com/school-supplies/school/list-boxes/?schoolId=45165and customize/order your box. ​​​​​​​

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Important information for back to school

Don’t forget to update your Family File through CANVAS.  
Please pay particular attention to the screen titled “PTA/PTSA School Directory Information Verification“.  This information is provided to CES by Central Office for our school directory.   If data is incorrect in your Family File, it will be incorrectly reflected in the school directory. Don’t forget to update your Family File through CANVAS.  

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Thank you to our PTA volunteers

Thank you to everyone who volunteered with the PTA this year. Our school is better because of YOU.

A very special thank you to our PTA volunteers who are moving on from CES. We thank you for your commitment and time over the years and we wish you the best of luck in middle school!

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February PTA Meeting Information

Join us for our PTA Meeting on Tuesday, February 11 at 7:00 in the Cafeteria (note the new location). 

Sezin Palmer, candidate for the Board of Education for District 4, will be in attendance to get a sense of the specific issues and needs of the CES community.  She will also be available to answer audience questions.  

Under PTA policy, we will provide an equal opportunity to District 4 and District 5 candidates for the Board of Education to attend future PTA meetings that are similar in time, venue and presentation format. Pursuant to PTA policy, this is not an endorsement of any particular candidate and we look forward to meeting other candidates for the Board of Education.

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2020 Reflections

We have received the 2019-20 Howard County Reflections results and we would like to congratulate the following three CES students who have placed at the county level and have advanced to the Maryland State Reflections program. 

  • Sanjana Chigurula  – 1st place in Primary Literature
  • Vivian Lee  – 1st place in Primary Film Production
  • Anthony Cao  – 2nd place in Intermediate Film Production   

We would also like to congratulate all the 14 students who were selected by our judges to represent CES in this year’s Howard County Reflections Program. They are:  

  • Primary Visual Arts: Sophia Cao; James Pang; Ray Wang
  • Intermediate Visual Arts: Daniel Ahn, Sarah-Jane Robbins
  • Intermediate Music Composition: Violette Yang
    Primary Film Production: Vivian Lee
  • Intermediate Film Production: Anthony Cao; Warren Lee
  • Primary Literature: Sanjana Chigurula; Dougals Gartrell Jr.; Arjun Vijarnia 
  • Intermediate Literature: Somya Pandove

This year’s theme is “Look Within”. We received wonderful artworks and our judges were very impressed with all the entries. We are proud of the accomplishments of all the other students who participated, including Nicholas Cao, Emily Oh, James Scherck and Aditi Vijarnia, .

We hope that our CES students choose to participate again next year. And best luck to Sanjana, Vivian, and Anthony as they represent CES at the state level. 

Meng Zhu & Jodie Wang
CES PTA Reflections Co-chairs