Fundraising

IRVING FUN FAIR and SILENT AUCTION – February 23, 2013

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IRVING FUN FAIR and SILENT AUCTION

February 23,2013

WE NEED YOUR HELP FOR OUR SILENT AUCTION!

On Saturday, February 23th mark your calendars, as we will once again be having our annual Fun Fair and Silent Auction! It will be a day filled with fun and excitement!

Last year the Silent Auction was huge success because of your direct support in soliciting items and donating items for this event. Once again we need your support for this year’s Silent Auction. Please think about talents, items or services you or your employer could donate. Items that are always popular include:

–Sporting—Cubs, Sox, Bears, Blackhawks and Bulls or theatre tickets

–Museum memberships

–Restaurant certificates/gift cards

–Jewelry

–Use of a vacation home or time share

–Craft items

–And those holiday gifts you may have received 2 of!!

Anything you like—chances are someone else will want it too!!

HELP!!! VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: If you would like to help in soliciting local businesses for donations or can volunteer the day of the event your help would be GREATLY appreciated. Please call or e-mail me!!

The money from the Silent Auction goes directly to the Irving PTO, which continues to fund various programs to enhance the quality of education for our students and teachers. This is why we need your donations.

Donations and/or certificates can be dropped off at the school office or you can contact me directly. Please fill out the information on the back of this letter and include it with your donation. If you have any questions about your donation please call or e-mail me.

Thank you for helping in making the 2013 Fun Fair and Silent Auction a huge success!!

Best Regards,

Hannah O’Connor

773-368-4184

hanoconnor@gmail.com

LETTER FOR BUSINESSES

Cookie Crumble Thanks and Results

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Thanks so much to all of you who participated in this year’s Cookie Crumble!  Our very generous and very talented bakers provided an abundance of beautiful and delicious cookies last Saturday. The event was quite a success and we raised $1382.00! This would not have been possible without everyone coming together, bakers, volunteers, and customers alike.  Also, our 1st graders will be happy to know that they won the cookie challenge by bringing in a total of 75 dozen cookies! Congratulations 1st graders!  Your pizza party is forthcoming!

Thanks again everyone for helping to make this a festive and successful event!

Joyel Hall

Pennies for Sandy

Student Council is sponsoring a school wide “penny competition”.  The object of the game is for your child’s homeroom to collect the most points.  Each penny your child brings is worth one point towards their class total.  Your child can choose to put silver coins and paper money into another homeroom’s jar to take a point away from their total.  Each silver coin or paper bill will deduct one point from that classroom’s total. Money will be counted and totaled at the end of the week.  The top class will earn a special prize.

The money earned will be donated to schools that were affected by Hurricane Sandy through the “Literacy Lifeboats” initiative.  Here is a website with more information.  http://readingandwritingproject.com/literacy-lifeboats

What: School-wide Penny Competition

When: December 3rd – 7th

Where: Irving School

Why: To help schools that were affected by Hurricane Sandy

FLYER

Schoolyard Update: One Giant Leap for Irving!

At a recent meeting, the Board of Education voted to move ahead with the next, major step toward construction of a new Irving Schoolyard! This means Irving is well on its way to getting a new playground, a large artificial turf field and re-surfaced parking! In March the board will vote on the final plans so that construction can happen in summer of 2013. In the meantime, construction documents are being created and will go out to bid.

Click here to read the recent article in the Wednesday Journal about Irving’s Schoolyard.

What will our new schoolyard look like?

The Board of Ed is sending three different plans out for construction bids. They will pick one in February. Between now and February the Board will conduct additional reviews on issues like traffic patterns, pedestrian safety, parking, etc. During that time they will also be able to work with potential partners, like the Park District, who may assist with funding.

This is the basic plan, Option 1.

This is Option 2. It’s the same as Option 1 but with a smaller field.

This is Option 3. The layout is similar to the original Master Plan.

How do these plans compare to the original Master Plan?

One of the plans (Option 3) has a similar layout of the field, playground and parking. The other two plans leave the playground and parking where they are now but with significant improvements, and they put a field where the current asphalt is.

The original Master Plan.

One major difference is that many of the underground environmental features of the original plan are not able to be included during initial construction due to the increased cost of storm water management, permeable pavers, rain gardens and certain landscaping.

Unfortunately, the grant opportunities that could cover these costs are not on the same timeline that our construction requires. We look forward to finding other grants for environmental features that can go on top of a new schoolyard at a later time.

Are we almost done?

It is important to note that the original Master Plan is a guiding, visionary document. Many of the features on the original plan are items that can be added on as future fundraising allows. Consider the progress of a revised plan this spring as the fundamental building block for our vision.

One of the guiding principles of the Irving Schoolyard Project is to offer innovative learning experiences in an outdoor environment. The solar panels are one example of this effort. The school garden is another. Efforts like these will continue since Irving is full of people dedicated to improvement.

In fact, the Schoolyard Project recently received a grant from the Oak Park River Forest Community Foundation to expand the garden and to build a straw bale tool shed. The south side of the building will become quite a lush educational learning environment for students! This is all part of the Irving Schoolyard Project’s overall vision.

Thank you.

We need your input to determine the specific playground equipment that our students will play on for years to come, and details on that can be found separately. Otherwise, look for updates when there is significant activity from the Board of Education starting later in January, 2013.

Again and again, thank you.

13TH ANNUAL COOKIE CRUMBLE

IRVING SCHOOL PRESENTS THE 13TH ANNUAL COOKIE CRUMBLE

JOIN THE IRVING SCHOOL COMMUNITY IN OUR SWEET TRADITION ON

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8TH, 9AM – 12PM

IN THE MINI-GYM

FILL UP A BOX OF DELICIOUS HOMEMADE COOKIES

FOR JUST $10 A BOX!!

**BAKERS** Each participating family is asked to prepare 5 dozen of their favorite holiday cookies or confections and deliver them to the office on Friday, December 7th during school hours, or to the mini-gym on Saturday, December 8th between 7:30 & 9am (No chocolate chip, please). **Please include an ingredients list to place next to your cookies**. We are offering a free pizza party to the grade that brings in the most cookies!

For more information or to volunteer contact Joyel Hall at joyel_hall@yahoo.com

Thanks for your support!

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