Irving’s Tasty Dog Challenge night was a great success! Thanks to all of the families, friends, teachers and alum who came out in support. There is still time to purchase your Tasty Dog raffle tickets! Watch your Tuesday packet for a form that will need to be sent back to school by Friday, April 5th. You can also print the flyer below. Or, please feel free to contact me directly at kathleen.lee@hotmail.com. Remember, the drawing is Saturday, April 6th.
THE IRVING SLEEPOVER IS BACK!
The Irving Sleepover is May 3rd and there is a permission slip form here for you and an information sheet for you to have and read. All forms and money (20 dollars per Irving student) are due to Mr. Sak as soon as possible. Any questions or concerns, please email Mr. Sak at nsakellaris@op97.org.
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Nick Sakellaris
3rd grade Teacher
Eagle Extras Spring Update
Only 2 more days to register for the Spring Session of Eagle Extras. The following classes have reached the minimum enrollment and will run as scheduled:
Paper Play
Let’s Get Saktive!
Fitness and Fun on the Run
Sharing our Talents
There are still spaces available in these classes so please register.
The following classes have not yet reached their minimum enrollment and need you to save them!
Mad Science Grades 2-5 needs 7 students (Mondays 3:15-4:15 pm)
Mad Science Grades k-1 needs 1 students (Tuesdays 3:15-4:15 pm)
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! needs 4 students (Tuesdays 3:15-4:15 pm)
Irving Girls Run (formerly known as Girls on the Run) needs 10 students (Tues and Thurs from 3-4 pm)
Acting is Child’s Play needs 4 students (Wednesdays from 2-3 pm)
Orff Ensemble needs 3 students (Thursdays from 3-4 pm)
Chess Scholars needs 3 students (Fridays from 3-4 pm)
As always, thank you for your ongoing support of the Eagle Extras Program!
The Eagle Extra Committee
It’s Official! Irving is Getting a New Schoolyard!
On Tuesday night the District 97 Board of Education voted unanimously for construction to take place this summer to completely redo the Irving schoolyard. Thanks to a strong partnership between District 97, the Park District and the Irving PTO, this project is now a reality!
Our new schoolyard!
The approved plan includes moving the staff parking lot to where the current playground is, installing a large, multi-purpose, synthetic turf field where the current parking lot is, and having all new playground equipment in the northwest area of the current asphalt. There will be a main entryway along Harvard Street and a small plaza at the stoplight.
This plan has safety as its highest priority. The most obvious safety feature is that our students will be able to play on a field instead of asphalt. Supervisors will not have to supervise around a corner anymore. The playground will have a rubber surface and all new equipment. The smaller parking lot also gives our students more space to play.
For more details on the plan itself, please see the updated Frequently Asked Questions page of irvingschoolyard.com
Park District Partnership
Thanks to a huge showing of community support, the Park District is making a significant financial contribution toward the cost of the new field. Irving will become a busy place as families from around the area finally come to Irving to play sports together.
Your Support
You made this happen. You have given financial support time and again, from buying a vase from the Green Team, to shopping at the Irving yard sale and contributing to the Ragnar relay runners. You signed petitions and talked to your friends outside the Irving community. You came to meetings to give input on what you wanted the schoolyard to look like. Some of those meetings were many years ago, and some happened just recently. All of it counts.
Thanks to your support, the Irving PTO was able to secure 10% of the total project construction costs. This includes generous grants from the Oak Park AYSO and Chicago Edge Soccer Club, large individual donations and contributions to all the fundraisers we’ve had for the Schoolyard Project.
There is one more fundraiser coming up: This spring we have another team of runners doing the Ragnar Relay from Madison, WI, to Chicago to raise money for the Schoolyard Project. These funds will enable us to pay for shade sails that (we hope) will go above the main playground structure. Click here to donate online to the Soaring Schoolyard Eagles Ragnar team!
Look for posters of the plans in the school lobby display case soon after spring break.
Thank you to all the teachers, staff, parents, guardians, students, friends and community members who made this project possible!
If you have any questions, please contact Margaret Jeschke (margaret_jeschke@yahoo.com), Laura Crawford (lauracrawford47@gmail.com) or Mr. Hodge (jhodge@op97.org).
FREE Dental Care to ALL Irving Students
The Children’s Clinic of Oak Park will be providing FREE dental care to ALL Irving Students on April 10th , 11th and 12th. Care will be delivered during the school day and will include a dental cleaning, dental exam and application of sealants if needed.
Please look for the consent form in your child’s folder and return the consent by April 5th, 2013 if you would like your child to participate in the program. Or click here to download the consent form.
The classroom with the highest number of returned consent forms will win a prize. This is a wonderful community health service provided by an organization dedicated to the health and well being of children and families.
Feel free to call Nurse Jamie with any questions or concerns about the program at 708-524-3089.
Irving School PTO 