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Welcome Kodiak Families!!!! 2024-2025 School Year This year's PTSA Board is committed to advancing the academic opportunities for our students and building on the foundation of community. We understand that the first step in enriching the middle school experience for our kids involves our community supporting activities and programs that give our children a well-rounded education and experience. Our PTSA is dedicated to creating a comprehensive experience for our students this year. In collaboration with our administration, we aim to reinstate some of the traditional field trips, arrange for educational speakers, and provide hands-on experiences for our students. To achieve success, we require your support. There are four ways you can help: 1. Join the PTSA 2. Contribute to our Shine On Chinook Fundraiser 3. Volunteer your time 4. Participate in our events! While some may contribute in all four ways, we believe everyone can perform at least one act to bolster our school, our educators and staff, and most importantly, our students. Your membership to our PTSA is what allows us to plan and fund programs, events, scholarships and grants that support our students, teachers and staff. Your annual renewal in our PTSA provides the funding that builds up our library, aids our counseling center, provides classroom resources and so much more. Please note that we have moved to a new website for membership. Click on the link below to take you directly there. 
PTSA NEWS
We are already gearing up for the upcoming year and seeking individuals to join our Board. No experience is necessary—just a willingness to help! Our efforts are dedicated to supporting our students, teachers, and staff. A complete board is crucial not only to share the responsibilities but also to bring fresh perspectives and ideas. Currently, we are looking to fill the following positions for next year: - Vice President - Social Chair -8th Grade Party Chair For more information, please contact Debbie We must fill certain positions to maintain our standing, so your assistance in taking on these roles would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much! 
Make sure to click above for a quick Essentials to Chinook! We combined major information from this website in a one page to link you to everything you need to know to start the year!
6th Grade Family Classic Movie Night
October 4th 
For legal reasons, we cannot say the name of the movie on public websites, but if you say the name of the movie three times, HE just may appear!!!
"It's Showtime!"
6th Grade families are cordially invited to join us for a special 6th Grade only event to kick off our SHINE ON CHINOOK fundraiser! Join us for a showing of "the ghost with the most" on Friday the 4th at Chinook. Bring your seats, pillows, blankets and share a night with the 6th grade! RSVP with information and pre-order food links were emailed to 6th grade families. If you did not receive one, please contact Debbie. |
CHINOOK MIDDLE SCHOOL HOME OF THE KODIAKS 2001 98th Ave NE Bellevue, WA 98004 425-456-6300 CHINOOK CALENDAR October 3rd 7pm PTSA General Membership Meeting October 4th SHINE ON CHINOOK KICKOFF October 4th 6th Grade Family Classic Movie Night October 11th NO SCHOOL November 20th Reflections Due 
CULTURAL COMMUNITY
Our PTSA is working on creating a committee that focuses on celebrating and elevating our diverse community. Our hope is to bring more cultural events to our school and offer our community a chance to engage with each other socially. We will host a meeting soon and encourage our families to sign up for more information. You can learn more and sign up HERE or for multilingual information HERE 
REFLECTIONS 2024-2025
Our Reflections program will be open for submissions soon! This National Arts Program is a great opportunity for your student to showcase their creativity. There are 6 categories to enter with the theme "Accepting Imperfection": Literature, Music Composition, Photography, Visual Arts, Film/Video and Choreography and Dance. This is a wonderful program that feeds into high school. It is also a way to build a portfolio for college resumes. SCHOOL NEEDS AND VOLUNTEERS
Our AVID Program is looking for speakers!
Do you have one hour this year to share with our students? We are seeking community members to lead a single 50-minute class for our students and share their educational and professional experiences with our students. It's an effective method to help them understand that many adults in their lives have faced obstacles on the road to success, and it's the manner in which we deal with these challenges that truly matters. We are seeking speakers across the whole spectrum to introduce our students to a variety of employment opportunities as well as how you got to where you are! This is a very no pressure discussion but a great opportunity for our students to learn from. Please reach out to Mr. Floyd AVID stands for Advancement via Individual Determination and is an elective class that interested students apply and interview for. A typical AVID student is one that is motivated to be academically successful but may not have all of the necessary tools to be so. This class will provide them with some of the inquiry, collaboration and organizational skills that they will need to be successful in high school and beyond. Volunteers must pass a background check. You will need to check and verify with the office that you are current on your background check. BOARD GAMES We are asking for donations for gently used board or card game! If you have games you have outgrown, but are still in good shape, please consider donating them. We're happy to take any games but if you have games like Jenga, or games that can be completely within an hour, please share them with our counseling team. K-Cups/Coffee for the Staff Lounge Our Staff lounge is dangerously low on K-cups for their Keurig. We are asking our community to donate some coffee pods and keep our staff caffeinated! You can ship them to the school or drop them off. Thank you! |
