We have had a picture perfect beginning to the new school year except for the copy machine which has delayed the printing of this newsletter!  Please accept our apology.

Our goal is to provide a safe environment with uninterrupted instruction and learning for your children.  We value your role as parents and ask you to partner with us.  We encourage your support and volunteerism.

We are looking forward to increasing student achievement and improving our school.  We hope you will join us in making this a reality.  Our fund raisers this year will provide staff development, special guest programs, computer replacements, and playground improvements.  Improving our school and the children’s education is important at Seymour Primary.  Please consider how you can be involved.

 DATES TO REMEMBER

• Sept. 4     Progress Reports
• Sept. 5     2:00 Early Dismissal
• Sept. 9     Boy Scouts sign-up 6:30 p.m.
• Sept. 9     Kickball Tournament (staff & K parents) 11:30 a.m.
• Sept. 10   Fund raiser forms and money due
• Sept. 12   2:00 Early Dismissal
• Sept. 23   Fall Pictures
• Sept. 24   Special guest, M. P. White, children's author & illustrator visits SPS!

Our fall physical activity is a kickball tournament that involves our parents! 

Round 1 (Sept. 9) will match kindergarten parents against staff.  Round 2(Oct. 7) will pair 1st grade parents against 2nd grade parents.  The winners of both groups will play for the championship in Nov.  Please send a note to your child’s teacher letting her know that you plan to play on the parent team.  The game will start at 11:30 and last approximately one hour or less.  Come and let your child see that you love kickball, too! 
For those parents who cannot make it, we will have a spring competition with another sport.

PSG

COMMUNICATION

We are experiencing some difficulty with our Seymour Primary website.  Our new website is currently under construction and we hope to have it up and running sometime this month.  However, communication is very important to us.  Please contact the office at 573-2196 to set up a conference if you have questions or concerns about your child’s education.  Thank you for your patience while we implement some major changes to our website.

Holiday heroes

Last week our school kicked off our Fall Fund Raising Program with Mountain Empire Promotions.  We will be selling from “Holiday Heroes”, a collection of giftware and confections.  The proceeds from this sale will benefit our students through various activities and projects; however, our two main goals are to increase technology in our classrooms and update our playgrounds.  We hope to be able to replace many of our old computers.  We also want to do some major updates to our three playgrounds by adding shade areas, wheelchair accessible picnic tables, and replacing the wooden structure on the 1st grade playground.

We have reminded our students that they are not to go door to door selling.  We do ask that parents contact family and friends and offer the opportunity to support Seymour Primary by purchasing products from the catalog.    Please note that this is a pre-paid sale.
The money along with the forms are due September 10th. Delivery date is approximately October 6th.  The end of the sale Mega Party is scheduled for October 16th.

Advance student Eagle Football tickets will be sold for $4.00 (gate price is $5.00) on the Friday morning of all home games:

• Sept. 12 (Eagles play South Doyle)
• Sept. 26 (Eagles play Sevier Co.)
• Oct. 10 (Eagles play Pigeon Forge)
• Oct. 17 (Eagles play Union Co,)
• Oct. 31 (Eagles play Gibbs)

Sorry, we can only sell advanced student tickets.