Support the PTA through online Shopping!!1

Will you be doing any online shopping for the holidays? If so, you can help raise free money for Banks Road Elementary PTA by shopping at Amazon.com through the Fund Your PTA program! Amazon will send Banks Road Elementary PTA a check for 6% of all money spent at Amazon.com (4% on electronics) through the special link below... http://www.fundyourpta.org/banksroades.php. If you ever misplace the link, you can visit the online version of our October/November newsletter on the PTA web site at http://banksroadpta.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/october-2013-newsletter.pdf - the Fund Your PTA link is on Page 6. You can also earn electronic Box Tops for Banks Road by shopping through the Box Tops Marketplace at https://www.boxtops4education.com/marketplace. There are over 400 online retailers listed in the marketplace, and for every purchase, eBoxTops are electronically credited to our school. Thank you for supporting the PTA!

Another Exciting Art Residency Coming To Banks Road—

Another Exciting Art Residency Coming To Banks Road— During this year’s Artist in Residency, every student at Banks Road will get to experience working with a professional artist during their art special. January 21st through 28th we will be hosting the environmental artist Bryant Holsenbeck. The students will participate in her “Weaving Like a Bird” residency where they will use recycled materials, string, yarn, old sheets etc to weave a wall sculpture that will be installed in the school. We need everyone’s help collecting fabric for us to use in our artwork! Please send in scrap fabric, old sheets or curtains, ribbons, and yarn! The more colorful, the better! If you would like to contribute but don’t have these things lying around, gift cards to fabric stores like Joanne’s Fabric would be very helpful and much appreciated as well. Also, keep a look out for information on ways to volunteer to help with this residency. Our art teacher, Ms. Stephenson, will collect all contributions. Please send in contributions through your child or bring them in to the office with Attn: Ms. Stephenson. She will begin accepting them immediately. Thank you for your support of Banks Road Visual Arts! For more information about Bryant Holsenbeck’s Residencies check out her web page at: http://www.bryantholsenbeck.com/weave.html Contact Ms. Stephenson with any questions- mstephenson@wcpss.net