Ms. Julia McCaskill has resigned from her post of TJPTSA Diversity Committee Chair. The Executive Board of TJPTSA is calling for volunteers for the vacancy. If interested, please write to executiveboard@tjptsa.org as soon as possible, preferably by 09/27/2021.
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2021-09-20 Call for Volunteers for TJPTSA Academic Support Committee Chair
Mr. Randy Turner has resigned from his post of TJPTSA Academic Support Chair. The Executive Board of TJPTSA is calling for volunteers for the vacancy. If interested, please write to executiveboard@tjptsa.org as soon as possible, preferably by 09/27/2021.
2021-09-09 TJPTSA Approved Budget for School Year 2021-2022
The TJPTSA hold a general membership meeting on 09/09/2021, and has voted to approve its annual budget for School Year 2021-2022.
2021-09-10 Volunteers Needed for the Back to School Bash
BACK TO SCHOOL BASH — VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
The PTSA and the Student Activities Office is in need of volunteers to help with the Back to School Bash this Friday night. This is a super fun event for the students. There will be games, food trucks, music, etc. before the home football game that starts at 7:00. Please consider volunteering to help make this a success for our students.
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| Back to School BashThe TJ Activities Office is once again hosting the Back to School Bash this Friday before the football game. The fun starts at 4:00 and the football game starts at 7:00. The Activities Office has asked the TJ PTSA to help. Please consider volunteering. We will also have a table set up for membership registration and questions. Food trucks and games will be on site for the kids and adults from 4-8. The TJ PTSA will be providing food vouchers to all the faculty and staff. Let’s Go Colonials!!www.signupgenius.com |
Agenda of TJPTSA General Membership Meeting on September 9th, 2021 from 7:00PM to 9:00PM
ZOOM Link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlf-qtrDgtG9IrGj0JzGwwuENWPOGyWWq9
Attendees:
TJPTSA Officers
Dr. Bonitatibus
VA PTA Support Team representatives
Mr. Berke
A. Call Meeting to Order and Welcome (3 min)
B. Officer’s Reports
a. Treasurer’s Report: (20 min): Presentation of Audit Report, Approval of Budget, Reconciliation report for July & Aug
b. President’s Report: (3 min)
i. Action Items
ii. Meeting Dates for (current year)
c. 1st Vice President (3 min)
d. 2nd Vice President (3 min)
e. Recording Secretary’s Report (3 min)
f. Corresponding Secretary’s Report (3 min)
C. Committee Reports
a. Family Engagement – update on progress (3 min)
b. Diversity Committee – update on progress (3 min)
c. Academic Support Committee – update on progress (3 min)
d. College Outreach Committee – update on progress (3 min)
D. Representative Reports
a. Principal’s Report (10 min)
b. SGA Representative (5 min)
E. Unfinished Business (5 min)
F. New Business (5 min)
G. Announcements (1 min)
a. Our next meeting will be held on October 14, 7pm, via Zoom
b. General Membership Fee Structure Changes
H. Question & Answer (20 min)
a. Virginia PTA Support Team
I. Adjourn Meeting (9pm)
Appointment of College Outreach Committee Chair
The executive committee of TJPTSA met on September 1st, 2021, and has voted to appoint Ms. Tanuja Ghodgaonkar as the College Outreach Committee Chair. Tanuja, welcome on board!
2021-08-27 Welcome Back Ice Cream Social for Faculty and Staff
We had a good time with our amazing faculty and staff members on August 27th, Friday by treating them delicous ice cream! TJPTSA thanks our volunteers who helped or donated food and drinks for the event. In particular, we would like to shout out to Ms. Hyunjung Kang, Ms. Shalu Aggarwal and Ms. Elizabeth Howton for their dedicated service.
10-15-2021 Reflections Call for Entries
Reflections is a National PTA-sponsored program that encourages students to express themselves through the arts. Students can submit work in the following six categories: Dance Choreography, Music Composition,
Literature, Film Production, Visual Arts and Photography. The art is judged at the school level with the winner in each category moving on to the County level, then District level, State level and finally National level. This year, similar to last year, all the Reflections entries will be digital.
This year’s theme is: I Will Change the World.
Please carefully reviews all the rules and guidelines, or rules and guidelines (Spanish) and pay particular attention to the following additional rules:
Dance and Film: if background music is used, citation is required
Literature: include word count, entries must be less than 2,000 words
Music: list musicians and/or instrumentation
Photography and Visual Arts: list dimensions
Dance, Film and Music: recordings must not exceed 5 minutes, file size must not exceed 1.000MB
More information about specific rules for each category can be found here:
Film Production Rules,Film Rules (Spanish)
Music Composition Rules, Music Composition (Spanish)
Photography Rules, Photography rules (Spanish)
Dance Choreography Rules
Visual Arts, Visual Arts (Spanish)
Literature Rules, Literature Rules (Spanish)
Entries will be submitted directly through specific links which will be updated soon.
This year’s deadline is Friday October 15, 2021.
Click here to enter: https://form.jotform.com/212501133743140
If you have any questions, please contact the Reflections program Chair Meredith Caldwell at
reflections@tjptsa.org
2021-08-31 Call for Paid Volunteers: Picture Days
LifeTouch will be at TJ on 8/31 and 9/1 for underclass pictures. They need some PTSA volunteers to help them out!
LifeTouch photographers will be at TJ from 8:30-3:50 on August 31th, Tuesday, and 8:30-2:05 on September 1st, Wednesday. Volunteers will receive $14.99 off of their photo package.
Please contact Ms. Erinn Harris (eharris1@fcps.edu) as soon as possible.
2021-08-30 Call for Volunteers: College Outreach Committee Chair
For those parents that are interested in charing the College Outreach Committee, please send an email along with a short a CV to the TJPTSA Executive Committee at executive@tjptsa.org, preferablly by August 30th, 2021, Monday.