Spring Fair is in the Air!
Directly Following
25th Annual Pete Carroll Road Race
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Back Lawn of Holland Hill
Tickets are 4 for a $1 to play games and for Tricky Trays tickets!
Bounce, Dunk and have fun at the many different carnival games!!
DJ will fill the air with fun dance songs.
NEW this year- A CAKE WALK! It’s like musical chairs with cakes/cupcakes as prizes!
$1 a turn!
Fun food all day: hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, cold drinks, popcorn, cotton candy
and lots of snacks.
URGENT!! ****Calling All HH PARENTS!**** URGENT!!
The “Spring is in the Fair” is fast approaching (Saturday, 5/19) and we would LOVE
to have as many of you as possible help us out for this event if you can. In fact,
we’d love to have you, your spouses, older children, friends and neighbors, too!
Grandma, grandpa, aunts & uncles are welcome too! We need people for various shifts
between 9-5 for set up, games, prizes, popcorn & cotton candy, tricky trays, tickets
and more!!
Please email Trudi Durrell at tdurrell@gmail.com if you are able to volunteer –
even if it’s only for an hour! In the email, please specify your preferred time
& activity/event.
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This Week…
Wednesday Spring Concert 1:30pm and 7pm
Thursday HH Heroes
Friday School Store
Diversity Day
Saturday Spring Fair 11am – 3pm
HH Night @ Bridgeport Bluefish Game
Deadline: Friday, May 18th
Come enjoy a summer night at Harbor Yard with family & friends Thursday, June 14th!
HH’s 5th Grade will be singing our National Anthem.
All tickets are $12.00 each and are for Loge Seating. Please complete & return with
payment in an enveloped marked BLUEFISH GAME to the PTA mailbox.
Spring Clean-Up
Friday, May 18th
Come one, come all – it is spring clean up time at Holland Hill and will be having
our annual Spring clean up on Friday, May 18 at 3:00pm and lots of volunteers are
needed. So please bring your rakes, gloves, and pruners to help make Holland Hill
beautiful! We are going to also be canvasing the grounds for garbage! Girl Scout,
Brownies, Boy Scouts and all are welcome! We hope to see you there! Questions?
Contact Cyndi at Cpalaia@sbcglobal.net
25th Annual Pete Carroll Road Race
Saturday, May 19th
Attention all 4th and 5th Graders!
It’s time to register for the 25th Annual Pete Carroll Invitational Road Race! The
race will be held on Saturday, May 19th at 10am to kick off the Holland Hill Spring
is in the Fair event.
The race is open to boys and girls in the 4th and 5th grade. All participants will
receive a medal and trophies will be awarded to the top three contestants in both
the girls and boys categories. All participants who pre-register by May 9th will
receive a tshirt.
Please click here
to fill out the registration form
2012 Memory Book
The 2012 Holland Hill Memory Book is being sent to the printers this week! It features
pictures of every child, every class & every teacher PLUS lots of fun photo collages
of Holland Hill kids. Students will get their Memory Books in June ~ just in time
to collect autographs from friends and teachers. This year we will keep the lowered
price of $15 and it’s once again being printed in full COLOR!
Please note, there was no “early bird” sale this year, so f you are wondering if
you ordered one yet this year, you didn’t! Don’t wait. There are a limited number
of books being printed and once they are gone, they are gone.
To reserve your copy of the Holland Hill Memory Book, complete the attached
order form and return it with payment via your child’s backpack in an enveloped marked “PTA/Memory
Book” as soon as possible. Questions? Contact Elizabeth Arkay-Leliever elizabetharkay@gmail.com
PTA Meeting
Thursday, May 24th
Save the Date for HH’s next PTA Meeting; Thursday May 24th, 7pm. Say thank you to
this years Co-Presidents; Marissa Vallillo and Christina Rescsanski for a wonderful
job they have done and welcome our new E-board! We are looking forward to hearing
all your input and seeing new faces at the meeting. As always babysitting is available
please sign up here: http://hollandhillpta.org/pta-forms/babysitting/
Reception for Mr. Arnone
Tuesday, June 5th
Please Join Us for a Reception Honoring
Mr. Frank Arnone
for His Time Spent at Holland Hill School
DATE: Tuesday, June 5th
TIME: 5:00-7:00 PM
PLACE: Holland Hill School All Purpose Room
Please remember that you are responsible for supervising your children if they come
to the event.
HH Parent/Teacher Party
Friday, June 8th
*****BACK AT THE BEACH********
8PM TO MIDNIGHT.
PENFIELD PAVILLION
Food by Luigi’s, raffles, lots of dancing with DJ Bill Lopez
Print the attached invite and send it marked Parent/Teacher Party to the PTA Box
Any questions email Leah Adintori @ lealea39@gmail.com or Suzanne Lombardo @suzanne66@optonline.net
Got Books?
Do you have old books you are looking to get rid of and you don’t want them to end
up a landfill? Holland Hill now has a container where you can deposit them to be
recycled and Holland Hill PTA earns money!! That’s right, the Got Books organization
will pay Holland Hill PTA for all the used hardcover and paperback books collected!
Wondering how it works? Once the container is filled, Got Books will empty the
container, measure the amount of books and write a check to Holland Hill PTA!!
The best part is the container is not just for Holland Hill families anyone can
recycle their used books and it’s not just for books…CDs, DVDs, Audio Books and
Records can all be placed in the container too! Please spread the word to all your
family, friends and co-workers! If you have any question, please contact Darice
Bochniak @ dariceb@optonline.net.
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It’s Not Too Late to Purchase a Brick!
Have you purchased a brick yet? If not, there’s still time to buy your “piece of
Holland Hill!” Leave your legacy at the school where your child bloomed and buy
a brick today! Just $50, now through the end of May, you can have things like your
child’s name and graduation year engraved on a brick. Or you could put your family
name down. The possibilities are endless–get creative, click here and purchase
your brick today!
Capri Sun Recycling UPDATE
THANK YOU to all the students and families that have helped Holland Hill collect
529 empty “Capri Sun” and “Honest Kids” Drink Packets!!!!
We need to reach 2,000 for Holland Hill to collect any funds for our efforts so
PLEASE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
How do you send in your empty packets from home??? Simply place them in a sealed
plastic bag and send them in via backpack. There is a collection container in the
APR for the students to place empty packets from lunch. If you have too many to
send in via backpack CONTACT Jenn Buonincontri at JMHill22@Yahoo.com . Wondering
how to help with this initiative over the summer? Simply contact me – I am happy
to collect the empty packets when school is out of session!
REMEMBER, it takes over 100 years for a single drink packet to BEGIN to break down
in a landfill. We can re-purpose the plastic packet and raise funds for HH all at
the same time!
Camp Invention
Let your child’s imagination soar!
Camp Invention is coming to Westport this summer! Children entering grades 1-6
will be immersed in a week long adventure of creative problem solving using STEM
(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Read about the two programs below!
One of the challenges of ENVISION (the week of July 30 8:45 – 2:45) is Magnetropolis(TM).
Ahoy! set sail to the magnificent island of Magnetropolis and explore the power
of magnetism. Build boats, buildings and towers!
One of the real world challenges in the CREATE (week of Aug. 6) program is Saving
Sludge City(TM). Your child will help save this pollution filled city! Construct
eco-friendly buildings and transportation, decontaminate the city’s water and generate
green solutions!
Visit www.campinvention.org or contact Phaedra Taft, director, at westportcampinvention@gmail.com.