As you might already know, a group of FSAPS teachers were taking gifted endorsement classes from Metro RESA for the last two years. The classes were every other Wednesday between 5pm and 7pm. We truly enjoyed and benefited from this gifted endorsement class and will always treasure the time we spent with our amazing professor, Dr. Gollmar. Dr. Gollmar has years of experience in gifted education and she designed the class in most beneficial way for our teachers. With the competition of this gifted endorsement our teachers have the knowledge and the tools to better serve the big gifted population we have at FSAPS. It certainly takes us to the next level. FSAPS teachers thanked Dr. Gollmar with a party organized for her honor during last class this April. THANK YOU Dr. Gollmar!

We plan to start another gifted endorsement cohort for the new teachers next year.

We are pleased to inform you that we now have a waiting list for our 1st and 2nd grade classes for 2015 -2016 school year. Seems like soon we will have a waiting list for most of our grades. Beginning next year, we will no longer do rolling admissions as we will not have that much space in each grade. Instead, we will place a deadline and announce accepted students after the deadline just like other well established private schools do.

As you know the campus will be ready on June, 2015. The new campus is about 75,000 square ft. and have 35 classes. We are currently reserving some classes for our high school grades which we plan to start in August, 2016. As announced earlier, we will have two classes of each grade in elementary level and four classes of each grade in middle school level.

Many families have toured new campus on Saturdays. Our wonderful construction manager, Tony enjoys giving guided tours to our families personally. You are most welcome to bring your children to new campus tours as well. If interested, please contact Mr. Turan at nturan@fultonscienceacademy.org.

Our official opening ceremony for the new campus will be on Thursday, August 13 noon with the attendance of State Superintendent Richard Woods, the world’s tallest man, and many other specials guests. It will be a great day for our students, teachers and parents.

Next year will be an exciting year!

Dear Parents,

FSAPS will be providing transportation for the State Duke TIP Award ceremony on May 6. If you are a winner and interested in bus transportation for your child and possibly yourself and other members of your family, please send an e-mail to Mr. Turan by this Friday and let us know how many people from your family will attend.

Dear Parents,

Please review the 4/27 email update from the PVO Board regarding open 2015 / 2016 Board and Committee positions.

If you are interested in filling a role, please write a very brief paragraph about yourself, your background, why you would like to be on the board or chair a particular committee, and if there was a particular role that you would like to assume (Treasurer, Student Services, Membership, 8th grade Graduation,) etc. Several sentences will be fine (or more for those who feel inspired!) Send that information to Kate Webster (webskg.2200@yahoo.com) who will forward that information on to other Board Members who will determine a best fit given given the mix of candidates and their interests/skills, etc.

The PVO Community Meeting will be on 5/12/2015 at 3:45pm in the Cafeteria. We will review the proposed slate and vote in the Board at the time.

This year we have partnered with SchoolKidz, a Staples company, to provide our student’s school supplies. The school supply kits are the supplies teachers requested for the coming year. We hope this will help reduce some of the back to school stress and will allow you to obtain school supplies in a cost effective manner. You can place your order on line or return the paper order form that was sent home with your student earlier this week. Your order will be delivered with your child’s name and next year’s grade directly to the new school in July and will be ready for pickup on Orientation Day in August.

Use the link and account number below to conveniently order your child’s school supplies. On line orders must be completed no later than May 15th!

Please make sure to choose the correct kit based on your child’s grade level next school year.

www.shopttkits.com

Enter Account Number: 95955

Paper order forms must be returned to the front office no later than May 11th.

All students will need a non rolling backpack of their choice. If your student is entering 6, 7 or 8th grade they will also need a USB thumb drive and 6 binders in total, the supply kits have 5 binders included with the option of ordering a 6th or supplying one of your choice. Please keep in mind additional organizational supplies (such as pencil cases, lunch boxes, etc ) may be required based on your students preference.

Please remember orders must be completed no later than May 15th!