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We are bringing our Clarke parent community together with conversation and connection on highly relevant topics. Mark your calendars and join other like-minded parents!

Past…

Friday, Jan 31st, 9-10AM in the Clarke Cafeteria: Meet Angela Carpenter, K-12 Coordinator for Performing Arts. Click here to send in your questions, in advance.

Next Up…

Wednesday, Feb 12, 6-7:30PM at LHS, Rm 149: In Conversation with Superintendent Julie Hackett, for middle school parents and caregivers. Please submit questions and topics for discussion here.
SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday, Mar 19, 7-8:30PM, Clarke Auditorium: “Behind Their Screens” What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)

Clarke Hockey Night fun

Spelling Bee Success!

We are so grateful to the parent organizers (Alina Wang and Sarah Carter), brave student spellers and their families, volunteer judges (Jill Ward, Bob Sayre) and timekeeper (Yinxia Li) for making the Clarke PTO Inaugural Spelling Bee a wonderful success!

We had 27 participants who were presented with lengthy word lists to study, very specific directions, and one chance to spell each word correctly. The students worked incredibly hard and should be very proud of their performance!

Overall winner: Akshita Koganti

6th grade winner: Priyanka Menon

7th grade winner: Aayushi Sapkota

8th grade winner: Julian Sherman

Winning word: maelstrom

We already have volunteers who have stepped up to continue this new tradition for next year, so keep reading and learning new words.

A Wonderful Book Fair

What a fantastic week of book browsing, shopping, and conversation for students, staff, and parent volunteers! Thanks to Ms. Kelly and Ms. Guntakatta for sharing the library space and for helping with all the logistics.

Enormous props to Karen Roses, Colette Powell, and Nancy Stefansson for seamlessly coordinating this event during a busy time of year. Leah Boutelle created the beautiful posters you’ve seen in the newsletters and around school - love them! And, thank you to all the parent volunteers including Adriana Cocoza, Chad Fallon, Fengjuan Xuan, Ying Cui, Irene Heller, Jane Reynolds, Jenna McCracken, Jill Ward, Judy Huynh, Leah Boutelle, Meg Tabela, Melissa Lee, Nora Wasserman, Sophie Portal, Susie Hammond, Wei Zhang, and Sharon Huang for helping out with sales. We couldn’t have done this without you! Lastly, thanks to the administration for helping to support communication about the Book Fair and providing the opportunity for this event to take place during school hours.

We would like to thank all the families and students who came out for our author night. Alex Thayer, our visiting author, was simply amazed with the breadth of questions and comments from the kids. There were clearly some aspiring writers in the audience. Alex read an excerpt from her book and captured the hearts of all the readers in attendance. It was a magical night.

The Book Fair closed on Friday, but if you ordered a book that was not in stock, it will be arriving by next week. Thank you, families, for supporting the PTO Book Fair!

PTO Presidents: Emily Sayre, Sarah Carter, and Myha Danner

Thank you PTO Social Chairs and Clarke SGA for hosting two spectacular events on Friday, Nov 8th. Can’t wait for the spring!

6th and 7th Grade Social is on Friday, May 16th

8th Grade Social is on Friday, June 6th

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