Dear Vargas Families,
Welcome to the 2021-2022 school year! The year is off to a great start – many thanks to our wonderful Vargas staff for creating a fun and safety conscious in-person learning environment for our children. I am always impressed by their hard work and commitment to making the process as smooth as possible for our students to have a successful experience. We are excited to continue to provide opportunities for parents to support our students this year through PTA. The PTA organization provides support for many programs that enrich the education of our students, including things like field trips, teacher grants, Spirit Wear, and extracurricular activities such as Starting Arts. We hope to provide opportunities for our families to make connections with each other and build our Vargas community.
How to Become a PTA Member Send in your PTA dues ($10) with your child’s teacher. (If you choose to donate anything additional, you may do so via the same envelope.) We greatly appreciate your support! Your annual PTA membership dues and any donations we receive support things like student enrichment programs, teacher grants, the library, and the Science Lab.
New this year, you can also join PTA online via the general PTA service TOTEM. To join electronically:
1. Go to: https://jointotem.com/ca/sunnyvale/vargas-pta.
2. Login or register a new account using either your Facebook profile or an email address and a password.
3. You will be asked to fill in your name and member type (parent, grandparent, supporter, teacher etc.)
4. After filling in your member information, Click Next. After adding yourself, please add your student(s) as free ‘student non-members’ so we can track how many memberships each class and grade level has. This is done by clicking the box labelled “Add a Member/Student”. You can then fill in their name and select “Student (Non-Member).”
5. Pay using credit card or Google pay.
(Joining online will incur an additional $1 service fee levied by TOTEM. The TOTEM website supports translation, and available languages can be selected at the bottom of the webpage.)
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Amazon Smile – Download the App today! Did you know you can earn money for our wonderful school just for shopping? Yes, you read that right. Amazon will donate a portion of Smile eligible purchases.
On Desktop/Laptop Go to: https://smile.amazon.com/ Choose: “1932 Vargas Elementary PTA” as your charity And that’s it…Happy Shopping
On Android or iOS Download or update to the latest version of the Amazon Shopping app on your phone.
Open the app and find ’Settings’ in the main menu (☰). Tap on ‘AmazonSmile’ and follow the on-screen instructions to turn on AmazonSmile on your phone. Choose: “1932 Vargas Elementary PTA” as charity and Happy Shopping.
Box Tops – Going Digital! It’s easy! Download the app, select Vargas Elementary as your choice of school, take pictures of your receipts using the scan function, and cha-ching you’ve earned some $$ for Vargas.
Family Dine Outs We love to partner with restaurants in our community! Several times throughout the year, we have Dine Out events where a restaurant will donate a percentage of your meal to our school when you mention Vargas. Look for details on our Facebook page and in Vargas emails and through Class Dojo!
Spirit Wear We are so excited to present our new Spirit Wear tees this year! We have a new design on our two top selling colors as well as face masks (adult and kids sizes). Order forms will be provided later this month.
Sign up, get involved, and pitch in any way that you can! If you have questions, please contact one of the board members via email.
We can’t wait to meet you!
Sincerely,
Vargas PTA Board 2021-2022
Brooke Evans – President – president@vargaspta.org
Keri McGhee – Executive Vice-President – keri81@gmail.com
Lisa McRae – Treasurer – treasurer@vargaspta.org
Kristen Cutler – Secretary – kristencutler@gmail.com
Angela Oktaymen – Communications – ahonodel@yahoo.com
Wai Chung – Auditor
Cinthia Lee – 2nd Auditor – Cinthiawlee@gmail.com
Martha Montague – Parliamentarian – martha@californiaclimber.com