School Briefs

PTA Holiday Food, Toy and Gift Drive

Each year the Shoreline PTA Council, the Shoreline School District and the Shoreline Fire Department come together to support families in need in the community during the holidays.

The 2007 Shoreline PTA Council Holiday Food, Toy and Gift Drive continues through Dec. 14. Collected food, toys for children, and gifts for teens will be distributed Dec. 15.

Volunteers are sought to sort and organize food donations from 3:30-6 p.m. Dec. 14 and from 9-11 a.m. Dec. 15. at Kellogg Middle School at 16045 25th Ave. NE in Shoreline. No sign-up or experience is required.

In conjunction with the Holiday Food, Toy and Gift Drive, Shoreline PTA Council will provide gifts for teens Dec. 15. Locals can donate gifts for teens at the same time and location as the collection sites for the Holiday Food Drive at any Shoreline District school. Cash donations are encouraged.

Checks for the Teen Gift Drive can be made out to Shoreline PTA Council Teen Gift Drive, 18560 First Ave. NE, Shoreline, WA 98155.

Families in need can contact their Shoreline School District school nurse or family advocate.

New board members sworn in Dec. 10

Mike Jacobs, Maren Norton and Richard Potter will be sworn in as members of the Shoreline School Board on Monday, Dec. 10 after their election to four-year terms in November.

Jacobs was re-elected to the District 1 position. He is a partner in the Riach Gese law firm. Norton, elected to the District 4 position, is an attorney at Stoel Rives LLP.

Potter, elected to the District 5 position, is an Associate Technical Fellow at the Boeing Co.

Directors Debi Ehrlichman and David Wilson continue to serve on the board.

Their terms expire in December 2009.

Book outlines history of district

The Shoreline Schools Diamond Anniversary Book Committee and the Shoreline Historical Museum will hold a reception in honor of the new book “Shore to Shore and Line to Line: A History of the Shoreline School District 1944-2004” from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8 at the museum, 749 N. 175th St. in Shoreline.

Publication of the book is the culmination of much work by a group of current and former Shoreline School District staff members and others from the community. It commemorates the District’s 60-year history, from 1944-2004.

Content includes pictures and facts, memories and events in the district at every school, including programs and activities.

Copies of the book will be available for a donation of $30. Proceeds go to the Shoreline Historical Museum and Shoreline Public Schools Foundation. Books will be available at the Shoreline Historical Museum and in the superintendent’s office at Shoreline Center. For information, call Kathie Schindler at 206-361-4203.

Schools offer Highly Capable testing

Screening for the Shoreline School District’s Highly Capable Program for elementary grades will begin in January 2008. All district and interested private school first-grade students will be tested in January.

The deadline for private school first-graders to sign up for testing is Jan. 4. The deadline for second- through fifth-graders to sign up is Jan. 31.

Parents of current district first-graders received information in the mail about the testing and have the option of declining it by signing and returning a postcard to the Highly Capable Program office. The top 10 percent of the first graders tested in January will go on for further testing.

Students in second- through fifth-grades not currently being served by the program and private school students will be tested in March 2008.

Parents interested in having their child assessed for program eligibility should contact Trudy Wright in the Highly Capable Program office at 206-368-4771.

Preliminary first grade testing in regular classrooms runs Jan. 3 -18.

Private school first grade testing at Shoreline Center runs Jan. 10 for first grade (top 10 percent) March 1 and 15 — students must attend both days. Testing for second, third, fourth and fifth-graders is March 1 and 15 — students must attend both days.