Heroes Breakfast

Fuel Up to Play 60 Heroes Breakfast Eat Breakfast with our Local Heroes November 13, 2012 8:00 - 8:20am Come join us in celebration of our community heroes. Local firefighters, police officers, and Army Reservists will be at the school to eat breakfast with our students and also talk to them about making healthy choices. If you do not normally eat breakfast but would like to on that day, please fill out the bottom portion of the form sent home from school and return it to your teacher.

Spirit Cup Fundraiser

This week is the beginning of our PTA fall fundraiser with the BRAX Spirit Cups.  Proceeds from this sale will go towards the improvement of technology in our classrooms here at Miller Perry.

The Spirit Cups are sold in a pack of 4 and are 100% made in the USA.  These high quality cups are officially licensed with all NFL teams, all MLB clubs, over 90 top colleges, and 5 branches of military.  Remember, Christmas is only 10 weeks away.  These cups will make excellent gifts for family, frineds, teens, college students, and more!

Important things to remember:

• Sale dates are Friday, Oct. 12th - Friday, Oct. 26th.
• Order turn-in and prize redemption dates are Friday, Oct. 19th and Friday, Oct. 26th.
• Collect all money for the sales and have checks made payable to Miller Perry PTA.
• Orders will be in 2-3 weeks after the close of the sale.

Check out all the cups designs at SpiritCups.com.

Fall Fun Fest

Thursday, October 11, 2012

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Come join in our Fall Fun!  Miller Perry will have:

• Inflatables
• Bookfair
• Shiver Shack Sno Cones
• Face Painting
• T-Shirts
• Refreshments
• Silent Auction

Virtual Back to School Night

Join National PTA and the

Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project for Virtual Back to School Night: The School Day Just Got Healthier!

Join National PTA President Betsy Landers, White House Chef Sam Kass, Kids' Safe and Healthful Food Project, and USDA for a live discussion about the exciting new meals coming to school cafeterias near you!

School lunches will have a whole new look this year as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) updated nutrition standards for school meals. As parents, it can be difficult to navigate what these changes mean and how you can support your kids and your school in making healthy choices.

Submit your questions now on our question submission page or tweet them live by using the #SchoolFoodsRule. Follow PTA and Pew on twitter at @NationalPTA and @JDonzeBlack_Pew.

Event  Details
When: 7:00 p.m. (EDT), Thursday, September 13, 2012

Where: Tune in LIVE at www.pta.org/healthierschoolday

Who’s Invited? This conversation will be specifically targeted toward parents, but anyone interested in learning more about the new and improved school meals is welcome to tune in.

Speakers:

• Sam Kass, White House Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives
• Betsy Landers, National PTA President
• Jessica Donze Black, Director, Kid's Safe and Healthful Foods Project
• Audrey Rowe, Administrator for the Food and Nutrition Service, USDA

For more information, visit:

• www.pta.org/healthierschoolday
• www.healthyschoolfoodsnow.org/
• www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/healthierschoolday

Family Fitness Kickoff Event

September 18th from 6-8pm

Come join us for our first ever Family Fitness Kickoff Event in conjunction with Fuel Up to Play 60 on September 18th from 6-8pm. We are excited to announce that our guest speaker will be Artose Pinner, former NFL player from the Detroit Lions. Our school was chosen as one of the few schools in the US to host an NFL player. Artose will be speaking to us on his involvement with Fuel Up to Play 60 as well as the importance of making healthy choices and the importance of physical fitness. We will also have various fitness and nutrition stations, smoothie samples from the National Dairy Council, Mountain States Health Alliance's mega hearts, and much, much more. Make plans to join us for this fantastic family-friendly event.

General Meeting and All Pro Dads Breakfast

The first general meeting of the 2012-2013 school year will be on Tuesday, September 11th at 6pm. An agenda for that evening will be posted soon. Also, the first All Pro Dad's breakfast of the year is scheduled for Thursday, September 13th at 7:30am. See you there!

New Contact Email

The Miller Perry PTA has a new way to contact them! You can send an email to millerperrypta@gmail.com any time you have a question and someone will get back to you in a timely manner. This email address will be added to the Contact Us tab above if you need it in the future.