Smith's Earn & Learn

If you enrolled your Smith’s Fresh Values card in their Earn & Learn program—which earns money for our school every time you use the card—you need to re-enroll for this year. If you haven’t signed up, this is a great way to help our school! To sign up or for more information about the program, go to http://www.smithsfoodanddrug.com/.

New HelpCounter Feature

Do you and your spouse both volunteer at the school? Or you and a grandparent? Now HelpCounter, our volunteer tracking software, has a new feature that allows people to be linked together in groups so volunteer hours for two or more people can easily be applied to one family. For more information contact Londyn Nelson, our Volunteer Director, at c4nelson@gmail.com.

Grandparent's Day Read-A-Thon

Get ready! Get Set! It’s almost Grandparent’s Day! Please invite your grandparents to our special Grandparent’s Day Read-A Thon on September 13 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. We'll post more details soon.

Capri Suns and Campbell's Soup Labels

We’re collecting Capri Sun and Healthy Kids drink pouches and Campbell Soup Labels again this year. Bins for the pouches are located in the gym. Please remind your students to drink all the juice and remove the straw before putting the pouches in the bins. Campbell Soup Labels can be dropped off at the office. To help us save on shipping, please just turn in the UPC label. These are both easy ways to earn some cash and supplies for our school.

Kmart BoxTops Promotion

With school starting many stores are running BoxTops promotions. This is a great time to stock up on things like tissue, cake mix, fruit snacks, granola bars, plus a ton of other things you and your family use. Click here to see a complete list of qualifying items. Here is an awesome promotion from Kmart:

Buy 10 qualifying items and get 65 bonus BoxTops for free (70 bonus BoxTops if you use your Kmart Saver card). This promotion ends August 28 so you'll need to jump on it. A parent at back-to-school night told us she stocked up on things like cake mixes and tissue. The checker at the store let her split her purchase and go through twice, so she doubled her bonus BoxTops!

Keep clipping! Collecting BoxTops coupons is the single best, easiest way for us to earn thousands of dollars for our school!

Back-to-School Night

A huge thanks to everyone who came out to our back-to-school night tonight! There was such a great turn-out it was standing room only! Hopefully everyone had a chance to meet their new teachers and to visit the PHAST tables in the gym. If you have any questions about PHAST, our Welcome Back packet, how your can help PHAST, or about the programs we provide, please visit our Contact Us page where you'll find contact information for our directors.

This is going to be a great year!

SunnyD Book Spree promotion

Be sure to check with your child's teacher and see if they are going to collect SunnyD labels for the SunnyD Book Spree promotion. For every 20 SunnyD UPC labels the teachers send in, the program will send them 20 books for free! What a great deal!

A new home!

Welcome to the new home of the PHAST blog! You'll find all kinds of great information here, and we hope you'll take a minute to look through the pages. You can also sign up to receive email alerts (the Feedburner form in the left side-bar) when we post something new, so you'll never miss a thing!

We're so excited for the new school year to start, and want to remind you about back-to-school night on August 19. The fun starts at 6:00 p.m. and we hope to see you there!