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 | The Attic creates opportunities for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) youth to develop into healthy, independent, civic-minded adults within a safe and supportive community, and promotes the acceptance of LGBTQ youth in society. The Attic is proud to be Philadelphia ’s only independent LGBTQ youth center. | | Monday, April 9- Friday, April 23, 2012 | Thank you for filling our donation boxes with snacks. The Attic was thrilled with our contribution. |
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 | Wendy Mogel, PhD
“Raising Self-Reliant, Optimistic,
Grateful Children in a Nervous World”
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Location: Congregation Rodeph Shalom, 615 North Broad Street
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The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
The Blessing of a B Minus
| Friends Select School, in partnership with Congregation Rodeph Shalom,
Germantown Friends School, Greene Towne School, St. Peter’s School and
The Philadelphia School is pleased to invite you to a lecture with New
York Times bestselling author, internationally known clinical
psychologist and parenting expert Wendy Mogel, PhD. Dr. Mogel is the
author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee and The Blessing of a B Minus:
Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers. Dr. Mogel will present an inspirational lecture filled with sage advice,
warmth, wit, and psychological research. Her books have drawn enormous
praise, making her one of today’s most trusted parenting authorities.
She addresses some of the most often asked questions: how to raise a
confident, resilient child; what to do with teenagers; how to handle
independence and entitlement issues; how to help your child with the
pressure to compete; how to overcome communication obstacles; and when
to step in and when to step back. This is a free
event, but reservations are required. Please contact Dan Slipakoff at
215-627-6747 x 22 or edu@rodephshalom.org to reserve your seats for either the 4:00 p.m. or the 7:30 p.m. lecture. Wendy Mogel's books
will be sold at the lectures by the Joseph Fox Bookshop. To learn more about the author go
to www.wendymogel.com. |
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| Thank you for bowling with us on Saturday, April 14, 2012, 2-4 p.m. 909 N 2nd St Philadelphia, PA 19123 All are welcome. $5.95 per game and $3.00 for shoe rental.
Food and drinks available, with waitress service. |
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| All FSS Lower School families are invited to the annual Lower School Swim and Potluck. Swim from 2-3:30 p.m. and then potluck from 4-5:30 p.m.
Please bring the assigned food item that corresponds to your student’s grade level in the chart below. There is also a $2 suggested donation per person to cover the life guards. Questions and concerns? Email us.
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FEELING POTLUCKY, PLEASE FOLLOW THESE REQUESTS.
| | GRADE GROUP | FOOD TO BRING | EXAMPLE | | | | | | PK-K | appetizers and sides | veggies, fruit, pretzels, chips… | | | | | | 1st - 2nd grade | entrées to share, aim to serve 6-8 people | pizza, large hoagie, macaroni and cheese, salad… | | | | | | 3rd- 4th grade | desserts, juice boxes, or bottled water
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 | Parent Association Service Project for Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday, January 16, 2012 - 9 a.m. Simon Gratz High School
1798 West Hunting Park Avenue, Philadelphia 19140 |
Simon Gratz High School serves kids in North Philadelphia. Beginning February 1, 2012, the school will house a separate middle school. However, the facilities are in dire need of cleaning and repair in preparation for these new students. We painted the halls with refreshing colors to welcome Simon Gratz's new middle school students. View event photographs here.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us in the Blauvelt Theatre to watch The Sound of Music and sing-a-long. Sing we did! We also raised close to $300.
View photographs of the event here.
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Everyone needs gift wrap, buy it here and 40% of sales go to Friends Select School. Plus free shipping to your home or office on orders of $50 or more. Sale begins October 1st on line only.
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 | The PA Room has been transformed into a booktropolis! Thank you to the many parent volunteers who are running the shop. Sign up for a last minute shift here. (FSS families only). |  | Scholastic continues to stock an exceptional selection of books
for lower school students. To satisfy the appetite of middle and upper
school reader, the parent association has partnered with the Joseph Fox
bookshop. The bookshop in collaboration with the Gray Library at Friends Select is providing choices for middle and upper school students at a computer
kiosk in the bookfair. You can also shop from home. Go to: www.foxbookshop.com. |
Scholastic and the Joseph Fox Bookshop return 20% of bookfair proceeds to the Parent Association. These funds are used to provide programming like the PA Speaker Series, and other PA events such as the MLK Day service project.
BOOK FAIR LOWER SCHOOL AUTHOR VISIT | 
Tuesday, December 6
Susan Barr-Toman author of
Mary Mulgrew What Did You Do? (author will be signing books for purchase at the book fair 12/6/11 at 3 p.m. while supplies last) | Thursday, December 8
Eli Kowalski author of Kushka, the Dog Named Cat, presents his second book: Kushka visits the ZOO (author, kushka, and an FSS character in the book, will be signing books for purchase at the book fair 12/8/11 at 3 p.m. while supplies last) |
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| | November 1- November 18, 2011:
Well done Friends Select School!
We smashed our goal of 1,000 pounds of food and collected 2,637 pounds. These donations will go a long way in helping Philabundance fight against hunger in the Delaware Valley.
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Thank you everyone for your participation, from all accounts fun was had by all.
Special thanks to our parent organizers: Lisa Di Cicco and Susan Segal.
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| Spring 2011. We hope you enjoyed the reading by author, Jane Kirkland, and were able to pick up your summer reading. B&N donated a percentage of our purchases to Friends Select in the amount of $111.78. Thank you.
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| Saturday, May 7, 2011 was a beautiful evening for baseball. Thank you for coming out to support the Camden Riversharks and Friends Select School. Let's do it again. |
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| Tuesday, April 5-Friday, April 30, 2011.
The LGBT committee and The Attic Youth Center thanks you for your donations!
The Attic creates opportunities for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) youth to develop into healthy, independent, civic-minded adults within a safe and supportive community, and promotes the acceptance of LGBTQ youth in society. The Attic is proud to be Philadelphia’s only independent LGBTQ youth center.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us in the Blauvelt Theatre to watch The Sound of Music and sing-a-long. Sing we did! We also raised close to $400.
Shall we do it again next year? Stay tuned...
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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., the Friends Select School Parent Association hosted a day of service Monday, January 17th , from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. at the Living Word Church on 17th street next door to the 1700 building.
The congregation at the Living Word Church holds a weekly Saturday ministry of food and fellowship, where they serve about 75 members of the Center City community every week. They serve a hot meal and have toiletries available as well as socks, underwear, and winter hats. The Church has been a wonderful neighbor to Friends Select. They allowed us to use their facilities for Meeting for Worship while the meetinghouse was under renovation. Our goal was to make at least 200 packages of toiletries and other items for this ministry and 100 for Covenant House, a center for homeless youth in Germantown. We surpassed this goal and hope to continue our partnership with these institutions.
Thank you to the many families and businesses that donated toiletries and the over 100 volunteers who participated on MLK day.
Martin Luther King, Junior: "Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'"
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The PA Room transformed into a scholastic booktropolis, thanks to the many parent volunteers, lead by MS parent, Suzann Frantz. Thanks to everyone who helped make this a successful fundraising event.
THANK YOU TO OUR VISITING AUTHORS
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Thank you for a successful fund raising event almost $600 was raised and four books were donated to the school libraries.
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WHOLE FOODS DAY
FSS received 5% of sales at Callowhill Location on September 23, 2010
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Thanks to everyone who helped us raise $4,911 for the Friends Select Service Program in conjunction with the Whole Foods 5% program.
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