BESCA BULLETIN
October 21, 2024
UPCOMING EVENTS
🧥Monday, 10/21-Friday, 11/1- Warm Coat Drive
Girl Scout Brownie Troop 60433 is holding a coat drive to support the One Warm Coat Project, which provides free coats to children and adults in need. Please bring clean, new or gently used coats to the bin outside the office. Coats will be collected until 11/1, and all coats collected will be distributed locally.
🌯Thursday, 10/24- Dining Night Out at World Wrapps (Pruneyard)
Booksin’s next Dining Night Out is this Thursday! On October 24th, anytime between 11am to 8pm, dine in or take-out a meal at World Wrapps in the Pruneyard and the restaurant will give 25% of your purchase price back to Booksin! See attachment for more information.
🍎 Thursday, 10/24 - Teacher Treats
Each month we like to show support for our wonderful teachers and staff by providing themed snacks and drinks in the staff room. Please see this sign up for details and donations.
🎃 Thursday, 10/31 - Halloween Parade @8:45am
Come watch students and staff in Booksin’s annual Halloween parade in the Spirit Court.
📢ANNOUNCEMENTS
📔The Yearbook Needs Your Photos!
We all had fun adventures at the Walkathon, and now we would love to collect your favorite photos for the yearbook! Upload up to 5 photos maximum of your favorite images. Last year, we waded through hundreds of photos that were blurry, too small, or had many of the same students, and we’d love to streamline the process by only receiving your BEST photos from the event. ➡️ At this time, we’re looking for photos from Walkathon, Fall Movie Night and Spirit Days (College Day & Color Day). Pro Tip: It is best to upload photos from one event at a time because you can only choose one event folder at a time.
Link: https://uploads.picabooyearbooks.com/9984565.
Email Yearbook Coordinator, Karen Wong, at yearbook@mybesca.com with any questions.
🎉 Walkathon
THANK YOU, FAMILIES for making this year’s Walkathon a huge success! We loved spending the day with you and hope you had as much fun as we did. The event was a wonderful celebration of community spirit, and we are grateful for your support!
The BESCA Board would like to extend our deep appreciation to our two hardworking Walkathon Leads, Audrey Hall and Erin Strong, for organizing and managing this important event. As you know, the money we raise from WAT makes up the majority of next year’s BESCA budget, which enables Booksin to fund the beloved enrichment programs and social events our kids love plus educational field trips and additional classroom support. The day went off without a hitch, and we could not be more grateful for all of their efforts! 👏🏼
Did you know that in addition to Audrey and Erin, this year’s Walkathon also had 40+ Walkathon Leads/Shadows, 9 BESCA Board Members, and 100+ parent and youth volunteers that all helped make the event happen? Walkathon truly takes our entire community and we want to give a huge shoutout appreciating all of our wonderful volunteers who helped out before, during, and after Walkathon to ensure a smooth and fun filled day!
💵 Pledges
Our students did an awesome job collecting pledges! As checks and corporate matches continue to arrive, pledges are still being totaled. You can track our WAT pledge progress here: https://pledgestar.com/booksin/eventmonitor.html. If you still have outstanding pledge checks to turn in, please mail or drop these off to the Booksin main office. And don't forget Corporate match!
🎯 Silent Auction
Our Silent Auction Leads, Mary and Ngan, have reached out to all winners who have not yet had a chance to pick up their items after the Walkathon. Stay tuned for our online last-chance auction later this week where you will have a second chance to bid on some of our remaining items and FWF events!
👩🏫 Teacher Fun Drawing
Thank you to all the students who participated in this year's Teacher Fun Drawing! Our TFD Leads, Andrea and Kristie, will be notifying winners by the end of the day today.
WALKATHON SPONSORS
We’d like to take this opportunity to appreciate each of Booksin’s 2024-2025 Walkathon Sponsors
This week, we’d like to thank our Platinum Sponsor: Engenius