News and Notes

Annual Fund helps provide for tuition assistance, new computers and SmartBoards, athletic equipment, art supplies, and teachers' salaries.  Our goals for Annual Fund this year are 100% participation and $100,000.  Pledge cards are available in the front office--or contribute online!

Today we held a school-wide kick-off event for our Hineini program, which is our implementation of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program.  Hineini means “Here I Am” in Hebrew.  Students signed the school’s Hineini banner where each child accepts responsibility to prevent bullying on their school’s campus.

This research-based schoolwide “systems-change” program has been used successfully in schools all over the country and around the world with positive results.

The Kesher Tikkun Olam Committee is sponsoring a Sukkot Food Drive to benefit the residents of the Kivel Campus of Care, home to over 200 senior or mobility-impaired individuals. Kivel residents live in H.U.D. subsidized apartment homes, on low or fixed-incomes. They face difficult choices in allocating their limited resources, sometimes having to choose between medicine and food. The Tikkun Olam Committee will have collection boxes at the main and kindergarten entrances on Thursday, October 1st, and Friday, October 2nd, at both drop-off and pick-up. In addition, donations can also be made on Sunday, October 4th, at the Dinner In the Sukkah event being hosted by the Kesher Social Committee.
 

Join us for our Open House on Sunday, October 25th!

• · Meet our gifted teachers.
• · Meet Jill Kessler, Head of School and the Leadership Team.
• · Learn about our innovative Jewish and secular studies curriculum.
• · Meet PJDS families and alumni.
• · Enjoy activities for children of all ages.

For further information, contact Laurence Harris (480) 991-9141 ext. 503.

Support our Pardes 8th Grade students as they raise money for their special week in Washington, DC. Pardes Blend Coffee is freshly-roasted, organic, fair-trade coffee.

Two ways to order Pardes Blend:

• · On the web -- go to www.CafeCortez.com and click on Fundraisers.
• · On campus (monthly) -- see an 8th-grader for details.

Thank you for your support!

Pardes is very excited to have its new integrated school information system, RenWeb.  RenWeb is a system for administration, for faculty and yes, for parents.  There is a terrific portal for parents called "ParentsWeb" that parents can use to access all sorts of information for the school as a whole and for your family and student(s) specifically.

Pardes logo shirts are available from our new supplier: 

http://www.companycasuals.com/Pardes. 

View, order and pay online, then they are delivered to school - NO SHIPPING CHARGES!!!

Pardes Learning Resource Specialist, Raquel Scharf-Anderson, has written a feature article for the July edition of Raising Arizona Kids.  It is in stores now. You can find the 10 ideas for keeping kids busy on p. 22 - 23.

Also, beginning July 1st and continuing each day for the month of July, parents can find summer survival tips (31 more ideas to keep kids busy). The link is http://www.raisingarizonakids.com