We love the spirit of our young Panthers - they had a great time last Friday showing off their style on Pajama Day. Congratulations to Mr. Chan’s 8th Grade, Ms. Solomon’s 7th Grade, and both Mr. Todd and Mr. Jensen’s 6th Grade Advisories - they were the most spirited classes and have been awarded custom made buttons for their bags, backpacks and jackets in recognition of the joy they contribute to our school community.
Presidio and Beacon are slowly launching clubs - students should check the bulletin daily to see what’s going on. Clubs students can join will include: Black Student Union, Gay Straight Alliance, Filipinix Cultural Club, Pets & Pals, The Black and White Newspaper, Creative Writing, Anime, Chess, Cooking, Ping-Pong and more.
We remind our students to show Presidio Panther Pride all the time and in all ways; this means to:
Be Respectful: What you say.
Be Responsible: What you do.
Represent Presidio: How you grow.
How our students represent in the wider community is part of showing Presidio Pride. Please encourage your child to be respectful and responsible when representing local businesses.
It is also important that, together with parents, we encourage students to make wise and healthy choices. If your child has spending money during the week, please check in with them to find out how they are using it. We will remove bags of candy and all sodas and caffeinated drinks from students if these items are brought to school. It’s exciting enough to be a middle schooler without starting the day on a stomach full of sugar and caffeine. Healthy breakfast and lunch choices are available daily to all students for free in our cafeteria.
Finally, our teachers enjoy connecting with you! Unfortunately, due to the instructional schedule, we cannot accommodate casual drop-in visits to classrooms to meet teachers - if you would like to meet with a teacher, please arrange the meeting at least 24 hours in advance - this is best done by emailing them directly through ParentVue. If you need support connecting with a teacher, please contact your child’s counselor.
I cannot stress enough how it is by taking collective responsibility for each other that we will keep our children and our families as safe as possible from Covid19. Please review and follow all of the below guidelines from SFUSD on a daily basis. If your child or a family member becomes ill, please notify myself dunbare@sfusd.edu and our nurse, Juliette Liu liuj5@sfusd.edu - even if it is the weekend.
Yours in Community,
Ms. Dunbar, Presidio Principal
Before Coming to School: Daily Health Screening
Staying home when sick is an important way that we protect each other from the spread of COVID-19.
Answer these questions for yourself or your child everyday before coming to school:
Has your child had any symptoms listed below that are new or different from usual?
Fever (100.4°F/38°C or higher) or chills
Cough
Headache
Sore throat
Loss of taste or smell that started in the last 10 days (Children may say that food “tastes bad” or “tastes funny”)
Feeling out of breath or having a hard time breathing
Nasal congestion or runny nose
Diarrhea, nausea or vomiting
Fatigue
Muscle aches or body aches
If your child has any of the symptoms above:
Contact your child’s doctor, and have your child tested for COVID-19.
Keep your child at home until you get their test results.
Contact your child's school.
If you are not fully vaccinated, in the past 10-14 days, have you had “close contact” with anyone who has COVID-19 during their contagious period?
If your child was fully vaccinated for COVID-19, they can keep going to school. Consider having them tested for 3-5 days after their close contact.
If your child was not fully vaccinated for COVID-19, they must stay home. Follow the quarantine instructions.
Have you tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 10 days?
If you or your child(ren) answered yes, please stay at home.
If you or your child(ren) answered no, you can keep going to school.
9/15-10/15 Latinx Heritage Month
9/20-9/27 Sukkot 10/1 PTSA Board Meeting 10/4 Picture Retakes
10/11 Indigenous People's Day
10/14 AAPAC Meeting
10/14 Community Meeting 10/20 SSC Meeting
10/21 Principal Chat
See below for further details for each upcoming event
Come out and Cheer on our Panthers!
Our baseball & softball teams are in first place and playoff bound!
Softball Schedule & Season Stats
Baseball Schedule & Season Stats
Picture Retake Day is October 4, 2021
To order, visit mylifetouch.com and enter Picture ID: EVTC9WWS
Pre-ordered photos and proofs were distributed on Thursday 9/16. Please check your student's backpacks for the packet from Lifetouch. If you did not pre-order, but like their photo and are ready to purchase, you can log in or create an account at mylifetouch.com. Enter your student's portrait ID and access code to make your online purchase.
If you pre-ordered photos, but don't love them and would like your student to retake, please send the portraits back to school on Picture Retake Day (October 4th). They MUST turn the photos in to the Lifetouch photographer.
Join Presidio's Official Newspaper
The Black & White!
PTSA's Charleston Wrap Fundraiser is in FULL SWING!
We’re already 5 days into our Charleston Wrap fundraiser! Have you registered yet? Can you TEXT 10 of your friends & family right now and help us reach our goal?
Helping us reach our goal is QUICK, EASY, and only takes about 5 minutes. We have partnered with Charleston Wrap® to make it happen! With over 2,500 gift ideas, including UltraHeavy™ gift wrap, gourmet kitchen essentials, personalized gifts & more, friends and family can help us reach our goal by checking off their holiday shopping list! But first, you'll need to invite them to support our fundraiser - and we have a special gift for you, too! Complete the three steps below and you'll receive a FREE ROLL of Charleston Wrap®’s UltraHeavy™ gift wrap when you make a purchase!
Here's how to help and receive your FREE UltraHeavy™ roll of gift wrap:
1) Please visit registercw.com to register today! Use our ORGANIZATION ID 23129 to register! One registration per family.
2) Send 10 unique and valid shopping email invites to your friends & family using our invite tool at registration.
3) Once you've sent 10 emails, a gift card will be emailed to you for your FREE roll of Charleston Wrap®’s UltraHeavy™ gift wrap with the purchase of any item.
In addition to awarding the FREE roll of wrap, we will also award a Charleston Wrap® Gift Card to parents who have rallied others to support the fundraiser! We'll award these Gift Cards on the last day of our sale (10/04/2021) for Parent Appreciation Day. We will automatically email you a gift card for the highest level achieved!
* Any Parent with 5 supporters will receive a gift card for $10 off any purchase of $50 or more. * Any Parent with 10 supporters will receive a gift card for $25 off any purchase of $50 or more.
* Any Parent with 20 supporters will receive a gift card for $50 off! Your $50 order is FREE!
*Gift Cards expire in April of next year and cannot be combined with any other offer. Orders may be subject to shipping and tax.
PRO TIP: The more email invites you send, the more supporters we'll get! So, break out your email contact list, share on social media, and help spread the word!
View the attached online flyer. Please take a few minutes and register now at registercw.com
Questions about registration? Call CW Customer Support at 1-866-395-2926
Thank you so much for your support of Presidio Middle School.
Anna Clenshaw
Community Partnerships & Engagement
Parent of 7th and 8th grade students
Click pic to download
Lunch Upper Yard Schedule
First come first serve
20 people max
NO food or drinks inside the gate.
Once you leave, you may not reenter
Spirit Fridays!
Every Friday is Spirit Friday and students should be wearing the Presidio Color Tees every week.
Last week we had a special Spirit Day. It was PJ Day All Day!
Here's a fun pic from Ms Tanaka's homeroom.
8th grade families: Save the date
Attendance Notes
Please call or email Ms. Reidy-Miller if your child will be missing school or picked up early.
Please continue to drop off/ pick up from 29th Ave.
Or pick a designated spot a few blocks away to reduce traffic around the school.
Drop students off on the southbound side of 29th Ave only (facing Geary).
Students must use a designated crosswalk to cross the street.
Please DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CAR UNATTENDED
Please drop off your student and move on once you arrive.
Do not block driveways or other vehicles
Please always treat our neighbors courteously
*As of 9/24/21 SFMTA will turn up to ticket or tow.
Let's Talk Sports!
Upcoming Try-Outs and Information Meetings
Have a child interested in participating in a sport this year? Check out the information below, so that your child will be allowed to participate.
Information Meetings! Coaches generally conduct information sessions during the lunch hour. Upcoming information sessions will be advertised in the Presidio Daily News (shown to students in their classrooms) or in this Newsletter.
**Your child will need a physician to fill out and sign a History and Physical Form.** It's good for one year. Bring it to your child's annual well-child visit, or contact the pediatrician's office to see if you can submit the form via fax or email, to be filled and out returned to you the same way.
Try outs! Not all sports require them. But some do! Contact our Athletic Director, Ms. Alvarez, to find out the latest (contact info., below).
Questions? Email Presidio Athletic Director, Ms. Alvarez, at: alvarezs1@sfusd.edu. Not all coaches are known at this time, and some are parents. Please contact Ms. Alvarez to find out who your child's coach may be, and who to contact with follow-up questions.
Girls Soccer
***A second Information Meeting will be held this coming Tuesday,September 28 at lunch in the South Gym***
Click on the below link to download and fill out all the necessary forms now:
***ALL forms (including a History and Physical Form signed by your child's pediatrician) must be completed and submitted by FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 to our athletic director, Ms. Alvarez; Ms. Alvarez's office is located in the locker room. . PLEASE NOTE: Given that there are already more than 60 girls interested in trying out for 16-18 spots on the team, there will be no exceptions or extensions.***
Tryouts will be on*:
Monday, October 4 at the Beach Chalet soccer fields in Golden Gate Park from right after school - 5:30 p.m., Pitch #1;
Tuesday, October 5 at the Beach Chalet soccer fields in Golden Gate Park from right after school - 5:30 p.m., Pitch #4;
Wednesday, October 6 at the Beach Chalet soccer fields, from right after school until 4, Pitch #2.
* Once the coaches determine their system for evaluating all the players, they'll let everyone know which tryout days players will need to attend.
The Panthers lost 4-3 against Lick on Wednesday, 9/22.
Roy M. scored two goals and Tolson S. made one. Jack G. played goalie. The team closes out the regular season today against Roosevelt. No chance for the playoffs but the team's hoping to finish with a win and more importantly to get its young core of players some playing time to build for a playoff run in 2022.
Please complete the 2021-22 SFUSD Multipurpose Family Income Form
The new Multipurpose Family Income Form (MFIF) for 2021-22 school year is now available online. It is an important step for all SFUSD families to complete every school year. You can get it out of the way before school starts!
Why apply?
Help secure essential funding for your school, like teacher salaries and school supplies
Receive discounted utilities like internet for your home
Become eligible for afterschool programs and SAT fee waivers
Receive benefits regardless of citizenship status
Families can apply online at SchoolCafe.com (available in English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese) or by requesting for a paper form from their school. Online applicants will receive their eligibility letter via email in 5 business days.
When you log in to www.schoolcafe.com, you will need to click on “Apply for Benefits”, regardless of whether you feel like you will qualify. THIS is the form.
If you have already completed the form, instead of seeing “Apply for Benefits”, you will see a button that says “View Elegibility Info”
*Paper forms are now available in the Main Office.
Youth Art Exchange, an Excelsior-based arts education nonprofit,
is providing free arts education to SFUSD high school students.
Classes began on September 13 but there are still a few spots open. Classes meet in person.
Music Production and Design Lab (aka Industrial Design) in particular have extra space but there is also space in Printmaking, Fashion Design and Darkroom Photography.
Classes are held at one of three sites: 1. dedicated arts hub [x]space at 5137 Mission Street, 2. studio space at BGCSF - Columbia Park @ 450 Guerrero, or 3. John O'Connell HS.
Order Now & Save -10% Discount Thru September 30th!
Order your student's yearbook by September 30th and save 10%. Order at www.treering.com, use passcode1015372493931878to create an account or add Presidio as your student's current school.
Download the Tree Ring app for iOS or Android, then start uploading photos from the 1st Day of School. You can even create 2 free custom pages from the app!
Presidio Panther Business of the Month
Our chosen small business for the month of September is Golden Edge Pizza in the Richmond district. Mention Presidio Middle School when you place your order so they know how much we appreciate them in our school's neighborhood. Don't forget to tell friends and family so they can join us in our support of SF small businesses. If you post a picture of you at Golden Edge Pizza on Presidio's Instagram, 'presidioptsa', your name goes in a drawing for Presidio SWAG!
Attached is the flyer that has been placed in the window of the restaurant.
There are many different ways to earn money for Presidio while you shop. Please check out the links and information below to see how you can contribute.
Farm Fresh To You
Receive fresh, organic produce conveniently delivered to your home while earning 10% of your purchase for Presidio Middle School!
Receive a seasonal box or customize your own box.
Enter our code: PRESIDIOPANTHER
AmazonSmile
If you're shopping with Amazon, remember to use smile.amazon.com
Choose Presidio Middle School PTSA (No. 328) for your beneficiary.
You will find the same products, same prices, and same service as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate 0.5% of the purchase price to our school! It's super easy to use the app... - In the regular Amazon app, type "smile.amazon" in the search bar.
- Click "You shop, AmazonSmile donates"
- Turn on AmazonSmile.
- To keep AmazonSmile ON in the app, have notifications enabled.
Office Depot
Earn 5% back in credits for our school.
Presidio Middle School ID: 70014119
Shopping Online? Enter the School ID on the Thank You Confirmation Page.
Shopping In Store? When you check out, simply provide the name of our school or the School ID.
BoxTops4Education
We can raise funds for Presidio when we grocery shop for our favorite items. Sign up for a free account, get the app, and when you buy any of the partner items and scan your receipt, a donation is automatically made to Presidio!
Presidio Middle School is Nut Free!
Please do not send any nuts or nut containing items in your child's lunch or snacks. We appreciate your consideration of the many students at Presidio with nut allergies.
This weekly newsletter
We have two new parent volunteers working on our weekly newsletter, Christine Miyauchi and Clarissa Kearns. Going forward, please send your submissions to our new email address: newsletter@presidioptsa.com by 12 p.m. on Thursdays. Thank you!
Presidio Fall Sports Highlights
