UPA PTSO

Our purpose as the UPA PTSO is to support the education of children at University Preparatory Academy (UPA) by fostering relationships among the school, parents, and teachers.

See the packages and the signup form.

Announcements

We hope to have the travel mugs available at Back to school night, and the sweat pants available at the PTSO October General meeting.

If you are interested in signing up for any of these jobs please contact the UPA PTSO Membership Committee contact:
Judy McDowell financing@judymcdowell.com Phone 408-483-2730

UPA PTSO Parent Volunteer jobs

These are all great ways to earn your parent volunteer hours.
Volunteers are needed for these subcommittees and committees:

Social Committee subcommittees:

Staff Appreciation
8th Grade Graduation
8th Grade Class Trip
End of Year Picnic

Ways and Means Committee subcommittees:

e-Scrip
Night at San Jose Sharks
Night at San Jose Giants
Magazines
Washington DC trips
2011 11th grade
Senior Trips
- Class of 2011
- Class of 2012
- Class or 2013

Uniform Exchange

Workroom Maintenance

Upcoming Events

PTSO General Meetings for the 2009-2010 school year

1st Tuesday of the month Room 210 Horton @ 6:30 PM

PTSO Officer's Meetings

3rd Thursday of each month, 6:30pm, by email.

Here's How to Earn Your Hours!

As we all know, UPA requires 60 volunteer hours per year from each household (in addition to the student requirement of 30 service hours). How will you accumulate that many hours? The easiest and most fun way is to become active in PTSO. If you attend the monthly PTSO general meeting, that time counts, and there are many volunteer jobs listed on our website. Most of them are fairly easy, and many can be completed even if you can't take time off from work.

You can go to the PTSO website by going to www.upasv.org and clicking on PTSO website.

PTSO has an opening for the office of Secretary. That mainly entails taking minutes at meetings. Other committees and subcommittees need volunteers, and this is the way most parents will earn their 60 hours. Please take a look at the openings and come to the next PTSO meeting and start participating! UPA absolutely depends upon support from parents.

By the way, if you have not yet joined PTSO this school year, please fill out a membership form and have your student drop it off at the UPA office. Why join?

Membership dues help purchase insurance for some activities
Dues also cover minor administrative expenses
Occasionally PTSO enables kids to participate in an activity by helping pay the expense, if necessary.
PTSO is a thrifty organization in comparison to other similar national organizations with higher overhead.
Membership dues are as low as $10/year.
Participating in PTSO is the easiest way to accumulate your 60 hours of volunteer time that you agreed to when you registered your child.

Escrip

Participating business partners contribute a percentage of your grocery loyalty cards (such as Safeway), credit cards, and debit/ATM card purchases to UPA. You can also shop at over 1,000 of your favorite online merchants at eScrip's online mall, with a percentage of your purchases going to the University Preparatory Academy.

Register your credit cards and grocery store cards to earn money for University Preparatory Academy for free! It's easy! Sign up for eScrip by:

Logging on to www.escrip.com
Register and enter: University Preparatory Academy
Group I.D. #500015911

We appreciate your help in raising funds for the University Preparatory Academy PTSO!