December 5 Homecoming Dance, 6:00 pm

December 7 Lifetouch Retakes, 8:30 am

K-12 Town Hall, 6:00 pm

December 11 College March, 8:30 am

December 14-17 Early Release, 12 Noon

Primary Carline 11:40 am—12:10 pm

December 18-January 5 NO SCHOOL-WINTER BREAK

January 6 Classes Resume

Dear Uplift Parents,

Thank you for your continued partnership in the education of your scholar and your input regarding improvements in the scholar experience at Uplift schools. During my campus visits, parents often ask me about school lunches and how we can improve upon our current offerings. We have heard your feed-back and I am happy to announce that our Child Nutrition staff has unveiled a new lunch menu. The new menu includes locally sourced, minimally processed seasonal items. The best part is that we are able to improve lunch options for our scholars at no additional cost to our families.

As we roll out our new menu we are also sharing a new policy that will ensure low meal costs for our families. In the last three years, we have seen our nega-tive lunch account balances increase exponentially, and our projected lunch ac-count loss is expected to top $500,000 by the end of the school year. This un-sustainable trend has the potential to take valuable resources away from our classrooms if allowed to continue. For this reason, starting in January 6, 2016, your school will start to provide alternative meals to scholars with a negative lunch account balance exceeding $10. The alternative lunch will contain enough calories to help a scholar through the day but will not contain a main course. In the coming weeks, parents with a negative balance will receive a letter in the mail regarding re-payment. Parents can bring their scholar lunch account balance current by making payment at the campus office or at https://www.myschoolbucks.com. Payment arrangements can be made by contacting your campus.

Parents requiring assistance with free or reduced cost lunch can apply today at https://uplift.rocketscanapps.com/ or call the school for assistance with the appli-cation. The free and reduced meal application does a lot more than just help parents defer meal costs. A portion of our overall school funding comes from the information we receive from free and reduced meal applications. Even parents who feel like they don’t qualify or who pack their child’s lunches, should fill out an application.

If you have questions about your balance, free or reduced cost lunch status, need help with the free and reduced meal application, or to make payment please contact your campus Kitchen Manager. If they are unable to resolve your issue, the Child Nutrition Department at our Central Office, is always availa-ble (469) 621-8500

Sincerely, Yasmin Bhatia CEO Uplift Education

Secondary Parent Newsletter December 1, 2015 Volume 1, Issue 7

Upcoming Events

Uplift Peak K-12 Vision Statement: Our vision is to provide a joyful and inquiry based education that inspires and prepares all scholars to graduate

from college and positively impact their world.

For events, news, pictures, and so much more stay con-nected to uplift Peak by visiting: www.facebook.com/

upliftpeakpreparatory and our website at www.upliftpeak.org

H o m e c o m i n g

Monday: Sports Day

Tuesday: Color Wars

Wednesday: Western

Thursday: Character Day

Friday: Peak Spirit Day

Homecoming Game

Tuesday December 1, 7:30 pm @ Peak

Homecoming Court (9th-11

th) Announced

at Halftime

Homecoming Dance

Saturday, December 5

6:30 – 10:30

*subject to change

…….hard at work to sup-

port our staff, families and

scholars!

THANK YOU...

To all parents that have been volunteering for carline!

All parents that contributed and/or volunteered for the High

School In N Out Fundraiser.

Parent Volunteers needed for: High School Homecoming Dance: Chaperones are needed from 6:00—10:30 pm on Saturday, Dec. 5th. Primary Carline: Monday—Friday mornings. Come by Primary 5 minutes before carline. Primary Café: Monday-Friday from 11:30 am—12:30 pm. Primary Uniform Organization: We need one parent to come by Primary to organize uniforms any day of the week for 1 hour

Gift Card Drive

The holiday season is fast approaching and we are asking you to show our staff and teachers how much we appreciate them!

Peak Parents Volunteers in Partnership (ViP) is coordinating a gift card drive for our Uplift Peak K-12 staff from all parents. Gift cards for any amount are welcome. Please consider do-nating any unused cards you might have at home or from your business. Or, consider purchasing a gift card from restaurants and businesses such as Mi Cocina, Taco Joint, Einstein Ba-gels, Target, Walmart, Jimmy’s, Every Season School Supply, Starbucks, Fiesta, Sprouts. Bring your donations to Mrs. Corona’s office, the parent liaison in the middle school building or send them with your scholar in an envelope addressed to Mrs. Corona or ViP Parent Group. Cards will be given to staff and teachers at holiday appreciation dinners during the month of December.

For any information or questions on parent involvement/engagement please contact Maricarmen Corona, Parent Liaison, 214-276-0879 x 2906 or mcorona@uplifteducation.org

Lifetouch Re- Take Picture Day is Monday, December 7th

Please pick up your re-take order form in

the front office and return it before December 7th

If you have purchased a package and

would like re-takes, please send back your en-

tire package on December 7th

Town Hall Meeting with CEO, Yasmin Bhatia On Monday, December 7th, in lieu of Coffee and Tea with Directors, our CEO, Yasmin Bhatia will visit our campus We invite you to come at 6:00 pm to meet other parents and engage in a productive conversation with Ms. Bhatia and campus leader-ship. Come let your voice be heard. Please take a moment to answer a brief 2 question survey from Uplift Education by clicking on the link you received in your email and/or Parent App or by typing the URL below into your internet browser: h t t p s : / / u p l i f t e d u c a t i o n . p a r e n t l i n k . n e t / s u r v e y s / ?rx=4suwXpK1krtyj1LzZ0XX&ry=9TjlhVrGZCaGn_wB7ffIeF&ro=OnekUv%24dSZg%7CfF

There are still a few dishes that need to be picked up. Please come by Mrs. Corona’s office to pick them up. Dishes not picked up by De-cember 11th will be donated to our garage sale items.

Amani Children’s Choir from Uganda performing at Peak Prep on

Thursday, Nov. 19th

Senior College March On December 11th, we will have our College March for Seniors. It is when seniors march to a mailbox to symbolically submit their college applications. It is a national event and Peak K-12 will be participating. The event will start at 8:30 am, you may stay after carline; gates will close at 8:40 am. The march should be over by 9:30 am. We are inviting all parents to stand in the crowd and cheer our Seniors on as they march to the mailbox. Bring your noisemakers and lets cheer for our Seniors!

Parents, remember that CA Testing starts this week and will continue through the remainder of the semester. Help your scholar by ensuring that he/she studies, gets a good nights rest and eats a healthy breakfast.