Cyber Monday & Giving Tuesday

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Today, Cyber Monday, shop and give back to McCall through the Amazon Smile program, where Amazon will donate 0.5% of your Amazon spending to McCall HSA. Please make sure to select “McCall Home & School Association” as your charitable organization of choice and begin your online shopping at smile.amazon.com

TOMORROW, Tuesday, November 28th, is Giving TuesdayPlease consider a tax-deductible donation to McCall HSA.
You may send checks or cash in with your children or mail your donation to
McCall HSA
ATTN: Laura Sepe (HSA Treasurer)
Philadelphia, PA 19106.

You may also make donations online!!

Dress Down Day – Crazy hat/hair day

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This month’s Dress Down Day will take place on Friday, December 1st and the theme is Crazy Hat/Crazy Hair.

If your child participates and dresses out of uniform, please send $1 in and the homeroom teacher will collect the money in the morning.

Participating students earn points toward Blue & Gold Day, McCall’s annual field day in the spring.

This week’s highlights

The most important news and events for the week of November 20th, 2017:

Get your Blue Ribbon Gear now!!

Our exclusive Blue Ribbon shirts are now up for sale and can be ordered online! They can, and should, be worn proudly as uniforms.

You can expect delivery before the winter break.

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Sizes available: Youth XS, Youth S, Youth M, Youth L, Youth XL, Adult S, Adult M, Adult L and Adult XL.

 

Our limited edition Blue Ribbon mugs will be available for purchase NOW THROUGH TOMORROW (TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21st)!

Make sure to order them online or pick one up at the uniform sale in the lobby Tuesday afternoon!

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PLEASE NOTE: ALL items are delivered to the students in their homerooms – NO items are shipped to your home.Therefore, it is necessary for you to enter your child’s name, size and room number in the “shipping address” field. 
You can purchase these items in our brand new ONLINE STORE!
Please email Stephanie at secretary@mccallschool.org with any questions.

Winter Clothing Swap

McCall HSA will be holding its Annual Winter Clothing Swap on December 13th and 15th. If you have any winter gear to pass on, please bring it in any time during the week of December 4th. This includes children’s coats, hats, scarves, gloves, mittens, and boots.

On December 13th and 15th, everything will be set up in the hallway outside the auditorium and is available to any family that needs to take something (for free). Anything leftover will be donated externally.

For questions, please contact Marci Seder at mhseder@gmail.com.

Students Run Philly

CONGRATULATIONS to McCall students Joyce Lou, Clara Shao, and Yinglin Huang for completing the Philadelphia Half Marathon on Saturday and to Sunny Liu, Michael Mei, and Alexander Sepe for completing the Philadelphia Marathon on Sunday.

They have been training with Students Run Philly since June for the big race. Great Job!

Top runners

 

Box Tops – Next Collection

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Thanks to all who submitted Box Tops for our first submission!
We collected 1,270 Box Tops ($127.70)!
The next Box Tops collection date is coming up – don’t forget to ask friends, family, and neighbors to help us reach our goal of 11,000 Box Tops ($1,100)! The class that collects the most Box Tops will receive an ice cream party at the end of the school year (500 Box Top minimum).
Remember, each Box Top must have a visible product code and expiration date in order to be counted. Box Tops that are expired, missing the product code, or missing the expiration date can’t be submitted for credit.
Please contact our Box Top Coordinator, Christie Weidner at christieweidner@gmail.com with questions!