Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Back to School Night, 6:30pm

Hello,

Just a reminder that Back to School night is tonight, Wednesday, Sept 5th at 6:30pm starting in the cafeteria.

Come ready to buy uniform shirts and sweatshirts:
White, Navy, and Black Polos shirts are 2 for $10.00.
Purple are $8.00 each. 
Sweatshirts are $12.00.

Also, please come ready to sign up for your PTA membership which costs $5 per member.  PTA donations are also happily accepted at this time as well!  Contributions to the PTA are tax deductible.


Finally, please signup for Free Money for our School.  Safeway, Giant and Target have programs that donate money to Bates based on your purchases.  You must signup again each year for these programs.  Deborah Collins, our Free Money Chair, can sign you up OR you can do it on your own. We are looking to greatly increase our signups this year.  See the information below:


FREE CASH for our School!!!  It’s SO EASY!!
Please take several minutes  to register your grocery cards, credit and debit cards and Target Redcard!  It will add up to a lot of free cash for our school!  Then give this flyer to a friend, neighbor, relative or co-worker and ask them to do the same!   If you would like the school’s Reward Card Coordinator to register your Giant and Safeway cards, please see the next page (please note that Target RedCard does not allow anyone but the cardholder to register for the program). 
1.       Giant
-          Go to giantfood.com/aplus
-          Click on “Register your card” in the box on the left.
-          Enter the first three digits of your last name your 12 digit Giant Bonus card number and click on “Continue to Listings”
-          Enter the Bates School ID (01667) in the Express Box.
-          Click “Confirm My Information”

2.      Escrip – for Safeway and Credit/Debit cards
-          Go to escrip.com
-          Click on “my escrip” on the toolbar across the top of the  page.
-          Enter your user name and password (click on “forgot your password and your user name and password will be emailed to you.
-          Click on “Register grocery/community cards”
-          Any cards you have registered in previous years will be listed on the next screen.  Enter any new cards Simply click on “update.”
-          Make sure Bates Middle School appears under “Group Selection.” If it does not, click on “Group Selection” and enter the school ID number:  6643571
-          On this page you can also register your Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover as well as debit cards to earn even more money for our school!!
-          Once you have entered all your card information, click on “sign off”.

3.       Target REDcard
-          Go to target.com/redcard
-          Click on “Take Charge of Education”
-          Click on “Enroll in Take Charge of Education”
-          Enter the Bates Target School ID #   - 57334
-          Enter your REDcard information.


OR, if you’d like me,Deborah to enter your Safeway/Giant Card information, send me the following message to dcollins127@comcast.netMake sure to include all the information or I will not be able to register you!!


Deborah, here is what you need to enroll my card in the:
Giant A+ program:     1. Card Number:
                                     2. Last 3 letters of the last name associated with this card:

Safeway:                      1. My full name, address and phone number:

                                      2.  My Safeway Club Card Number: