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						Updated September 06, 2007 12:19 AM C.S.T.

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● Beautification Day 2007

● Outstanding Unit Award

More than 100 people attended the "Sleeper Colleges" program at CVHS on March 29th
To see the presentation notes click here.

Beautification Day 2007

One Saturday each year PTSA sponsors the CVHS PTSA Beautification Day.   CVHS students, parents and some teachers show up to work on beautifying the campus with the assistance of our school custodians.
This year, Beautification Day was held on March 3, 2007.   Over 200 students arrived bright and early Saturday morning to clean the campus and complete a few projects. Beautification Day is a team effort and because of that, much is accomplished. We were able to:

Clean floors, windowsills, basesills, doors, walls, drinking
fountains, handrails and the exterior of lockers
Pick-up trash throughout the campus, including the junior lot (you
don’t want to know what they found)
Re-screen classroom screens
Install frosted window covering over the science atrium windows
Weed planters
Scrape gum (yuck)
Clean the library
Clean a few classrooms for teachers who asked
Our custodians were able to wash many of our interior windows
District grounds personnel installed planter mow strips and water
lines to the senior lot tree planters

In addition to the hard work listed above, Bemus Landscaping removed and replaced all plants at the school entrance from the senior lot.  The project was possible due to funding by PTSA at a reasonable rate offered by Bemus Landscaping.

In past years the beautification committee has received donations of carpeting for all the school’s hallways and enough plants for the CVHS grounds and Via Escolar slope as well as other schools in the district. We have funded enlarging and framing student art, motivational posters and past yearbook photos for the school walls, painted the CVHS mascot over the gym, painted a “Welcome “mural in the mall, painted “Cougars” over the entrance to the school, purchased and hung motivational banners inside the school and parking lot banners outside the school. The program is a success because we all work as a team to bring school pride and spirit to CVHS for the students, staff and community.

If you have any questions about this program, please contact Sharon Campbell at board@capoPTSA.org

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CVHS PTSA Wins Outstanding Unit Award

At the 4th District year-end lunch on Thursday June 8th, 2006, the Capistrano Valley High School PTSA was awarded the “Outstanding Unit Award” for 2005/2006. The 4th District includes all of Orange County and a small portion of LA County. President Barbara Casserly was in attendance to accept the award on behalf of the PTSA. Thank you to all who participated in CVHS PTSA this year for making this happen.

The following is the announcement from the 4th District:
OUTSTANDING UNIT AWARD
CAPISTRANO VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL PTSA (Capistrano Council)
Barbara Casserly, President

Capistrano Valley High School PTSA chose “Celebrating Cougar Pride” as their theme this year. Their goal was to reflect the pride they feel in their school, but also to ensure that the PTSA board was reflective of their diverse student body. There are seven men on their board, and board members from each of their feeder schools as well as two student board members and a Latino group parent leader.

Capistrano Valley High School PTSA kicked off their year with a new program, “Parent Orientation,” during which parents were welcomed and educated about what to expect in high school. By providing interesting programs as well as door prizes, attendance at their meetings is up, and membership is up 50%.

In February, they celebrated “Take Your Family to School Week,” a Founders’ Day event and opportunity for feeder school PTA executive boards to discover the high school their children will soon attend.

Strong parent education programs is the hallmark of Capo Valley High School PTSA, programs such as “Crash Proof Your Teen,” and “The Essentials of Teen Driving.” Mini-parent ed programs follow PTSA meetings, on topics such as drug education, involvement in high school athletics, and class selection & scheduling.

This PTSA is also active in advocacy. Information is sent to parents via email, and through their website. This PTSA took an active role in defeating Proposition 76. Through guest speakers, postcard campaigns and electronic communications, Capistrano Valley High School PTSA helped to defeat Prop. 76 while educating parents about their role as advocates.

With no past student involvement in their PTSA, this year two students were recruited to serve as Reflections chairmen. Students also assisted the PTSA by helping with data entry and campus beautification.

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