Renner PTA

Show your RENNER PRIDE with personalized yard signs and car decals!!!

Available for all Renner activities, clubs, and events, these sturdy signs are designed to last throughout the middle school years. You will receive your yard signs and car decals in a couple of weeks. Please make checks payable to RENNER PTA.

The order form is downloadable here: Spirit Supplies Order Form.

For more information, please contact Sam Clement, Yard Signs/Decals Coordinator, by email.

Renner leather jacket is now available for ordering. The order form is downloadable here: Leather Jacket Order Form. Please make checks payable to RENNER PTA.

For more information, please contact Sam Clement, Yard Signs/Decals Coordinator, by email.

Monday: Wear Red

Tuesday: Pajama Day

Wednesday: Time Warp

Thursday: Neon Day

Friday: Twin Day

The PTA Reflections arts program theme is “Beauty Is…” There are six different categories to participate in - literature (an essay, a story, a drama, or a poem), visual arts (a painting, a drawing, a collage, or another type of picture), photography, dance choreography, film/video production, or musical composition. Each student may submit as many entries in as many different categories as he or she would like.

Reflections rules and entry forms are available at the Texas PTA Reflections site and in the school office.

Picture re-take day is Wednesday, October 14. If you child was absent when school pictures were taken on Sept. 8, or if you are unhappy with the pictures that were taken, your child may have his/her picture made during Social Studies class on October 14. If this is a re-take, you child must bring back his/her picture packet.

Information forms are available in the front office. Students may stop by between classes, at lunch, or before or after school to pick up a form.

1. Many children are being tested for type A flu, but not for H1N1. The H1N1 test is expensive and may be 40-60% inaccurate. If a student has Type A flu, it is assumed that it is the H1N1 strain at this time.
2. Not every ill person is prescribed Tamiflu or other antiviral medication. It depends on the person’s medical history and the severity of the symptoms. Observe your child carefully for changes in their breathing status and call your doctor if there is a change.
3. If you have anyone in your family with the flu or strong evidence of flu-like symptoms, AND your other children begin to show mild symptoms - please keep them home too, even without a fever.
4. Some kids are not getting a high fever. Don’t wait for the fever to keep them home if they are already complaining or sore throat, cough, runny or stuffy nose, chest congestion, weakness, body aches or extreme tiredness.
5. We are all, parents, teachers and nurses alike, having some trouble figuring out if a child’s mild symptoms are a cold, allergy or flu. Sometimes it takes a progression of symptoms to tell the whole story. PLEASE consider that if your child has any respiratory symptoms or fever that are likely to be contagious, whether it is a cold, strepp throat or the flu. We all value good school attendance, but not when a child is likely to be contagious.
6. We still hold the CDC guideline as our return policy: 24 hours fever free without the use of fever reducing medications.

If you have any questions about how we are managing at Renner, please feel free to e-mail the nurse at judith.grace@pisd.edu . Please don’t call - it’s a little hectic in the health office right now.

WASH YOUR HANDS!

Judith A. Grace, RN, NCSN Certified School Nurse Renner Middle School 469-752-5809 469-752-5814 (fax)

Read the October 2009 Edition of Round-up here.

The United States Department of Education (USDE) requires all state and local education institutions to collect data on ethnicity and race for students and staff. This information is used for state and federal accountability reporting as well as for reporting to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

School district staff and parents or guardians of students enrolling in school are requested to provide this information. If you decline to provide this information, please be aware that the USDE requires school districts to use observer identification as a last resort for collecting the data for federal reporting.

Please answer both parts of the following questions on the student’s ethnicity and race. United States Federal Register (71 FR 44866) by visiting the Questionnaire.

Renner’s campus code is 049. Ask your child for his/her Student ID number.