Category: PTSA News

Join us at the Cherry Crest Culture Festival on Wednesday, April 19th from 6-8pm to celebrate the diversity of our community! Share your cultural heritage through food, crafts, and performances, and learn about others’ traditions, languages, history, geography, and games.

To participate, please Sign up by Apr, 1st, 2023. Our committee will follow up with you on event details and preparation instructions.

Questions? Please contact Miriam Haile at festivalofcultures@cherrycrest-ptsa.org

Advocate for your family on Feb. 20!

Washington State PTA’s Focus Day is Monday, February 20.  Register to attend this informative and interactive event at our state capitol in Olympia.  You will hear speakers from the WSPTA’s Advocacy Committee, State Board of Education, OSPI and Governor Inslee’s office.  You can also join a docent-led tour of the capitol.  This is a great introduction to advocacy for you, your student(s) and your family.  Learn how you can make an impact!

Advocacy in Action!

Our state legislative session is now in week 6.  View the latest Washington State PTA report highlighting bills that impact education.

Day of week: Wednesday from 12:15pm-2:15pm
Start and end dates: 3/1 to 5/31 (No class April 12 – Spring Break)
Location: Cherry Crest Elementary School Art class
Cost: TBD based on participants who sign up for team competition.
Registration Link Environmental Science ImPact Club Flyer
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, February 22
Contact Person & Contact Info. scienceclub@cherrycrest-ptsa.org

Come cheer on your classmates and friends as they perform amazing acts!

We sold out last year! Reserve your free ticket and pre-purchase food now.

We need volunteers! Sign-up here to help making the show a success.

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Save the date to have your family join us at Cherry Crest for the much beloved Family Engineering Night March 8^th from 5:45 to 7:45 pm. We encourage all family members of the Cherry Crest students to come and enjoy the fun and challenge together!  While families can come and go as you please, we encourage you to maximize your time to try to do all the challenges!

We cannot do this without help – Please Sign up to bring supplies or volunteer to set up or clean up.  We need many teen volunteers for the event to work as well!

The night will include:

• 3 main challenges – boat building, launcher, mining for chocolate
• 9 quick challenges
• High school robotics teams demonstrations
• Bee bot and Ozo bot programming
• Coding

5th Graders submit entries for Yearbook cover contest by February 10th.  More info here.

Order yearbooks for your kids now.  More info here.

Submit your pictures now for the yearbook.  More info here.

We will have an Art Reflections Recognition Ceremony on Tuesday, February 7th from 9:00am – 9:30am in the CCE Lobby area for all the 17 students from Cherry Crest who participated.

Three of the student’s art submissions are part of Bellevue Council PTSA Reflections finalists to Washington state level. Congratulations to Aahan Prakash (Photography), Aliera Zill (Literature) and Anastasia Kozlova (Dance)!! A virtual showcase & an in-person exhibition of all Bellevue Council entries to state level is coming shortly.

If you have any questions please send an email to reflections@cherrycrest-ptsa.org

The Washington State Legislature (House & Senate) convened on January 9 to consider bills and budgets for this year.

Subscribe to the Washington State PTA’s action alert e-mails to learn how you can have an impact.  The 2023 legislative session ends on April 29.  Learn the basics here.

You can also view Cherry Crest PTSA’s Legislative page for more details on how PTAs impact laws affecting education.  Questions? Contact legislativerep@cherrycrest-ptsa.org

Congratulations to Finley Cai (3rd grade), Akshaya Ramprasad (3rd grade), Alan Cheng (4th grade), Zixia Tan (5th grade) for winning the top 10% scorers in 2022 MCT! Thank you everyone for participating in the 2022 MCT.