Forestville School/Academy

YEARBOOK COVER CONTEST!

For All Students!

Be the winning artist and have your art published on the cover of the school yearbook.

The entries of the 3 runners-up will appear on the back cover of the yearbook.

Entries that do not appear on the cover may be used as clip art inside the yearbook.

Due: Friday, March 16^th, 2012

Contest Rules:

·       Make sure to include the following:                          

1.     The name of the district: Forestville Union School District

2.   The school year: 2011/2012

·       Use 8½X11 paper with vertical orientation.

·       Markers are recommended.  If using colored pencils or crayons, do not color lightly.  Do not use paint.

·       Submit original student artwork only.

·       Keep what’s important in the design (eg. school name) away from the paper edges.

·       Turn your artwork into the office by 3/16/12 labeled “Yearbook Cover Contest” (not on the artwork itself) and be sure to include your full name and teacher on the back of the artwork (in pencil).

The winner will be announced by April, and have their artwork shown as the cover on this year’s yearbook!

 Please let us know if you have any questions.  Good luck!

Any questions contact Diane Hughes at dhughes@forestvilleusd.org

Forestville Education Foundation receives an “Artists
in Schools” Grant from the California Arts Council

                

Funds are provided for organizations dedicated to arts education in schools
SACRAMENTO—The California Arts Council announces that the Forestville Education
Foundation has received an “Artists in Schools” grant for the 2011-2012 school and fiscal year. The “Artists in Schools” program from the state’s arts agency is designed to support professional teaching artists in residency activities in classrooms and after school programs.

The Forestville Education Foundation will support the K-3 visual arts project at Forestville Elementary School that provides hands-on art experience based on California Visual Art standards. The project is fulfilled with the students’ creation of art in the classroom under the direction of a professional artist and will culminate in a student exhibition. Students are exposed to art history, cultural arts and art vocabulary while using various art mediums. The organization received $5,415 in funding. There are 135 arts organizations that received “Artists in Schools” grants to help bring music, theater, dance, visual arts and related arts to children statewide during the 2011-2012 school year.

"The arts are crucial to a student's educational development and especially enhance the
essential life and career skills of creativity and imagination," said Craig Watson, Director of the California Arts Council. "Our agency supports standards-based arts education through the Artists in Schools program so professional teaching artists can enhance the imagination and creativity of
our state's school-age children."

Music, theater, dance, and the visual arts are at the core of these standards-based teaching artists residencies that will engage students from different socio-economic backgrounds in positive artistic expression. Examples of residencies vary from robust music programs to public art projects that involve students and members of the community to theater training and public performances.

The organizations receiving funding are in two categories: teaching-artists residency activity, or planning grants. There are 129 organizations which will receive funding to bring professional teaching artists to in-school and after-school settings, and six organizations will receive planning grants designed to assist the arts organization and school partner to plan a course of action and strategies to incorporate arts into the classroom and community. The total amount allocated for the 2011-12 Artists in Schools program is $1,099,995.

For more information about the Forestville Education Foundation, please visit
www.forestvillefoundation.org. Reporters interested in the “Artists in Schools” program may contact Mary Beth Barber, Information Officer, at mbarber@cac.ca.gov, or (916) 322-6588. Arts organizations or school administrators interested in information about the “Artists in Schools” program may contact Wayne Cook, Arts Education Administrator and Coordinator, at wcook@cac.ca.gov, or (916) 322-6344.

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A school immunization law requires all students entering 7th grade in the 2012-2013 school year in California to be immunized with a pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine booster called Tdap.

Pertussis is a very contagious respiratory disease that can be severe and last for months. The immunity received from either early childhood immunization or pertussis disease wears off over time, leaving older students and adults susceptible again to pertussis. Immunization with Tdap can protect students, schools and communities against pertussis.

The new requirement affects all students – current, new, and transfers – in public and private schools.          The law has two phases: