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Earn
$$$ While You Shop
Boxtops for Education: Clip the pink coupon from selected General
Mills products and drip into the blue box inside the main entrance
at Thornton Creek. When you clip the coupon, make sure you leave the date intact.
Chinook books: a combination coupon book and resource guide,
containing information and over $5,000 in discounts on products and
services having reduced environmental impacts -- including food, entertainment,
household items and transportation. Thornton Creek sells the books for $20 and
keeps a certain percentage of each sale, depending on the number of
books sold.
Office Depot: "5% Back to Schools" Program. If you
shop at Office Depot and mentioned AE-2 Decatur, they will keep a
running tally that the school can use for supplies. It is now a year
round program at the Seattle store.
- Buy qualifying student school supplies at Office Depot
- Designate a local school to receive 5% of your qualifying purchase
- Office Depot will tally the qualifying purchases made during the
program period
- Office Depot will award the designated school 5% of the qualifying
purchases in credits the school can use for FREE SUPPLIES!
Scrip: see below.
Science, Art & More (6417 Roosevelt Way NE): Every time a
purchase is made, 4% (for cash, check or debit card) or 1% (for
regular credit cards) of the purchase goes into the Thornton Creek account
(already established). Also a credit of $5 goes into the Thornton Creek account
when a new customer mentions that they heard about the store from
our school.
Washington Mutual: earn points for Thornton Creek every time you use
a Washington Mutual VISA® check card. At the end of the calendar
year, points are converted into a donation WAMU makes to Thornton Creek.
Contact: Kathryn Gardow
Host Family for New Families
Each new family entering AE 2 is paired with a "host family". The
host family, already part of the school community, contacts the
new family over the summer before school starts to welcome them,
and to answer any questions they might have at the time. Host families
continue to be available to the new family during the year to help
them with any school-related issues that might develop.
Washington Mutual Savings
Program
Thornton Creek students have an opportunity to participate in Washington Mutual's
(WAMU) School Savings Program. The program will provide our students
with their very own interest-bearing savings accounts to help them
establish positive savings habits. This is a program that WAMU has
offered to elementary school-aged students since 1923 and it is
implemented at many of our neighboring public and private schools.
Washington Mutual makes the opening day $0.25 deposit to each new
School Savings account. Then, on each Thursday, which is our school's
designated Bank Day, students can make additional deposits of $0.25
or more at the "bank" set up at our school. The School
Savings accounts earn a competitive interest rate, have no fees,
and are insured up to $100,000. Students may make withdrawals at
any Washington Mutual bank and are sent a quarterly account statement.
Students also earn prizes, such as pencils and erasers for every
two weeks that they make a deposit.
Our banking days are THURSDAYS FROM 8:40 to 9:00 am. Our bankers
(parent-volunteers) will be set up in the west side of the library
ready to accept deposits from our depositors (students) at 8:40
a.m. Thursdays. Bring deposits in a normal envelope with the deposit
amount written on the outside of the envelope, if you have not received
the WAMU special envelope. If you do have the WAMU envelope, fill
out the deposit slip and bring your deposit in the WAMU envelope
on bank day.
Application forms are available on Banking Day from the adult volunteers.
Once the forms are complete, including your child's Social Security
# and child's signature and complete address, bring them to Banking
Day and we will deliver them to Washington Mutual.
Download WAMU School
Savings Agreement Form
Contact: Kathryn Gardow
Scholarship
It is important that all students are able to participate equally
in all aspects of school life. To be sure this is possible, the
Site Council provides scholarships for all school-related activities.
Please don't hesitate to ask your child's teacher if you need a
full or partial scholarship for your child, or for yourself as a
chaperone.
Scrip Sale
This yearlong program offers parents the chance to donate to the
school without spending any extra money. Our school purchases scrip
in the form of gift cards from various local businesses at a 5%
discount; this scrip is then available for purchase by parents at
the full value and can be used at the appropriate store just like
cash. For every $100 of scrip sold, Thornton Creek earns $5. We presently
offer scrip from PCC, Safeway, Metropolitan Market and Kroger (QFC
and Fred Meyer) in a variety of denominations. We
now offer a National Scrip Order form for purchase from anywhere
in the USA! Purchases can be made at the scrip table in front
of the school office on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, before
and after school. In the 2004-05 school year, this program raised
$11,000.
Scrip is available for purchase Mon - Fri am and Mon - Thurs pm.
Stop by the scrip table for more Scrip updates as Scrip continues
to grow and improve!
Local Scrip Order Form
National Scrip Order Form
Contact: Rae Keyes
Inkjet Printer Cartridge Recycling Program
Recycling inkjet printer cartridges is good for the environment
and good for Thornton Creek. For every cartridge we keep out of the landfill,
Thornton Creek receives up to $5 from Inkjet Frog. Definitely a win-win situation!
Inkjet Frog is a local company based in Mukilteo. They collect the
cartridges from our school, refill them, and sell them locally through
QFC! Most of the popular HP, Canon, Compaq, Dell, Lexmark and Xerox
cartridges can be recycled through this program, however most Epson
cartridges are excluded. A list of accepted cartridges can be found
by downloading InkJetFrogs List.
Please bring your used inkjet cartridges into school, and place
them in the green collection box just inside Thornton Creek?s front entrance.
Contact: Denise Spring
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