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Pathfinder Auction 2010

 Saturday March 13

Planting Seeds ... Growing Together

Preliminary Results are In... $70,000 raised for Pathfinder!

Thank you to our generous community for this record-breaking accomplishment!  What a wonderful evening!  Full details coming soon, stay tuned.

Congratulations to Linda Thomson and Eric Baer, dual winners of this year's Where There's a Will There's a Way Award!

2010 "Fund-a-Need": The Earth Project at Pathfinder - Thank You Thank You Thank You!

We raised over $9,000!

Each year we focus our giving spirit on a special program or project during the Live Auction.  This year, we are really excited to motivate our community to support The Earth Project at Pathfinder!  The Earth Project is a partnership effort between Pathfinder K-8, Nature Consortium, and Camp Long.  Nature Consortium’s primary mission is to connect people, arts and nature.  They accomplish this mission through a Youth Art Program, the annual Arts in Nature Festival and an on-going Urban Forest Restoration Project in the West Duwamish Greenbelt, the area surrounding Pathfinder’s campus (and Seattle’s largest contiguous forest). Through stewardship, education and advocacy they are working towards having the greenbelt eventually return to an old growth forest area. 

The Earth Project can take many directions but focuses specifically on integrating environmental science into the arts and other aspects of curricula.  Student work and involvement in classroom and outdoor science education and classroom in partnership with Nature Consortium is already underway, and we want to build on the legacy and success of the Earth Project started at Cooper Elementary in 2007. 

Student work and involvement in classroom and outdoor science education in partnership with The Nature Consortium is already underway, and we want to build on the legacy and success of the Earth Project started at Cooper Elementary in 2007.  Showing strong community support also enhances our ability to attract matching grants, so come to the Auction prepared to raise your paddle high for The Earth Project! 

Our goal is to raise $6,000 to support this project more fully next year.  These funds will allow deep indoor & outdoor programming around environmental science, art, organic gardening, and more!  If you won’t be at the Auction but want to support this project, we would welcome your fully tax-deductible direct donation!  You may send a check payable to Pathfinder PTSA (with The Earth Project Donation noted in the subject line) to the office or mail it to Pathfinder PTSA, 1901 SW Genesee St., Seattle WA  98106.

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2010 Enrollment Tours

We are looking forward to welcoming prospective Pathfinder families to tour our school in the coming months.  Please click here for the most recent schedule for Open Houses and School Visits/Tours.  You may also call the office for more information:  206-252-9710.  The next scheduled events:

Monday March 15 and Thursday March 18:  School Visit focusing on K-5

Thursday March 25:  School Visit focusing on Grades 6-8

Reservations are not necessary. Click here for directions to our school (please note that there is a construction detour in the area; click on the link to the right to read about the road closure).

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MAP Testing Resources

All students at Pathfinder have taken a second round of MAP tests.  You should receive your child's scores via kidmail soon after mid-winter break.  We have lots of resources to help parents understand these scores on our MAP testing resources page.   If you didn't receive the scores, please contact your child's teacher.

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