Happy New Year!  We hope your holidays included time with loved ones.  Please remember that students do not go back until Tuesday, and there is a new bell schedule. As we prepare to begin the second semester we have two important January events.

DONATIONS NEEDED – Winter Faculty Breakfast (Monday, Jan 6 – Teacher Workday) – Junior mom of Nick and Zack, Judy Boone, is collaborating with members from her church to organize breakfast for our faculty.  Please support this effort by contributing fruit, yogurt, OJ, and egg dishes.  Mrs. Boone’s team will be collecting food and drink donations between 7-7:15 on Monday in the Commons.  Items can be dropped off at Shannon Hardy’s Sunday night.  More Info and Sign Up

State of Knightdale High: A conversation with Principal Richardson  (Monday, Jan 13, 6:30pm) – Six months ago Mr. Richardson took over Knightdale High and asked that we are #ALLIN.  Please join us for an important reflection on how our progress.  How have we grown, how do we measure improvement, and what are his goals for the second half of this year? Please RSVP  so that PTSA chooses an appropriate space. Please feel free to submit questions even if you are unable to attend.

Some men see things as they are and ask why.  I dream of things that never were and ask why not. – Robert Kennedy

Special thanks to Glenda Brooks for her incredible work with her church, Northside Community Church, to make stockings for 50 of our students in need!   Northside also collected $20 grocery cards for each family and $10 restaurant cards for the students. Burn Bootcamp has raised money for the Care Depot. Any money not needed for the Giving Tree was used to stock the depot for the New Year. Rachel Barnes, Executive Director, of Northside Compassion Project has led our donation drive. “I have been blessed to see such Giving and compassion this year,” Glenda Brooks, mom of senior Jud.  KHSCD Student Assistance Program Coordinator, Jessika Sellas-Rodriguez jsellasrodriguez@wcpss.net. & PTSA parent liaisons Glenda Brooks and Lisa Bulls.

Please help us celebrate Fine Arts Instructor Aaron Steele Knightdale High’s Teacher of the Year!

Final thanks to Pastor Mick Bowen and Faith Baptist Church for hosting our Fall Athletic Banquet.

PTSA FUTURE EVENTS:

• January – Winter Faculty Breakfast & A Conversation with Principal Richardson
• February – Love our Library & Student Social TBA
• March – Academic Recognition
• May – Teacher Appreciation Week & Senior Awards
• Last Day of School May 22