A welcome letter from the Skyline PTSO President:

To parents of the Freshmen class – Welcome!   To parents of the Sophomore class – Welcome Back!

The Skyline PTSO is your communication link with the Skyline Community. We are enthusiastic about serving the needs of Parents, Staff, Students and the entire Skyline community during our second school year.

Our plans for this school year include for the provision of:

Staff Support Grants – We want our Skyline Teachers to be able to count on the PTSO for needs that the district won’t provide. Since we have a very new school, requests from the Skyline staff will focus mostly on training, seminars, and continuing education that the district will not fund.  Providing for our teachers to attend such training will allow them to learn and incorporate state of the art teaching strategies in our classrooms. It will also serve to motivate and retain the best personnel on our teaching staff.

Sponsored Skyline Community Events – Providing funding and volunteers to enable events such as Homecoming, a Mid-Winter Dance, and more is crucial to building a sense of tradition and community.

Scholarships – We believe that no Skyline student should be excluded from field trips or special events due to financial need. We strive to provide scholarships to assist when appropriate.

Communication with the Skyline community – We manage and update our PTSO website and publish a monthly newsletter to keep parents informed on what is happening at Skyline. We are also working toward other electronic and printed communications including a Skyline Directory to make sure that our families are well informed about Skyline events and other useful information.

How you can help make it all happen

In order to accomplish this, we truly need your generous support. We are asking for a $30 minimum donation as our annual “PTSO Dues”.   Please feel free to donate more if you are able.  While the dues are in no way mandatory, we cannot operate without your financial support.  We will ask for the dues donation at the upcoming Student Registration, so please consider donating at that time.  A PTSO dues envelope will be included in the registration packet for your convenience.  If we can be of any help or provide any further information about the Skyline PTSO, please feel free to contact any of the PTSO Board Members.  Contact information may be found on the Skyline Website PTSO site below.

Best Wishes for the upcoming school year,

Brian Mielewski

PTSO President

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COMMUNICATIONS:

Monthly PTSO Meeting -

Thank you for attending the PTSO meeting.  Many parents had attended the monthly meetings and provided valuable input.  The PTSO meeting is held every first Monday of the month at 6:30pm in the Skyline Media Center unless there is a holiday.  Due to the spring break week, the next PTSO meeting is Monday, April 19, 2010 at 6:30pm in Skyline's Media Center.  Please join us for the important updates. 

Monthly PTSO Meeting Minutes -

Meeting minutes are taken during each meeting and only contain the items discussed at the meeting.  Minutes are reivewed by the entire meeting attendees, and then approved by the entire meeting attendees during the following meeting.  Approved meeting minutes will then be posted in the PTSO website.  To view the approved meeting minutes please click on the Meeting Minutes link on the left-hand-side of this website. 

PTSO Email Group -

The PTSO is in the process of transitioning to a new email group database.  This new database provides more robust functions that allow us to better serve the Skyline families.  To add yourself (existing and new family) to the Skyline PTSO email group please click on this link below and follow the instructions:

Join the new Skyline PTSO Email Group

Thank you, and stay tuned for all the updates coming to you soon.

Monthly Skyline Newsletter -

The Eagle's Eye contains school news and updates on sport events, etc., and is distributed online and in paper on a monthly basis.  For the current and past copies of the newsletter please visit the Newsletter link on the left hand side of the PTSO website.

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FUNDRAISING:

Thank you for paying the PTSO due.  There are many ways to support Skyline PTSO.  Your generous donations are highly appreciated. 

* Paying PTSO dues

* Using Busch's grocery scrip card: Skyline receives certain percentage of your spending from Busch's corporation.  In the year of 2008/2009 Skyline raised over $1000 from the grocery scrip card program.  To obtain the scrip cards please contact any PTSO Board members or the Skyline staff.

* Support Skyline by ordering magazines through QSP. Click the image below to order. Your order is automatically credited to Skyline.

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VOLUNTEERS:

The PTSO can not serve the Skyline community if we do not have all the parent volunteers.  We need you!  If you can spare some time and help us get things done please contact our Volunteer Chair (Deb Masten, dmasten@umich.edu).  Thank you!

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For more detailed information about Skyline PTSO please check the links on the left hand side of this page.