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Anyone interested in joining Grady's Girl Scouts, grades K-5, is welcome to meet on Tuesday, August 21, at 6:15 pm in the Grady Cafeteria. For more infomation, please email Catherine Verona at [email protected]

Grandparents are invited to join Grady students at Grady Elementary for the Grandparents' Breakfast.

Two breakfasts will be held:

Thursday, September 6th, for grandparents visiting students whose last names begin with the letters A through H; and

Friday, September 7th, for grandparents visiting students whose last names begin with the letters I through Z.

Breakfast begins at 7:15 am and ends at 7:40 am. The Grandparents' Breakfast will be held in the cafeteria and will feature complimentary pastry, muffins, coffee, and orange juice for grandparents/parents and school breakfast for students.

Volunteers will be needed. Details to follow on volunteering.

We hope to see you at the breakfast!

Today is the last day to sign up for After School Enrichment Club. Club signup will close at 6pm. Please click on Club Info for more details and click on Club Signup to register. The ASE Clubs start on Monday, August 20th.

Below are some upcoming important dates. Our complete calendar of school and PTA events are posted on the website here.

8/20 - ASE Clubs begin

8/21 - Grady Girl Scout recruitment event for grades K-5 at 6:15pm in the cafeteria

8/27 - "Independence Day" - new security procedures begin - all students will enter campus independently

9/03 - Labor Day - No School

9/06 - Grandparent's Breakfast for student's whose last names start with A-H

9/07 - Grandparent's Breakfast for student's whose last names start with I-Z

9/10 - Tiger Trot and Chorus rehearsals begin

Thank you to all of the families that have already signed up to join the Grady PTA! You can still sign up/renew your PTA membership online by clicking PTA Membership. Membership is only $6 for 1 person or $10 for 2 people. It is important for Grady Elementary to have families sign up for membership so that the PTA has strength in numbers when lobbying for our children. High membership participation also allows us to participate in PTA programs such as Reflections Art. Signing up for the PTA does not commit you to any volunteering (although we always love having our families volunteer at the school!)

Thank you to our new Tiger partners! We very much appreciate your generosity. The Tiger partnerships help make a difference in our Grady classrooms by funding programs (including the after school tutoring program, teacher mini grants, student programs, music and art programs, and much more), delivering PTA events to our students, teachers and families (including the winter concert, Tiger Tears Breakfast, Storybook Parade and much more), and enhancing our Grady campus through grounds improvement projects. Become a Tiger Partner today! To learn more about Tiger Family and Business Partnerships, please click here: Tiger Partnership Program.

Our newest Tiger Family Partners are: Leader of the Pack level partner, Drs. Siviero and Heather Agazzi and Red (Bengal) level partners The Gomez Family, The Jacobs Family, The Ledford Family and Fancy Nails. Thank you to all of our Tiger Family Partners!

Please click on New Security Procedures file below to read the notice on Grady's new security procedures for the 2018-19 school year.

Parents of new students, Pre-K and Kindergarten to Fifth Grade, please join the administration and PTA for coffee in the Kathryn Hance Media Center on Friday, August 10, 2018 at 7:45 am, or as soon as you are finished with drop-off. We hope to see you there.

Grady Elementary's Open House is scheduled for Wednesday, August 8, 2018 from 5:15-7:15pm.

All parents, students, faculty and staff will meet in the cafeteria at 5:15pm.

During Open House, you can sign up for PTA; spirit shirts and Teamworks uniform shirts will be on display; YMCA after school care information will be available; Girl Scouts sign up and information will be available; and free uniforms and uniform swap are available (while supplies last).

Today is the last day of school. School ends early at 11:45 am, with the fifth grade clap out at 11:30 am. We had an amazing year and celebrated our students’ accomplishments with various awards ceremonies at school this week. Congratulations to all of our students and thank you to our amazing faculty for helping them achieve so much!! Principal Dosal also announced that Grady was listed as #1 in the district’s TELL (Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning) survey!

We hope that you all have a safe, happy summer. For all of our returning students, we are excited to see you recharged and ready for another fun year. For our 5^th graders, congratulations! We are very proud of you and wish you all the best in middle school!

To make your back to school shopping quick and easy, we are offering the SchoolKidz, School Supply Kit Program for the 2018-19 school year. SchoolKidz offers prepackaged school supply kits filled with the supplies requested per grade level (excluding backpack and nap mat). Kits must be ordered prior to June 1, 2018. To order your kit, please go to www.shopttkits.com and enter account #36155. Shipping is already set to Grady Elementary School and there is no additional fee for taxes or shipping to the school. You can also view the school supply list here: School Supply List. Next year’s ASD program school supply list is available here: ASD School Supply List.

Thank you to Grady’s 2017-18 Business and Family Tiger Partners. These businesses and families donated over $25,000.00 to Grady PTA this year! These donations funded programs (including the after school tutoring program, teacher mini grants, student programs, music and art programs, allowed us to begin purchasing laptop carts to upgrade our technology and much more), delivered PTA events to our students, teachers and families (including the winter concert, Tiger Tears Breakfast, Storybook Parade and much more), and enhanced our Grady campus through grounds improvement projects. Grady PTA recognizes and gratefully appreciates each of the following Family and Business Tiger Partners:

Grady Tiger Business Partners: State Farm Agent Jim Cornwell; Abdoney Orthodontics; South Tampa Pediatric Dentistry; South Tampa Kids Dental Krewe; After Hours Pediatrics; Perez Orthodontics; Tampa Music School; Pediatric Dentistry by Dr. Jerry Copeland and Florida E.N.T. & Allergy.

Grady Tiger Family Partners: Drs. Siviero & Heather Agazzi; The Gibbs Family; The Lyons Family - Mike, Ellen, Frank & Nick; The Dan and Jessica Schentrup Family; The Zysk Family; The Enriquez Family; The Griffin Family - Drew, Jennifer, Roman & Cort; The Maheshwari Family; The Roush Family; The de la Garza Family; The Harrop Family; The Kendell Family; The Ledford Family; The Lopez Family; The Lorenz Family; Luke & Ryan Christopher; Fancy Nails; The Liu Family; Khoa Nguyen Family; Rafael Ortiz & Family; The Ruiz Family; and Dr. Sanjiv Sahoo & Dr. Chhavi Gupta.

Also, a sincere thank you to all of our PTA Board Members and all of the volunteers that participated during the 2017-18 school year! We are extremely appreciative of your time and support.

Have a safe and happy summer! We look forward to seeing everyone at Open House!

This week, we are collecting gently worn uniforms for the Uniform Exchange. Please bring your gently used uniforms to the Grady front office this Wednesday - Friday. We will sort the uniforms and have them for people to take during Open House.

We are officially in our last week of school!!! Today our students had their Yearbook signing and the Teacher vs Student Volleyball Game. We have an incredibly busy week with lots of fun year end events for our students. As a reminder, if you will be attending any events on campus, you need to bring a photo ID, such as a driver’s license or passport, to obtain your visitor badge.

Here are some important upcoming dates to note:

5/22 – 5th Grade Awards Ceremony and Pre-K Graduation
5/23 – Awards Ceremony for K – 4^th Grade in the Pavilion (By invitation only)
5/24 – 5^th Grade Banquet
5/25 – Last Day of School – Class parties from 10:00 – 11:00 am

11:30 am 5^th Grade Clap out, 11:45 am dismissal for Pre-K – 4^th Grade

6/1 – Last Day to order Schoolkidz Supply Kit for 2018-19 school year
8/8 – Tentative Open House from 5:00-7:15pm
8/10 – First day of 2018-19 school year

Schoolkidz School Supply Kits

We are offering the SchoolKidz, School Supply Kit Program for the 2018-19 school year to make your back to school shopping quick and easy! SchoolKidz offers prepackaged school supply kits filled with the supplies requested per grade level (excluding backpack and nap mat). The kits will be distributed in the students' classroom during open house. To see the full list of supplies included with each kit, please click on: Schoolkidz supplies.

Schoolkidz Kits must be ordered prior to June 1, 2018. To order your kit, please go to www.shopttkits.com and enter account #36155. Shipping is already set to Grady Elementary School and there is no additional fee for taxes or shipping to the school.

South Tampa Basketball Camp

Click here to learn more about the South Tampa Basketball Camp run at Grady Elementary by Guidance Counselor Mrs. Nancy Harris. The camp is open to girls and boys grades 1^st-9^th.

Do you have a good book- one that you just loved?

Help spread the love of reading by bringing that book and swapping it out for another one!

Things to know:

Bring your book to school on Thursday, May 17^th
Students will be able to swap one book (even if they bring more).
If you have several books-We would love the donation, as some students will not have a book to swap. This gives everybody the opportunity to participate.
Please bring high interest books that you think your friends would enjoy reading (such as Warrior, Dork Diaries, Harry Potter, Babysitter's Club, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The One and Only Ivan, Smiles, I Survived, Nate the Great, Wonder, Battle Books, the list goes on and on)

So, search your bookshelves, your rooms, the car, and even grandma’s house for a book to swap!

Help spread the love of reading from one Reader to Another!

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Girl Scout Recruitment Meeting 8/21

Grandparents Breakfast - Sept 6 (A-H) & Sept 7 (I-Z)

Tiger Talk Update 8.16.18

New Security Procedures

Parents Of New Students, Please Join Us For Tiger Tears Coffee on Aug 10th at 7:45 am

Grady Open House - August 8th

Tiger Talk Update - Last Day of School

Tiger Talk Update - Uniform Donations

Tiger Talk Update 5.21.18

Grady's Annual Summer Book Swap on May 17th