Dear Parents,

Thank you all for participating in electing our GAAPA Board for the 2022-2023 school year. We are very excited about this coming year.

The newly elected GAAPA 2022-2023 Board positions are as follows:

• Co-Chair Team: Flore Bachellerie and Kausar Tahir

• Vice-Chair: Lana Hamwi

• Secretary: Aliki Christina Georgakaki

• Treasurer: Briannie Burlacu

Appointed Board Positions:

The new board members will be working to appoint interested parents to the volunteer positions below. If you would like to be considered for a position, please submit your name and details by Saturday, June 11, 2022 here: https://bit.ly/GAAPAInterest.

(Note: If you have already submitted this Appointed Positions form, no need to do it again.)

Description of positions: https://bit.ly/GAAPAInterest

The open positions are:

• Event Coordinator (Specific Event Committee Chairs report to Event Coordinator)

• Purchasing/Sales Coordinator

• Volunteer Coordinator

• Communications, Design, & Social Media Coordinator

• Teacher/Staff Appreciation Coordinator

• Secondary School Liaison/ Parent Ambassador

• Elementary School Liaison/ Parent Ambassador

• Arabic Liaison/ Parent Ambassador (Fluent in Arabic and English)**

**From our original list and recent conversations with parents, the GAA Parents Association board have added an Arabic Liaison/Parent Ambassador board position. This volunteer position/parent will help be a liaison with GAA’s Arabic parent community, school staff, and must be fluent in written and spoken Arabic and English. If this is a position that interests you, please submit your name and details. We would really appreciate your help, language skills, and ideas!

We look forward to an amazing year at GAA next year!

Best Regards,

The 2021-22 GAA Parents Association Board Members

The GAA Booster Club is a parent volunteer organization that helps support our Secondary Athletics and Fine Arts departments, with the mission of providing fun and community building events for the students and families of GAA. Support is shown in many ways, including volunteering time, raising money and contributing funds to better enhance the team or organization’s performance. Booster Club is an important mean of connecting parents and other community members with the curricular and co-curricular activities of students.

In addition to supporting our students, we are members of the GAA Community and we work with other volunteer groups on campus to promote community as well as partnering with GAAPA for events throughout the year.

Teacher/Staff Appreciation last week was amazing! This last week was a great way to show our teachers and staff that we as students and parents appreciate them!

👏THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS: Thank you to the many parents that helped make this week memorable for all - the snacks, lemonade, pizza and raffle items were much appreciated! The teachers and staff enjoyed last week and it could not have happened without you! THANK YOU!

👏THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP: Thank you Flore Bachellerie for capturing last week and making a fun video! Please take a look at the great week we had! Thank you to all the parents who came and helped make it happen!

🎥Teacher Appreciation Week Video: https://youtu.be/zinsQVH14oM

👏THANK YOU FOR YOUR PHOTOS: For those that submitted Thank You photos, thank you! This video has been running throughout the school all last week. Note, there is no sound since sound couldn’t be played in school. Thank you Elmira Zaynasheva for putting this together!

🎥Thank You Teacher Video: https://youtu.be/6Q2uoH-V6NQ

👏THANK YOU FOR YOUR NOTES - We had almost 400 notes submitted. We covered the front lobby with them! Thank you for taking the time to thank a teacher.

👏CAN I STILL THANK A TEACHER? - Please feel free to thank your individual teachers before the end of the year. Just because it's not an official "appreciation week", we know they would appreciate it!

Thanks again for all your support! 💙

-GAAPA Staff/Appreciation Planning Committee (Flore, Kausar, Harini, Briannie, Erin and Gayleen)

♻️ *What to do with your used uniforms?* Doing some spring cleaning? Not sure what to do with your used uniforms? Please consider donating them to the GAA Parent Association. The GAA Parents Association (GAAPA) sells donated gently used, professionally cleaned uniforms.

*Where to drop off the uniforms?*

You can drop them off at the Main Security gate or Front Reception.

*What if I have had uniforms tailored?*

We can still accept them, but please put a note that they have been tailored so we can categorize them appropriately.

⭐All proceeds go back to GAAPA so they can organize and host GAA community events like Movie Nights and International Food Festival and many more.

❓*Questions?* Please email GAA.parentsteam@gmail.com

We present to you GAAPA Community Resource Guide, compiled with the help of our members, fellow GAA families.

We understand the struggles each family faces when moving to a new country, new school, new residence, as we have all been through the same. It is only natural that we want to support each other as a Community.

This website is designed to provide that helpful information for all our community members. Your feedback and contribution will be highly appreciated to make sure that information is accurate and up-to-date. You can recommend your resource by clicking below link:

Dear GAA Families,

This school year has been a challenge for sure! In order to help connect our families we have started WhatsApp Groups for each grade level. This is a good place to ask questions, get information, etc. We do ask that these groups are only used for school purposes and stay positive. We want to help develop a great community at GAA and the pandemic has made it challenging. We hope these groups will help. If you would like to join, please email our Parent Ambassadors for the link at gaa.parentsteam@gmail.com

Thanks for stopping by the GAAPA Page, we hope to see you soon!

GO WILDCATS!