Summer Spark Finale

✨ Summer Sparks – The Big Finale ✨

Back to School, Forward with Joy! 🎒💛

Hi Greathouse families!

Summer Sparks may be wrapping up, but the fun, connection, and creativity are just getting started. 🦁 As we head into a brand-new school year, we’re celebrating everything that’s made this summer special — and getting excited for what’s ahead!

This week’s special edition is all about:
✨ Looking back at our summer highlights: https://sites.google.com/ghlionspta.org/pta/summer-sparks
✨ Getting ready for Back-to-School week
✨ Important dates and new tools to help families stay in the loop all year long

Let’s dive in — one last spark for the road! 🚗💨

🎉 What’s Coming Up?

🛍️ Uniform & Spirit Wear Pick-Up
Pre-ordered items will be ready at our big Back-to-School Bash!
Haven’t ordered yet? Shop here: 

Uniforms: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/gh-lions-store-uniform

Spirit Wear: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/gh-lions-ptas-shop

🎉 Back-to-School Bash
📅 Friday, August 15 6:30 PM
📍 Greathouse Shryock Campus
🎟️ We’ll have community tables, games, food, spirit wear, and a live drawing for our Early Bird VIP Car Rider Pass Winner!
You won’t want to miss it.

🧑‍🏫 First PTA Meeting
📅 Wednesday, August 20 | 🕔 5:15–6:00 PM
Join us to hear where our funds go, how we plan programs like Silent Disco, Game Truck, Field Day and more — or just come by to say hi and settle in after those first busy days of school.

🖥️ Bookmark Your New One-Stop Spot:

📌 www.ghlionspta.org

🗓️ We’ve added an Events page with a live calendar, important dates, sign-up links, and all the flyers and reminders you need to stay in the loop!

📬 Urgent reminders? We’ll send a schoolwide text.
But for everything else: check the website, Monday folders, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram for fun updates, sneak peeks, and family shoutouts!

🤝 Not a Member Yet?

Join the PTA today — support our kids all year long!
Membership helps us fund everything from classroom resources to magical memories.
🎶 We’ve got a big year ahead — silent disco, guest performers, new reading events, and more!

👉 Join now on Zeffy

💡 Every membership = stronger support for our school community.

✨ Reflections: A Year to Shine!

We’re so excited to kick off this year’s Reflections Arts Program, a national PTA contest that gives kids the chance to express themselves through dance, film, literature, music composition, photography, and visual arts — all based on a shared theme.

🎨 This year’s theme is:
“I Belong”
A beautiful opportunity for students to explore their identity, voice, and place in the world.

Whether your child loves drawing, writing poems, choreographing dances, or creating short films — this is their moment to shine and share what “belonging” means to them.

🧠 New this year!
We’ll be offering optional Reflections support at PTA meetings, and if there’s enough interest, we hope to launch a Reflections Club that meets once or twice a month to:

• brainstorm creative ideas

• support project development

• help students bring their vision to life
  
  

📣 Want to get involved or be added to our interest list?
Email us at programs@ghlionspta.org or come talk to us at the Aug 20 PTA Meeting!

💛 Thank You for a Spark-Filled Summer

From kindness rocks to kabobs, puppet shows to puzzle guesses — thank you for making Summer Sparks shine brighter than ever.

Whether you solved a riddle, shared a drawing, or just smiled along the way, you made a difference.

We can’t wait to make this year our best one yet — together.

With joy, community, and lion pride,
– Your Greathouse Shryock PTA 🦁