A Blizzard of FLAKES!

A blizzard hit Dobson School today as our 8th grade students and the students from room 202 worked to create 3D snowflakes that will decorate the Holiday Shop (December 10-12) and our Winter Concert on December 12th.

As part of our Service Learning program Ms. McConnell and Ms. Antrim facilitated the creation of a blizzard of FLAKES!  Take a look at their had work below.  Don't forget the Holiday Shop will be open tomorrow through Thursday and the Winter Concert and FLAKES performance will take place on December 12th!! Get your tickets early and see the beautiful blizzard of service and snowflakes created by these students.

Come Support Our School!

Please join us tomorrow...

 

On Friday, December 6, 2013, Dobson teachers and staff will rally in front of the school from 8:00 - 8:20 a.m. to raise awareness for the need to fully fund our school. We would like parents to join the effort as well. Please feel free to bring signs! 

Reminders!

December 4th-6th Reminders

There will be a 12:10 dismissal today, tomorrow, and Friday for report card conferences.  The Home and School will be selling raffles for Mel's Italian Restaurant and Split Endz Hair Salon ($1.00 each or 6 tickets for $5.00.) during conference times.  Proceeds from the raffles will go towards the new math curriculum.  We are still accepting donations for the new math curriculum.  We appreciate any support you can give.

Coming This Week: December 2, 2013

Coming This Week: December 2, 2013

Thank you to everyone who worked on, attended or donated to our "Dobson's Night Out" event and fundraiser.  The evening was a huge success.  Thank you for supporting Dobson!

Wednesday, December 4th - Friday, December 6th: Student Book Fair

Monday, December 2nd

• Dance Team Auditions in the Auditorium 
  
  • Lower School: during 1st Lunch
  • Upper School: at 2:25
    

Wednesday, December 4th- December 6th

• Half days for Students!
• Parent/Teacher Conferences
• Student Book Fair 

 Thursday, December 5th

• Evening Parent/Teacher Conferences from 5:00pm-7:00pm

 Friday, December 6th

• Come support the Faculty, Staff and Students of Dobson from 8:00-8:21am.  Help us raise awareness and rally for the need to fully fund our school!  All students must be accompanied by a parent or guardian in order to attend!

 Mark Your Calendar:

• December 12th at 6:30PM- Winter Concert
• Come to Dobson on December 12th to be entertained by  the Dobson Band, Choir, Recorder Ensembles and Kindergarten through 2nd Grade play FLAKES!!  A musical celebration of Snow, Sleet and SNIRT!
• Tickets are on sale now!!! Each ticket is $3 ($4 at the door on the 12th)!  Email (ltierney@philasd.org) or come to see Ms. Tierney if you have any questions!

 
• December 20th: Boogie for Books
• Get your dancing shoes ready for our 1st Annual JDS Boogie for Books dance-a-thon and fundraiser!  More information will be sent home with students in the coming weeks!  

Fund Our Schools!

Dobson's Night Out!

Come out to St. John the Baptist Hall on November 23rd for a night of fun and frivolity to help us raise money for a great cause...new instructional materials and supplies for Dobson's Students.  "Dobson's Night Out" would love your support! 

School Makeover!

Exciting News!! As many of you may have seen, our school yard has received a beautiful makeover courtesy of the Boy Scout Troop 176.  Troop 176 raised over $800 and donated their time and talents to paint the playground wall blue, repaint and upgrade (with labels) the map of the U.S., repaint the kickball court, repaint and score official lines for the basketball courts, replace the nets, paint a 4 square court and provide a new basketball, a 4 square ball and sidewalk chalk to help our kids enjoy their favorite subject- recess! In the spring, we plan to continue our makeover by painting the Dobson School Emblem: James Dobson School- Home of the Dolphins, with a dolphin in the center along with a new underwater scene! If any parent or Dobson Family is interested in working on making this project happen, please let us know!!  Check out the before and afters!!!!

After/ Student Reactions!:

Give with Target!

Here we go again!! Help us to kick of the school year with much needed supplies through the GIVE WITH TARGET campaign.  As the school year approaches and budget cuts and deficits continue to loom over us, you can help us begin to bridge the gap and by taking a minute to log on and vote. Last year Dobson was able to receive approximately $700 for supplies.  Let's see if we can blow that number out of the water this year!

 
Go to: https://givewith.target.com/
Enter Zip Code: 19127 or James Dobson Elementary
Choose: James Dobson
Share: ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER! Get your friends and family involved too!!

Pancake Breakfast to Benefit Dobson's Music Program

FATHER'S DAY PANCAKE BREAKFAST 8am-10am

Come and join the Dobson Students for a Father's Day Pancake Breakfast at Applebee's Andorra (8600 Henry Ave.).  All proceeds benefit the performing arts program! 

With the looming budget cuts, we are trying to do our best to raise money to restore some of our after school programs like dance team, the annual musical, and the winter concert. 

WE NEED YOUR HELP!  

Tickets are $7 each for all you can eat pancakes, sausage and juice, coffee or tea!

https://www.facebook.com/events/585746888124517/

Summer Programs

Coming this Week: June 10th

Coming This Week:June 10th

Father's Day Pancake Breakfast for the 

Performing Arts Program is on Sunday!!

Tuesday, June 11th:

• 8th grade Luncheon

Wednesday, June 12th:

• Report card grades are due

Friday, June 14th:

•  DOBSON DAY!  (Rain Date Monday, June 17)

Sunday, June 16th:

• FATHER'S DAY PANCAKE BREAKFAST 8am-10am

  Come and join the Dobson Students for a Father's Day Pancake Breakfast at Applebee's Andorra (8600 Henry Ave.).  All proceeds benefit the performing arts program!  With the looming budget cuts, we are trying to do our best to raise money to restore some of our after school programs like dance team, the annual musical, and the winter concert.  WE NEED YOUR HELP!  Tickets are $7 each for all you can eat pancakes, sausage and juice, coffee or tea!
  https://www.facebook.com/events/585746888124517/

   

 Mark Your Calendar:

• Kindergarten Move-Up Day is on Tuesday, June 18th at 9:30 a.m.
• Student of the Year Assembly will be held on Wednesday, June 19th.
• Eighth grade graduates on Thursday, June 20th at 9:30 a.m.
• Last day for Students is Friday, June 21st. 

Dobson and Roxborough Community Meeting Make the News!!

Roxborough community rallies against proposed school cuts

May 21, 2013

By Matthew Grady for NewsWorks, @MMGrady 

 

Standing before hundreds of parents and students gathered in the Roxborough High School auditorium, Timothy Boyle, a math teacher at AMY Northwest, asked the audience about the basic tasks of school personnel.
"Who is going to meet with students to review their high school options for next year?" he asked.

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/component/flexicontent/item/55011-roxborough-schools-meeting

Students, Teachers and Parents Rally for Education

Stakeholders from all over Northwest Philadelphia gather in Gorgas Park to protest the city's education budget. 

Parents, teachers and students gathered in Gorgas Park in Roxborough on Monday night to rally in protest against the proposed school district cuts and closing of schools.
“We have people here from all over the Northwest,” said parent organizer Rebecca Poyourow.  “There are people here from Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill as well as Roxborough and Manayunk.
Kids and parents as well as a few teachers and principals held up signs that said things like “save our schools,” and “we need sports.”
Sabra Townsend has a child who attends the Dobson School, and she was there to speak for the special education students in the district.
“All children should have the right to an education,” Townsend said.  “A special education child is just as deserving of an education as any other child.”