White Oaks Weekly - October 12, 2025

IMPORTANT DATES

Mon, 10/13: Indigenous Peoples' Day (No School)

Tues, 10/14: Picture Make Up Day and Preschool Picture Day

Fri, 10/17: Spirit and Sports Day, Diwali Recess Activities

Sun, 10/19: Walk-A-Thon and Family Fun Carnival

Tues, 11/11: Veterans Day (No School)

Come Join the Fun with Diwali Recess Activities!

The next celebration on our PTA Culture & Belonging Calendar is Diwali! The festival of lights is vibrant and culturally rich, and we’d love some help to make sure we’re honoring the traditions in the right way.

Can you spare some time to help with our board display? Are you free on Friday 10/17 anytime between 11:30 a.m. - 1:10 p.m.? If so, we need volunteers to help with the fun recess activities we have planned. Would you like to share how you celebrate Diwali with the students at a Welcome Wednesday? Contact Barbara Taylor ([email protected]) or Mariel Valezzi ([email protected]) to sign up!

We NEED You for the Walk a Thon and Carnival

Join us for the Walk A Thon and Carnival on Oct. 19th at 11:00 a.m. We truly can’t pull this off without your help – there’s a job for every family! Please browse the list and sign up for a spot. The shifts are short and a lot of fun!

Special traditions such as the White Oaks Walk-a-Thon are powered by the PTA parent volunteers and your SCEF donations and we thank you! This is one of our biggest events and truly excites our kids and our school community.

White Oaks PTA Corporate Sponsorship

As a corporate sponsor, you will become a year-long partner with the PTA. Your company logo will have prominent placement on our website, the weekly W.O.W. newsletter, a dedicated yearbook page, and on a banner displayed on the Fairmont Street fence entrance for the entire school year. You will also have opportunities to provide branded take-home items for kids with your logo on them at events. Click the link to donate today! 

PTA Appreciation for Book Fair!

A huge thank you for the amazing Book Fair & Family Fun Night! The PTA appreciates all the hard work from our Book Fair Committee: Erinn Steinbery, Mingming Li, Lauren Shluzas, Jingyu Tan, Jessica Kelman, Hera Kan, and Barbara Stewart for making this incredible event possible. Special thanks also to our librarian, Mrs. Gallagher, for working with the team, and to all the parent volunteers who came to help out. We couldn't do it without you all!

🎉 THANK YOU FROM SCEF!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at the Evening at TOWN and participated in our Fall Online Auction! Your support helped us surpass our fundraising event goal. We couldn't have done it without you! Still Available: Exclusive Opportunity: TOWN Connoisseur Club. For a donation of $800, enjoy:

- A personalized plaque in the restaurant with your name and a message of your choice
- $450 in gift cards to TOWN, NOLA, and Milagros
- 6 cocktail vouchers
(A total value of $650!)

📩 Interested?
Contact Corbie Kiernan at [email protected] to claim your package.

Thank you again for supporting San Carlos schools—we couldn’t do it without you!

San Carlos United

San Carlos United will be holding tryouts for boys and girls born between 2007 and 2019 starting in November, 2025, for the Spring 2026 season. Players born in 2019 may try out for the 2018 teams.

If interested, please register online: http://www.sancarlosunited.org and a manager from the team will reach out to coordinate. We look forward to seeing you at the San Carlos United tryouts!

Healthy Cities Tutoring is recruiting volunteers to match with struggling students in grades K-8 in all San Carlos schools.

Our tutors help students who need extra support to improve their academic performance, engagement in learning and self-esteem.

Volunteers:
- Tutor the same student 1:1 each week
- Meet once a week after school at the school site or on the weekend at the public library
- Commit to tutoring their student for the full school year (no summers)
- Tutor following the school calendar, no tutoring on days when school is closed
- Must be at least 14 years old

Are provided training, resources and ongoing coaching/mentoring - we are committed to ensuring that both students and volunteers have a productive and rewarding experience

Join us and become part of a thriving community of volunteer tutors that have a positive impact on the lives of San Carlos students!

Apply here: https://healthycities.site

🎃 Mark your calendars for these great events coming up in October!

October's Foro de padres (español) features Anna Herrera, RCSD Assistant Superintendent, in ¿Qué hacer si la maestra sugiere una evaluación de educación especial? (special education evaluation) (October 14).

The Neurodiversity Education Series hosts Bill Stixrud, PhD, and Ned Johnson, bestselling authors of The Self-Driven Child, for Why Neurodivergent Kids Need Autonomy to Navigate a Neurotypical World (October 15).

Can we promote civil discourse in youth? Lindsey Cormack, PhD, author and associate professor of political science, joins us for How to Raise a Citizen (and Why It's Up to You to Do It) (October 21).

How would you help an adolescent design a life? Chris Balme, education leader, writer, and school founder, offers Four Ingredients for a Meaningful Life: Helping Adolescents Make Wise Choices (October 22).

Visit the Parent Venture Series of Upcoming Events page for more information.
- Parent Venture Series Events