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CCE PTA NEWS

March 2025

CCE PTA NEWSMarch 2025

A MESSAGE FROM YOUR PTA EXECUTIVE BOARD

Thank you to everyone who attended the PTA Membership Meeting this past Tuesday night. We were able to:

  • Look back on all things PTA from the past three months

  • Celebrate the accomplishment of receiving the Voice For Every Child Platinum Award from the Texas PTA

  • Voted to elect our 2025 Nominating Committee, who will lead the search for next year's CCE PTA board candidates.


WE NEED YOU NEXT YEAR!!


If you are interested in joining PTA Leadership, whether on the Executive Board or as a Program or Event Lead, please reach out and fill out this form. We have positions to match all levels of time commitment, interest, specialty and skill, and you will be fully supported. We want to have a variety of voices represented as you represent our school community. We are so thankful for our volunteer leaders and hope you will consider joining us!


Finally, we hope you are planning to come to the 19th Annual Multicultural Fair next Friday night! This is the longest-standing tradition of the CCE PTA and our MCF Event Leads have been working diligently to make it a really SPECIAL night. You do not want to miss it! While you’re there, snap some photos and share them with the Yearbook at ccetxyearbook@gmail.com! MCF photo submissions close on March 8 (one day after the MCF).


Gratefully,

Your CCE Executive Board

UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER

March 7 - Friday Feast (1st Grade)

March 7 - CCE Multicultural Fair

March 10-14 - Scholastic Book Fair

March 17-21 - Spring Break

March 31 - No School

UPCOMING VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

COMING UP NEXT

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR

Click the image for more info!
Volunteer needs begin on Monday, March 3, sign up here.

CCE 19TH ANNUAL MULTICULTURAL FAIR

5PM - 6PM Country Booth Tour* (in the CCE parking lot)

6PM - 7PM Multicultural Performances(inside on stage)

*The first 50 students with their passports stamped with all of the host countries will receive a globe🌍stress ball. Students thereafter will receive a globe keychain while supplies last. Booth tours end at 6PM! Hope to see you there!! 🤗

STAFF FRIDAY FEAST

.First Grade Families! Click the image to sign up

And for more info about PTA Friday Feasts, please click here.

TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK RAFFLE

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JOIN THE CCE PTA IN 2025-2026

For more info about PTA Volunteer Opportunities, please click here

LOOK WHAT WE’VE DONE

JOIN CCE PTA

HOORAY! The Canyon Creek Elementary PTA has officially achieved the prestigious Voice For Every Child Platinum Membership Award from Texas PTA with 356 members.

If you’re not a member yet, please join for just $8! We are still 40 members short of our 2023-2024 membership number! Click HERE to join!

FRIDAY FEAST

Thank you to the PTA Hospitality Lead and our Second Grade families for serving our staff a delicious Valentines Day Friday Feast on Friday, February 14th. Our next Friday Feast will be hosted by our 1st Grade Families on Friday, March 7! To help serve, Sign up HERE

SCIENCE FAIR REGIONALS

Congratulations to our nine young scientists who participated in the Greater Austin Science and Engineering Regional Fair last weekend! We are so proud of your hard work, your love for science and your dedication to never stop learning. And a HUGE SHOUT OUT AND THANK YOU to our CCE Program Lead Saranya Kandasamy!


SPECIAL AWARDS FROM REGIONALS:

1. Elizabeth Wade Sullivan and Smira Abburi for Austin Parks’ Foundation - Young Environmentalist award

2. Shanaya Srivastava for Austin Parks’s Foundation- Young Environmentalist award!

REFLECTIONS

Congratulations to all of the students that participated in the Reflections Contest this year!


Save the date!

The council level awards ceremony will be held on Monday, April 7th at 6pm. (formal invitation to come)

STAY CONNECTED

STAFF FAVORITES

Please click the flyer for more information.

VOLUNTEER AT CCE

RRISD CLOTHES CLOSET

RRISD Clothes Closet Current Greatest Needs:

  • Unisex Sweatpants sizes 4t to 3XL

  • Boys Small and Medium Boxer Briefs

  • Men's Medium (32-34) Boxer Briefs

  • Girls/ Women's Medium and Large Socks

  • Boys and Girls coats in all sizes

For more info about Clothes Closet, click HERE

JOIN THE WATCH D.O.G.S.

To Join WATCH D.O.G.S., follow these three easy steps:


1) Review the orientation presentation to understand your role


2) Sign up as an RRISD volunteer to ensure a safe and secure environment

3) Choose a convenient day to be part of the campus community.

FUNDRAISING

Canyon Creek PTA is 100% run by volunteers and we are so thankful to every single one of you who has joined us in our mission to make Canyon Creek Elementary the BEST environment for learning, growth and development that it can be! We are honored to serve our school and cannot say it enough….THANK YOU!! For your service hours, your donations and your support. We are COMET STRONG because of YOU!

BOX TOPS

CCE PTA is bringing back the Box Tops program because it is easier than ever to use! No more cutting tiny squares off your cereal boxes…just download this app, scan your receipts in the app and earn money for our PTA.


Plus, if you use this referral code VBMY69PE when you sign up, 20 Bonus Box Tops ($2.00) will automatically be applied when you scan your first receipt.

More info HERE!

PLATINUM SPONSORS

Thank you so much to our new Platinum PTA Sponsors for this 2024-2025 school year!! As a Platinum Sponsor, each of these local businesses is investing in the present and future successes of our Comets! Thank you for partnering with us.

About Us

The Canyon Creek Elementary PTA (CCE PTA) is a non-profit PTA organized under the authority of the Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers (Texas PTA), a branch of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers (National PTA). CCE PTA is focused on promoting the collaboration and engagement of families and educators in the education of children and youth and engaging the public in united efforts to secure all the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being of all children and youth.

Email: canyoncreekelementarypta@gmail.com
Website: https://canyoncreekpta.membershiptoolkit.com/
Location: 10210 Ember Glen Drive, Austin, TX, USA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/canyoncreekpta/

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