OCTOBER BOARD MEETING

OCTOBER BOARD MEETING

Tues­day, Octo­ber 6, 2026, board meet­ing at 6:30pm at RESMS with hybrid/online option. If you are inter­est­ed in join­ing this meet­ing via Zoom please email to request the link at least 3 busi­ness days in advance. Also email at least 3 busi­ness days pri­or if you need any assis­tance with dis­abil­i­ties. Zoom access is lim­it­ed to the first 100 to enter the meet­ing.  Con­tact president@eaglestaffptsa.org
8th grade to Camp Orkila 9/29–10/2

8th grade to Camp Orkila 9/29–10/2

WE NEED 9 MORE CHAPERONES, 7 MALE AND 2 FEMALE!!! (25 TOTAL)
Please Help! We may have to cancel without enough chaperones!

CLICK HERE: CHAPERONE FORM

8th graders are going to Camp Ork­i­la! We are start­ing off their last year here with anoth­er amaz­ing com­mu­ni­ty build­ing expe­ri­ence where we will take your kid­do out of town for 3 nights/4 days! Crazy, right? We know, but our 8th graders deserve this, and we are doing all we can to bring joy and school spir­it to the com­mu­ni­ty. PLEASE read this all care­ful­ly and reach out to our coor­di­na­tors with any ques­tions. There will also be a vir­tu­al par­ent meet­ing, Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 14th (link below). Please reach out with any ques­tions or con­cerns along the way!

A few things we need back ASAP:

Here is what you need to know now:

  • We are leav­ing before school on Sept 29th and will return before school ends on Oct. 2nd

COST: The total cost for this expe­ri­ence is $250/student. (You can also pay what you can if this is too steep or pay more if you’d like to sup­port oth­ers. Every kid who wants to go, will go regard­less if they can pay. It is impor­tant for all our stu­dents to have the same access to the RAVEN EXPERIENCE regard­less of any bar­ri­ers that may stand in the way.) Pay­ment Link CLICK HERE

Announcements from the WSPTA to students!

Announcements from the WSPTA to students!

Read on for more info on these topics:

  • Stu­dent Advo­ca­cy Night on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 15th from 6:30 PM — 7:30 PM
  • First ever Wash­ing­ton State PTA Essay Prompt Con­test!
  • Leg­isla­tive Assem­bly is for Stu­dents!
The WSPTA is hold­ing a Stu­dent Advo­ca­cy Night on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 15th from 6:30 PM — 7:30 PM, and we’d love for you to come. Here’s what we’re doing:
The Civics Cen­ter is com­ing to talk about how to run a vot­er reg­is­tra­tion dri­ve at your school. After that, we’ll go over a recog­ni­tion pro­gram where if your PTA hosts a dri­ve and sends us pho­tos, we’ll send back a cer­tifi­cate, pro­vide recog­ni­tion, and a prize! Our goal is to see as many PTAs/students host a vot­er dri­ve as pos­si­ble. More infor­ma­tion will be shared at the event.
Then we’ll have the WSPTA Advo­ca­cy Direc­tor on to answer ques­tions: how the Leg­isla­tive Assem­bly actu­al­ly works, how an issue ends up on the leg­isla­tive plat­form, and what a stu­dent can real­is­ti­cal­ly do if there’s some­thing they want to change, and much more. Stu­dents will have time to ask their own ques­tions too.
Please pre­pare as many ques­tions as you’d like to ask! This is a great way to come learn why stu­dents should attend Leg­isla­tive Assem­bly too! Parents/Guardians are always allowed to join and lis­ten but this is a stu­dent lead work­shop run by stu­dents for stu­dents. Reg­is­ter today!
https://www.wastatepta.org/event/student-advocacy-night/
We are host­ing our first ever Wash­ing­ton State PTA Essay Prompt Con­test! Every year, the PTA runs an essay con­test open to Kinder­garten­ers through 12th Graders, giv­ing them a chance to share their ideas, cre­ativ­i­ty, thought­ful­ness, great ideas, and their writ­ing skills. Through this con­test, we aim to inspire and encour­age cre­ativ­i­ty in young minds across the state.
This year, we are intro­duc­ing anoth­er con­test to accom­pa­ny the essay con­test – the Essay Prompt Con­test! In this con­test, stu­dents tell us some­thing they would like to write about – a prompt for the actu­al essay con­test. From Sep­tem­ber 1 to Octo­ber 12 at 10:00 PM, stu­dents are able to send their ideas for a thought­ful, cre­ative, deep, and inter­est­ing prompt to be select­ed. If their prompt/theme is select­ed, they will receive a $25 Ama­zon Gift Card, and be hon­ored at the stu­dent pro­grams cel­e­bra­tion! There are sep­a­rate cat­e­gories for grades K‑2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12. From each cat­e­go­ry, the top 3 prompts will be select­ed.
Ulti­mate­ly, the suc­cess of this com­pe­ti­tion is depen­dent on the par­tic­i­pa­tion we receive. Please send this out to your school and com­mu­ni­ty, and help us encour­age stu­dents across the state to express their love for writ­ing! Ques­tions? Please email Michelle Wein­mas­ter at michelle.weinmaster@wastatepta.org. Hap­py apply­ing, and we can’t wait to read your ideas! Essay Prompt Con­test Appli­ca­tion link
Leg­isla­tive Assem­bly is for Stu­dents!
Stu­dents are wel­come to come and join us at Leg­isla­tive Assem­bly on Octo­ber 17th and 18th at Cas­ca­dia Col­lege!
We encour­age stu­dents to come and vote for the Top 5 Leg­isla­tive Prin­ci­ples. Learn about the work that WSPTA does in advo­ca­cy, learn about par­lia­men­tary pro­ce­dure from experts, meet and engage with oth­er stu­dents from around the state and have grow your voice to help cre­ate bet­ter schools in Wash­ing­ton! There will also be some fun stu­dent activ­i­ties! Don’t miss out sign up today at: https://www.wastatepta.org/events-programs/legislative-assembly-2026/
2026–2027 School Year Kick-Off Fundraising Campaign!

2026–2027 School Year Kick-Off Fundraising Campaign!

2026–2027 Direct Appeal!

Fundrais­ing Cam­paign!

Won­der­ing what the Friends of Robert Eagle Staff PTSA does that impacts your child? These are just some of the cur­rent items in our (2026–2027) bud­get that our fundrais­ing goes towards:

  • Staff requests & class­room enrich­ment $15,000
  • Field trips & Raven’s Expe­ri­ences $9,000
  • Raven’s Care Clos­et  $7,000
  • Sports team equip­ment & coach­ing $6,500
  • Library $4,000
  • After-school & oth­er events plus extra sci­ence funds (like: grade-based events, lan­guage night, math night, Proyec­to Saber) $3,350
  • Staff Appre­ci­a­tion $4,000
  • 8th Grade Pro­mo­tion Cel­e­bra­tion $3,000
  • Principal’s dis­cre­tionary fund $2,500
  • After school pro­grams, includ­ing sup­plies and scholarships/support $1,000
  • Ravens t‑shirts for all incom­ing stu­dents $2,000
  • Art sup­plies, ASB, Coun­sel­ing Out­reach, Mak­er Space, Nurse, Office sup­plies, PE Equip­ment, WEB leader training/programming & more, totalling over $27,500
  • Water bot­tle fill­ing sta­tion installed at school $16,000
  • PTSA musi­cal the­ater (this year it’s Mean Girls Jr., the Musi­cal)
To ful­ly fund our ongo­ing com­mit­ment to the school com­mu­ni­ty, we rec­om­mend fam­i­lies donate $250 per stu­dent. Friends of Robert Eagle Staff PTSA is hap­py to accept what­ev­er dona­tion is afford­able to you, how­ev­er small or large. Please con­sid­er increas­ing your dona­tion on behalf of fam­i­lies who are unable to donate if you are in a posi­tion to do so.
https://app.givebacks.gives/go-ravens

 

Update from Seattle Council PTA (which our RESMS PTSA falls under)

Update from Seattle Council PTA (which our RESMS PTSA falls under)

“Dear Com­mu­ni­ty,
The Seat­tle Edu­ca­tors Asso­ci­a­tion (SEA) vot­ed for an over­whelm­ing major­i­ty to autho­rize a strike last night. We want to remind fam­i­lies that we have been through this before.
  • In 2018, SEA mem­bers vot­ed to autho­rize a strike but came to a Ten­ta­tive Agree­ment (TA) with SPS before school start­ed.
  • In 2022, 95% of vot­ing mem­bers passed the vote to autho­rize a strike. The strike last­ed for five days.
  • In 2026, 91.5% of vot­ing mem­bers passed the vote to autho­rize a strike.
This process obvi­ous­ly is not ide­al for our fam­i­lies, but this is also a pro­tect­ed right of our nation and hon­ors the process of col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing. This news is received across the spec­trum, from pos­i­tive to neg­a­tive, and maybe a lit­tle of both. We also want to acknowl­edge that a lot of our fam­i­lies have no idea that a strike will hap­pen or how that impacts their fam­i­lies, work, and child­care sup­port.
No one—not even one of us—knows what is hap­pen­ing in the bar­gain­ing room, and all the peo­ple in the bar­gain­ing room all like­ly have a dif­fer­ent truth. The exhaus­tion of dai­ly bar­gain­ing from 9am to 9pm can wear folks down and raise emo­tions. As sec­ond or third hand infor­ma­tion is trick­ling into our space, it is impor­tant to take a moment to breathe, pause, and cen­ter our­selves in this moment.
Our PTAs and fam­i­lies are very vul­ner­a­ble to either/or nar­ra­tives, and the impact of these words will hurt. Both SEA mem­bers and SPS staff harm chil­dren. Both SEA mem­bers and SPS staff help chil­dren. We are liv­ing in a moment of mul­ti­ple truths.
Every sin­gle child and their expe­ri­ence in this sys­tem can­not be reduced to a dol­lar amount, yet this is how we mea­sure resources in our imper­fect sys­tem.
One thing I would add is that I want to empha­size that PTA does not infringe on the indi­vid­ual rights of peo­ple par­tic­i­pat­ing in the pick­et line. It is just that PTA as an orga­ni­za­tion can­not.
Two Points from Nation­al / Wash­ing­ton State
  • Free­dom of Affil­i­a­tion: All members—including par­ents, com­mu­ni­ty advo­cates, and school staff—retain their com­plete indi­vid­ual rights to sup­port, vote for, protest, or par­tic­i­pate in a strike accord­ing to their per­son­al choice, beliefs, and fam­i­ly inter­ests.
  • The Lead­er­ship Oblig­a­tion: If an indi­vid­ual is a per­ceived PTA leader or offi­cer, they have an oblig­a­tion to care­ful­ly sep­a­rate their per­son­al strike actions from the orga­ni­za­tion. They must not use their PTA title or plat­form to endorse or oppose a strike, as doing so would vio­late the PTA’s non-par­ti­san, neu­tral sta­tus. ”
September general membership meeting rescheduled

September general membership meeting rescheduled

The Sep­tem­ber gen­er­al mem­ber­ship meet­ing has been resched­uled to Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 22nd at 6:30pm with hybrid/online option. This meet­ing will include one elec­tion to add anoth­er trea­sur­er. Please note that if stu­dents are not yet back at school on Sep­tem­ber 22nd, then this meet­ing will be on Zoom only.
If you are inter­est­ed in join­ing this meet­ing via Zoom please email to request the link at least 3 busi­ness days in advance. Also email at least 3 busi­ness days pri­or if you need any assis­tance with dis­abil­i­ties. Zoom access is lim­it­ed to the first 100 to enter the meet­ing. president@eaglestaffptsa.org
FALL SPORTS TRYOUTS

FALL SPORTS TRYOUTS

Fall Sports: It’s Time for Ravens Coed Ultimate and Girls Soccer!

The fall sports sea­son kicks off soon after school begins. This year, we will offer Var­si­ty, Junior Var­si­ty (JV), and JVC teams for both Coed Ulti­mate and Girls Soc­cer, along with 6th Grade Ulti­mate teams. All fall sports sea­sons will run through late Novem­ber.
We encour­age all inter­est­ed stu­dents to try out, regard­less of expe­ri­ence or skill lev­el. Stu­dents who iden­ti­fy as non-bina­ry are also wel­come to par­tic­i­pate. If you would like guid­ance in select­ing the team that is the best fit, please con­tact ath­let­ic coor­di­na­tors Louis Eaglestaff or James Fly­nn.

Important Requirements

Before par­tic­i­pat­ing in school ath­let­ics, all stu­dents must com­plete the fol­low­ing:
  • Final­Forms
    Parents/guardians and stu­dents must com­plete and elec­tron­i­cal­ly sign all required forms through the Final­Forms por­tal 

Coed Ultimate

Try­outs
  • Fri­day, Sept. 11 | 4:00–5:30 PM
  • Tues­day, Sept. 15 | 4:00–5:30 PM
  • Fri­day, Sept. 18 | 4:00–5:30 PM
Prac­tices
  • Tues­days and Fri­days after school
Games
  • Sat­ur­days, begin­ning in late Sep­tem­ber

Girls Soccer

Try­outs
  • Mon­day, Sept. 14 | 4:00–6:00 PM
  • Thurs­day, Sept. 17 | 4:00–6:00 PM
Prac­tices
  • Mon­days and Thurs­days after school
Games
  • Var­si­ty: Sat­ur­days, like­ly begin­ning in late Sep­tem­ber
  • JV & JVC: Sat­ur­days, begin­ning in ear­ly Octo­ber

Calling All Coaches and Volunteers

We are look­ing for:
  • Vol­un­teer coach­es to sup­port Ulti­mate and Girls Soc­cer in the fall; Girls and Boys Bas­ket­ball in the win­ter; and Coed Track, Girls Vol­ley­ball, and Boys Soc­cer in the spring.
  • Par­ent vol­un­teers to assist with ath­let­ic reg­is­tra­tions, try­out check-ins, game car­pool coor­di­na­tion, and team cel­e­bra­tions.
If you are pas­sion­ate about sup­port­ing stu­dent-ath­letes, teach­ing fun­da­men­tals, build­ing con­fi­dence, and help­ing cre­ate a pos­i­tive, fun, and inclu­sive sports envi­ron­ment, please reach out to Louis Eaglestaff or James Fly­nn.
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