Welcome

Welcome to the Bowie High School PTSA Website! The purpose of this website is to provide our parents and students with valuable information. Within the pages of this site you can glance at Upcoming Important Dates, find out how to join the PTSA, find out what items are for sale in our student store, The Kennel, find the name of your counselor, and even find out about how to go about getting a Parking Permit. Need more information? The JBHS website and the JBHS Newsgroup cover sporting events and booster club events that are not covered here.

Have you joined the Bowie High School PTSA yet? If not, find out how to join our organization today. Did you know there are benefits to having a PTSA membership? Your PTSA card is a link to some useful discounts. Are you already a member, but looking for ways to get more involved? Our PTSA committees offer many exciting and interesting volunteer opportunities!

The Bowie PTSA meets on the second Tuesday of each month of the school year at 6:30pm in the Bulldog room. Please join us if you can at our next meeting or read the minutes of previous meetings to find out what you've missed.

Upcoming Important dates

Saturday, June 14
ACT Test

Monday, August 25
First Day of Classes

Students Transferring

If your child(ren) will be attending another school instead of Bowie High School (this does not include graduates) for the 2008-2009 school year, please notify Jana Kuhar, Data Processing Office at mailto:jkuhar@ austinisd. org or call 414-7314. We are in the process of staffing and completing schedules for the coming school year and would like all of our current students be accounted.

Summer FYI'S

Please be sure that students are working on summer assignments for their various Pre-AP and AP classes. Assignments should be posted at the Bowie website prior to June 15th.

June 11 is the absolute deadline for Bowie data processing to receive schedule change requests due to "change of mind". Other deadlines and information on course selection for next year can be found at this link and scroll down to page 3 - http://www.jbhs.org/counselor_website/CounselorsCornerJanuary2 008.pdf.

summer camps

We are currently compiling a list of summer camps! See our new Summer Camps page. More camps will be added soon!

summer volunteer opportunity

The Austin based loveisrespect, National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline - Is currently enrolling area high school students in our Summer 2008 Volunteer Advocate program.

This is a nationally recognized (2008 Webby Award Winner for Activism) nonprofit organization. The Helpline volunteer advocate program could be a great way for your high school to meet the requirements of recently passed Texas legislation, HB 121. We'd love to be a partner in the community! Once trained, students can commit to a minimum of 8 hours per month of volunteer time. It's a great opportunity to not only gain job experience, but also a great way to enable them to make better decisions about their relationships. If you'd like to come by for a tour or need more information on our training curriculum, please let me know. Thank you for your consideration!

Patty Perez
Community Relations Specialist
loveisrespect, National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline
www.loveisrespect.org
www.teenvolunteers@loveisrespect.org
512.685.6297
National Domestic Violence Hotline
www.ndvh.org
800.525.1978 ext. 3297

taks retesting

Students not passing one or more sections of Grade 11 TAKS will be contacted by AISD for Exit Level Retesting in July. If you do not receive any correspondence or you have questions concerning summer testing, contact AISD Systemwide Testing at 512-414-1755. For more information about testing dates and study guides, please look here.

2008/2009 back to school dates

Curious to know registration, orientation, start dates and back-to-school night dates for elementary, middle and high school next year? Please read here.

2008/2009 freshman planners

All incoming freshman will be required to purchase Bowie High School planners for the next school year. The planners will be available beginning in August at the New Student Orientation and then will be sold in the Kennel when school starts. The planners will be $5.00. For more information, contact Pam Porter at pporter2@austin.rr.com.

CLASS OF 2008

seniors

bulldogs & hotdogs

Booster clubs - put in your Bulldogs & Hotdogs Booth request! Print out a form here. You also need to update your booster club officers. This form may be printed out here.

Slate of Bowie PTSA Officers for 2008/2009 School Year

President - Becca Clark
Vice President Communications – Ophelia Scott-Grant
Vice President Membership – Carrie Turlington
Vice President Hospitality – Susan Phillips
Secretary – Kellye Graham
Treasurer – Vanessa Lucas
CAC PTSA Representative – Cyndi Harrison

PTSA Memberships--it's never too late to join!!!

Have you joined the PTSA? Student and Faculty Memberships are $5, Individual Memberships are $15, and Family Memberships are $25. To learn more about joining the PTSA and to print out a membership form, please go to http://bowieptsa.org/join.html. There are many benefits to join the PTSA - visit the Texas PTA website at http://www.txpta.org/ and see all those that are offered. For more information, contact Carrie Turlington, CarrieRust@aol.com.

Some of the benefits of becoming a PTSA member can also be found at http://bowieptsa.org/join.html.

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