ARCHIVES: 2024-2025

Week 37 – May 16, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • Last Week of School Activities

  • Summer Packets Available Now
  • Yearbooks Arrive Next Week
  • Lost & Found Last Call
  • Next Year’s Spirit Wear Unveiled!
  • So Long…Until August

Week 36-May 9, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • GSA Welcomes Our New Middle School Math Teacher

  • Ms. Yacono Appointed to National Leadership Role
  • Update:  First Day of School
  • Afterschool and Aftercare Options for 2025-2026
  • Summer Book Drive

Week 35-May 2, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • Lower School Spring Concerts

  • Senior Walk Returns
  • Faculty and Staff Appreciation Week
  • Coffee & Conversation Postponed
  • GSA’s Self-Portrait Show is This Weekend!

Week 34-April 25, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • WTF (What’s the Future)

  • Upcoming Student Survey
  • Teacher Appreciation Week
  • 8th Grade Bake Sale

Week 33-April 18, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • Annual Parent Survey

  • GSA Talent Show Next Week
  • Walking on Eggshells
  • Coffee & Conversation:  FAQs with Ms. Yacono

Week 32-April 11, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • Spring Gala Final Results!
  • When I Look in the Mirror
  • Talent Show Dress Rehearsal

Week 31-April 4, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • 2025 Self-Portrait Show Theme

  • Looking for Self-Portrait Show Volunteers
  • 7th-to-8th Grade Transition Meeting
  • Road Construction and Potential Road Closures
  • Thank You, Spring Gala Sponsors!

Week 30-March 28, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • Last Chance to Get Spring Gala Tickets!

  • Silent Auction Goes Live on Monday
  • Gala Set Up Volunteers
  • Parents Night Out–Powered by the 8th Graders

Week 28-March 14, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • Second Trimester Report Cards
  • Live Auction:  Class Party Showdown!
  • Self-Portrait Show

Week 27-March 7, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • Spring Gala is One Month Away!
  • Live Auction Sneak “Peak”
  • Measles Update
  • Lost and Found
  • 25-26 School Calendar

Week 26-February 28, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • Spirit Week
  • Get Ready for this Live Auction Item at the Spring Gala!
  • Talent Show
  • Lights, Camera, GSA
  • Amplify Austin

Week 25-February 21, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • Read-A-Thon Totals
  • Re-Enrollment Contracts Due Next Friday

Week 24-February 14, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • 8th Grade Art on Display

  • Parent Social at Russell’s Bakery
  • GSA’s Position on School Vouchers
  • Coffee and Conversation Returns

Week 23-February 7, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • GSA’s “Front Desk Lady” Returns!

  • City of Austin Road Update
  • Save the Date:  Talent Show
  • Our Incredible Gala Committee

Week 22-January 31, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • Re-Enrolllment Starts Next Week

  • The Power of Partnership
  • It’s Time for Read-a-Thon
  • One Week Left for Early Bird Tickets

Week 21-January 24, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • National Scholastic Art Awards

  • Calendar Update
  • Hug a Firebird
  • Hi! How Are You?
  • Two More Weeks for Early Bird Tickets

Week 20-January 17, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • Spring Gala Tickets On Sale Now

  • BookFair is Feb 10-16
  • The Fridas Are Coming

Week 19-January 10, 2025

Highlights & Action Items

  • Reminders for the New Year

  • Calling All Auction Items
  • Re-Enrollment Coming Soon
  • Afterschool Programs Start Next Week
  • Faculty News

Week 18-December 20, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Reminder About Tuition Assistance 2025-2026

  • mySCHOOL Resource
  • Farewell to Jackie Magno
  • 2024 Mini Grant Recipients
  • Save the Date for Spring Gala

Week 17- December 13, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • First Day of School for 2025 – 2026 

  • Register for Afterschool Programs on Popsicle
  • Eighth Graders Featured in ‘Cities in Space’ Podcast
  • Lunch Duty Volunteers – Wednesday, December 18

Week 16- December 6, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Service Learning Drive

  • Middle School Engineering Expo – December 19
  • Ask Your Student to Check the Lost and Found
  • Afterschool Program Sign Up – Create Your Popsicle Account
  • Pajamas and Hot Cocoa Day – December 20

Week 15- November 22, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Fall Edition of The Firebird Flyer

  • Acessing First Trimester Report Cards
  • Submit Your Questions for Middle School Info Night!
  • Afterschool Program Registration via Popsicle
  • Mini Poll About School Schedule
  • Reagan’s Departure from the GSA
  • The Office Will Be Closed Next Week!
  • Firebird Fund Update: Final Week!

Week 14- November 15, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Grandparents Day Photos

  • Free Dress Day for ALL on Friday, Nov. 22
  • Sign-Up to Bring Goodies on Friday, Nov. 22
  • Lunch Duty Volunteers – Wednesday, Dec. 18
  • Firebird Fund Update: Week 7

Week 13- November 8, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Middle School Info Night on December 3

  • All-Region Concert on November 23

  • Winter Concerts on December 11 & 12

  • Tuition Assistance for the 2025-2026 School Year

  • Firebird Fund Update: Week 6

Week 12- November 1, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Grandparents Day is Next Friday!

  • Theme Parade Photos

  • Giving Thanks to our Faculty and Staff on November 22

  • Firebird Fund Update: Week 5

Week 11- October 25, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Fall Celebration: Know Before You Go

  • October 31st is a Regular School Day

  • Ask Your Grandparents and Grand-Friends to RSVP!

  • Come Visit Ms. Melear during WEST!

  • Firebird Fund Update: Week 4

Week 10- October 18, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Theme Parade Details: Please Join Us!

  • Come See the Super Heroes!

  • Grandparents Day on November 8 – Volunteers Needed!

  • Loved From Afar: Send Photos of Your Grandparents and Grand-Friends

  • Next Trailblazers Group Hike: November 2

  • Fall Celebration on October 26 – Volunteers Needed!

  • Firebird Fund Update: Week 3

Week 9- October 11, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Austin Jewish Academy Dance: 6th – 8th Grade

  • All Region Results
  • School Photos Have Been Sent!
  • GSA Sibling Applications
  • Preparing for Theme Parade
  • Firebird Fund Update: Week 2

Week 8- October 4, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Honor Your Loved Ones at Our Ofrenda

  • Coffee and Conversation on October 18: “The Anxious Generation”
  • Postcards for Our Grandparents and Grand-friends
  • Read Our Annual Report
  • Firebird Fund is Now Live!

Week 7- September 27, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Ms. Chandler’s Maternity Leave

  • Tarrytown Pharmacy Vaccine Clinic Sign-Ups
  • Fall Celebration – Volunteers Needed!
  • Important Dates in October

Week 6- September 20, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Safety Drills Starting Next Week

  • Kindergarten Showcase on September 27
  • Save the Date: Tarrytown Pharmacy Vaccine Clinic on October 18
  • Social Institute Follow-Up

Week 5- September 13, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Fall Celebration – Tickets on Sale Now!

  • New Family Breakfast on October 2
  • White Cane Day on October 16
  • Welcome New Board Members!
  • Poetntial Water Service Impact

  • Cardigan, Hoodie, and Sweatshirt Reminders
  • We Need Your Student’s Health Forms!

Week 4- September 6, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Come Find Us at KUT Rock the Park!

  • Students’ Forgotten Items: Best Practices
  • Back to School Night Presentations
  • First Trailblazers Group Hike on September 21
  • High School Fair on October 17

  • Community Event: Austin Museum Day on September 22

Week 3- August 30, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Picture Day Schedules for September 16-19

  • Save the Date: Grandparents Day on November 8
  • New Faces at the GSA
  • Handbook Acknowledgement Forms Due September 9
  • Announcing Theme Parade 2024

  • Parent Education: Social Institute MS Family Workshop on September 13

Week 2- August 23, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Fall Celebration- Announcing new date!

  • OneCall- Please opt-in for texts
  • New Front Office procedures
  • Back to School Nights start next week
  • Strategic Plan Coffee & Conversation with Ms. Yacono

  • Media Release Non-Consent
  • After School Programs pick up information

Week 1- August 16, 2024

Highlights & Action Items

  • Welcome Back to School!
  • GSA Lunch Program: Haute Lunch
  • Buy Your Spirit Shirts!
  • Lunchtime Visitors
  • Car Line Reminders
  • GSA Directory on Membership Toolkit
  • Details for Back to School Night
  • Register for After School Programs
  • We Love Our Volunteers!
  • 2024-2025 School Year Theme: We Are Trailblazers!