Dear Centennial High School Parents,

Welcome to the Centennial High School PTSA’s website!

Whether you are a brand new parent to Centennial High School, starting your last year with your senior student, or anywhere in between, we want you to know that the PTSA is here to help support you and your students.

Centennial PTSA provides many valuable programs through your membership, generous contributions, and volunteer support, including:

• We communicate important information to the CHS community via the PTSA website, our Facebook page, email blasts to PTSA members, and our summer and spring semester Knightly News newsletter publications.   Through these vehicles, you will be able to find out important information about CHS events, be notified in a timely manner about important announcements, keep in touch with others in the school community, etc.

• We sponsor drug, alcohol, health and safety awareness programs to educate and enable our teens in wise decision making, such as Red Ribbon Week, Drive Safe–Drive Smart.

• We organize CATCH (Conversations at Centennial High) breakfasts for students, offering them the opportunity to see programs with informative speakers.

• We publish the Student Directory—available only to PTSA members—to facilitate communication within the CHS community.

• We offer Mini Grants to CHS teachers and staff to help fund special projects which enhance the learning experience for CHS students.

• We manage Business Partners program to facilitate the relationships between the school, PTSA and area businesses.

• We host the Principal’s Honor Roll Breakfast each spring for qualifying students.

• We provide volunteer staffing for the book distribution, media center, front desk, and college visits throughout the school year. 

• We provide liaisons to the Student Council Executive Committee and each class council.

• We collect and organize the judging of CHS entries to the National PTA Reflections Program which honors students for their creative efforts.

• We organize and staff Project Graduation for seniors and staff volunteers for the annual Senior Breakfast.

• We provide support for Parent Information Nights and CHS’s Annual Principal’s Chat.

• We sponsor multiple Caring & Sharing activities, organizing outreach activities to help those in need in the CHS community.

• We provide liaisons for CHS’s Exceptional Children and TAG communities.

• We fund Volunteer Scholarships to deserving seniors!

• We show our appreciation to teachers and staff by hosting a welcome-back breakfast, holiday, teacher-of-the-year, and end-of-year luncheons.

• We actively advocate on behalf of all students for legislation to help protect and educate all our kids.

1. Join CHS PTSA!  CLICK HERE for a copy of the 2011-2012 CHS PTSA Membership form. Membership is CHS PTSA’s principal source of revenue.  Please join at a level that ensures membership for every adult in your household, and make sure your CHS student is also PTSA member!  CHS PTSA:  Join One, Join All—Have a Say—Join Today!

2. Donate!  Due to recent budget cuts, your contributions are more important than ever.  Please consider the various membership levels and give generously to Centennial High School PTSA. 

3. Volunteer!   All the above programs are possible through the work of volunteers.  There are many ways to help!  You can help on one big event or routinely throughout the year.  You can come into the school or work from home.  We welcome every volunteer at every level of participation!  Please CLICK HERE for a detailed description of volunteer opportunities.

4. Consider a Directory Sponsorship!  CLICK HERE for a copy of the 2011-2012 Directory Sponsorship form.  Our Student Directory reaches thousands of households!

 everyCHILD. oneVOICE.