ES Weekly

GATHER is just 5 days away and the excitement is buzzing around campus! Make sure to check out these important updates and reminders:

• Get the final few tickets
  • It is the LAST chance to join in for the event of the year—reserve one of the few remaining tickets HERE.
• Volunteer
  • This event is made possible because of all of YOU, our amazing community. If you have any time to spare on April 27, consider volunteering to help us set up the day of the event. You can find all our GATHER volunteer positions HERE. Even just one hour makes a huge difference and helps build the magic that is this incredible evening.
• Grab your spot in a Buy-In or sign up for a waitlist
  • Buy-ins went live last Wednesday, already raising over $100,000 with over 20 events selling out in minutes. View remaining Buy-Ins HERE. Didn't get the buy-in you wanted? Join a waitlist HERE and we will contact you if more spots become available.
• Bid on All-School Art and GOLD Parking Spot!
  • Have you had a chance to take a look at the amazing all-school art displayed in Madrona Hall? This incredible work of art is also available online for auction, so be sure to bid on a chance to own this masterpiece!
  • Interested in having a section of the all-school art piece of just your child’s class? Be sure to purchase one HERE.

Don't miss your chance to win the parking spot of your dreams and feel like a champion! Bid on the reserved VIP Parking Space in front of Spock Hall on the Epiphany School campus HERE

We have an incredible opportunity to participate in a Q&A with Dr. Devorah Heitner, the author of Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World and Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World on Wednesday, May 1 from 9:30-10:15 am on Zoom! Learn more about early childhood development of friendships, reputation, and boundaries in the modern age of technology from an expert! Link to join here.

Please join us in the Great Hall on Tuesday, April 23 at 8:30 am for our Spring EPC meeting! We will hear directly from the administration with a spring update for the school, as well as review all the remaining volunteer opportunities for the year and even preview the fun and excited ways to get involved next year! Coffee will be provided. We hope to see you there!

POCIS Seattle is excited to host speaker Ruha Benjamin on Thursday, May 23 from 6-7:15 pm, who will be presenting Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Setting of Technology and Society. 

Ruha Benjamin is a professor of African American studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab, and author of four books, Imagination: A Manifesto (2024), Viral Justice (2022), Race After Technology (2019), and People’s Science (2013), and editor of Captivating Technology (2019). Benjamin writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the relationship between innovation and inequity, knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice. Learn more about Ruha Benjamin here.

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It’s almost time for the spring Used Uniform Sale, happening on Thursday, May 2, from 3-4 pm in the covered area of Madrona Hall! Please help by donating your children’s gently used uniform pieces that they have outgrown. There are two bins in the front office for your convenience. Thank you so much!

As part of the Epiphany School Days of Caring, the third grade is teaming up with the Emergency Feeding Program (EFP) to hold a Snack Pack Food Drive. This initiative aims to provide snacks to students who experience food insecurity while in school. The drive will take place from April 22 to May 3, and we would love for you to be a part of it!

Each grade will be responsible for collecting a specific snack and decorating bags. The third-grade students will then pack the collected snacks into decorated bags. Our goal is to create 500 bags!

Snacks by Grade:

• Apple Sauce Cups (pre-k)
• Capri Suns (kindergarten)
• Shelf Stable Milk (first grade)
• Small Boxes or Cups of Cereal (second grade)
• Chip Assortment (third grade)
• Cup of Noodles (fourth and fifth grade)

We appreciate your support. Please feel free to contact Kye Smith or Aquonna Thornhill with any questions!

On Friday, May 3, Epiphany School classes will come together for an assembly to celebrate the work all grade levels have done to help our communities during spring Days of Caring! Each grade level has taken on a service learning project and will present what they have learned and how they worked to help others. We welcome you to join us at 8:35 am in the Great Hall for this celebration!

A friendly reminder to make sure your grandparents and special friends have RSVP’d for either the virtual (Thursday, May 9) or in-person (Friday, May 10) Grandparents and Special Friends Day events! We must get all RSVPs no later than Wednesday, May 1. If your loved ones plan on attending this special event please have them RSVP today! Email Isaiah Khan with any questions! RSVP here.

The Raffle team is excited about Carnival! The Raffle is a success each year because of the generosity and community spirit of Epiphany School families. This year we hope to make it just as fun, and also a little simpler in the run-up and streamlined on the day.

Be on the lookout for the prize donations SignUpGenius list where you can choose which prizes you would like to donate. A new feature this year is that you can contribute directly through the website (scroll to the bottom of the screen) —this is a cash option which will then be allocated toward prizes. Please know that cash contributions of any amount are appreciated, as they allow us to build themed prize bundles more easily, which was a huge hit last year.  

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