Tuesday Sept 8, 2009
- Welcome school committee member Linda Litcofsky
- Approval of Aug Meeting Minutes: vote since last meeting: $25.00 towards pot luck dinner (napkins, plates, soda, ice) spent $17.65.
- Board is allowed to vote up to $100.00 for funding via an email vote.
Approval of Treasurer's Report - Jill Watson reported:
Deposits:
Coins for Cost - $1159.56
Cash for Gold - $ 95.00
Disbursements:
Pot luck dinner - $ 17.65
Teacher Planers - $758.40
Accepted by Jean Atherton
2nd: Amber Quigley
Unfinished Business:
Updates:
Kindergarten Orientation - Sept 1st update. need more water bottles for next year. Tricia Savino thought for next year's K orientation we could take pictures & send to the local papers.
Potluck Dinner update - 14 people came. good showing for the end of Aug time frame. (cookie swap next!)
Calendar/planner sales – nothing to report – maybe a future idea?
6th grade corner – adding a section in THE SOURCE for the 6th grade class. Need a communicator-email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you are interested!
School grounds upkeep – Kim Perrelli offered help with the plants for student photos by planting Mums. She was able to contact Beth Woodward, a Pine Grove parent, to take over the upkeep of the grounds to make it look nice.
Movie Nights – It costs $75.00 license per movie. Looking into maybe getting a district license. Chris Kneeland got in touch w/ Brian Forget, who approved it, but the district will not fund it. We will ask PTO and the other district PTOs/PTAs if they are interested in going in on a license together.
New Business:
Fund Requests -
DI funding request - Lori Floodman came to present on Destination Imagination. She is the coordinator for Pine Grove. She helped out on the team last year. 7 kids were on a team last year. They wanted to expand this year. Presently they have 2 grade 3-4 teams. 2 teams 5-6th grade level...need a coach.
Some interest in the K - 1st grade level....addl coaches needed. Barbara Mann - 7th grade science teacher has been helping. PTO helped fund the team last year. It will cost aprox. $75.00 per child. Aprox $1500.00 total for 2 teams.
There are registration fees, $390.00 membership fee, and tournament fees.
RPEF gave $300.00 to go forward to get the membership. Coaches need to be sent to a training class. aprox $85.00 for the coaches training class.
Each team works on a problem and tries to solve it.
Christine Kneeland mentioned talks that took place today at the Adminstrative Council....that maybe it'll rolled into the Exploration (after school) Program. RPEF said that if a student could not pay for the entire user fee, they'd help w/ that.
Motion for $500.00 to cover the cost for coach training and remainder membership fees. Accepted by Amber Quigley. 2nd Jill Bouley. All in favor.
Parent Meeting on Monday 7/14 @ 7pm - where are we? where do we need to go? Looking for kids that are interested. Looking for coaches if we have more teams.
1st grade request for purchase of Weekly Readers - Mrs. Pothier was present to request funds. They are used with the science and social studies curriculum. Its cost is $351.12 (once a week for the entire school year) ($3.99 per student) Could this money come out of the 1st grade enrichment fund?? They purchased writing journals for the children. $114.00 that will be submitted to the enrichment funds. 1st grade will use their enrichment money to buy the Weekly Readers for the year.
Margot Lacey will encourage the teachers to use and update the Giving Tree, so things that they may need for their classrooms can hopefully get donations
from families.
Kyle Campbell/Anne Remley funds request - We approached them after the Aug meeting. We want to support them as new teachers of Kindergarten for Pine Grove. Need more essential tools and supplies.
They do not have a total amount yet. They are still working to get their room set up. Previous new teachers were given $250.00. Motion to give $250.00 to Kyle Campbell and Anne Remley (1 amount) that'll include the receipts of what they've already spent.
Pam Gay approved Joan Petersen 2nd. All in favor.
Magnets to promote THE SOURCE - aprox $125.00 for 1000 magnets to hand out at Parent Info Nights 500 magnets for $55.00. Motion to buy 500 magnets $55.00 plus tax & shipping. Not going w/ the magnet idea at the moment.
Claudia Nagle asked if there is a tracking device on THE SOURCE website to see if we can track how many hits it gets. We will look into this.
$ to order Rowley shirts for Doug @ Bakery - Doug has been selling tee's at the bakery for a few years. Pam Gay picked up $400.00 this week. Asking for aprox $500.00 to order more long sleeved tee's to sell. Doug does have some short sleeved tee's still avail. Motion for $500 was made. Amber Quigley approved. Mrs. Budd seconded. All in favor.
SpiritWear Sale - any interest? JungleWear opens up a website and people order thru there for Rowley/Pine Grove items (tee's, sweatshirts, sweatpants) Pam Gay will run this program.
Purchase of Purell - Purell - needed in the dispensers throughout the school. Maybe have the parents send in purell bottles as a giving tree item. In the past PTO has done a Purell Drive. We'll check w/ the teachers on what they'd like.
Would they like to get their dispensers refilled or get donations of bottles? Aprox $500.00 to refill all the dispensers in the school. We'll ask ACTION Ambulance for a possible donation as well.
Renew memberships for Teacher Websites - TeacherWeb. There are 12 teachers that have pages now. 3 are up for renewal now - Mrs. Gagnon, Ms. May & Mrs. Pothier. Allocated to tech/hard drive account. $33.00 - $39.00 per teacher site.
Ink recycling/cell phone recycling is where they get the funding. Shipment did go out Thursday on of last week, so there will be money in that account soon. Motion to fund $39.00 per teacher: for Ms.Gagnon, Ms.May & Mrs Pothier $120.00 total. We'll wait til October to approve this. We need to talk about how this will be handled for all teachers that have or want to have TeacherWeb sites. We need a plan to fund all the teachers.
Upcoming Events -
School Council elections - Group of 3 parents, 3 teachers, a community member & the principal. Chris Kneeland will check on the guidlines & we'll have a vote @ a later date.
Parent Info Nights: volunteers needed - please sign up! Sue True and Karen Dion will have a table set up to sign parents up for CORI's. Parents will need to bring in a picture ID to have the form filled out properly. We'll have a ListServ table set up.....to have parents sign up for that service.
Gift wrap fundraiser - Jean Atherton - packets went home on the first day of school. People input the order online, send in the check. NO CASH please. Make check out to Pine Grove PTO. We'll get products around the same time that the Fall book fair is going on, so people can pick up their items when they're here for the book fair. Need to have a better system on how people are getting the items home. You can go online, pay by credit card & have the items shipped directly to their house. (small shipping charge) Chris Kneeland looked into possibly having items sent home on the bus. Bus company is saying that we can't send items home on the bus.....it's a safety issue. We'll find a place to keep all the boxes. Jean has 4 parents to help out w/ the gift wrap committee!
Fall Book Fair - scheduled Nov 2-10. Need volunteers. 9/28 - meeting w/ Scholoastic.
FUTURE Events/Fundraisers/Ideas -
Box Tops - Joanna White is the new coordinator. Looking for creative ways for parents to send in the boxtops. Popcorn party as a possible prize for the class that sends in the most boxtops. There is a bin in the office. Parents can send in the boxtops in the child's backpacks and teachers will send down to the office.
Target Cards - Target will donate a portion of the spending back to our school. Shaws and Stop & Shop has similar programs. Joanna will research it. If you already have a Target card, you can have your card linked to have the precentage given back to Pine Grove
Giggles Night - $550.00 deposit. $550.00 the night of the event. 75 minute commedian. Unlimited soft drinks and pizza for 160 guest. Ticket sales should be aprox $20.00. we'll do a silent auction as well. All of Jan and Feb Thursday nights are open. We'll pick a date in either January of Feb after checking the school calendar.
Safe Routes to School Program - bike safety and walking safety. Natl walk to school day in October. No interest in this program. We may do our own bike safety day. We'll discuss at another time.
Ski Passes - WildCat/CoolCat - passes @ 2005 pricing. $109.00 ages 6-18. $10.00 of each pass goes back to the school. we'll promote it on the website and with a flyer.
Antique photos - Sandy Lamphear/Lynn Parsons are not able to do it.
Looking for a coordinator to run it.
REMINDERS:
No school on Friday Sept 11th - teacher development day
Parent Info Nights: 9/16, 9/17, 9/23, 9/24
11:45 dismissal on Friday Sept 25th
PTO MEETING DATES:
10/6, 11/3, 12/2, 1/5, 2/2, 3/2, 4/6, 5/4, 6/1
Assistant Principal's Report - Margo Lacey - smooth re-entry into school year. Fun to have all the kids back. GLEC is a wonderful group. They've been welcomed into the Pine Grove community wonderfully.
MCAS dates for this year are out. They'll be updated on the website and be in the October Pine Times. Late March/early April time frame.
Snack program – any questions, please have parents call the front office. Teachers have a good handle on it. We've left it up to the teacher to set the parameters in their classroom. They need to feel safe to teach.
New message board out by the front door. Donated by last years 6th grade classes.
Eliminates notices taped up on the windows by the front door.
Principal's Report - Great first week of school. Very proud to be here at Pine Grove. MCAS from 08-09 will be out next week.
Had 2 staff meetings. Covered lots of topics. Responses to the parent and teacher questionare's. Keeping everything open and honest.
Stability, Trust & Hope for PineGrove.
Sullivan Studio - tentitive dates. Oct 1st and 2nd. Outdoor shots - weather permitting.
Mosquito spraying - Contacted Brian Forget - he got w/ the NE Mosquito Control & spoke w/ the Rowley Board of Health Dept. Their recommendation was not to spray.
**Update as of Wed 9/9. Town of Rowley will be spraying for mosquitos**
H1N1 Virus - Sept 11th is a prof dev day. Nurses will go over the pandamic plan on what will happen this fall if there is any outbreaks of H1N1. Use purell and wash hands frequently. Have children cough into their arm instead of their hands.
Minutes submitted by Jill Bouley
Mrs. Budd donated the door prize tonight: The winner is Claudia Nagle!
