Pine Grove PTO Meeting April 6, 2010
Approval of:
Minutes - will vote in May's meeting
Treasurer’s Report - Liz presented for Jill Watson - There are some negative amounts in the expenses. The field trip is negative - Jill Watson uses that account for the expenses and payments from students. The craft fair - we got a refund on the prior month’s payment for advertising. The tee shirt fundraiser was entered last month twice (by accident). There was a $50.00 comedy night adjustment. $410.00 from the Wildcat Ski passes. Balance $21000.00. Enrichment accounts are still full. Teachers can spend their money!
Approved by Stephanie. 2nd Jean Atherton
UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
Updates:
- Pizza sale for Bark Mulch (We raised: 1100.00 with kit sales and $125.50 with donations!) Great fundraiser! Pick up went smoothly! Company was great to work with.
- District Arts Festival 3/9: fundraiser – was cancelled!
- Movie Night - We showed Where The Wild Things are. Nice showing. Raised $165.00.
- Conference snacks - thanks for all the donations!
- March on the Hill - March 23rd. No one from Pine Grove attended.
- District Spelling Bee - cancelled!
NEW BUSINESS:
Fund Requests:
- $50 reimbursement for Sharon Odle: Bullying/Cyber bullying DVD and curriculum for teacher training DVD to be used @ staff meetings to teach the teachers about how do deal w/ Bullying/Cyber Bullying at school. $50.00. Approved by Amy Rotberg. 2nd Stephanie Comeau. All in favor.
- Pencil machine - Amy Rotberg is in charge of the pencil machine. It's outside the Nurse's office. Each pencil is .25 cents. Profits go to the Technology Account. $38.97 for reimbursement. Approved by Stephanie. 2nd Joan Petersen. All in favor.
- $100 Teacher’s luncheon - Need $100.00 (aprox $30.00 for centerpieces, new tablecloths, accessories) $100 Approved by Joanna White. 2nd Jean. All in favor.
- Bark Mulch funds still needed (est. $500) Wolf Hill is selling it to us @ cost. Motion for $500.00 to cover the remaining cost of the back mulch. $500.00 Approved by Amber Quigley. 2nd Joan Petersen. All in favor.
Upcoming events:
- Anti Bullying Pledge - support - Christine & Margot held their Community Gathering on Bullying. Good turn out. Aprox 50 folks. Parents from Newbury & Salisbury attended as well. The children made a non-bullying pledge. We'll ask Parents to sign a pledge. We'll send it out to the Pine Grove Community. Looking to get magnets made up for families to put on their fridge. 'I took the Anti-Bullying Pledge @ Pine Grove School'! $125.00 for magnets - Approved by Joanna White. 2nd Amy Rotberg. All in favor.
- Math/Science Night - April 15th 6:30pm - 8:30pm - RPEF event. PTO will help w/ concessions and volunteers. We'll send out a note to get volunteers.
- Pine Grove Earth Clean up Day – April 30th - it's a 1/2 day of school. We'll plan for a 12pm start time to help clean up the school yard. Need volunteers.
- Antiquities – May 1st - We have 10 families. We need at least 60 to make this happen!
- Business Fair - May 1st - Need a concession stand volunteer for the Craft Fair. Rachel Dailey is organizing it. Going well. She's almost full!
FUTURE Events/Fundraisers:
MAY:
- 3rd: Teacher’s Luncheon - need pot luck items. See flyer in April Pine Times
- 10th-14th: Book Fair
- 11th: Ice Cream Social - Pamela Gay is heading this committee. Dunk tank will be there! Ice Cream, pizza, hot dogs. 5pm-7pm.
- 21st: Jog A long - Aimee Morland - We'll do a permission slip. Extra recess hosted by Mrs. Kneeland for the class that turns in all the permission slips first. We'll send a hard copy permission slip home in the backpacks. Please contact Aimee Morland at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to volunteer to help out at the Jog-a-long. Motion for popsicles and water bottles & cups. $150.00 Approved by Jill Bouley 2nd Jean Atherton. All in favor.
- 22nd: 5K - Amber Quigley - Rain or Shine! New flyer coming out w/ a sign up sheet that will go out thru backpack mail. Can also still sign up on coolrunning.com (there is a processing fee per applicant if you use this method) Rowley Institute for Savings and Rowley Roadside Grille are the 2 premier sponsors. Need some more sponsors. Need volunteers on the day of the event! Fun family event. Fun Run/Walk.
JUNE:
- Field Day - Lynn McCaskill is organizing the event. We'll rework the schedule of the day. All the classes get together as they enter. Kyle Campbell will lead everyone in.
Discussions:
- Acupuncturist at May meeting? Amber spoke about this....we'll have an Acupuncturist attend our May meeting @ 6:30pm. She's from Topsfield. She can help w/ appetite issues, hormone issues, sleeping issues, joint issues. Everyone at the meeting was really excited about this!
- Budget - need to start thinking about budget. We'll talk more about it in June. $2000 - $2500 to start the year in September.
- Election - We'll vote at the May meeting.
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
- 1st part of MCAS ended today - April 6th. Went very well. Margot makes sure that the form # is correct for each student when they are turned in. Testing is supposed to take aprox an hour to complete. Most students take more time to complete it. They put a lot of work into it. Kids seemed really well prepared this year!
- Regarding the bullying pledge. If children come home and say something about bullying and what they may have seen @ school, ask the child if they've told an adult at school already about the issue.
- With the warm weather coming....flip flops in school are dangerous. Not safe for the school and playground!
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
- In the process of coming up w/ a school mascot. District website is being revamped. Need a mascot for the Pine Grove homepage. Teachers are talking w/ the students about some ideas.
- Pine Grove 5th & 6th grade advance band will be marching in the Memorial Day Parade for the first time! Boys and Girl Scouts march every year. New 4x6 cloth banner - blue & yellow Pine Grove Banner - in the process of having it priced and made to be around forever!
- NAEYC accreditation process. We're in year 2 of the process. Accreditation process will give our preschool and kindergarten high standards. Teachers and Mrs. Kneeland have been working really hard w/ this process. The accreditation will be good for 6 years. The last step will be a site visit that will take place in May.
CALENDAR/REMINDERS: PTO meeting dates:
April 19th to 23rd: April Vacation 5/4; 6/1
April 30th: 11:40 Dismissal
Raffle Cookbook was donated by Aleta Bud and won by Joanna White
