Petrova Parents’ Club Meeting, August 20, 2012
Attendees: Zoe Smith, Jenn Small, Bob Laba, Lori Mouranie, Polly Kelting, Amy
Ervin
Thanks Lori for a beautiful spread of snacks and desserts for us
to munch on while conducting the meeting and for the use of your
home!
Open House Discussion
The meeting opened with discussion of the upcoming Open House on Sept 4, 6:30-7:30 pm at school.
Josh, Zoe, and Bob will be cooking hot dogs. Polly, Amy, and perhaps others will staff the volunteer signup sheet table. Jenn wants to redesign the volunteer signup sheets and we decided to group some of the activities on one sheet, so we don’t have 17 signup sheets floating around. No signup sheets are needed for the mini-grant committee, or for curriculum night. The groupings area:
1. Book fair
2. School Pictures
3. Recess/Lunch Monitors? Still unclear about who will head this up. Is Brandee Reilly still on this?
4. Halloween Party- set up/clean up- and Teacher Appreciation Lunch
5. School Beautification/School Garden Startup
6. Box Tops- gather, cut, and count (should this include campbell’s
labels too?) Lori suggested having one parent per grade be responsible for collecting, trimming, and counting the boxtops. Could we ask the GL to do this task?
7. Pancake Breakfast and Winter Carnival – setup, cleanup, manning stations
8. Football Concession- setup, selling, cleanup for JV and Varsity Homecoming Football games
The signup sheets will be designed by Jason Smith(?), but it will have a picture of a notebook piece of paper and pushpin. We will need 13 blank copies. Jenn will enter the event information and include name, primary phone number, and email columns.
Another, more condensed version of the volunteer signups will be put in parent packets for Curriculum Night. This version will simply ask if the parent would like to help out during the year, not for a particular event, and
ask for available times, such as during the school day, afterschool, evenings, or weekends. It will have our PPC logo on it. Also, there will be space on the form for Price Chopper Advantage card numbers. Jenn will put the form together, Polly will assist.
Zoe reviewed some of what she will present to parents at Curriculum Night. She will state that we met our goals from last year and bought 3 more Smartboards. Now every classroom has one. The remaining Smartboards are for the Specials classrooms. She and Bob are going to work on a “fun financials” presentation for the parents so they can get a better picture of our finances.
Grade Liasons Update
We still need grade 1 and grade 3 liaisons, if people have suggestions.
Price Chopper Card Discussion
Only 98 families have listed Petrova as their school for school tool points. We should find out from Josh what was purchased last year and put on the Open House flyer. We discussed having a table outside of Price Chopper to collect non-affiliated Petrova peoples’ Advantage card numbers.
Other Event/Fundraiser Discussions
Lori shared with us the idea of a kid raffle for winter carnival, similar to the one done at the end of the year for Hospice. Some ideas for the bidding would be the highest $ bid would win, prizes could be desserts for a year (once a month), having lunch with the principal or special teacher, be a janitor or other job for a day.
A lengthy discussion of the Jog-a-thon ensued. We will consider for the spring, early May. Lori shared that at her old school it was the biggest (and only) fundraiser of the year. They sold advertising space in the school directory, kids made designs for the T-shirts, had business logos on the back of Tshirts. Kids ran during the normal school day at their specials time. They could earn money by lap or get a flat donation. Good to have the non-profit status for tax deduction.
Each child ran, even if they didn’t have any donations. Awards were given to top lap runner and most money earned. We could give awards by class total $ earned and laps. Children had a paper on their back to tally the laps. At Lori’s old school, they had a DJ and parents could buy a “shout out” for their child, for example, “Great job Joey, keep running. Love, Mom”. A “Top Dog” trophy was awarded to the child who raised the most money and was displayed the whole year (their event was in the fall). They also had prize drawings for
turning money in early. For example, if money was due on Fri and was turned in on Mon, there would be 4
tickets put in for a chance drawing at a prize, if money turned in on Tues, 3 chances for a prize, etc.
PPC will continue to discuss jog-a-thon potential. Josh and Zoe have some materials. If we were to try at Petrova, we will start very simply. Could we use the Team T-shirts from Field Days? We could simply get them done a month early and perhaps add on some sponsors. Sponsor ideas are AMC, AMC Physical Therapy, Hot Yoga, Fitness Revolution, AMA. First have to approach if business will accept proposal. We could award prizes by class by grade level. The class who raises the most money and runs(or walks) the most laps in
whatever the specials time is (15 min), would win. Prize could be all of the winning classes have a pizza party, individually or at the same time. If we had prizes at the individual level, we could consider awarding passes to places like the bowling alley, the ski areas, waterparks. We would need a professional log sheet for donations. Lori’s old school earned 25K and the school had 350 students! We have 344!
Attendees: Zoe Smith, Jenn Small, Bob Laba, Lori Mouranie, Polly Kelting, Amy
Ervin
Thanks Lori for a beautiful spread of snacks and desserts for us
to munch on while conducting the meeting and for the use of your
home!
Open House Discussion
The meeting opened with discussion of the upcoming Open House on Sept 4, 6:30-7:30 pm at school.
Josh, Zoe, and Bob will be cooking hot dogs. Polly, Amy, and perhaps others will staff the volunteer signup sheet table. Jenn wants to redesign the volunteer signup sheets and we decided to group some of the activities on one sheet, so we don’t have 17 signup sheets floating around. No signup sheets are needed for the mini-grant committee, or for curriculum night. The groupings area:
1. Book fair
2. School Pictures
3. Recess/Lunch Monitors? Still unclear about who will head this up. Is Brandee Reilly still on this?
4. Halloween Party- set up/clean up- and Teacher Appreciation Lunch
5. School Beautification/School Garden Startup
6. Box Tops- gather, cut, and count (should this include campbell’s
labels too?) Lori suggested having one parent per grade be responsible for collecting, trimming, and counting the boxtops. Could we ask the GL to do this task?
7. Pancake Breakfast and Winter Carnival – setup, cleanup, manning stations
8. Football Concession- setup, selling, cleanup for JV and Varsity Homecoming Football games
The signup sheets will be designed by Jason Smith(?), but it will have a picture of a notebook piece of paper and pushpin. We will need 13 blank copies. Jenn will enter the event information and include name, primary phone number, and email columns.
Another, more condensed version of the volunteer signups will be put in parent packets for Curriculum Night. This version will simply ask if the parent would like to help out during the year, not for a particular event, and
ask for available times, such as during the school day, afterschool, evenings, or weekends. It will have our PPC logo on it. Also, there will be space on the form for Price Chopper Advantage card numbers. Jenn will put the form together, Polly will assist.
Zoe reviewed some of what she will present to parents at Curriculum Night. She will state that we met our goals from last year and bought 3 more Smartboards. Now every classroom has one. The remaining Smartboards are for the Specials classrooms. She and Bob are going to work on a “fun financials” presentation for the parents so they can get a better picture of our finances.
Grade Liasons Update
We still need grade 1 and grade 3 liaisons, if people have suggestions.
Price Chopper Card Discussion
Only 98 families have listed Petrova as their school for school tool points. We should find out from Josh what was purchased last year and put on the Open House flyer. We discussed having a table outside of Price Chopper to collect non-affiliated Petrova peoples’ Advantage card numbers.
Other Event/Fundraiser Discussions
Lori shared with us the idea of a kid raffle for winter carnival, similar to the one done at the end of the year for Hospice. Some ideas for the bidding would be the highest $ bid would win, prizes could be desserts for a year (once a month), having lunch with the principal or special teacher, be a janitor or other job for a day.
A lengthy discussion of the Jog-a-thon ensued. We will consider for the spring, early May. Lori shared that at her old school it was the biggest (and only) fundraiser of the year. They sold advertising space in the school directory, kids made designs for the T-shirts, had business logos on the back of Tshirts. Kids ran during the normal school day at their specials time. They could earn money by lap or get a flat donation. Good to have the non-profit status for tax deduction.
Each child ran, even if they didn’t have any donations. Awards were given to top lap runner and most money earned. We could give awards by class total $ earned and laps. Children had a paper on their back to tally the laps. At Lori’s old school, they had a DJ and parents could buy a “shout out” for their child, for example, “Great job Joey, keep running. Love, Mom”. A “Top Dog” trophy was awarded to the child who raised the most money and was displayed the whole year (their event was in the fall). They also had prize drawings for
turning money in early. For example, if money was due on Fri and was turned in on Mon, there would be 4
tickets put in for a chance drawing at a prize, if money turned in on Tues, 3 chances for a prize, etc.
PPC will continue to discuss jog-a-thon potential. Josh and Zoe have some materials. If we were to try at Petrova, we will start very simply. Could we use the Team T-shirts from Field Days? We could simply get them done a month early and perhaps add on some sponsors. Sponsor ideas are AMC, AMC Physical Therapy, Hot Yoga, Fitness Revolution, AMA. First have to approach if business will accept proposal. We could award prizes by class by grade level. The class who raises the most money and runs(or walks) the most laps in
whatever the specials time is (15 min), would win. Prize could be all of the winning classes have a pizza party, individually or at the same time. If we had prizes at the individual level, we could consider awarding passes to places like the bowling alley, the ski areas, waterparks. We would need a professional log sheet for donations. Lori’s old school earned 25K and the school had 350 students! We have 344!
