October PTA Meeting Minutes

Spencer School PTA Regular Meeting Minutes    

Date: 10/15/19 | Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Location of meeting: Spencer School Library

Board Members Present: President: Missy Hein; Vice President: Nick Ficaro; Treasurer: Sandy Pinero; Secretary: Lacey Weiss; Fundraising Coordinator: Annie Sansone; Staff Rep: Jen Gudelski

Board meeting actions: 

Lacey Weiss moved to approve order of 2 recess carts, $250 grant obtained by PTA President from Aldi Grocery store – PTA to pay difference of carts, Motion second from Nick Ficaro, all in favor of purchase. 

Boo Bash Prizes:

Join a Gym Class – 2;  

Free Recess – 1

CT Science Center tickets – 3; 3 sets of passes for pumpkin carving/decorating contest 

Other prizes announced at meeting: 

Pumpkin carving/decorating contest – voting – 3 categories, 3 colors slips of paper: write Pumpkin # on paper and label each pumpkin; 

11 people preset including board member

Treasurer’s Report: changes from last meeting – We earned $415 from Mondo restaurant night

Pie and cookie dough – we earned $3,700 big jump from last year. 

Boo Bash ticket sales still coming in. 

Classroom supplies we’ve reimbursed $250 so far. 

Special requests: we’re purchasing 2 new recess carts – not yet reflected in budget. 

Membership we have close to 60 members which is more of an annual membership number 

Bake sale is coming up in November

Chipoltle Restaurant night November

Book Fair same week as PT conferences

December Pottery Painting Night – Maybe getting pizza donated

Boo Bash: 

Cafeteria snacks and crafts

Gym, 5 – 6 carnival games

Photo Booooooth

Guessing games: pumpkin weight

Pumpkin decorating contest:  prizes – CT Science center tickets

Janice got – donations, dairy queen family git card – 2 pizza shops gift certificates – Wesleyan bookstore giftcard $25; 3 dealerships, $50 gc for richard chevrolet; Silver city barbershop $25 gc; 

Movie passes and posters:  coming from Isabelle

Music – all good

Game – Donut eating – Janice

Speeding in front of school: Nick suggests drafting a letter; Sean King – rep for our school district, Marco Gaylord representative – got sidewalks for woodrow wilson. 

We’re putting a letter together and get PTA members to send letter individually to reps and board of ed. Nick volunteered to draft a letter. 

Next meeting November 13, 2019 – Wednesday – 

Mentor – Mr. Wynn – All Pro Dad meetings plug – Nov 8th – look for flyers. Kids bring their dads to breakfast, support their kids – just breakfast. 

PTA Meeting Minutes 9/18/19

Spencer School PTA Regular Meeting Notes Date_ 9_18_19

Thank you to all those who joined us tonight for our regular meeting. Next meeting is Tuesday, October 15th at 6:30PM. See you there!

Enroll your Price Chopper Card

Help earn educational equipment for Spencer School by enrolling your Price Chopper AdvantEdge card in the Tool For Schools program.  The School code is 49815.

Over the past few years, Tools for Schools points have been used to get books for the Spencer library, supplies for the art classroom, and equipment for the gym.

Join Spencer PTA

Join the Spencer School PTA for the 2019-2020 school year! Get a jump start on the year and sign up now!

You can signup online in 2 easy steps!
Step 1) Complete payment using appropriate PayPal button below.

1 Adult Member ($6.00)     

OR

2 Adult Members ($12.00)   

Step 2) Complete the online membership form by clicking here.

You can also join by printing this Registration Form. Fill out the bottom half and send it to school with your child. Please include cash or check payable to Spencer PTA.

Send any questions to SpencerSchoolPTA@gmail.com

Box Tops is Going Digital

Box Top is going digital and phasing out clipping.  Download the new Box Tops app and scan your receipts to earn money for the school. Select “BERTRAND SPENCER ELEMENTARY” so that your Box Tops earnings go to help Spencer School. Clipped Box Tops that have not expired can still be sent into school.

Send questions to SpencerSchoolPTA@gmail.com

Amazon Smile

When you do your back to school shopping at smile.amazon.com/ch/06-1369626, Amazon donates to Spencer School PTA.

Sign up today (select Spencer School PTA as your funding partner) and a percentage of qualifying purchases will be donated to Spencer Elementary School.  All Amazon features, including PRIME, are available through Amazon Smile.

Note: AmazonSmile is not available using the Amazon App, only smile.amazon.com. You can put items in your cart via the app, then check out using the amazon smile website.

Get the Shoparoo App

Help

Help earn cash for Spencer School!

Bylaws Updated

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The Spencer PTA bylaws are being updated and will be voted on at the May 15th, 2019 PTA meeting. Please review the updated bylaws and send any questions or comments to SpencerSchoolPTA@gmail.com.

The current and updated bylaws can be found at the links below:
Proposed Spencer School PTA Bylaws Rev 2018
Current bylaws

Book Fair Coming Soon!

Our Scholastic Book Fair is coming soon and will turn the library into our very own bookstore. Find hundreds of books from new and favorite authors, popular series, cool posters and school supplies, not to mention fun! The Scholastic Book Fair will be here from Monday (11/27) to Friday (12/1) and everyone is invited!

We will be open during school hours.  Wednesday (11/29) we will have extended hours until 7pm for Family Night. We will have fun activities and lots of books!

Hungry? Stop by the Bake Sale!

Stop by Spencer and get a tasty treat at today’s election day bake sale!