School Governance Council & Parent Teacher Organization Meeting
JANUARY 18, 2024
6-7PM
PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION – PTO
Meetings are led by parents. Parents come together once per month to support teachers and students.
*Translation will be provided for those needed
Purpose
To enhance parent knowledge of students’ day-to-day, curriculum, what’s happening in child’ classroom, processes, etc…
To plan:
Fundraisers
Book Fair
Braided Bread and Cake Roll Sale
Field Trips
Family engagement opportunities
· Parents come to classrooms to help provide support
After School Activities
5th Grade Social
Home Depot Build Program
100 Day Celebration
Black History Month [February]
This year’s focus is on art
PTO is looking to fill following roles:
o President
o Vice President
o Secretary
BUDGET
- Ms. Goodwin is asking Dr. Youngberg to maintain what we have (e.g., staffing and instructional supplies)
- Will have a vote in May on budget
- Have $25k in instructional supplies
- Most of these supplies support additional items for teachers (e.g., recess materials, teacher chairs, desks, etc…)
FUNDRAISING
- Next will be selling Smencils
Main Office staff will manage this fundraiser since PTO does not have an established group at this time.
Pencils will be sold for $1/ea and all money will be routed back to PTO to use.
This fundraiser will take place around February 14th.
FIELD TRIPS
$355+ needed for Kindergarten trip to Niantic Children’s Museum in March-
Monetary and chaperone support needed
2nd Grade going to Wadsworth Atheneum in February
3rd Grade will participate in:
Field studies at Hammonasset Beach State Park (Madison, CT) to look for species
Field trip to Mystic Aquarium
Mystic Aquarium in-school visit
4th Grade going to Wadsworth Atheneum
5th grade is participating with EastCONN in Faces of Culture
BOARD OF EDUCATION (BOE)
Teachers (Guilermo, Jara, Colin, & Jose) will bring students on Wednesday, January 24th to BOE meeting
Each school in the district will present highlights.
Meeting will take place at Windham High School but will be held virtually as well. Please attend if you can.
PARENT/ TEACHER OPEN CHAT
Parent inquired about after-school program and if it will continue to be funded by the state as it is a very helpful resource.
Ms. Goodwin will look into this and report back.
Parent suggested the PTO meet in person at least once per semester to build a feeling of togetherness.
FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS – February Meeting [date TBD]
Fill vacant PTO roles
Afterschool State Funding Update – K. Goodwin
Review Current PTO Budget
Brainstorm Session
Fundraising Ideas
Family Engagement Events
How can PTO support teachers/students this month?