Running Fox PTO August Meeting
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School is back in session and the Running Fox PTO is already off to a busy start!
At the August meeting, the PTO voted to give each teacher $100 and each specials teacher $50, to purchase items and supplies for their classrooms. There’s an additional $100 and $50 for those teachers that provide receipts for anything above what they are given, for items purchased for their classrooms. This helps with school supplies, curriculum materials, and decorative items that help add to instruction time.
Each month, PTO hosts “Special Persons Breakfast.” The August and September dates were set, and invitations sent to students that celebrate birthdays in those months. On Special Persons Breakfast day, August birthdays will get to invite a “special person” to come eat breakfast with them, provided by the PTO. This gives students the opportunity to have a “special day” celebrating them, and allows them to invite someone to the school to see their classroom, meet their friends, see some of their projects, etc. Kids can invite anyone – parent, grandparent, coach, bus driver, friend, etc.
To complete the walking path, this summer, maintenance installed reading signs along the walking path. The PTO then had book pages (currently “We’re Going On A Bear Hunt) printed and installed them in the stands. Now, while kids walk, they can read. Teachers will be able to swap these pages out for activities, scavenger hunts or other learning opportunities.
The Sunday before the start of school, the PTO hosted “Chalk the Walk.” Faculty, staff, parents, grandparents and students showed up and wrote inspiring quotes and drew fun pictures, to welcome the students back to school. The PTO also served drinks and cookies.
In support of the faculty and staff, Running Fox Students – both past and present, parents and grandparents and PTO worked with Flowers for Haiti to make flower bouquets to deliver to the staff – as a surprise – on Friday.
The Running Fox PTO is currently planning the Harlem Wizards game as a fundraiser on Sunday October 19th. Sponsorship requests will be going out soon! Funds raised from this event, will help support the 100 students at Running Fox.
The next Running Fox PTO meeting is Monday September 8th at 5:30pm in the school library. Anyone interested is welcome to attend.
– Teri Hooper, PTO Chair
