Parent Teacher Organization 2019-2020

Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 @ 5:30 PM

The Preserve - WES

 

PTO Purpose: Support the education and enrichment of students at Wadsworth Elementary School by fostering relationships among the school, parents, teachers, and community at large through volunteer and financial support.

 

1.    Call to Order

●        Danelle Green 5:37PM

 

2.    President’s Comments – Danelle Green

●        Welcome

 

3.    Secretary’s Report – Sara Casale

●        Reading of Previous Meeting Minutes

●        Revised and mention that minutes are published on the PTO Website

 

4.    Treasurer’s Report – Bob Hamlin

●        Review Current Balance, Including Previous Month Income & Expenses

o Review of all expenses and accounts & February Fundraisers

o Golf Classic Profit - $4,257.67 which is up from $2,345.86 from 2019

o Dynamic Daughters Dance Funds will stay in the general funds account

o Still waiting on final bill from Conservatory but funds set aside in the amount of $3,618

o PTO Snack and 5k Sponsorship were withdraws for February

o As of today: $7,628.05 in general fund and $9,001.63 in outdoor classroom fund

                       

 

 

5. Vice President’s Comments - Grant Richter

●     Not able to attend the meeting

 

6. Principal’s Comments – Dr. Anna Crawford

●        Never been a better time to be a Panther. Academically, we reviewed our data with the superintendent last week, and we are very pleased with it at this point. Last week, we highlighted our Early Warning Systems processes and highlighted our data from last year at our board workshop, and I want to take a moment to really recognize our staff, students, and parents for the hard work that goes into our school. We have the most dedicated staff, and I am grateful for each one of them. 

●        We are in the second week of Conference Weeks and really appreciate our staff and our parents taking the time to talk about the success of our students. We held our school wide Math Madness competitions yesterday and Tropicana Speech contests today. Tomorrow, our kindergarten classes will be visiting the Alligator Farm in St. Augustine and on Thursday, 2nd and 5th grades will be visiting Sea World for educational field trips thanks to the generous support of our PTO. On Thursday, we are also revving up for grades and welcome anyone with a motorcycle to meet us at the GSB in Bunnell to parade in at 7:45. No school for students on Friday, and the week of March 16th is Spring Break.  We will have a Summer Camp Showcase here in our cafeteria on Thursday, March 26th, and Super Sons will be here on Friday, March 27th. On March 30th, we begin our Awards Week, will host Terrific Kids on Tuesday 3/31 and our Community Problem Solvers are scheduled to compete at the state level Mar. 29-April 1st. So March is shaping up to be quite busy!

●        The Corona Virus is something that we are continuously getting updates on and our dist. Is publishing the latest data as it comes out. They encourage parents to utilize the website: FloridaHealth.gov/COVID-19. Wash, wash, wash your hands!!!

●        BrainPOP recommended for students as education for Corona Virus. 

 

 

7. Old Business – Completed Events

●        WES PTO Golf Outing, February 9th, 2020

●        Dynamic Daughters Dance, February 7th, 2020

o Amazing job

o Jimmy John’s donated food for the dance and will get a banner from PTO

a.    $500 in food cost

●        Holiday Shop, December 9-13th

●        Pictures with Santa, December 3rd & 5th

●        Fall Festival, October 25th

●        Game Night September 12, 2019

●        School Spirit Shirts

●        Back to School Jam - August 3, 2019

●        Teacher Appreciation Breakfast - August 6, 2019

●        Meet the Teacher - August 9, 2019

●        Boohoo Breakfast - August 12 to 14, 2019

 

8. New Business - Discussion

●        Initiative for Teacher Involvement - Year end lunch for most involved grade level - tallies written down

●        The Panther Prowl date changed from 4/18 to 4/4 so we don’t have two back to back events.

o Okayed by group

o Jeep/ Classic Car Show idea

o 4wheel/ Lifted vehicles

●        Discuss ideas for teacher appreciation week - next meeting (Teacher Appreciation is

in May)

●     Mother/ Son Event - dinosaur theme. Meet with ideas over break or as soon as we are back.

 

9. Upcoming Events

●     March 27th - Super Son Event

●     April 4th - Panther Prowl

●     April 20-24th - National Volunteer Week

●     May 4-8 - Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week

 

10. Open Floor for Discussion or Ideas – Parents/Teachers/Faculty

●     None

 

11. Adjournment

●        Motion to Adjourn – D. Green

o   Second – B. Hamlin

o   Carried

o   Adjourned 6:04PM