Hyman Fine PTO Meeting Notes – Thursday, November 10, 2016

Holiday Shop – Lynn Porto

  • Friday 12/9, 5:30 – 8:00pm
  • Chair – Donna Lewis
  • Volunteers needed for the following prior to the event:
  • Shopping for the gifts
  • Organizing purchases
  • Set up
  • There will be the Mrs. Claus cookie sale table – Bakers & volunteers will be needed
  • Requested high school Leo club students to help children with shopping and to do the gift wrapping
  • Volunteers will be needed the night of the event
  • Cash register check out
  • Set up / Clean up
  • Pam Schwieger will be setting up the Sign Up Genius Event for volunteer needs & sign ups

Principal’s Report– Mrs. Martin

  • 33 additional Chromebooks are on order. 3 to each 1st grade classroom and the remainder to grades 2 & 3
  • This year’s technology fundraising target is a new overhead projector for the auditorium
  • Half Day Hat Day and the Estimation Station guessing game will continue to support the technology fund
  • MCAS dates will be announced soon
  • Our last After School Enrichment event, Dance Party, was a big success with 90 students in attendance. The next event is scheduled for November 30th and will be Legos.
  • The Hawk Hero topic for November is “Responsibility”. Voice volumes also continue to be reinforced.

Spirit Items Update - Nicole Vassar

  • Spirit Wear items will be for sale
  • There is about a 2 week turnaround time from order placement to delivery
  • Some products offered will be the following (subject to change):
  • Clothing: T-shirts (short & long sleeve, kids sizes w/ large logo, adult sizes with smaller logo), sweatshirts, sweatpants
  • Non-Clothing Items: water bottles, bumper stickers and/or car magnets, pens/pencils, travel coffee cups
  • T-shirts to have the blue or orange color options
  • Looking at the possibility of tying in the “Hawk Hero” theme to some items

Fundraising Update – Seri Batkin

  • Scripps Gift Cards
  • Initial order forms will be going home
  • An enhancement this year is that you can order on-line. Additionally, cards can be re-loaded at any time and the $ still come back to the school
  • Reminder that our school is available on Amazon Smile, just search for Hyman Fine.
  • Additional options for Dine-In nights are being looked into
  • Starting a monthly newsletter to keep families information of key information and upcoming events

Caring for a Cure – Jacki Emond & Shelley Fisher

  • This charity was started by the nurses (which includes Jacki) at the MGH Cancer Center and has been brought to the PTO as a philanthropy project for the school
  • Patients are often in the cancer center for prolonged periods of time for treatment and with patients having reduced immune systems, children are restricted to a waiting room area
  • Caring for a Cure looks to find ways to improve the environment for both the children, visitors and patients
  • Some suggested items for donation are as follows:
  • $ to add kid-friendly items to the waiting room
  • Kids magazines
  • Activity packets
  • Donate the original Square One Art designs completed by the students to decorate patient rooms

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