Willow Road PTA Meeting Minutes
April 19, 2016
Welcome
Approval of Minutes: Liz Meaney & Jen
Treasurer’s Report:The opening balance on 3/1/16 was $17,712.73. The income for Marchwas $12,824.00. The expenses for that time were $10,395.10, leaving a balance of $20,141.63on March 31 which includes the $500 in savings.
Administrative Report: The Kindergarten classes have begun their plays. It is wonderful to see how much they have grown in the last year. So far we have 88 children registered for Kindergarten for next year, which is an increase from last year. We will make 2 sets of classes up, one for if we continue with 5 classes and one if we need to have 6 classes.
Ms. Evelyn is looking to see if we can add a summer program that will benefit incoming children who are having a little more difficulties, maybe about 30 or so, it will be in conjunction with summer rec.The 5th and 6thgrade classes will be having a Career Day on the April 20th. We have 6 presenters who will speak to the children for 15-20 minutes each about their career. Thursday 4/21 is Lights on for Education from 7:15-9:15 at Valley Stream Memorial JR High School. The Willow Road art work will be presented in the gym. We have just finished state testing for ELA and Math. We had a 66% of parents OPT out, which was the highest in the district. The next test will be the 4th grade science test. A letter went home if you OPTED out of the NWEA, just to inform parents of how this test is a tool to help drive instruction.
We are looking forward to field day; the 1st through 6th grade will be having their field day together on one day. Kindergarten will have a separate day. Lunch will be served by Applebee’s which they are donating and the PTA will be purchasing Rita’s ices for each child in grades K-6. The classes for next year will be made up in June, if your child has any issues with another child and you think it would be better if they be in separate classes, please send in a letter. The teachers make up the classes, and Ms. Capozzoli will speak with the teachers.
We now have a text option, if you no longer want it, you must text the word stop to the number that texted you.
Committee Reports:
Inter School:The Executive Board has been filled. This year, Willow will need to provide a representative who will serve se the secretary on the Board.
Children’s Fun Night: The Children had a great time at Bubblemania. This was a free assembly provided by the PTA
Arts in Education:Our final assembly wasDirtmeister. This fun assembly was about “Science around the House”. The kids loved it. The presenter is a Scientist and Author of children books. We need a co-chair for this committee next year.
Pre-School: We had 40 children at the last visit. The next and last visit will be the bus ride.
PARP: The next sale will be on 5/2. We have new merchandise.
Board of Ed:Our Special Education program is being vamped. They would like to main stream as many children as possible. They will look into every child’s needs to see what works best. There is one Board of Ed position open, and they only have one candidate at this time.
Nominating Committee:The Nominations for next year are:
Co-PresidentsAntoinette Russo Scirica
Vice PresidentJeannette Scaccio
Recording Secretary Stephanie Catanzaro
Corresponding Secretary Christine Balsan
TreasurerAngela Seegel
Interschool SecretaryJackie Baiardi
Council DelegateJeannette Pilato
Michelle Mastroserio
All candidates accepted their nominations, and there were no objections. Election concluded.
High School- Their meeting is tomorrow night; rep will bring info to next meeting.
Interschool:Upcoming at North High School: 4/20 Drug and alcohol awareness, 5/9 Dangers of Social Media and Cyber Bulling atMemorial. There is a teacher’s center in Memorial that is open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30-5:30. It is available free of charge for all school related things, like laminating signs/posters, making copies, etc. One of the schools is doing a fundraiser thru Ourharvest.com. You can order anything from meats, dairy, vegetables and pick up. The food comes from a farm and then directly sent to you - no middle man. He is willing to come in to speak to us.
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6th Grade:The 6th grade will be going on their field trip on Thursday 4/21. We had our final meeting last week to prepare for the year end festivities.
Field Day: Field day will be held on 5/18 for grades 1-6. The rain date will be 5/20; Kindergarten’s field day will take place on 5/19.
School Clothing: We will update revenue at next meeting, still waiting for the final figure to come in.
4th Grade Dancing Classrooms Cotillion: This was held on 3/31. 12 children were selected to compete at the Rainbow Match which will be held on 6/5. This year we will also have 2 adult teams competing.Letters will be sent home asking for pledges to both teams to raise money for our school as well as one in need. 75% of the proceeds will go towards Willow’s residency fee for next year and 25% will go towards an underprivileged school.
New Business:
We have received the committee volunteer forms back for next year, and have updated the “pink book”. Some of the committees still need volunteers please take a look. Two events that still need Chairs and Co-Chairs are the Fall Festival and the Harlem Wizards, both of which have been our biggest fundraisers in the past two years.Please let us know if you would be interested in helping with either one of these committees, or if you have other ideas for fundraisers. We will be bringing back the coupon books again this year, we need a Chair and Co-Chair.
Upcoming Events:
4/25-4/29 Spring Recess
5/3-5/4 Mother’s Day Sale
5/5-5/6 Plant Sale
5/10 6:30 PM Preschool Meet the Teachers
Please join us for refreshments and raffles at the next PTA meeting on Tuesday5/10/16 at 7PM
Meeting adjourned.