PTG Notes
Meeting: November 16, 2006
Those Present:
Principal
Phil Callanan and Vice Principal Jody Coughlin
PTG
Board Members: President Marie Ricard,
Vice President Lisa Miller, Secretary Cheryl Wood, Treasurer Laura Benevides,
BoxTops/ Fund Raiser Coordinator Stephanie Berard, Donations Coordinator
Melinda Asprey, Volunteer Co-coordinators Jill Anagnos and Jen Valente, Past President and Sub-Committee
Coordinator Christine Sullivan.
Teachers:
Mary
Barry (K), Mary McGrath (1st gr), Maureen Madden (3rd
gr), Kelly Jobel (4th gr), Michael Beaulac (5th gr),
Heidi Rivard (Title I) and Sandra Wehrli (Guidance)
Parents: Tracey Chapdelaine,
Karen Munt, Carl Benevides, Paul Dwyer, Becky Dwyer, Shellie Ladd, Emily St.
Jean, and Stacey Lunderville.
Introductions:
Welcome to new parents in attendance
SecretaryÕs
Report:
Minutes for October 18th
meeting were available, reviewed and accepted.
Treasurers
Report:
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Financial
report was available, reviewed and accepted.
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Have
$13239.04 funds available.
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Monies
are available from the bakesale for the 4th and 5th
grades.
á Stage fund money
available
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Fundraiser
Update: All items are in and
passed out to students. As of the
meeting minimal returns.
Fundraiser collected $18313.00, paid out $10923.00, with a profit of
$7219.
Boxtops for
Education:
Submitted 2827 labels for a total of $291.70
which will be spent to the school in the spring.
December contest will be a counting contest of
what's in the jar (goldfish, marbles, etc). Stepahnie Berard will be making a flyer for this. Contact Stephanie at the PTG website
with ideas and or questions, (Parker_Varney_PTG@yahoo.com).
As of the meeting people were still calling for
booths. School will open at 7 am
for set up. Fair itself will run
from 9 am to 3 pm. As of now nine
vendors are confirmed w/ more possibles for a toal of fifteen vendors on site. Donations include donuts, muffins,
coffe and soda. Also available
that day will be Grandslam Pizza.
Lunch with
Santa set for December 2nd 11am - 2pm:
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4th
grade parent gift center will be open during event.
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Plenty
of crafts available from yearÕs past to do. Also Melinda Asprey will once again be making gingermen for
decorating. Also children are
encouraged to write their letters to Santa at he event.
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Careful
attention will be paid to providing a safe environment for all (latex and
peanut free sites will be available).
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2nd
and 3rd Grades will have their bake sales. All Bakesale items must be peanut free and individaully
wraped. Remember healthy
alternatives can be donated.
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fifteen
volunteers are scheduled for the event.
Still need a few more.
Looking for cooks to man the grills.
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Donations
for raffles are coming in; some of the larger items include a razor scooter,
small computer, computer accessories, and a weekend getaway to New York. If you have anything to donate, contact
Melinda Asprey at the PTG web address.
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Santa
and reindeer food are all set for the event.
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Entertainment
will be in the form of live Christmas music provide by the Jazz Combo form
Soughean High School.
Title I Heidi
Rivard:
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In
the process of completing end of trimester assessments with the students. New tests to match math curriclum have
been added. Also testing reading
components. Each student invloved
will get a progress report w/ expectations for what to do next.
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Grades
3 and 4 students and parents are invited to attend a talk on Success for
Reading and Writing. Information
will be available on this shortly.
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A
workshop for K-1st grade students is happening right now. In 2007 other grades will have
their. Teachers e welcome to
atend.
Sub-Committee
Chairperson / past PTG President- Christine Sullivan: Submissions
for the second student spotlight in the PV pulse
were passed around and voted on by those present. Also available was a preview of this month's PV
Pulse. In the process of
editing this month's issue at the time of the meeting.
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The
PV Pulse was created as another avenue to communicate w/all persons involved w/
Parker Varney. The PV Pulse is
tied in with Title I and the schools' ESL program to promote strong reading and
writing skills for all students.
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All
PTG board members will write a piece for the pulse at some point in the year.
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Would
like to encorporate a section for letters from parents. The Pulse would like to have
information on other cultures and such .
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Teachers
and Staff; deadlines must be met.
If your information is not present prior to deadline, it won't go into
the pluse. Kelly Jobel will backup
the grade level news.
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Fifth
graders will act as newsgetters.
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Want
to continue the PV Pulse for many years.
At end of ech school year, we will be looking for a fouth graders parent
to take over the editorship for the following year.
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Feedback
fro last months' PV Pulse issue was very postiive. Alicia Ladd, last month's student spotlight winner was very
proud. Phot is hanging near
office.
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Congratulations
to Mrs. Gay for this monthÕs Teacher Spotlight recipient and to Aaron Welch,
the 4th Grader chosen to be this month's student in the spotlight.
Vice
Principal Coughlin:
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The
Parker Varney community raised $1289.63 for the Officer Briggs memorial
fund. A big thank you to the
students, parents, teachers and staff of Parker Varney for all the donations.
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The
Parker Varney School is the recipient of a $500.00 grant from the Exxon Mobil
Educational Alliance Program. This
money will be used to enchance the writing program theme " Explore and
Discover".
Principal
Callanan:
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Parks
and Recreation Department will be at Parker Varney soon to look at the
playground equipment and give advice and cost assessment to fix the
playground. We have lots of photos
of the playground and equipment for them to look at.
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Daily
schedules throughout the school are back to normal after NECAP testing. This will change now that we are in the
Holiday season.
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You
may have noticed the picnic table in the front courtyard chained to the flag
pole. This table is a gift from
myself and Vice Principal Coughlin as a way of saying thank you to the teaching
staff for all their hard work and dedication thoughout the school year.
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Will
be having another wreath sale this year.
Open
Forum:
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Paul
Dwyer will contact Granite State Beverages and BJ's Wholesalers for donations.
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Melinda
Aspray has old (brand new) Red Sox Tee Shirts from the year they won the Worls
Series that she wants to donate.
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Barnes
and Nobel reading night on November 16th from 6 to 7 pm. Four readers form the Parker Vareny
Staff will read stories to the kids.
All kids are encourage to wear their pajamas. This years readers include Mr. Callanan, Miss Coughlin, Mrs
Rivard and a guest teacher from 5th grade. The scholl gets a percentage of money for all books
purchased from PV parents and students during the event.
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Verizon
Wireless may donate used cell phones to the school.
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For
the benefit of all students, please make that during all school events, there
is a peanut free and laytex free environment.
Happy Holidays!
**Special Thanks to Alan Miller for providing
childcare service during the meeting** Also special thanks to the parents and
faculty members who attended the meeting.
Next meeting December 13th
2006