Union Valley Elementary PTO Meeting Minutes Date: November 6, 2018 President Janine DeLong called meeting to order at: 7:05pm Principals Report (Mrs. Elwell): Welcome! Thank you for coming out. We are off the next three days (kids only). Everyone should have gotten their conference date and time on Monday. CHAMPS ended today. The 5 th graders loved it. National Education Week visitations will be held on 11/12 11/13. No pictures/photos are permitted and no siblings can attend. Stronger than Bully assembly will be held 11/14. End of first marking period is on 11/14. November 27 th report cards will come home. Next BOE meeting UV will be recognizing two shining stars both 5 th graders. Nov 21 st early dismissal that day. This is the first time usually this is a full day. We get out at 12:55 and latch key ends at 4pm. November 14 th 1 st marking period ends November 27 th - report card will be coming home November 28 30 Parent Teacher conferences. Please send back the conference time sheets so we can get these scheduled. December 11 th 4 th grade holiday show President s Report: Thank you so much to everyone for all the hard work. The fundraisers have really helped. We are doing much better thank you so much! Treasurer Report: We had a fantastic October! We are starting to see all the fundraising efforts pay off. Email Barb Kinsella if you have any questions about the treasury. Movie Night: Movie night was so much fun. We only had 2 volunteers plus 5 th grade committee. It was tough because of no volunteers. We did an intermission for the lunch with Mr. Bellows contest and then we never got the kids back into the movie. A shorter movie is recommended. We had at least 140 people. We earned $135 in sales - $66 for 50/50 - $207.50 snacks. We need to find out how the cheesecakes did. I think we should charge $2 admission next time. We think we could have one in the Spring.
5th Grade Committee: Halloween Party was a huge hit thank you, Danielle for chairing the event. Thanks to the parents for all the help. Total expenses only $76. This was due to the generosity of our 5 th grade parents thank you! Halloween Candy Gram fundraiser - $755 profit! Woot! Clothing Drive - $519.30 was earned. Upcoming Events: Valentine s Day Ice Cream Social 5 th Grade T-shirts 5 th Grade BBQ/Award Ceremony Lead Graduation Skate Night Social 5 th grade fundraisers lined up: Tropical Smoothie Every Friday all day Teachers can order lunch and it can be delivered to UV. 20% goes to Union Valley. November 1-Dec 31 There will be a Boonsupply.com fundraiser. We earn 50% of sales. 5 Below Fundraiser Shop at 5 Below and we get 15% - week after holiday shop. 3 Chick-fil-A nights Dates to come November 29 th first date. Bonefish Grill Date to come Bertucci s Night January Papa Johns pizza card fundraiser. The card is good until June 2019 and is a buy one, get one free pizza deal. The cards will cost $10 but the PTO receives $7 for each card. Use it once and it pays for itself! Holiday Candy Cane Sale Staff Appreciation: November 16 th next Friday - the Support Staff breakfast will be held. There are 50 support staff members at UV. Thank you so much for all that you do for our school and our children. We normally do a $5 gift card for each. Can we do a sign-up genius? Thank you to everyone that supported the book donation for Ronald McDonald House we received almost 3,000 books. So wonderful!
Helping Hands: We are waiting for the updated list of students participating in Helping Hands. We wanted to give out some Spirt wear t-shirts to them. We have a lot of youth XL sizes of the older inventory and we have some shorts. We are placing an order for restock soon, as well. We want to send out a letter to parents explaining what the Helping Hands Committee is about and ask for a donation for the committee specifically. The letter was reviewed and approved. Giving Tree is November 20 th. The items will be supporting the township. Daytime Secretary: If anyone needs anything printed and put into mailboxes, can you give Julie Appalucci a couple of days of notice and Julie can help you? Spotlight Lunch: Spotlight lunches went well. We need to look at 3 days she needs help covering: 11/26, 1/28, and 2/25 all Mondays but needed for all the different lunch times. Membership: You can always sign up for the PTO. Please see Gina Anguilla for any questions! Communications: Email Jen Green to send out any reminders. Facebook/Web Updates: Please email Janelle Gillis if you would like anything put on the UV PTO website or Facebook page. Please allow some time to put these together if possible. Janelle is working on building out the calendar and updating everything for this year. Spirt Wear: We are putting in an order for some more winter inventory. Yearbook: Flyer will be coming home soon. Pictures Pictures Pictures! Please send them in! Pictavo software instructions went home so you can upload images in. There are folders by teacher to make it simpler. 5 th Grade Parents we need baby photos. Please send them in now. 5 th grade art cover contest is underway. The theme is pretty open. Imagination is the key. Winner will be picked on December 17 th. 8.5X11 and need name and teacher on back. We need to start researching yearbooks for next year. We should raise the price to $17 by January 31 st and $20 after. There will be a family discount after the January 31 st.
Science Fair The science fair is for 4 th and the 5 th graders. Science Fair forms will be going out in December. More to come. Holiday Shoppe: We did great last year we have very little inventory left, however. Gina met a wholesaler that can help us to add great inventory for this year. The event is held the first week of December we need a lot of help for that night. Thank you to the Sweet Family for dry cleaning the Santa and Bulldog suit for us!!! December 4 th Holiday Shop Can we take orders at Holiday Shop for cheesecakes? Discussed adding some additional fundraising options during the Shoppe, such as a 50/50 and guess the number of candy canes. Box Tops: We just concluded our Box Top Fall Rush thank you everyone for sending them in! Stay tuned for our Spring contest. Fundraising/Activity Night: We are brainstorming a lot of different ways to fundraise this year. We have 452 children at UV. Color Run Gloucester Township: Krista Mitchell volunteered to be our chair for this event. Basket Raffle will be tentatively held on April 12. Perhaps, we can ask each class to put together a basket. In the spring, can we do a craft outdoor fair. Flower sales Easter or Mother s day Wholesale prices or you can ask a seller to supply as a fundraiser. Pie sale 2 types of pies. Find a vendor that will help with this fundraiser.
Trunk or Treat in the parking lot this can be tough because of competition but something to consider for next year. We will be adding a restaurant fundraiser for each month: Panera, Rita s, Chick-Fil-A, etc. More to come! Idea for Spring Car show Cheesecake cards may be a future fundraiser, as well. They can be redeemed anytime. Candy Bar Bingo will be on January 25 th. We are brainstorming now for the rest of the year. Teacher that can dress up as an Elf fundraiser? December 21 st will be the Teacher Elf contest. Santa will be visiting on December 20 th. It is also Pajama Day. Upcoming Fundraising Dates: November 15 th - Wendy s Fundraiser November 29 th Chick Fil-a December 18 th Chipotle January 16th Bertucci s Council of School updates: Vicki thought it was good. They were reviewing all the fundraisers that each school does. Otis Spunkmeyer did really well. Lilley made over $3,000. Every school did clothing drives this year and everyone does Cherrydale. All of the high schools got their security vestibules. Drawer is available, so parents can drop items off without entering the schools. Security is a top priority. All high schools have paid retired security guards in the schools. They are implementing meditating and stress relief. Highland is having issues with vaping. The bathrooms are monitored. Phones are being updated so teachers can call in lockdowns. We will lose the Tuesday after Easter if we hit 4 snow days. Homecoming was happening.
No cell phones are permitted in school. Also, no more water bottles in middle schools unless they have a doctor note. 6 schools in the district are getting new boiling systems. Next UV PTO meeting is Tuesday, January 8 please come back. We would love to see you then! Have a Happy New Year! President, Janine DeLong, calls the meeting closed at 8:20 pm