Our PTO is pretty amazing! They support us with a variety of things, from volunteers to food at conferences to pies at Thanksgiving. In the short span of two weeks, our PTO and our families raised an awful lot of money. Some of this money is used in the grant process. Please consider taking some time to apply for a grant. The information is below.
It is time to submit grant requests to the Merton PTO for consideration! If you have an idea for how you could use PTO funds to enhance our school community, please follow these instructions for submitting your grant request:
1) Go to www.mertonpto.org
2) Click on "Forms"
3) Click on "Staff Grants"
4) Click on blue "Staff Grants" button and complete and submit the form
A few guidelines:
1) No classroom furniture requests
2) No rug requests can be honored this year
3) No core curricular or necessary support materials to meet student needs
Requests need to be submitted no later than midnight on Friday, November 12th. Merton PTO representatives will then meet with the school Principals to review the grant requests and decisions will be communicated in late November/early December.
If you have any questions, please contact Jenny Shotola, Merton PTO Treasurer at shotolaj@gmail.com.
Schedule for obstacle course today
12:00-12:25 5th grade
12:25-12:50 6th grade
12:50-1:15 7th grade
1:15-1:40 8th grade
Calendar
Friday, October 22nd PTO Fall Fest
Monday, October 25th 8:20 meet up in the commons/ Merton Monday/ Board meeting
Tuesday, October 26th Conferences 4:30-8:15PM
Wednesday, October 27th Grade level meetings 7:45AM
Thursday, October 28th Professional Learning
Friday, October 29th No School
Tweets, quotes, and blogs
"You have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life?"
Louisa May Alcott, writer
(from George Couros' blog)
USNews and World Report
I received an email from USNews and World Report this week that ranks our school as the 49th best middle school in Wisconsin.
Here is the link to the article. It's nice to be ranked but it also shows us that we have work to do to move up. Together we can make progress to move up. I believe in you and have been so impressed as I listen to you discuss what you can do to help us be better overall. This isn't a you thing or a me thing, it's a we thing.
Hats...
I know that I've put this in the announcements and also communicated with you. We are not allowing hats in classrooms. Please remind our students to take off their hats when you see them. Hats are fine before school, after school, at lunch and recess, and on special occasions. I'll be mentioning this in the announcements this morning, too. Any concerns, just let me know.
I was surprised when I saw the shoutout from Tanya yesterday. The ones who deserve the shoutouts are each of you for what you do every day, and I don't tell you that enough. You are here for our kids, whether they are in person or virtual or neither. You support them in ways that some people don't notice, but I sure do. You have individual conferences with kids at all times of the day both in class and outside of class. You are connecting in the hallways and in your classrooms. You reflect on your lessons and look for ways that you can be a bit better the next time. I've had meetings with a number of you individually and in groups over the last week and each time I leave those meetings knowing that you are doing your best with what resources you have. We are working on getting better resources for you both in terms of people and in terms of materials. It's not going to happen over night. It's going to take time and it won't always be easy or pleasant. No change that makes a difference can be either of those things. We will continue to get better for our kids every day. Thanks for all that you do for our kids and each other. Now make sure that you carve out some time to be with family and friends and don't forget some time for yourself, too.
Jay
Take care of the kids. Take care of each other. Take care of yourself.- John Gunnell
No comments:
Post a Comment