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Wood PTA Resources
to Note and to Use
Wood PTA Web Site
Please visit today! Go to
http://www.WoodPTA.org/
Where you can get and stay engaged:
- Learn about upcoming events
- See the minutes from previous PTA meetings
- Subscribe to e-Wood, our up-to-the-minute List Serv
- Find County and other online resources for you and your child
- Keep in touch with the Wood community
E-Wood - Wood's e-mail group
Join E-Wood, the Wood PTA's email group/listserv on Yahoo! Groups. It facilitates communication between parents and the school and keeps you informed of upcoming school and PTA events. It is open to all parents, guardians, administrators and teachers of MS Wood. Once you have subscribed, you can choose to receive an email of every newly posted message, or a "Daily Digests" with all messages for the day in one email, or you can read the messages on the website at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ewood/ To subscribe, please email to ewood-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. To post, send an email to ewood@yahoogroups.com. When posting to E-Wood, please comply with our E-Wood Rules (there is no solicitation for business!) To unsubscribe, please email ewood-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com.
These resources are your resources. We welcome your input and participation! |
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Contribute... Easily
Box Tops
Clip box tops and earn cash for Wood Middle School!
It's easy to find Box Tops. In fact, you may have some in your home right now. Clip Box Tops from hundreds of your favorite products. Each Box Top coupon is worth 10¢ for Wood Middle School, and that adds up fast! They do expire so send them in to the front office at Wood today. (Visit the Web site http://www.btfe.com/productsfor a complete list of participating Box Tops products.)
Labels for Education
CLIP - Clip and save UPCs and beverage caps from participating Labels For Education® products.
GIVE - Give the UPCs and beverage caps to the coordinator - There is a box in the front office at Wood.
EARN - Your school can redeem points for FREE educational resources!
Safeway's eScrip
Renew or sign up with your Safeway Club Card today! Renew by November 1.
If you participated last year, please renew so that Wood can continue to earn contributions.
· Go to http://www.eScrip.com/
· Click on "YES RENEW!"
· Enter either your phone number, email or Club Card number
Not signed up?
· Go to http://www.eScrip.com/
· Click on "1-Sign Up"
· Enter your Club Card number
Giant's A+ School Rewards
Starting October 7, 2011 through March 29, 2012 E.B. Wood Middle School will have the opportunity to earn cash through Giant A+ School Rewards Program.
All you have to do is:
Log on to http://www.giantfood.com/aplusto register online
OR
Dial 1-877-275-2758 to register your club savings card over the phone. After you register your card, each shopping trip at Giant using your Giant card earns CASH for our school! Each month, the amount of cash awarded will be updated on the Giant website. You can track the amount of points you earn for our school by checking your grocery receipt and online when you create an account. Our school will receive a check at the end of the program. The money can be used for any of our school's educational needs.
Remember, even if you registered your card last year, you must re-register this year for our school to receive credit. Attending to this simple process makes a HUGE difference to our school. We need your support. Please be sure to register your card to benefit Wood Middle School using ID #00736. |
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Housekeeping Notes
We appreciate all the suggestions and input for this newsletter. Some of these are not within the mission of the PTA, some of them are great ideas, and some of them require more time and effort than our editor can devote. In order to contribute most successfully, please send ready-to-publish or nearly-ready-to-publish text and/or pictures. A brief article or "blurb" is much more likely to make it into the newsletter than a suggestion for a brief article or "blurb". Alternatively, if you are looking for a writing assignment, please contact our editor - he has received some good ideas for articles he has not had time to research.
Thank you to those who have contacted Mr. Ward already, and thanks, in advance, for any future help offered. |
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Please enjoy this, our second newsletter of the 2011-2012 school year. Please also continue to share your ideas and input for future newsletters. We look forward to hearing from you. Questions, comments, and suggestions should go to Jack Ward, our newsletter editor.
Come out, come out, wherever you are...
Please be sure to attend the next PTA meeting, one week from today - on Tuesday, 08 November, at 7:00 PM. Child care and pizza for the children are provided. Please contact Amy Kines, PTA President, to let her know if you plan to bring any children - so we can be sure to have enough pizza! The schedule is as follows-
6:30-7:00 - Potluck snacks - bring something to share, and enjoy meeting fellow parents.
7:00-7:45 - Meeting.
7:45-8:30 - Mr. Eric Davis, Director of Family and Community Involvement will be our guest speaker, presenting, "Staying on Top of Things without Smothering My Child."
We hope to see you there!
You're It!
We have included in this issue of the newsletter more information on where your PTA funds go to - the programs they support and the difference they make in our community. We have also highlighted where you can make a difference. Whether you have a few hours or just a few minutes each month, there is sure to be something you can do to improve your chiild's experience at Wood and to improve the community at large. Thank you for your support, your energy, and your involvement. |
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The Line Item
If you attended a PTA meeting recently and took part in discussions about the budget, you probably remember a line item therein called "Miscellaneous School Support." This covers any number of expenses - usually authorized and at the discretion of our Principal, Ms. Dawson. Funds in this category can be spent on after school activity buses, school supplies, student organization support, or many other things.
The reason for channeling these funds through the Principal (and the school system) have to do with the limits of the PTA authority and legality. Ms. Dawson can contract for services and accept liabilities that the PTA is not equipped to handle. That being said, these funds are not thrown at Ms. Dawson without any guidance. In fact, they're not thrown at her at all.
The specific use of these PTA funds is agreed upon between Ms. Dawson and the PTA prior to the release of funds. (The amount of funds, in fact, is guided by the needs identified and targeted.) Ms. Dawson and the PTA hold regular discussions - most often at the PTA meetings - regarding the needs of Wood students, ideas for new activities and support, and ways to provide for these with PTA funds.
If you want to be a part of the discussion and direction, come on out to the PTA meetings! (More on that in the article immediately below...) |
Parent Power
PTA members generate and bring in ideas for student groups, clubs, and activities. Frequently, these ideas are more fully developed and supported through PTA members and functions.
In some cases, this means receiving funding. As highlighted above, there are creative and effective ways to channel community and PTA funds through the PTA and/or the school system to directly benefit students. Please remember, these decisions are made publicly, including as many people as we can -- And the PTA meeting is the mechanism for assuring this inclusion. But if you don't come out, and don't speak out, your ideas and your input can't be felt. Please come out to the meetings, and please bring your ideas for new activities, improvements, and efforts. And if you absolutely can't make it, feel free to contact any board member to carry your ideas forward on your behalf.
In some cases, supporting an idea or initiative is accomplished through the PTA - without spending a dime... And sometimes even when you can't spare an evening for a PTA meeting, your PTA can help you find a way to contribute. Here comes an opportunity now:
Book Fair Volunteer Staffing Needed
The book fair runs from November 28th through December 3rd, every weekday 7:30 AM to 3:00 PM. Friday night from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM, and Saturday we are open to run at the same time as the play.
We've started to schedule volunteers to staff the book fair - but we still need more help! To volunteer, please contact Laura Barnes at Laurachik33@aol.com or 240-669-6487. |
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Music and Cultural Arts News
Wood's Fall play, 'Harvey' opens on December 1st at 6pm, and continues with shows on Dec. 2nd at 7pm, and December 3rd at 2pm and 7pm.
Don't miss this fabulous production!
Winter Concert for everyone starts Wednesday, December 14th at 7pm. Students will see a Winter Concert "teaser" druing thier first period. |
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Student Directories Coming Home Soon
The long awaited Wood Student Directory will arrive during the first week in November. Copies will be sent home to all PTA member families via their child's backpack. Additional copies will be available for families who sign up for PTA membership after the initial distribution. Directory comments/questions should be directed to JoAnn Barney at joannibarney@aol.com |
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