PTO Newsletter 1/3/25
We hope everyone had a wonderful Winter Break and is ready for a great Q3! There are so many exciting ways to get involved in January and February and we can’t wait to see everyone back in school. See below for great fundraisers, community events, school programs, and more. Happy New Year!
Important Dates
Note: Dates are subject to change. The BEST way to stay updated is with our PTO Google Calendar – view and subscribe here!
- January 8: School Resumes (Wednesday)
- January 17: Coffee & Learn (about PTO Leadership opportunities)
- January 20: No School (Martin Luther King Jr Holiday)
- January 21: General PTO Meeting (all welcome!)
- January 30: Talent Show Part I
- January 31: Navigator Day
- January 31: Talent Show Part II
- February 3-7: Teacher Appreciation Week
- February 10-14: Used Book Sale
- February 14: Valentine’s Day Class Parties
- February 17: No School (Professional Development Day)
- February 18: Read-A-Thon Begins!
- February 25: Family Skate Night
- February 27: Percy’s Reading Party
- February 28: Navigator Day
Upcoming Community and Fundraiser Events
For those who signed up – start practicing! More info on rehearsals coming soon.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Sign up HERE (and YES you will be able to watch your kiddo perform!)
Questions? Email AKPONS@gmail.com
We are still accepting book donations! We welcome books that are appropriate for Kindergarteners through 5th graders, and we especially need chapter books.
This event will happen about a week ahead of the Read-A-Thon so the kids will get excited and have “new” books to read. Donation bins will be on the PPE front steps.
We will need volunteers to help during the sale in February, so be on the look-out to sign up for that in the future. Feel free to reach out to Gillian Stewart, gstewart0707@gmail.com, or Avery Van Pelt, avery.t.vanpelt@gmail.com, with any questions!
Save the date for Percy’s Reading Party, February 27, from 5:30-7:30 in the school library. This is such a fun community event that helps keep Read-A-Thon momentum going strong.
We need a volunteer or two to plan and lead this amazing event. You will have plenty of help and it is such a fulfilling way to get involved. If you have interest please reach out ASAP to PresidentsPPE@gmail.com!
Spring Auction: March 29th at Richland Country Club
Save the date for the best night in the Spring to have a ball. There will be music, food, dancing and fun items to bid on to help support our school.
Auction Volunteers Needed!
It’s time to get working on the biggest party of the year – the Percy Priest Spring Auction – and we need your help NOW! Join the Auction Committee to get our incredible catalog of silent auction items secured. It’s an easy job you can do from home, and we’ll provide you with contact information plus scripts for calling/emailing potential and repeat donors. The more people we have contributing their time to this important PTO fundraiser, the easier the task! Please email percypriestauction@gmail.com.
General Announcements
Are you a PPE alum? Know some friends and family who are? We are planning some alumni activities around saying goodbye to our current building and are looking for volunteers to help plan. Want to get involved? Email Melissa Hood (moepoehood@gmail.com) to see how you can help.
Community Talents, Skills, and Businesses
We love our PPE community and know that supporting each other is what makes our school incredible. Our parents, alumni, caregivers, and special friends have such amazing skills and talents, and even dedicate their time to nurturing and growing their own businesses. If you are interested in sharing your skills, talents, or business information, so that the greater PPE community may support you or use those skills, let us know! After you fill out this simple form, stay tuned – we will help spread the word or contact you with opportunities to use your skills or talents in a meaningful way that benefits the PPE community.
Watch this space for updates, FAQs, important information and more.
For now – we need your stories! Parents and students, send us either your FAVORITE MEMORY of PPE so far or WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE MOST with the new building. Email these to PresidentsPPE@gmail.com and we will start featuring a “GOODBYE” (fave memory) + “HELLO” (future memory) every week in the newsletter!
Get Involved!
Next year will be a big year in a new building so we are starting to look for interested leaders early. Terms start in July and there are great ways to get involved! Email us anytime (PresidentsPPE@gmail.com) with questions or interest, or join us for coffee to learn more: January 17, 10am, Hill Center Starbucks.
- Vice President
- Asst. Treasurer
- Secretary
- Fundraising Chair
- Community Events Chair
- Back to School Committee Chair
- Songwriter’s Night Chair
- Roar Store support
- and more!
Come Have Lunch!
Parents, grandparents and special friends are welcome to eat lunch with students! To help us with space and accommodating guests, we ask that visitors sign-up to come eat lunch using the bookings link below. Please be sure to select the correct grade level and teacher. When signing-up, we also ask that you only sign-up for one day at this time. Thank you for your help and we hope to see you for lunch soon. Sign up to come eat lunch with your student!
Grandparents and Special Friends Email List
We know there are many grandparents, family and special friends of PPE students who would like to be involved. You can keep up with the latest news by signing up for the PPE Grandparents, Family & Friends List here.
Small Fundraisers Spotlight
For a list of all of our ongoing small fundraisers, please visit our Small Fundraisers webpage.
Minted
Help us raise money by shopping Minted all year long! You’ll get 20% off beautiful Minted products (excluding fine art prints) and Minted will donate 15% of the proceeds from every order back to us. Use our code FUNDRAISEPERCYPRIEST at checkout. Thank you so much for your support!
How to Stay Connected
Email Lists
New families – Be sure to sign up for our school newsletter, which includes grade-level information each week. Register today.
Add PPE happenings to your calendar automatically!
You can subscribe to our PTO calendar and have all of our events show up on your calendar, so you never lose track of important dates! Following the links below will prompt you to subscribe to the calendar via your preferred calendar app. Any time the PTO updates an event through the website, it will update on the calendar of all subscribers (how often your calendar pulls updated info will be based on your individual personal settings – every 5 minutes, 1 hour, 1 week, etc).
For Calendar Apps (apple calendar etc), click here.
For Google Calendar, click here.