It was an epic week at Percy Priest, with hundreds of visitors for our fabulous GrandFriends Days, incredible attendance at our inaugural Percy’s Reading Party (a smashing success!), lots of happy campers at our Scholastic Book Fair, and so many interested and excited visitors at our Prospective Families Open House. It took an army of volunteers to make the world go round this week, and we are so grateful for everyone who came and supported the school in one way or another.

Be sure to mark your calendars for Family Night at Brentwood Skate on November 15 and the Art Show on December 1!

Big Birthday Shout-out this month to these fabulous PPE teachers and staff members!

Upcoming School Events

• November 8-No School-In Service
• November 11-Veterans Day: No School
• November 15-Family Skate Night at Brentwood Skate Center
• November 23-25: Thanksgiving Break
• December 1-Art Show

Upcoming Field Trips

• November 16 – 1st Grade trip to Glen Leven Farms
• December 8 – 3rd Grade trip to the Tennessee State Museum
• December 8 – 4th Grade trip to the Clay Lady

Community Events Sponsorships:

Be a Friend of the Event for $150 and help make our Community Events this fall better than ever! Visit www.percypriest.org/get-involved/sponsorship/ and select your desired level of participation for the events listed below.  We really couldn’t do it without the generous contributions and in-kind donations of our sponsors. Thank you to all our sponsors!

• Art Show (Dec 1)

Save the Date for the Percy Priest Annual Art Show – December 1st, 5-7pm

Mark your calendars and clear your schedule for our annual art show! Details to come!

Fundraisers

Jenni’s Ice Cream- November 4 

Family Skate Night – November 15th

Help us raise money for Percy Priest Elementary PTO and enjoy a night of fun with our wonderful community. Brentwood Skate Center will give 50% of all admission fees on 11/15/22 from 4:30-7:00 PM back to the PTO. These funds will be used to support the PTO budget which provides the school with additional supplies and staff. Thank you so much for your support, we can’t wait to see you there!

Holiday Greenery Sale – Nov. 15 deadline to order

Friends and family, let PPE help you prepare for the holidays all while supporting our school! 24” Fraser Fir Wreaths are priced at $27 and Premium 24” Fraser Fir for $60. Wreaths will be available November 22nd at Percy Priest Elementary after school until 4:00. If you are unable to pick up at this time please email MeganLCallender@gmail.com to make other arrangements. Anything not retrieved by 11/23 at 5PM will be donated.

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Pop Up Used Book Sale-November 16 & 17

We have recently acquired a number of gently used books.  We will be holding a pop up used book sale November 16 & 17 during lunch. Every book costs $1. Please send cash with your child to school on these days if you would like for them to purchase a book (or two). This is a separate sale from the big used book sale we will do in February.  Please DO NOT send in any book donations yet.  We will ask for those after winter break.  Reach out to Tabitha Witherow tabiguy@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Holiday Flower Bulb Sale

Purchase beautiful Amaryllis and PaperWhites as holiday gifts or for yourself! These flower bulbs are all top quality, an excellent value, and are guaranteed to grow. 50% of all orders placed using our website will go back to the school. Visit our Personalized Website by December 15, 2022: http://PercyPriestElementary.fpfundraising.com

Minted – through May 23

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!

Roar Store – New Merchandise

The Roar Store is restocked with new merchandise! Please visit the Roar Store to check out all the new items.  Order online now at the Roar Store

General Announcements & Community Events

Join the PPE Green Team

Do you have a passion for environmental stewardship? Join PPE teacher, Mrs. Hartsock, and PPE parent, Denise Bahil, on the green team. No experience or expertise necessary. Please contact Denise at denise.bahil@gmail.com for more information or to sign up.

Become a Friend of the Stage!

Attend the “Getting to Know The Little Prince” Workshop

Saturday, November 5th from 9am-12pm at J.T. Moore Middle School (4425 Granny White Pike)

Ahead of the upcoming performances, Moore Theatrics is inviting students in grades 2nd-4th to participate in a workshop inspired by the story, dance, and movement of The Little Prince. This workshop is a great introduction to the famous book written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a tale of love and friendship for children and grown-ups alike. Kids will explore characters and their relationships through kinesthetic learning, music, and creative prop design.  Additionally, participants will receive one ticket to attend the performance time of their choice of Moore Theatrics’ production of The Little Prince (running Nov. 17th-Nov. 19th) and a promotional production poster.

The cost to attend this workshop is $50. Space is limited so if you have a student wishing to participate, please reserve their spot today! You can register at www.mooretheatrics.com on the homepage.

For any questions, please reach out to Molly Seale, PPE and JT Moore parent, (615-806-4440)  or Heather Donegan, (615-260-9510) or mooretheatrics@gmail.com

Green tip of the week

Halloween brings lots of fun memories, candy, spookiness, and…waste. Here are some ideas for all of those Halloween remnants.

Costumes: Sell or share used costumes on your neighborhood site. If you can, save and list them just before Halloween next year. Otherwise, go ahead and list them now.

Candy: Start saving those candy wrappers! We’ll be setting up a collection site for recycling. More details to come. As for extra candy, take it into the office or share with neighbors and friends who don’t have children.

Pumpkins: Compost your pumpkins in your backyard compost or drop off at one of Metro’s drop-off convenience center. Check here for locations and hours. https://www.nashville.gov/departments/water/waste-and-recycling/recycling/convenience-centers

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! Menus can be viewed on the Meal View App or at https://schools.mealviewer.com/school/PercyPriestES

Parent Talents & Resources

We know our Percy Priest family has a wide range of talent and expertise, and we would love to know about you and if you are willing and able to contribute in a unique way to our school. Please share with us so we can get a better understanding of these different talents and resources in our community. Our online form is available here.

How to Volunteer

We need your help to make next year the best year yet at Percy Priest! Dedicated and engaged parents are a key ingredient to making our school the great school that it is. There are big and small volunteer opportunities throughout the year. Please check out our volunteer form and let us know what things interest you. We’ll be in touch with more information.

If you have questions of any kind, please contact us at presidentsppe@gmail.com. Thank you!

Small Fundraisers Spotlight

For a list of all of our ongoing small fundraisers, please visit our Small Fundraisers webpage.

Mabel’s Labels will donate 20% of all proceeds generated by label orders for your child’s clothing, accessories and bags, so anything they lose is easily returned to them. Simply go to www.campaigns.mabelslabels.com and search for Percy Priest Elementary PTO. Purchase your labels and they will ship direct to your door. This is a perfect way to keep your child’s outwear out of the PPE Lost and Found this winter!

How to Stay Connected

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), go to: webcal://www.percypriest.org/?post_type=tribe_events&ical=1&eventDisplay=list

For Google Calendar, go to: https://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=webcal%3A%2F%2Fwww.percypriest.org%2F%3Fpost_type%3Dtribe_events%26tribe-bar-date%3D2022-08-31%26ical%3D1%26eventDisplay%3Dlist