100th Day of School and Lots and Lots of Books!

February is FULL of Tiger FUN! From our Used Book Sale (Feb 22-24), to our Magical Read-A-Thon (February 25-March 9), and, one of our favorite Percy Priest traditions, the kindergarten celebration of the 100th day of school. Scroll down for information about how to support all these efforts and stay tuned for more details about the events in Friday folders in the next couple of weeks! We’ve also added an easy way to add PPE events to your digital calendar – see our note at the end of this email.

Kindergarten Celebration of the 100th Day of School

This Tuesday, February 8th, our kindergarteners are invited to come dressed up as their 100 year-old selves – It’s adorable! We can’t wait to see what they dream up! Follow our page on Instagram for pictures from their classrooms and, if you have a kindergartner, we’d love for you to post their picture in your STORIES and tag @ppetigers on Instagram.

Help bring the MAGIC to the 2022 PPE Read-A-Thon!

The PPE Library is transformed during the two weeks of Read-A-Thon. This year we’ll need some help making the magic happen.  We’re looking to borrow about 8-10 fur coats, 10-15 artificial Christmas trees, and refrigerator sized cardboard boxes.  And our wild card/dream prop: A wooden wardrobe or large armoire.  We hope to have these collected by February 23rd and will return them on the Friday before Spring Break, March 11th.    If you can temporarily lend any of these items to the library, please contact  Tabitha Witherow (tabiguy@gmail.com) or Emmie Stuart (emily.stuart@mnps.org).

Used Book Sale – February 22–24 – Donations Needed!

It’s time to start gathering your used books for the annual used book sale, happening early next semester! We welcome books, games and even unused art and craft sets that are appropriate for Kindergarteners through 4th graders.  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 are on the PPE front porch!

How do you use technology?

Mrs. Ramsey is looking for PPE Families who would like to tell and show our students how they use technology in their everyday lives. If you would like to share a very short video with us of how you use technology at home or at work, please complete this form and attach a 5-10 second video (cell phones are fine) of how you use technology. The videos will be made into a larger video and will be posted on the PPELearn.com website once it is completed. Please submit your videos by February 25th. Thank you!

Parent Volunteer Coordinators for Navigator Days

We need your help to make Navigator Days happen! PPE is looking for one parent volunteer per month for the rest of the school year to help identify a partner organization and their needs that we can help fill, to coordinate communication of the event to the school and through the PTO, and to coordinate delivery of any collected items. PPE will organize the actual collection / project at the school. Email Katie Agnew at katie.r.agnew@gmail.com if you are interested in helping!

MNPS Minecraft Challenge

MNPS is holding a district-wide Minecraft challenge for all students. Students must create a historical landmark and record a tour. In February, Mrs. Ramsey will host a work sessions for 3rd  graders and  4th graders who are interested in completing the project. Sign up here.

Any student is can create a submission. If you student is interested in entering, please contact Lisa Ramsey at  lisa.ramsey@mnps.org.

Help bring the MAGIC to the 2022 PPE Read-A-Thon!

The PPE Library is transformed during the two weeks of Read-A-Thon. This year we’ll need some help making the magic happen.  We’re looking to borrow about 8-10 fur coats, 10-15 artificial Christmas trees, and refrigerator sized cardboard boxes.  And our wild card/dream prop: A wooden wardrobe or large armoire.  We hope to have these collected by February 23rd and will return them on the Friday before Spring Break, March 11th. If you can temporarily lend any of these items to the library, please contact  Tabitha Witherow (tabiguy@gmail.com) or Emmie Stuart (emily.stuart@mnps.org).

Used Book Sale – February 22–24 – Donations Needed!

It’s time to start gathering your used books for the annual used book sale, happening early next semester! We welcome books, games and even unused art and craft sets that are appropriate for Kindergarteners through 4th graders.  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 are on the PPE front porch!

The time has come to buy your tickets to highly anticipated  Glitter Ball!!

Join us for a dazzling evening of dinner and dancing at the Percy Priest Elementary Glitter Ball,  March 5, 6-10 pm  at Richland Country Club! Dress in your chicest black and white attire and prepare to party like the glitterati! Guest DJ/resident star Mr. Mott will set the mood, and a  silent auction will support PPE’s bright future.

Tickets are $100 and include dinner and two drink tickets for the CASH ONLY bar. Buy your tickets here!  For more details, contact Blaire Jett (blairejett@gmail.com)  or Lindsay Moore (lindsay.schulz@gmail.com).

Throw a Good Party for an Even Better Cause!
Seeking fun parents! We need hosts for adult AND grade-level parties to auction off at Glitter Ball. So round up some friends and start  planning those events for parents, boys or girls at Percy Priest! Any and all party ideas welcome! Email  percypriestauction@gmail.com  if interested or with questions. THANK YOU!

Silent Auction Sneak Peek!
Did you miss out on the signup for MBA’s popular All-Sports Camp? Bid on and win one of those coveted spots – and lots of other great summer camps at FRA, BA, Tennessee Soccer Club and more – at the Glitter Ball-Percy Priest Spring Auction on Saturday, March 5th!

We also have dental services, fun getaways, photography and portrait sessions, and hot, local sporting events like Preds and Vanderbilt baseball games up for purchase.

Let the bidding wars begin!

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  http://www.percypriest.wpengine.com/?post_type=tribe_events&tribe-bar-date=2022-02-01&ical=1

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%3D2022-02-01%26ical%3D1

Lands’ End catalog has a large selection of Standard School Attire (SSA) and PPE logo clothing. Lands’ End will donate 3% of all qualifying standard school attire purchases to Percy Priest. Please visit  http://www.landsend.com to place your order! Be sure to link to Percy Priest by linking your account to our Preferred School Number:  900121294

Volunteer Spotlight

Name: Moriah Farmer
Children’s names and grades: Turner (2nd grade, Robnett) and Louisa (2 year old, future Tiger)
Volunteer  Role: Graphic Design for Invest and the Spring Auction
Why Percy Priest: We moved to the PPE zone from another MNPS school in the middle of Turner’s kindergarten year at the beginning of the Covid shutdown, so we were slow to get involved. The Percy Priest faculty and staff have been so welcoming and loving to Turner that  I can’t help but want to pay them back with a little bit of my time. We’ll have one child at PPE for the next ten years, so we want to invest our time in the school like they are investing in our kids.