KNOLLWOOD P T A
CHILDREN FIRST
WHAT IS THE PTA?
The PTA (Parent Teacher Association) is the oldest and largest volunteer child advocacy association in the USA. The PTA’s goal is to promote the health, safety, and welfare of our children in and out of school.
WHO IS THE PTA?
! The PTA is you—parents and teachers.
! The more parent and teacher participation we have, the more our children have.
WHY GET INVOLVED?
! The PTA, through parent volunteers and fundraising, provides the items/activities listed below, ALL of which benefits and enriches our children.
! PTA-provided items are NOT part of the Board of Education budget or local taxes. Without your help, our children will not have them.
! The PTA is a purely volunteer organization. Volunteering ensures that ALL money raised goes to benefit our children.
! Volunteering shows your children that you care. It teaches civic responsibility by being a good role model. Plus, your children LOVE to see you at school.
WHAT DOES THE PTA PROVIDE?
! PTA provides a free folder or planner for each student.
! PTA sponsors family activities like Bingo Night, Family Fun Night, International Day, Family Reading Night.
! PTA sponsors Cultural Arts programs (assemblies). $5,000 gifted in 2016-2017.
! PTA provides $20 per child for class trips. $7,400 gifted in 2016-2017.
! PTA helps organize Fifth Grade activities and memory builders like the Moving Up Ceremony and associated activities, year-end trip to Camp Happiness, Fifth Grade yearbooks, Fifth Grade social, T-shirts, middle-school locks, etc. $4,000 gifted in 2016-2017.
! PTA raises money for school improvements: Gym fans, new playground equipment, picnic tables, refurbishing band instruments, new library books, audiometer for hearing testing.
! PTA hosts “Welcome Back” breakfast for the teachers.
! PTA hosts Teacher, Aide, and Kid Appreciation events.
! PTA provides Room Parent volunteers to assist teachers with class events/field trips.
! PTA organizes and runs one-session (half-day) lunches.
! PTA organizes and runs the Book Fair, Holiday Shop, and Plant Sale.
! PTA organizes and run School Picture Day.
! PTA organizes and runs various fundraisers including Save-Around books, school-wide fundraiser, Tricky Tray, Box Tops for Education.
HOW DOES THE PTA PROVIDE THESE THINGS?
! Fundraising and volunteerism!
! PTA provides volunteers to assist in school events/field trips and to organize and run PTA-sponsored events.
! PTA raises money through programs such as Save-Around books, Book Fair, Holiday Shop, Ice Cream Days, PTA lunch sales, Tricky Tray, Box Tops for Education, Knollwood Clothing sale.
HOW DO I GET INVOLVED? Teach by example and show your children that you care. It can be as simple as…
! Coming to a PTA meeting and finding out what’s new.
! Coming to a PTA-sponsored family activity.
! Signing up to help hand out lunch on half days.
! Working a shift at the Book Fair, Holiday Shop, or Plant Sale.
! Signing up for Hospitality/Bucket Brigade and providing items for schoolwide/classroom events.
! Joining a committee—If you don’t get involved, you won’t know how or why things get done.