Fort River PGO, Fort River School, Amherst, Massachusetts. Your source for Fort River news and events. Sponsored by the Fort River Parent Guardian Organization. All Fort River families are automatically members of the PGO.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The Next PGO Meeting: February 16
The next PGO meeting will be on Wednesday February 16 at 8:45am. The agenda will be posted on the blog the week prior to the meeting. Please join us!
Attention 6th Grade Parents: Graduation Volunteers Needed!
1/27/11
Dear 6th Grade Parents/Guardians;
It’s hard to believe it, but the Fort River Class of 2011(!) will soon be on their way to middle school!
We (Steve Brown and Lisa Oram – parents of Isabel Oram-Brown) have agreed to be the graduation coordinators, and we want to make it a special time for all our kids. We need your help, and we hope all 6th grade families will be involved in some way. We have detailed information from the parents, who have done this in the past, and the more people who help out, the easier and more fun it will be for all of us.
We will need volunteers to help out in the following areas:
Dear 6th Grade Parents/Guardians;
It’s hard to believe it, but the Fort River Class of 2011(!) will soon be on their way to middle school!
We (Steve Brown and Lisa Oram – parents of Isabel Oram-Brown) have agreed to be the graduation coordinators, and we want to make it a special time for all our kids. We need your help, and we hope all 6th grade families will be involved in some way. We have detailed information from the parents, who have done this in the past, and the more people who help out, the easier and more fun it will be for all of us.
We will need volunteers to help out in the following areas:
- Slide Show: take and/or find photos, work on presentation. Need 1 – 2 people per class.
- Class Gift: work with the school administration and the kids to decide on gift, keep track of money, purchase/order gift, present gift at graduation. Need 1 – 3 people.
- Decorations: balloons, flowers, tablecloths, etc - make the gym and cafeteria look festive; work with school maintenance staff and donation committee; help the kids make memory boards. Need 10 – 15 people.
- Food: coordinate donations from parents and community, find 5th grade parents to staff reception. Need 1 person/class
- Community donations: solicit help from local businesses i.e. flowers, cake, helium, etc. We have sample letters and lists of previous year’s donations. Need 2 – 4 people.
- Program/Invitations: design, print, and distribute. Need 2 – 3 people.
Bake Sale Coordinator STILL Needed!
NEEDED: Bake Sale Coordinator--Ann White and the PGO are looking for a parent(s) to coordinate and staff a bake sale at the Family Sing Night on Thursday, February 17. This is a fundraiser to help bring musical group MarKamusic to Fort River in March.
Duties include: setting up/monitoring a sign up sheet for donated baked goods, getting a few other parents and students to help sell goods, set up/clean up. Piece of cake!!
Please contact Pam at pam.fortriver@gmail.com to volunteer.
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT FAMILY SING NIGHT and MARKAMUSIC.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Bake Sale Coordinator Needed!
NEEDED: Bake Sale Coordinator--Ann White and the PGO are looking for a parent(s) to coordinate and staff a bake sale at the Family Sing Night on Thursday, February 17. This is a fundraiser to help bring musical group MarKamusic to Fort River in March.
Duties include: setting up/monitoring a sign up sheet for donated baked goods, getting a few other parents and students to help sell goods, set up/clean up. Piece of cake!!
Please contact Pam at pam.fortriver@gmail.com to volunteer.
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE OR CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT FAMILY SING NIGHT and MARKAMUSIC.
Duties include: setting up/monitoring a sign up sheet for donated baked goods, getting a few other parents and students to help sell goods, set up/clean up. Piece of cake!!
Please contact Pam at pam.fortriver@gmail.com to volunteer.
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE OR CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT FAMILY SING NIGHT and MARKAMUSIC.
Big thanks to PGO Cultural Enrichment Coordinator
Thanks to Dorie Goldman and many Fort River teachers, the Amherst Cultural Council (a local agency supported by the Mass Cultural Council) funded four grant proposals for the following:
2nd grade: $500, storyteller Eshu Bumpus
3rd grade: $350, Habitat Studies at the Hitchcock Center
4th grade: $455, Shangri-La Dance Troupe at the Fine Arts Center, UMass
5th grade: $525, Local Ecology at the Hitchcock Center
Also congratulations to Linda Castronovo who secured an additional $1600 grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council STARS program for an artists-in-residency program with storyteller Eshu Bumpus for 2nd graders in March and April.
2nd grade: $500, storyteller Eshu Bumpus
3rd grade: $350, Habitat Studies at the Hitchcock Center
4th grade: $455, Shangri-La Dance Troupe at the Fine Arts Center, UMass
5th grade: $525, Local Ecology at the Hitchcock Center
Also congratulations to Linda Castronovo who secured an additional $1600 grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council STARS program for an artists-in-residency program with storyteller Eshu Bumpus for 2nd graders in March and April.
January PGO Meeting Postponed Due to Snow Day
Due to the snow day, the next Fort River PGO meeting has been postponed until sometime during the week of Jan. 24th. I will post the new date ASAP. -- Ann McLaughlin
The agenda will be as follows:
Meeting Agenda
1. Introductions 5 min
2. Treasurer’s Report 5 min
• Discussion
3. Book Fair/Event & Community Marketplace 10 min
• Review of sales totals
• Event feedback
4. Upcoming Events 10 min
• Family Sing Night with Ann White (Feb 17)
• Movie Night (March)
• Science Night (March or April)
• International Fair (May)
5. New Business 15 min
• Staff Appreciation Luncheon
• Other new business
School Council Meeting Date Changed
The date for the next meeting of the School Council has been changed to Thursday, Jan. 27th.
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