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Harwinton Consolidated School October 17, 2007 PTA Meeting
Meeting started 7:00 34 members present
Meeting called to order and minutes read No changes to minutes. Stand approved
Phyllis Jones- Physical Education Teacher Talked about activity logs. Wellness policy started 4 years ago. HCS was pilot school. Created coordinated school health team to create policy. Meet every other month to discuss. Activity logs came from standards in state program. Encourages students to have active healthy lifestyle outside of school. Piloted activity log last year for grades 2, 3, and 4. Feedback from last year was that it was too much writing (they had to write down what they were doing). Now, they are asked to circle the bicycle and put a check in the box when they complete 60 minutes. Purpose is to establish healthy habits when they are young. Parents spoke about issue with minutes affecting their child’s grade. Phyllis spoke to this. Concern is when they do not see any logs. They want parents to establish a habit with their children. Your child’s grade will be negatively affected if you do not hand these in. Parents feel that it is an invasion of privacy and will make children feel that it was a chore. They feel that it should not affect the child’s grade. Parents do not want to have to submit this log. Phyllis will give them copies of the frameworks. Liz asked that we put this off until later.
President’s Report- Liz Cornish Thank you from Mrs. Garry’s Class Spoke about security policy regarding parents having lunch with children. Paula Schwartz will revisit this policy with administration next week and will get back to Liz. Paula will come to November PTA Meeting to discuss security policy. iParty – charity days, Liz registered us and we can pick up whatever we want for free in June
Treasurer’s Report-Janet Gaudiana Lean Budget this year We want to spend money for the kids this year. Ask Janet if you have any questions
Board of Ed- Liz Cornish 11 candidates for Superintendent, 4 will go on to Board
Enrichment- Linda Surveski 4th grade goes on Wed 10/24 Kindergarten- Barnes Nature Center 11/27 Grade 1 – Roaring Brook Nature’s coming in November
Michelle Knuth- Box Tops Box Tops were received and we are expecting a check soon
Fundraiser- Janet Gaudiana and Eileen Palladino WE exceeded our goal $31,185 Projected profit $15,000 Raffle – 17 gifts Top 15 classes will be receiving a recess bag Top seller in each class will receive hover disc Pick Up is Tues and Wed next week
Ice Cream Social- Callie Penn Great success $637 Hoagies Sweet Shoppe donated everything
Holiday Shoppe – Melanie Joseph 11/30 & 12/1 She is continuing to shop Needs volunteers – will call in November Needs older kids to wrap Jewelry Box – need more/send in
Book Fair – Kathleen Keegan Working on it Extend Book Fair to coincide with Holliday Shop
Old Business None New Business Looking at new dynamics of HCS Debbie Cosentino spoke about why every child in the school can’t have the same things for parties/birthdays/holidays Mrs. Dodd said that a policy might be coming down from the state regarding healthy snacks. Adrianna Costa-Brown spoke about concerns to let children dress up and be kids. Parents are concerned with 1st grade homework policy and not having to hand it in. Want more consistent, school-wide policies. Liz is more than willing to answer questions, but you should go to the teacher first if you have an issue. Adjournment 8:05 |