Minutes, Tuesday Nov. 13

Hardy PTO Meeting Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 6:30 – 8:00 AGENDA 6:30 Introductions 6:35 Principal’s Report Deb talked about the challenges from the many interruptions this fall. iPad carts have been purchased for the three schools housing Thompson students. This has helped with oversubscription of computer lab. 21 ipads on the cart. Classroom teachers received iPads, but unfortunately specialists did not; Deb took 6 ipads from the cart (27 originally) to give to specialists. Kevin Guiney asked if Town is offering help in use of ipads; Deb replied that there are monthly workshops. 6:50 Review of events/projects and planning for upcoming events: • Picture Day Hayward is waiting to hear from parents who want retakes before scheduling makeup day. Feedback from Picture Day tells us that we need to be better organized next time – e.g., take one class out at a time, rather than one whole grade. • Book Fair Mary reported that we made $9271 in sales, with proceeds of $1886; Eva: the two afternoons that went beyond the school day worked very well, would be a good idea to do one of these later in the week so parents have cottoned on to the fact that the Fair is going on. • Election Day Bake Sale Jenn reported that the bake sale worked out very well; her Brownies were “key”. We took in $950, and will split this with the Brownie troop. • Hoe Down Went well, but definitely need more volunteers; we decided that we need to streamline pizza selling, to avoid any confusion/upset on part of parents. • UNICEF collection • Hardy/Thompson Directory? Andy and Pete have started work on this; have put together google doc with every kid from this year, and what contact info we have; will contact room parents to fill in info; • Holiday Giving Tree? (Nov/Dec) Kristen Barnicle will be working with Deb and classroom teachers on this. • Menotomy Wine Tasting (Jan) - Jenn? Jenn is investigating renting the Whittemore house, to make this a bigger event; January is probably not doable; Jenn will report back in December on availability. • Winter Concert – PTO Breakfast (Feb) • Skating Party (March) • Int’l Festival (March) Gloria offered to help coordinate this with Milagros 7:20 Financial Report: • Annual appeal update Good news: we are at 91% of goal; bad news: only 68 contributions. We will send out a reminder appeal soon. • Other financial updates 7:45 Other business • Fundraising effort - Linda Flynn Date of next PTO Meeting: Tuesday, Dec. 4th