SPA: Meeting and Agenda Minutes

SPA MINUTES FOR MAY 10, 2010

The meeting was called to order by Joyce at 5:30 p.m.

STUDENT COUNCIL REPORT: Madison Dodge represented student council. She reported that this week is Spirit Week. Please note that Wednesday is support your non-profit day and Friday is sports day. There will be a pep-rally on Friday. Madison also said she is currently working on the student council by-laws. She will include in the by-laws that the president or vice-president must attend the SPA meetings.

DR. SALIBA'S REPORT: We had a fabuloso Cinco de Mayo celebration. Thanks to Mrs. V. and Ms. Flieger for organizing this event. The Musical Theater put on a Willy Wonka performance that was amazing. Thanks to Mrs. Karla for putting this together. The D.C. Trip is over and special thanks to Ms. Singleton, Ms. Jackson, Ms. Schaefer and Mr. and Mrs. Kievit for traveling with our students and keeping them safe! Roots and Shoots wrapped up their year with an event at the Reid Park Zoo where they had the opportunity to meet Jane Goodall. Thanks to Roots and Shoots for representing our school. The 4th grade attended the Black Stallion Project at the TCC. Mrs. McKeown has arranged for The Arizona Daily Star to come out to our school and do a story on TCDS. The topic will be about how our school continues to thrive while other schools are suffering. Thanks to Mrs. McKeown for her work on press relations for our school. Mrs. Wendy has been working to compile resources for Guided Reading. She will gather resources for both classroom use and Library use for grades K-3. Thanks Mrs. Wendy for all your time and work on this project. Mrs. Courtney arranged for our school to have a steel drum band perform for our students after AIMS testing. The band was a big success and we thank you Mrs. Courtney for doing this for us.

Thanks to all the parents and students who supported our Staff during Staff Appreciation Week!

Congratulations go out to the Boys and Girls Basketball teams! Great job this year.

Okay, if you think that was a lot stay with me. Here are some upcoming events!

Sports Banquet-Tuesday the 11th at 5:30 p.m. at the Activity Center
Spirit Week- remember Wednesday is non-profit day and Friday is sports day
Spring Concert- K-3rd Wednesday the 12th at 6:30 p.m.
Principal Honor Roll trip to Golf and Stuff-Wednesday the 12th
Volunteer Breakfast- Thursday the 13th at 7:30 a.m.
Spring Concert- 4th-6th Thursday the 13th at 6:30 p.m.
NJHS End of Year Banquet- Friday the 14th at 5:00 p.m.
5th grade promotion-Wednesday the 19th 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Middle School Awards- Wednesday the 19th at 1:50 p.m.
8th grade Dinner and Dance-Wednesday the 19th 5:30-9:00 p.m. at St. Pius
Water Day-Movie Day-Thursday the 20th
8th grade promotion-Thursday the 20th at 6:00 p.m. at the Activity Center
Staff Appreciation Breakfast-Friday the 21st at 8:30 a.m.

Camp Adventure begins on June 1st.
Summer Prep begins on June 7th.

August 13th will be the Meet and Greet for next year.
August 16th is the first day of school!

Please remember to check with the office or the web site if you need more information on any of the events and dates listed above.

NEW BUSINESS:

Cookie Dough-Debbie Ross supplied us with samples of two new flavors for next year. One was a coconut cookie and the other was a yummy bread with icing. She also let us pick which list of prizes we would like to use for next year. Next year we will be able to take debit and credit!

Penny Drive-Lots of fun and we raised almost $1,000. White shirts already received an Eegees party and Yellow shirts will get one Friday the 14th.

Ms. Joan stopped by to let us know that after 18 years she will be retiring. We will miss you Ms. Joan!

Water Day-We still need some volunteers. If you are able to help at all on the 20th, please let me know.

Movie Day-Movie has been changed from Elf to the Goonies.

Volunteer Appreciation-Please join the staff and SPA in thanking all you great volunteers. Thursday the 13th at 7:30 a.m. we will have breakfast for you under the Kindergarten Ramada. We really do appreciate all you have done this year! Thanks to Susan and Mrs. Stacey for organizing this.

Staff Appreciation Breakfast-Susan and Lee Ann are working together to provide our great Staff with a breakfast on the 21st to let them know how much we appreciate them.

SPAghetti-Since we had to cancel the event this year we decided to split the event up and do a SPAghetti dinner some time this summer to invite new and returning parents out for a fun evening. Laura Newsom will organize this with lots of help from everyone. We will take all the donated items and have the silent auction at Fall Festival. Once again, thanks to Crystal and John Gulotta for all their time and energy spent collecting items all year long!!

OLD BUSINESS:

Elections: Susan Siepker will remain as our Treasurer and Lee Ann Robinson will now be the Vice President.

Bleachers: We have one set almost ready to go up and the other one will soon follow. Thanks again maintenance for putting this job together for us.

Frys "Cool Cash"-This is a program similar to the Safeway "escrip" program. We will get all the information out as soon as the next school year starts so that our school can begin earning money. We earned over $1,000 from Safeway this year just by signing up. If you have not signed up for Safeway yet, please let me know so that we can get you signed up. Also, if anyone is interested in taking over these two fundraisers let me know. It is a pretty easy project, we could use someone to help distribute information and monitor it next year.

TREASURER REPORT:

Susan gave the report. If you would like a copy of the report just let me know. It looks like we will begin next year with about $8,000.

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

Box Tops- Mary is moving this year and we are all very sad to see her go. She did an amazing job with box tops this year and helped us to raise over $2800. She has been working with Peggy Jo Harwick who is going to chair this committee for us next year. Thank you Peggy Jo for stepping up and taking over.

Donations- We can't thank Crystal and John enough for all the items they have collected for our events this year! Please let them know how much we appreciate them when you see them.

Library- Jennifer is all over it!!!! She has been working with Scholastic to gather an opening day collection of books we would like to open our library with. She has found the appropriate user friendly software we need to get rolling and has even started looking into the design of the library. She is hoping to use a design that will allow us to accomodate 7,000 books and still leave us plenty of usable space. She is not turning away any help, so if you are able to help this summer please let me know so that I can pass your name on to her. This is a HUGE task she has taken on for us!

Birthdays-Lee Ann has agreed to continue on as the Birthday rep!! Yeah, I know the staff will be happy about this.

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