This Fall PTO is sponsoring a comedy fundraiser night at the Foster Country Club. Come on out for an uproarious evening! Click here for more information or to purchase tickets.
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That is right you friendly neighborhood PTO is now officially an Amazon Smile Charity. Want to help us earn some money for field trips and class programs with your shopping? Add us as your Amazon Smile Charity and the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to the Foster PTO!!! How simple is that? Go to smile.amazon.com and search for Foster PTO to add us as your charity of choice. Then just shop from smile.amazon.com and we will rake in the 0.5% on all the eligible purchases! Thanks for all your help and support!!!
We are looking for some parent volunteers to help out with our March Book Fair. This is our “By One / Get One” fair and normally the busiest of the year. It will be held March 25 – March 29 in the school library. If you are able and willing to volunteer please click here to sign up for a time slot. Thanks!
PTO Minutes
December 5, 2018
Principal’s message
- Safety meeting to be held 12/14/2018
- Concerns?
- Preschool drop-off procedure
- Communication – incident notification should come from administration and not students or other parents
- Robocall for absences should go out earlier
Teacher’s report
- Pennies for Patients
- Coin boxes collected through 01/04/2019
- Food drive
- Collected through Christmas break
- Table will be set up at Cookies & Cocoa
- Class with highest amount collected will win pizza party
Book Fair report
- Total $3492.77
- Goal $3800
- All for Books total $119
- To Mrs. Mac for book purchase due to difficulty in discreetly distributing books to children
- $184.64 Scholastic Dollars earned
School Committee
- Fundraising addendum draft distributed for review and comment
- Comments/suggestions to Brendan prior to next school committee meeting (12/18/18)
- 5th grade GoFundMe – retroactively disbanded?
- PTO square – can it be used?
- Busing contract discussions
- Going forward, at least 2 PTO representatives present at meetings
- Notice of meeting dates at school level
- Newsletter?
Cookies and Cocoa
- Vendor Fair
- Priscilla will run point
- Mark off vendor spaces with painters’ tape
- Assign numbered space to each vendor
- Use back door for vendor set-up
Due to unforeseen circumstances tonight’s (1/9/19) PTO Meeting has been rescheduled to Wednesday, January 16th at 6:30pm. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see everyone on the 16th.
