PTO Meeting Minutes – March 11, 2019

Columbus Gifted Academy PTO

Regular Meeting Minutes – March 11, 2019

Call to order @ 6:07 pm

Ms. R’s report

  • Congratulated winning scholars of schoolwide Invention Convention
  • Seventh grade Shakespeare performance will take place Thursday
  • Read-a-thon starts today through March 22
  • Book fair going on now, Mrs. McGonigle circulates 3,000 books per year and the money raised helps her build a bigger library for scholars
  • CGA now has voicemail; we ask that no same-day messages be left (afternoon transportation changes, etc.)
  • State tests begin March 26, have discussed with teachers ways to make testing more meaningful for scholars
  • Third period interim reports have gone out; teachers do not have to enter interim grade unless student has absence, behavior, grade problems.
  • End of year events: Shakespeare in the Park May 17th; Graduation will be last day for students, May 30th at 9:30 am
  • Open gym for 3rd and 4th grade to raise money for Momentum is this Thursday

PTO Board Report

  • Read-a-Thon has started, shake down backpacks, all prizes based on reading time not money raised
  • Review of monthly financial reports

Grant Requests

  • Mrs. Harris, on behalf of the entire third-grade team: Requesting up to $500 for two buses for a trip to Slate Run Farm on May 28th
    • Motion approved
  • Mrs. Harris, on behalf of entire third-grade team: up to $636 for Social Studies Weekly; we’ve been using this all year and found multiple uses for it; it covers SS standards and we use it to teach main ideas and paragraph writing, it helps across curriculum, incorporates map skills too, SS standards can be vague, so these are great materials
    • Motion approved

Volunteer Requests

  • Phoenix Phair: Need volunteers; Saturday, May 18

New Business

  • PTO officer nominations: Accepting nominations for officers for next school year, form will be online later this week; Christina cannot be president again due to term limits

Adjournment @ 6:41