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PTO Newsletter June 2011

Wow!! The end of our school year already!!

We would like to thank all of the Aborn students, parents, families, teachers

 and staff for a great year!  All of your support and help has been amazing. 

We truly appreciate your dedication.

Everyone had a great time at Field Day, it was a hot day! Without all of your help it never would have gone so smoothly.  Thank you to all of the teachers and staff for supplying the volunteers and PTO with all those delicious goodies! 

 Here is a breakdown of the past year’s monies coming in and out.  From this you can see how many special activities we plan with Mrs. Graul and the teachers for the children.  Also why fundraising is so important to our school. 

***SAVE THE DATE!***

We will be having a summer fundraiser at Fuddruckers on Route 1, Saugus on

Thur. July 28^th from 5-8 p.m.  You need to bring the attached coupon so that we will be able to receive proper credit.  If you need more please feel free to send an email to amraymo@msn.com, you may also make copies to give to your friends and family.  Come and have a fun time and show your support!

 CLICK HERE TO PRINT OFF THE FUDDRUCKER'S COUPON

Thank you again for a great year!  Have a Happy, Healthy and Safe Summer!

The Aborn PTO J

January 2011

Dear Aborn School Parents,

Happy New Year! And welcome back to school. We're so thankful for all the great stuff that's been happening at school so far this year and can't wait for a great second half.

If you've been hoping to help or looking to get more involved in any way, please email or call or talk to any of our PTO volunteers or leaders. We’d love any help you can provide. We know that time and schedules can be a challenge, but if you were interested, we'd love to find a way to help you make it work.

If you've volunteered to help in the past and not been taken up on it, please know that it was an oversight or a result of us being busy.  Being open to everyone and helping connect with and serve all parents is a key goal of our group.

Tentative save the dates:  Spring Dance 4/29/11, Field Day 6/7/11 (RD 6/9/11), PTO meetings 3/24/11, 5/5/11

Please remember to continue to send in your Boxtops attached to the appropriate sheets.  Sheets are available at the school; please send in a note to your child’s teacher asking for them.  We will continue to collect Pennies for Technology through the end of the school year.  These funds help cover the cost of supplies for our computer lab. 

Again, Happy New Year to all. Here's hoping our kids and our entire school community have a great 2011.

The Aborn PTO

Ann Marie Raymond  - amraymo@msn.com

Katie McHale

Kim Langlois

Dolores Dean

PTO NEWS September 2010

WELCOME TO A NEW SCHOOL YEAR!!

The Aborn PTO would like to welcome everyone back to school as well as share with you some of events we have planned for the upcoming school year. 

Lavender Fundraiser will kick off on Thurs. Sept. 23, 2010.  This is our biggest fundraiser of the year and in the past it has been a great success!  Please help us to make this a fantastic start to the year.  Lavender will be rewarding the high sellers this year will awesome prizes.  Complete details will come home with your student.  Please review all forms. 

Aborn Spirit wear order forms will be coming home with all students and there will be samples available to see before and after school this Thurs and Fri.  If you have questions on sizing please come and take a look. 

School store will be held the second Wed. of the following months, Oct., Nov., Jan., Feb., March, April and May.  These dates are subject to change.  Students will be able to shop at the store with their class that morning.  Prices will range from $ .25 to $2.00.   

PTO meetings will be held Thurs. Nov 4^th, Thurs. March 24^th, and Thurs. May 5^th.   We will be discussing future events at these meetings.  We welcome you to attend and share any and all ideas.

Cash Calendars will be sold for $5 each from November 1^st-15^th.  Names will be drawn in the month of December.  M-Th drawings will be worth $25 each, Fri. drawings will be worth $50 each, with a bonus drawing worth $100 on December 24^th.  We wish you the best of luck! 

Our annual Aborn Holiday Fair will be held on Wednesday December 8, 2010. This is an opportunity for the students to shop for holiday gifts for family and friends at reasonable prices.  Each student will come with their class; parents and family are invited to join us as well.  We will have shopping, raffles and fun!  We need volunteers to help out to make this a pleasant and successful experience for everyone.

Spring Family Dance will be held on Fri. April 29, 2011.  This is a fun filled night!  With a DJ, food, games and fabulous raffles!  What will our theme be this year???

June Field Day will be held on Tuesday June 7, 2011 with a rain date of Thursday June 9, 2011.  This is a FREE fun filled day for the whole Aborn Family.  All students, teachers and volunteers will receive a free Field Day T-Shirt, lunch and slush.  We will also need many volunteers for this to be a successful event.  We have had a great turnout over the past few years and it has been such a fabulous day of fun.  Please help again this year!

Boxtops will be collected throughout the school year.  This is an easy way for our school to earn money.  Each Boxtop collected is worth 10 cents.  These quickly add up and have been a profitable fundraiser for Aborn for many years.  All sheets must be filled out completely with the Boxtops glued or taped to the sheet. Sheets are always available at the school. 

Pennies for Technology is another yearlong fundraiser that helps supply the computer lab with toner, paper and any needed supplies.  Pennies are collected in each classroom.  The classroom that collects the most pennies at the end of the school year will get a reward!  

 Listed below are the monies raised and expenses paid out for the 2009-2010 school year.

Fundraisers:

Kelly’s  $320.00

Lavender   $5200.00

Cash Calendars  $1740.00

Holiday Fair  $870.00

Spring Dance  $1020.00

Square 1 Art  $625.00

School Store  $1150.00

Boxtops  $1020.00

Pennies for Technology  $554.00  

Expenses:

Agenda books $464.00

Weekly Reader  $1224.00

Buses for field trips  $1500.00

Basketball Tournament  $80.00

Animal Habitat/Tide Pool Gr K-1  $400.00

Helen Keller Gr 2-3  $745.00

Owl Pellet/Vision Program Gr 4-5 $860.00

Classroom holiday parties  $290.00

Teacher Appreciation  $300.00

5th Grade T-shirts/Graduation $843.00

Field Day  $2160.00

PTO Supplies (Paper, envelopes, postage) $163.00

Teacher Classroom Supplies  $1500.00

Computer Lab  $345.00

As you can see, all of the monies raised through our fundraisers directly benefit the students at Aborn.  The funds raised will help pay for buses for field trips, supplies for the school and many fun and educational events for the students throughout the year. 

Please be sure to mark your calendar with all of these important dates.  We appreciate all of your help and efforts in making another great school year!

If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact us through the school or via email.  781-477-7320 or amraymo@msn.com

Thank You,

Aborn PTO

Ann Marie Raymond, President    

Katie McHale, Vice President

Kim Langlois, Secretary  

Dolores Dean, Treasurer

PTO NEWS MARCH 2010

We would like to thank all the students, parents, staff and teachers for a great year thus far. 

Our holiday fair was a great success and we are looking forward to the next couple of month’s activities.  This year is going by so quickly summer will be here before we know it!

We are looking for your continued help for the next few planned events

We will be having our Spring Family Dance at Hood School on Friday, April 30^th from 6pm-8pm.  We will need volunteers to help us set up at 5:30 pm.  We also need people to manage the food and raffle tables throughout the evening.  Finally we need a few people to help clean up and stay until 8:30 pm. Admission will be $3 per person or $10 per family.  Admission will include a free raffle ticket for each child.  There will be a DJ for entertainment.

We are asking for donations to fill baskets to be raffled off at the end of the dance.  The following grades are being asked to fill baskets with these themes.  You may start sending in donated items anytime. 

KDG – Crayola

Gr. 1 - Girl or Boy Toys

Gr. 2 – Gardening

Gr. 3 – Beach

Gr. 4 – BBQ/Grilling

Gr. 5 – Movie Night

Next, the PTO will be providing our teachers and staff with a Staff Appreciation Luncheon on Thursday, May 4^th from 11:30am – 12:30pm. We need volunteers to help cover the teacher’s classroom for one hour.  This way they can relax and enjoy their lunch.

Lastly, our June Field Day will be held on June 1^st with a rain date of June ^3rd.  This is an all day event (8:30am – 2:00pm) and we will need many volunteers for the day to run smoothly.  We will need help setting up and cleaning up.  This is a fun filled day for all and is Free. 

Boxtops and Pennies

Please remember to continue to send in your Boxtops.  Each one is worth  $ .10 to go towards supplies for our school.  These must be sent in attached to the Boxtops sheets available at the school.  Please ask your child’s teacher for blank sheets.

Also please remember to send in your pennies for technology.  The class who collects the most will win a pizza party at the end of the school year!  Keep the pennies coming!

If you are available to help for any of the above listed events please contact the PTO at 781-477-7320.  We greatly appreciate all your help and it will make all these events run smoothly.

If you have any questions or ideas please email annmvaughan@comcast.net or amraymo@msn.com. 

Thank you in advance for your support!

PTO NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2009

We would like to thank everyone who participated in our Lavendar fundraiser.  Congrats to our Limo Ride winners!!! Michael R., Juliana M., Tyler W., Briana W., Daren V., Damien W., and Devon D.  Great job!

We wish everyone good luck with the cash calendars! Who will be out lucky $100 Christmas Day winner???

Thank you to all that helped with our Holiday Fair! It was a fun day and everyone had a great time shopping and making cookies.  We couldn’t have these events if it was not for our parent volunteers.  So, Thank you!!  Thank you for all of the donations for our raffle table.  Here is a list of the raffle winners.  Congrats to you all!

We hope everyone has a fun filled Holiday vacation and a happy and healthy New Year!!!

The Aborn PTO

PTO News September 2009

Welcome to a new school year!  We would like to give you a preview of what we have planned for the upcoming school year. 

We are kicking off our fall fundraiser with Lavender on Monday September 14, 2009.  This is our second year with this company and we are excited to have them join in our efforts.  Please help us to make this a successful start to the year.  Lavender will be rewarding the high sellers this year will grand rewards.  Complete details will come home with your student.  Please review all forms. 

Once again we will be offering Aborn Spiritwear.  We are using Heritage Spiritwear again this year.  Order forms will be coming home soon with all students and there will be samples available at the Open House on Wednesday September 22, 2009.  If you have questions on sizing please come and take a look. 

School store will be held the first Wed. of the following months, Oct., Nov., Jan., March, April and May.  These dates are subject to change.  Students will be able to shop at the store with their class that morning.  Prices will range from $ .25 to $2.00.  

We will have three PTO meetings this school year.  Thurs. Nov 5^th, Thurs. March 11, and Thurs. May 6^th.   We will be discussing future events at these meetings.  We welcome you to attend and share any and all ideas.

We will be selling Cash Calendar raffles throughout the month of November.  All raffles will be drawn in the month of December with a bonus day on Christmas, December 25^th worth $100.  Please help this to be a successful fundraiser. 

The annual Holiday Fair will be held on Wednesday December 9, 2009.  The fair is held across the street at the Bethany Church.  This is an opportunity for the students to shop for holiday gifts for family and friends at reasonable prices.  Each student will come with their class; parents and family are invited to join us as well.  We will have shopping, raffles and fun!  We need volunteers to help out to make this a pleasant and successful experience for everyone.

June Field Day will be held on Tuesday June 1, 2010 with a rain date of Thursday June 3, 2010.  This is a fun day for the whole Aborn Family.  All students, teachers and volunteers will receive a free Field Day T-Shirt, lunch and slush.  We will also need lots of volunteers for this to be a successful event.  We have had a great turnout over the past few years and it has been such a fabulous day of fun.  Please help again this year!

Ongoing throughout the year we collect Boxtops.  All sheets must be filled out completely with the Boxtops glued or taped to the sheet. Sheets are always available at the school. 

We are looking for someone to be our Boxtop Coordinator.  If you are interested or have any questions please talk to one of the members of the PTO.

Summer Boxtop sheets for the drawing to win the Bengal Tiger Webkinz must be in by Fri. Sept 25th.  We still have some sheets available for this so please ask your child’s student for a blank sheet. 

Lastly, we collect pennies in each classroom.  The classroom that collects the most pennies at the end of the school year will receive a reward!   All money collected from the pennies for technology drive help to supply the computer lab with toner, paper and any needed supplies.

Listed below are the monies raised and expenses paid out for the 2008-2009 school year.

Fundraisers: 

Fuddruckers  $274.20

Lavender   $6410.28

Cash Calendars  $1904.4

Holiday Fair  $800.00

Spring Dance  $950.00

School Store  $1079.65

Boxtops  $623.20

Pennies for Technology  $490.90

 Expenses:

 Agenda books $378.12

 Weekly Reader  $1242.47

 Buses for field trips  $1225.00

 Basketball Tournament  $80.00

 Ben Franklin Gr 2-3  $720.00

 Storyteller Gr K-1  $450.00

 Owl Pellet/Vision Program Gr 4-5 $867.50

 Classroom parties  $380.00

 Staff Luncheon  $300.00

 5th Grade T-shirts/Graduation $775.00

 Field Day  $2622.75

 PTO Supplies (postage, envelopes, paper)  $70.00

 Teacher Supplies (Toner, Laminating paper, Ellison)  $706.02

 Computer Lab  $692.87 

Please help us to make this a great school year!  All of the funds that are raised through our fundraisers directly benefit the students at Aborn.  In these hard economic times please use all of your efforts to make these fundraisers successful.  The funds raised will help pay for buses for field trips, supplies for the school and many events for the students throughout the year.  If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact us through the school or via email.  781-477-7320 annmvaughan@comcast.net or amraymo@msn.com

Thank You,

Aborn PTO

Ann Marie Raymond, President    

Katie McHale, Vice President

Ann Vaughan, Secretary  

Kris Way, Treasurer