PTO Virtual Meeting Agenda
March 30, 2021  7:00 PM

Welcome                                                                     Courtney Farris and Karen Kelley

Principal Update                    Ms. Hager

• Communication regarding parent change request link has been shared. Today was the final day to make changes, if anyone still wants to make changes please do so by midnight tonight. This is vital for families who need transportation. 
  
• Communication went out regarding the CMS camp from 6/14 - 7/29. Pre registration is open for all families. Spots will be allotted to students who need it the most. Camp will have literacy, math and 
  
• School improvement team- look at school improvement plan. Want to increase parent engagement for next school year. Please join if possible. Need 50% parent involvement. 
  
• Upon return on 4/12 temps will not need to be taken, but symptom tracker still needs to be filled out. Please don’t send sick students to school. Will continue to social distance to the best of their ability.  Mask wearing will continue. 
  
• Career week was a huge success. Lots of positive feedback. 
  
• Spirit week has been fun and a great start back. 
  

Committee & Event Updates    
    

• Dance Fit                    Courtney Farris
  
  • Happening tomorrow (virtual) 
    
  • Most happening during morning meeting
    
  • Teachers know what is happening and taking care of it 
    
  • Over $25,000 pledged so far. Time for more pledges
    
  • Collections will happen when we return from Spring Break 
    
    • please send in any hard, paper money you receive
      
    • checks to Lansdowne PTO in an envelope with name/teacher
      
  • Prizes will be handed out after Spring Break 
    
  • Thanks for all support from teachers and parents 
    
• Treasurer Report                Elizabeth Purdie/Siri Nutting  
  
  • Major expenses: 
    
    • fun run (offset)
      
    • Classroom Expenses 
      
  • Income: 
    
    • Spirit wear 
      
    • Corporate Sponsorship 
      
  • Waiting on Book Fair info 
    
    • This money goes into Scholastic dollars to use for teachers and books. 
      
• Restaurant Report                Courtney Farris
  
  • Hungry Howies $155.04
    
  • Grace O’Malley’s $54 
    
  • No April Hungry Howies 
    
  • Tacos for Life on 4/15 (in Arboretum) 
    
  • Next Hungry Howies will be on May, 6 
    
• School Leadership Team Recruitment        Courtney Farris
  
  • Need parent involvement 
    
  • If you are interested, this goes through improvement plans with teachers and parents 
    
  • If you want to hear about ways leadership is trying to improve 
    
  • Reach out to Courtney, Karen or your teach regarding how to get involved 
    
• Online School Store 
  
  • Will run 4/26 - 5/9 
    
  • Fliers will be sent out 
    
  • Same website from earlier this year (shoplionspto.com)
    
  • Can ship to house or pick up from school before end of year 
    
• Storyteller Day                    Tamia Williams
  
  • Planning for 4/14 
    
  • Currently have 11 non family volunteers 
    
  • Thinking of moving to grade level approach like Career Day 
    
  • Still planning how to best accommodate the event 
    
  • Need book suggestions for 4th and 5th 
    
    • Choose your own ending (use polling option)
      
  • Suggestion: Make sure grade contact knows the name of the story teller 
    
  • Reach out to Ms. Hager for logistics 
    
• Beautification Day                Lauren Price
  
  • Saturday 4/24 
    
  • Groundskeeping, planting, adding stencils 
    
  • Signup Genius in the next few weeks for volunteers 
    
  • will put in work order for pest control around mobile units
    
  • Coach is working on places that may need sprucing for kid use with construction 
    
• Staff Appreciation Week            Karen Kelley
  
  • week of 4/19 
    
  • details still be planned 
    
  • something for each day 
    
  • ways for families to participate as well 
    
  • will send home a flier 
    
  • Signup Genius for help that week  (https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040d49a5af2ea75-staff)
    
• Clorox/ Cleaning Supply drive         Karen Kelley
  
  • Please donate Clorox/Lysol/Disinfecting wipes during the week of April 12. Bins will be located in the carpool line during drop off and pick-up, and inside the building by the cafeteria for bus-riders and ASEP families.
    

Questions/Discussion                All

There are PTO Board Positions open for next year- please reach out if interested 
**Please Stay On Call if you are interested in co-chairing or chairing an event or learning more about how to become more involved with the PTO. 

Upcoming Dates for your Calendar:

Dance Fit 3/31
PTO Meeting 3/30
Spring Break 4/1-4/9
Week of 4/12 Disinfecting wipes drive
Storyteller Day 4/14 
Restaurant Spirit Night 4/15
Staff Appreciation Week 4/19-4/23
Beautification Day 4/24

PTO Connection Corner:
Join the PTO to be added to our weekly emails: Join at  http://lansdownepto.org 
Join our private Facebook page: Friends of Lansdowne IB World School
Visit the PTO Website: http://lansdownepto.org
Want to get more involved? Email the PTO Presidents with your specific interests: lansdownepto@gmail.com
Remember to link your Harris Teeter VIC Card to Lansdowne Code 1764
Link your Amazon account to fundraise for Lansdowne by using AmazonSmile

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August 11, 2020  7:00 PM

Welcome                                                                     Courtney Farris and Karen Kelley

• Courtney Farris & Karen Kelly are Co-presidents this year. 
  
• First virtual PTO meeting, all meetings will likely be all virtual this year. If we go back to school, may do in person as well as streaming. 
  
• Courtney: Current 4th grader and 8th grade son who went through Lansdowne as well. 
  
• Karen: Current 4th grader and older child who went through Lansdowne as well. 
  

Principal Update                    Ms. Hager

• Excited to be the principal!!
  
• First day 8/17. Continue virtual until the district says it’s safe to come back. 
  
• two virtual town halls first had 62 & and second had 55. Lots of discussion about different plans. 
  
• Will have monthly town hall meetings
  
• Working on getting connect-ed messages on email and voicemail. Working to get emails sorted so everyone gets it both ways. As district is doing update, please be patient. 
  
• Hopefully by next week all should be updated. Sunday phone and email will continue. IF you aren’t getting by end of next week, please reach out. 
  
• Thank you to PTO for polo shirts and masks! Teachers are super happy and will be worn at technology pickup. 
  
• Have popcorn treat for Kinder. 
  
• Should hear from your teacher by tomorrow at the latest. Will verify email and phone to ensure contact. 
  
• Everyone is learning how to use Canvas. New to K-2. 
  

Committee & Event Updates    
        
Fun Run Update                Courtney Farris

• Postponed to Spring Semester. Going to change focus to just a fun way to participate in a fun activity, not as much of a fundraiser focus. 
  
• Boosterthon has changed focus as well to help children just have fun. 
  
• Not sure if it will be virtual or in person, will depend on the status. 
  
• Every student will be able to participate. 
  

Mother/Son Event                Julie Singh

• Not sure exactly how it will be, as of now, planning to do a scavenger hunt outside. 10/10 from 10-12. 
  
• Communication will go out. FB event and email. 
  
• Will be at Boyce Park- will have access to a picnic shelter/tent. Plan to offerlight refreshments. 
  

Openings for Spring Semester         Theresa Matheny
committees/chairs

Career Day- Need a chair and co-chair. This has been going for a long time. Lots of info already and has a strong volunteer base already. 

Admin positions: 

• PTO Membership -- co-chair
  
• Room Coordinator -- co-chair
  
• Campus Beautification-- co chair (2x per year)
  
• Snack the Staff -- co-chair
  
• Bus Driver Appreciation -- co-chair
  
• End of the Year Staff Cookout- Chair (in May) 
  
• Media Center Helper-  Chair - coordinate with Ms. Russel to go in and volunteer. Help to organize and restock. Will take as many volunteers. No parent volunteers for Fall, hopefully for Spring! 
  
• Lost and Found- Co-chair. Very busy in Winter. This person keeps organized and notifies families of what is there and donates if things are not picked up in a timely manner. 
  
• Fun Run- Will need lots of volunteers if it takes place in person.
  

***If you are really good at something and want to help in that capacity-- let Thresea or Jessica Hasley know and they will help find a spot. ***


Spirit Rock                    Karen Kelley

• Big rock in the carpool line. Used for school spirit and things to celebrate. 
  
• Currently suspended.
  
•  When back- can sign up for a 24 hour period starting 5:00 pm the day before your day. 
  
• This is just a fundraiser for PTO. 
  
• $10 for the 24 hours. 
  
• Currently painted for back to school. Take pictures when you go to pick up your technology!!
  

Restaurant Spirit Nights            Emilee Potter 

• We partner with restaurants and get a % back for the sales. 
  
• Hungry Howies- 1st Thursday of every month. 9/3 will be first date. 
  
• Hopefully first  in person in Sept @Grace O’Mally’s. 
  
• Will plan for to-go food as well for people who aren’t ready to dine out. 
  
• Future plans for: Mac’s Speed Shop, PotBellies
  

Questions/Discussion                All

• Please make sure to get the PTO your email for weekly updates! If you aren’t getting it please check your junk mail! Can share email with us to make sure you are on the list. Please join the FB group @Friends of Lansdowne IB World School. 
  
• Make sure to check the school website as well for updates. Materials and supply lists posted there. 
  
• Pop up sale tent- will be up tomorrow and Thursday. Just spirit wear. Will have a few extra facemasks for $10. 
  
• Yearbooks-- will be given for 3-5 for students who missed picking them up last year. Can ask at technology pickup tomorrow if you missed it. 
  
• ABC group kids are the ones who will come back and The D group students are the remote academy. 30% across the school signed up for virtual academy, 3rd grade had the highest. Classes are mixed to make sure that everyone has a Lansdowne teacher. When we go back, there is a teacher who will address the in person and another who will do in person. Circle time will include students getting to know all teachers. 
  
• Please link your ViC card and Amazon Smile to get % back to the school. 
  
• Lansdowne PTO email: LansdownePTO@gmail.com
  
• Tentative Dates are scheduled for Spring activities (subject to change). 
  
• Next meeting is: 9/22 @ 7:00 pm on Zoom & live on Facebook. 
  

**Please Stay On Call if you are interested in co-chairing or chairing an event or learning more about how to become more involved with the PTO. 

Upcoming Dates for your Calendar:


Next PTO Meeting 9/22 7:00
Mother/Son Event - 10/10 10-12PM


PTO Connection Corner:
Join the PTO to be added to our weekly emails: Join at  http://lansdownepto.org 
Join our private Facebook page: Friends of Lansdowne IB World School
Visit the PTO Website: http://lansdownepto.org
Want to get more involved? Email the PTO Presidents with your specific interests: lansdownepto@gmail.com
Remember to link your Harris Teeter VIC Card to Lansdowne Code 1764
Link your Amazon account to fundraise for Lansdowne by using AmazonSmile

Check out what happened in the last meeting here: ​pto_mtgmin_sept24.docx

Get PTO Event Descriptions here: pto_event_descriptions-2019-2020.docx

Welcome
Principal’s Update
-ACC Reading competition-winners get to go to ACC Championship Game; Lansdowne gets a check from the ACC and United Way at halftime; 76,000 pages read by students; most out of all the 3 schools competing
-Lansdowne is fully staffed now; in process of hiring 1 new counselor
September Minutes
-Haley Miedema approved minutes
Committee & Event Updates
-Fun Run Recap:  Many thanks to all the volunteers and everyone who made the Fun Run a success; thanks to the t-shirt sponsors for allowing all the students to get a free shirt to run in; profit was $33,000
Teacher Feedback: website is user friendly and easy for teachers, new kids in upper grades need a little more information about what the Fun Run is (not just to K-1)
PTO Membership
-138 parents/families paid dues (27 are staff members), 46 people paid online
-last year 119 parents/families joined (13 staff members), so membership is up
Hungry Howies
-collecting $400 a month from 2 Spirit Nights
-may start Chick Fil A again in the new school year
School Store & Spirit Wear
-new items; hoodies $20, dry fit shirts $10; tie dye shirts $8
Mother/Son Event
-Kinetic Heights, good turn out
Room Parents
-Class Party info going out this week
Lost and Found
-need 1-2 more volunteers to help each month
Treasurer Update
-already exceeded budget for Fun Run and Membership
-bought pine needles for beautification day
-$4000 for teachers to set up rooms
-paid for 2nd grade and SBS field trips
-bought 4th grade owl pellets
-helped purchase TRC (text and reading comprehension) curriculum
-Kinetic Heights outing for teachers before school started
-extra power cords for chromebooks
-new lion costume
Mrs. Withrow
-CLT checkers game-6pm on Saturday, Martin Luther King Jr. weekend
-Feb 28 family concert; Arts and Science Council grant; Timmy and Suzanne Abbell- From Asheville Appalachian Style Music
Closing Remarks
-Penni Beth Crisp; please tell all parents of rising K to register now, even if sibilings are already in Lansdowne; only 2 lotteries this year
-Sara Greenway’s mother passed away suddenly right before Thanksgiving so keep her in your thoughts
Next meeting January 29
​Adjourned

• Look for Room Parent Sign-Ups on Back to School Night to fill the last open spots. A Room Parent Coffee will be scheduled for October. Date is TBA.
• PTO membership envelopes are still coming in. These will be accepted throughout the year.
• The School Spirit Store is now accepting credit cards. The minimum charge amount is $7.00.
• Friday Night Lights on 10/20 at East Meck High School on 10/20. Wear your Lansdowne gear and sit together to show our Lansdowne pride at the East Meck football game.  More details to follow.
• School Bonds will be on the ballot in November, and Lansdowne Elementary is one of the schools that is due to get a new building should the measure pass. There will be Connect Ed messages going out closer to election day encouraging parents to go out and Vote.PTO is getting 125 yard signs to promote voting for School Bonds in November. These will be distributed to PTO members and neighbors to display.
• Elizabeth Purdie PTO Treasurer presented and reviewed the PTO 2017-2018 budget.
• The IB Evaluation for Lansdowne Elementary will be 10/26 – 27. There will be 2 evaluators coming to do the evaluation. They will be speaking with parents on 10/26 from 12:45 – 1:15 pm.

The next PTO meeting will be Tuesday, November 28 at 6:30 pm.