Peirce School PTO
| Pink Link Coordinator Create and coordinate schedule for Pink Link editors. Edit weekly Pink Link. Coordinate training of new editors. Approximate time: 2 hours, upfront, and 1 hour each issue. |
Roberta Martone-Pavia |
| Pink Link Editors Edit and distribute for review Pink link every 7 weeks (based on number of editors). Aproximate time: 2 hours each issue between Tuesday and Friday – this can be done from home. |
Roberta Martone-Pavia |
| Creative Arts and Sciences Creative Art and Sciences (CAS) works with the principal and teachers to coordinate art, drama and science programs for the classroom. Members of this team have three responsibilities: 1. Meet with other team members, teachers, and principal to decide on programs. Approximate time: 2 hours per month 2. Run implementation of programs in the grade level they are responsible for including coordination with teachers, announcements in Pink Link etc. Approximate time: 12 hours total when programs are running. 3. Attend citywide monthly meeting - Tuesday morning – 2 -2.5 hours – note: this is highly recommended for team members, not mandatory. Approximate time: 2 hours per month. |
Team Members: Jessica Blaustein, Elizabeth Reilly, Cynthia Willen, Kajy Vicinelli, Alison Montague, Beth Maloney, Carol Reichert, Wendy Tang
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| Back to School Picnic Create and post flyer and signs. Coordinate with school and pizza business for pizza. Purchase drinks for sale. Coordinate distribution of pizza and sale of drinks on event day. Approximate time: 5 hours in the Fall excluding event time. |
Darlene Sheehan |
| Membership and Family Picture Day Create membership letter. Coordinate with Coffee Pond Productions. Create and post flyers and signs. Place reminders in Pink Link. Collect payments. Approximate time: 15 hours in the Fall. |
Penny Macht - Membership Alexa Dulchinos - Family Picture Day |
| Gift Wrap (Open: 1 position) Create and post flyers and signs. Coordinate with gift wrap company. Distribute order packages. Follow-up on orders. Deliver orders throughout school when they arrive. Approximate time: 12 hours in the Fall. |
Mia Wenjen |
| Mom/Dad’s Nite Out (Open: 2 positions ) Arrange house and theme (if desired) for events two times per year (Fall and Spring). Create and post flyers and signs. Support hostess/host with setup and cleanup including organizing food and drinks. Approximate time: 3 hours each in the Fall and Spring, excluding event time. |
Donna Giovannini |
| Book Fair Coordinate with school and book fair company. Work with teachers for teacher wish-lists and recommended books. Create and post flyers and signs. Get volunteers to assist with sales on date of event. Approximate time: 3 hours, excluding event time. |
Audrey Lampert, Julie Goldman, Jennifer Demko (Used Book Fair)
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| Winter Community Event (Open: 2 positions) Select and execute an event for families in the winter. Ideas include local college basketball game, bingo, family dance. Approximate time: unknown (depends based on idea and number of volunteers). |
Elizabeth Reilly (BC Game) |
| PTO Email Maintain PTO email distribution list. Send out weekly Pink Link notice and other PTO messages as needed. Check PTO email mailbox and respond to or forward emails as necessary. At the beginning of year, work with Directory person to update email addresses. Approximate time: 4 hours to setup in the beginning of the year, 1 hour per week after that, from home. |
Rachel Conn |
| Webmaster Maintain PTO website. Coordinate with Pink Link Staff and email manager to upload Pink Link file. Approximate time: 10 hours in Spring for updates, 1 hour per week from home. |
Janet Clay |
| Directory Update directory with incoming Kindergarten and new families information. Update class lists and teacher information. Approximate time: 12 hours during first two weeks of school. |
Bonnie Carey |
| City Wide Representatives (Open: 1 position ) Attend citywide meetings, document and distribute minutes. Represent Peirce’s interests. Provide details to the Peirce Community. Approximate time: 3 hours per month. Note: this can be split among people. |
Kurt Kusiak |
| T-shirt and Sweatshirts Coordinate with membership chair to sell t-shirts and sweatshirts. Deliver sweatshirts and t-shirts. Decide whether program should be cancelled or modified to order more or different things. Approximate time: 5 hours during membership drive and additional time for sales at additional events. |
Jen Goldstein Paul McAuliffe |
| Library including Gift Program (Open: 1 position) Coordinate with membership chair to announce program on Membership letter. Coordinate with Librarian to order books and place in library. Place a “notice” on child’s locker during month of birthday. Approximate time: 10 hours in the Fall, 2 hours each month. |
Donna Giovannini Dana Davis Mia Wenjen |
| 5th Grade Coordinate with 5th grade teachers to have 5th graders complete all their “special activities” such as year book, fundraising, field trips. Approximate time: 10 hours per period. |
Dana Davis |
Health and Crisis Person (Open: 1 position) |
Madeline Krauss |
Respect for Human Differences (Open: 3 positions) |
Vicki Borten, Aprel McCabe |
| K and New Parents Attend all kindergarten events to meet and greet new parents and families. Recruit and assign new families to current Peirce families. Run an event over the summer for new families. Approximate time: 20 hours in late Spring and early Fall . |
Shelby Chamberlain |
| Gardening/Landscaping Organize fall and spring school grounds clean-up and mulching, either grassroots effort, or contract a landscaping company. Plant the pots in front and in back of the school, Fall, Winter, and Spring. Tend the teacher plots surrounding the kindergarten playground. Approximate: 20 hours in Fall, Winter and Spring. |
Deborah Lund |
| Program Speakers (Open: 2 positions ) Find 2 speakers per year for the school. Create flyers and posting including placing them in schools. Monitor speakers on topics of interest to elementary school families and submit listings to Pink Link. Approximate time: 10-20 hours per year, depending on number of speakers. |
Myrtha Chang |
| Room Parent Coordinators Recruit 4 room parents for each classroom during first week of school via posting signup sheets outside each classroom. Work with Directory person to create a phone chain list for emergencies. Periodically, contact parents for assistance in advertising school events, gathering volunteers, and assisting in classroom programs. Approximate time: 5 hours first 2 weeks of school and then 1 hour per month as year progresses. |
Kathleen Kusiak |
| Social Action Plan and implement social action project appropriate for elementary students with input from Peirce community including teachers, students and parents. Responsibilities include soliciting project ideas and volunteers, identifying suitable project, obtaining approval from Peirce Principal, notifying students and parents about project and inviting them to participate (through Pink Link and notices distributed by teachers to students), collecting materials and delivering to recipients. Projects occur throughout year. Approximate time: at least 12 hours in Fall, Winter, and Spring. |
Aprel McCabe, Melina Crovo, |
| Teacher Appreciation Periodically, throughout the year, arrange lunches and modest gifts for teachers. Approximate time: 5 hours 3 times per year. |
Suzi Wilder Amy Harkins |
| Understanding Our Differences Understanding Our Differences presents six programs to 3 grade levels: 3rd grade: Blindness and Deafness; 4th grade: Learning Disabilities, Special Medical Conditions(Asthma, Diabetes and Seizures Disorders) and Developmental Disabilities and 5th Grade: Physical Disabilities. The responsibilities for the leaders are to make certain that the grade level coordinators establish a schedule for the programs and implement them according to the established curriculum. The grade coordinator is responsible to gets unit leaders and coordinates with teachers to implement the program. Unit leaders, attend training (4 hours), run planning meetings week prior to each program so that schedule and responsibilities can be reviewed and run the program in the classrooms. Could spend no more than 5 hours per program. Unit Leaders are probably more like 6-7 hours per classroom program. Approximate time: Leaders: 20 hours plus 4 hour training. Grade Coordinators: 10 hours plus 4 hour training. Unit Leaders: 7 hours in class plus 4 hours training. |
5th grade: Kym Williams, Allison Montague, Kathy Streeter |
Assistant Treasurer |
Kristen Fitzgerald |
| Monthly Calendar Create the monthly poster board of upcoming events for the front and back outdoor PTO boxes. Post in boxes. Approximate time: 20 minutes each month. |
Mia Wenjen, Nancy Breslin |
| Photography (Open: 1 position) Take pictures at PTO sponsored events, Creative Arts and Sciences programs, and other major school events. Edit into a year-end DVD. Approximate time: Depends on month and number of events planned. 10 hours for year end presentation. |
Sharon Schindler |
| Playground Fundraising and planning for new playground facilities or updates. Approximate time: |
Mary Gibbs, Karen O'Reilly, Andrea Mintz, Jennifer Devlin |
Mystery Dinner Approximate time: |
Debbie Drucker, Cherise Bransfield, Laurie Zinn |
| Safety Address/identify safety issues concerning the school and student body. Past issues have been messy side walks and crowded and unsafe back parking lot. Approximate time: Depends on year. |
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Newton Serves |
Penny Macht |
Spring Event/Auction Approximate time: |
Debbie Drucker, Cherise Bransfield |
Below, we have described many of the PTO activities. For each activity, we have done the best we can to describe the work and the time commitment as the event is presently executed.
Please free feel to contact committee members to learn more.
