The Turner PTO exists to facilitate cooperation between parents, faculty, and our teachers, as well as to financially support programs that fall outside the annual school budget. Our goal is to promote a positive and nurturing environment that will enhance the educational experiences of our children. We view these things as a happy cycle, with each instance of support reinforcing our goal.

And if this description sounds familiar to you, thank you for reading the 2022-23 welcome letter! 😏

We put them towards the school!

The majority of our money goes towards funding teacher requests. In the 2022-23 school year, we approved 100% of requests, which amounted to over $13,900 spent. Some of the things our teachers and staff requested we pay for included:

• • • Flocabulary

    • Generation Genius

    • Music Play Online

    • The Mile Club

    • Farmer's Market Day

    • RTI and Wonder books

    • Nine Castle Squares for the gym

    • Field trip to ACHS

    • Books gifted to RTI students

    • Field Day snacks

    • 5th grade awards and t-shirts

In addition to making sure our teachers and students have what they need in the classroom, we host events and support the school when they host theirs! Some of these include:

• The annual Halloween event

• Educational Christmas-themed activities, schoolwide

• Supply Drive

• Parent-Teacher Conferences (dinner for teachers)

• Titan Fest

• Teacher Appreciation Week

But we have plans for even more community-building events for the 2023-24 school year, so stay tuned!

Let us tell you!

As of February 14th in the 2023-24 school year, the PTO has funded: 

• The Popsicles on the Playground event for incoming kindergarteners

• Half the cost of Accelerated Reader

• Music Play Online

• Generation Genius

• Clay and glaze for art class

• Supplies for Kindness Club

• Supplies for anxiety and grief groups

• Candy for the annual RBT in-school Trick or Treat

• RTI supplies, learning games, and incentives

• Cubbies

• Merry Mail

• Scholastic Newsletter fees

• Writing tablets for 5th grade

• Book carts for our RTI team

• Books for our RTI team (some were donated from Half Price Books on Tiverton in Lexington!)

• Supplies for a fraction lesson

• Candy Grams for every student (written from "A Friend")

• Flocabulary

• Dedicated books to the library

• Super Teacher Worksheets

Most of the above list were teacher requests, but some—like Popsicles on the Playground and Merry Mail—were PTO ideas.