Electra Elementary PTO
Purpose
The Electra Elementary Parent & Teacher Organization is a nonprofit group comprised of parents, guardians, teachers, and staff. These individuals are all dedicated to enhancing and maximizing the educational experience of all students at Electra Elementary School while aiding them in achieving their highest potential. There are no dues and everyone is encouraged to join and get involved. Stay informed, make your voice heard, and have fun all while helping your child's school!
What PTO Does
Our PTO program supports the students and staff at Electra Elementary by raising money to buy playground equipment, library books, student achievement awards, staff appreciation items, and much more. PTO also contributes to field trips and our local P.E. running program.
Running Program
Coach Buchanan manages a local running program throughout the school year. At the end of the year, the top boy and top girl runner from each grade, K-5, get to take a trip to Academy to purchase new shoes. This year they also visited OSTC to run an obstacle course , McDonalds for lunch, and then finished up their trip at the park! All of the students ran to help the school reach a total of 1,963 miles during the 2023-24 school year!! The top runner was 5th grader, Adrian Gaines Nelson with 18 miles ran!! Mrs. Lemon's first grade class was the top class with 188 miles! Second grade was the top grade, with 392 miles!
Field Trips
Our PTO helps fund our elementary field trips throughout the year. In 2023-24 the students got to go to many different places, including the Whiteside Museum in Seymour, Medicine Park Aquarium & Natural Sciences Center, River Bend Nature Center, CrashWorks STEAM Studio and Makerspace, Maniac's Mansion Arcade, Sandbeach Skate Park, Electra Memorial Hospital and many more! Aside from helping with funding for the field trips, EES PTO was also able to purchase t-shirts for every student and staff member to wear for their field trips that they got to take home with them after the end of the year fun-n-run!
Student Awards
The PTO funds many different types of student awards. One of those is the glow days that the kids get to participate in at the end of each six weeks. They earn time based on behavior, grades, attendance, and meeting goals. The EES PTO was also able to buy a new inflatable bounce house and inflatable obstacle course this year to use for different student rewards and to have during school events, like glow days.
Staff Appreciation
Our Elementary staff pours so much of their hearts into our students every day and the PTO loves showing how much that is appreciated. Sometimes that is just a note, letting them know how much what they do means and sometimes it is a snack to make their day a little sweeter. This year we were able to do a surprise treat for the staff once every six weeks. We also did a "Stock the Fridge" for our teachers for teacher appreciation week!