McCollom PTO News

Updated February 20, 2024

Hello McCollom community and welcome to our PTO page! Thank you for taking a minute to check us out. We hope this can be a helpful site to visit to see about upcoming PTO sponsored events and news about what we are doing for our school and how you can help!

PTO is such a wonderful resource for our school. We work to give the staff and students the best environment that we can. PTO assists teachers and students by contributing in many ways:

contributing to classroom budgets
providing a meal at conferences for staff members
celebrating staff throughout the year including Teacher Appreciation Week
funding the new playground at the back of the school
building the storage shed back by the playgrounds
funding one bus for each grade level each year for a field trip
helping to support the 5th grade Arts Partners art project
purchasing needed items for the building including tables to be used at school events

We understand that it is hard to make it to our monthly meetings after school, so we are hoping this page can act as a resource to keep you informed. If you are ever able to join us, we would love to have you to share your ideas and input. We generally meet the first Tuesday of the month at 4:30 in the library. Even if you can't consistently come, coming on the days that it happens to work with your schedule is always an option!

PTO doesn't need to be a major commitment. Any help you are able to give we would greatly appreciate, even if it can only be a one hour shift at one of our events! We WANT to do fun, awesome, amazing events for our students and families, but we can not do it if we don't have the manpower. Help us make McCollom the best elementary school around!

Current board members include:

Amy Deibler (mom to a 3rd grader!)
Kristin Edwards (mom to a 3rd grader and a kindergartener!)
Megan Spencer (mom to a 3rd grader!)
Mike Harris (dad to a 1st grader!)

Upcoming PTO events:

Chick-fil-A Night February 22nd
Monday, March 4th from 6-8, Skate Night at Carousel
Sucker Pull (or some kind of treat) March 4-7th
PTO meeting March 5th at 4:30
Pizza Ranch Night Monday, March 25th
PTO meeting April 9th at 4:30
PTO Spring Event: Picnic on the Playground April 19 from 5-7
Chick-fil-A Night April 29th
Monday, May 6th from 6-8 Skate Night at Carousel
PTO meeting May 7th at 4:30

Meeting Notes:

PTO February 13, 2024

We fnally got to meet up again for the first time this year after our snow days in January!

- T-shirt update
  - Hopefully arriving this week
    - 2/20/24 update: still haven't arrived
  - Bags needed to put orders in
    - Melody will bring 50-60 (completed!)
  - Time to meet to fulfill orders:
    - Who can help?
      - Melody can help

Little Caesar’s Ended (January 11 – February 10)
- $676 earned!
  - When to do pizza party?
    - Communicate with Winning teacher
  - Considerations for next year?
    - Melanie Kiser will not be here next year so someone else will have to set it up
    - It is a fundraiser that does have to be re-set up each year
    - Consider starting right before conferences
    - Do sellers prizes versus’ class wide prizes

Chick-fil-A
- Get set up as soon as email gets sent out
  - Melanie said she can set up for next year, but will not able to be the contact anymore since her daughter will be in middle school
    - She will forward contact info to new person

Conference food
- Ordered Spear’s family meal for Staff (HUGE hit again!)
  - 4 meals that fed 6-8 people
    - 1 meal that fed 4-6 people (ham for gluten free)
    - Total was $464.75 (with $75 tip) for 45 people

Staff Treat: February (or move to March before Spring break?)
- Treat cart: April
  - Amy D has offered to fill a cart and have teacher’s make a snack/drink selection
- March: Pork nachos/sandwiches?

Spring Event: Picnic April 19th
- Decided to hold off on the Glow Run/Walk because it was going to be more time intensive than originally thought
  - Table it for another year possibly?
- Decided to try our Picnic at the Playground event again since last year the rain made us alter plans
  - April 19th from 5-7
  - Food (price all individually)
    - Hamburgers/hot dogs on the blackstone (2 blackstones: Melody and Megan)
    - Buns
    - Condiments
    - Foil (pre-sized)
    - Pop and water (food and game)
    - Chips
    - Cotton candy
    - Games
      - Use the ones we purchased last year
        Anyone else have access to yard games
      - Stations (ran by 5th graders??)
        Prize wheel
        Cake walk
        Pop toss (prize is a can to save money)
        Tattoo station
        Bracelet making station
        Kissing booth
        Duck pond
        GIANT Sucker pull
        Game cards
    - Cost/Payment?
      - Punch Card Purchase
        Can be used for games AND food
      - No entry fee: just punch card charges
      - Incentive $20 card for 25 punches?
      - Music?
        Potentially Mr. Gibson?
        Just set up speakers?
      - Raffle baskets
        Sign up genius for teachers to send out
        Can repeat sign ups used in the past and just clear
        Combine grade levels AND include donations for games on these sign ups
        PTO can make the sign ups and the staff can just send out to families

What We Need:

Please let us know by filling out the form at the bottom of the site if you would be willing to assist with any of the following tasks:

Small prizes for our upcoming sucker pull in March
Donations of Dum Dum suckers
Donations of cans of pop (caffeinated and un-caffeinated)
Donations of candy for our upcoming Picnic event (think Easter clearance candy as that approaches!)
Donations of bigger prizes for our picnic event (there are lots of great toy deals in the clearance section at Marshall's)
Planning a small treat for teachers on one of our available months. PTO will fund the treat, we just need your ideas and help to make it happen! See below...
Ideas for quick/easy fundraisers (like the sucker pull!)

Staff Appreciation

When you hover on the table below, you will need to click on the gray button on the top right corner to open the link to actually sign up/fill in the table.

Themes do not have to be crazy. It can be as simple as ice cream, donuts, candy, coffee, tea, pop, etc.! The staff will be so grateful just to be thought of.

Dates can also easily be altered if you are really interested in doing a month, but the set day doesn't work for you.

Let us know if you have any troubles or questions! (mspencer2@usd259.net)

Monthly Teacher Celebration Sign Up

How can you help?

We are always looking for ways to include our families and community in our school.

Join us the first Tuesday of each month (normally) for our meetings at 4:30 in the library
Check out this page as it gets updated each month after our meetings. If you read through what we discussed and have an idea to contribute, let us know below!
Volunteer at any of our events. We would love to have you help for a short shift so that you can still enjoy the events with your kiddos! Our goal is to get enough people to help so that we ALL can enjoy time watching and interacting with our families and friends
Do you know any businesses that would be willing to donate items or gift cards to us to use in raffle baskets? Please let us know below if so!
Do you know any restaurants that would be willing to help us with food needs throughout the year (meals for teachers at conferences, teacher appreciation week meal, food for school events?) Please let us know below if so!