About Us

We are the parent-teacher organization for the Lura A. White Elementary School and Ayer-Shirley Regional Middle School in Shirley, MA.  We organize fun activities for our students and families and support our schools.

Executive Board Position Descriptions

All positions are elected for 2 year terms on a rotating basis 

President-Duties involve: setting monthly meeting agendas and facilitating monthly meetings; Reminding/checking in with other members to ensure duties and deadline are being met; filling in the gaps with fundraisers and events as needed; monitoring social media pages; checking mail; updating school secretaries of PTO news/ emails needed as necessary; monitoring email account 

Vice President- Duties involve: keeping the website up to date; Assisting the President as needed in monitoring social media pages; checking mail; updating school secretaries of PTO news/ emails needed as necessary; filling in the gaps with fundraisers and events as needed

Secretary- Duties involve: Taking minutes at monthly meetings; Compiling and sending out a monthly newsletter; assisting to monitor the social media pages and website as needed; running our annual school-year long GotSneakers Fundraiser or helping with any fundraiser needs that may arise 

Treasurer- Duties involve: Compiling a monthly Budget Report to share at monthly meeting; guiding the board in setting an annual budget; collecting funding requests and reimbursement requests; fulfilling reimbursement requests; writing checks/paying invoices as the need arises; monitoring the bank account; filling annual taxes; monitoring/filing raffle taxes and forms; monitoring Paypal account; Running the annual Raise Right Gift Card Fundraiser; Renewing Insurance Annually

Enrichment Club Coordinator- Duties involve: Planning and executing 3 after school enrichment sessions a year. This includes, setting session dates; finding instructors;  sending out forms; collecting and compiling completed forms; collecting payment; assigning club rosters; coordinating instructor stipends with treasurer; checking in club instructors to make sure things are running smoothy.

Address

Ayer-Shirley PTO

Lura A White Elementary 

34 Lancaster Rd. 

Shirley, MA 01464

Where Do Our Funds Go?

In addition to running the events listed on this site, we provide direct funds to the educators at Lura A White and the Ayer-Shirley Middle School.

Annually we provide:

• $4,500 directly to classrooms

• $4,600 for clubs, trips and enrichment programs

• $1,000 to the principals' funds

We are a 503(c)(3) organization, Tax ID 043056694.