We always have a meeting in August for the upcoming year. this way we can organize our first event and get the year off right. our first event is in September and is on Back to school Night. we hold a barbeque before, the teacher's really love this event as it brings more families out on that night Sheryl crater PTO President
Our group has a meeting each July. It is very laid back. I try to make it a time of getting to know each other and trading ideas for the coming year. Everyone brings an appetizer to share and I provide the drinks. Actually we just had ours this week. We ran through the things that we had scheduled, to make sure everyone was interested in them still and we planned some things for the teachers at the beginning of the year. I think it helps so the first of the year is not so stressed. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
I can't imagine NOT having a board meeting before the year starts! We've been getting ready for hte coming year since last May. Our final board meeting is going to be a BBQ at our principal's house 2 weeks before school starts. You can never be too prepared, right?
Kelley Kirpatrick-Berg
Madison PTO
Mount Vernon, WA
I was thinking of calling a pre-school board meeting to make sure everything is in order for the start of school and wondered if anyone else does something like this? I always feel like there is too much to cover in that first PTO meeting and when the right stuff doesn't get done, it makes us start off a little behind.
The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating-in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life. --Anne Morris
