We had ourour second PTO meeting this month. Has anyone ever had to PTO meetings a day one for people and another at night for people who couln't make it that day. Years ago our attendance was about 50 people at a meeting I understand times have changed and alot of those members stay at home moms and now very few stay at home I'm very lucky a can. Does any have ideas about how to get the word out to middle school parents and high school parents our school has about 1115 students k-12 ? We are working on a website for our school PTO. We all know that the it is hard to get students 6-12 to take papers home about PTO k-5 they have folders that are sent home early day! Any ideas would help. I read stories about some PTO groups that raise awesome amount of money for the school and students I want our school to be one of them school. The money raised benefits all the student not just one certain school ( elementary, middle, high school).
HELP PLEASE
Last year our school at zero attendance at meetings. This year every committee is filled by a different person and their are a minimium of 20 people at the meetings. Of course a free event always attracts people but so does a board whom has a president with new and exciting ideas.
We have 2 General Assemblies in the fall and 2 General Assemblies in the Spring. These are PTA meetings where the entire school is asked to come. We always combine these 4 General Assemblies with an event that the parents want to come to. Our September assembly was Family Game Night. We had about 50 people attend - but this was very low. Hurricane Rita was about to hit Texas within a few days and families stayed home to get prepared - which was very understandable. Our December assembly will be the 3rd grade performance of the Nutcracker - the attendance will be in the hundreds. February's assembly will be combined with an arts and crafts night. April's assembly is combined with a spring program with our school choir. All of these assemblies will have a lot of parents attend. Our PTA meeting is about 15-20 minutes before each program. We have agendas and treasurers' reports on the seats and go over the important stuff, vote on what we need to vote on, share important announcements and dates and ask for requests. Then the program begins.
Now...separate from that - on the months we don't have assemblies - our PTA board meets for our monthly meeting. We have 12 members on our executive board. All board members and our principal and assistant principle meet the 2nd Tuesday of each month. During this time we have about a 2 hour meeting to discuss specific plans and events. It's well attended and very productive.
We also are having several family events throughout the year to encourage fun and family. We are having a Chuck E. Cheese's night in October, a movie night in November, a Science Night in January, a roller skating night in March and a fitness night in May. We expect all these family events to be well attended.
In the same boat here. We have around 300 students and we have had at the most 7 parents and 2 teachers show up to meetings. But the paretns that do show up are those that want to do something. They want to help, that is a big lift. Most of our teachers do help at all of our events. You do not need to have a 100 people at every meeting. As long as things get done, that is the main thing.
