Keep Checking the Pto Portion of the Wss Web Site for More Information Throughout the Year

January PTO NEWS

KEEP CHECKING THE PTO PORTION OF THE WSS WEB SITE FOR MORE INFORMATION THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

Mark your calendars for JANUARY

 January 9th – PTO Meeting 7pm in the Media Center

 January 9th – Spirit Day - Wear your WSS Apparel or Red & Black and DON’T FORGET TO PICK UP LITTLE CAESAR’S OR PAPA JOHN’S PIZZA

 January 11th – Candy Spring Fundraiser begins

 January 18th – Family Fun Night featuring “Nickel City Reptiles”

 January 28th – Cookie Dough Spring Fundraiser begins

 THE NEXT BOX TOPS CONTEST STARTS February 1st !!!!!!

Keep saving and sending in those box tops

the TOP class at each grade level will earn a pizza party look for the charts outside the multipurpose room to see how your class is doing !!! Please mark your child’s name and teacher /room # on each submittal so that your child’s classroom can receive credit in the contest for the top class in each grade. They can be dropped off in baggies or on the sheet available on the website.

Contact Carrie Centra-Vella @ 480-5575 or Erika Wargula @ 683-2111 with any questions

 all of the fundraisers so far this year have been very successful

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT  Little Caesar’s pizza purchases from last spirit day - $10.00 – That’s 20 pizza’s purchased – Papa John’s Purchases topped $286.00 That’s a $49.00 profit towards field trips and field days – The winning class was a tie between Mrs. Bumbalo and Mr. Zgliczynski’s classes for the December Spirit day so both will receive a pizza party from Papa John’s – CONGRATS !! - Thanks to all who ate Little Caesar’s and Papa John’s that day !!!!! – Thanks to Erika Saunders for organizing this fundraiser and getting all those cool posters up throughout the school

o WSS will be having a SPIRIT DAY once a month, the next one is on January 9th these are days to SHOW YOUR SCHOOL SPIRIT by WEARING YOUR WSS APPAREL or just by WEARING OUR SCHOOL COLORS (black & red) – and if you stop by Little Caesar’s pizza (on transit near Broadway) and sign the WSS LOG SHEETS or Papa John’s (on Losson at William near Target) and mention your teachers name on these days, WSS will get 50 cents for every pizza purchased at Little Caesar’s and 15% profit from your purchase at Papa John’s. This year’s spirit days are (always on Wednesdays) :

o JANUARY 9TH – FEBRUARY 13TH – MARCH 6TH – APRIL 10TH – MAY 8TH – JUNE 12TH

 Thanks to all the Chorus Concert volunteers who helped make those performances run smoothly !

 Family Fun Night featuring “Nickel City Reptiles” on January 18th from 6:00-7:00pm in the Multipurpose room – this is a free event sponsored by the PTO  January 11th begins our Spring Fundraiser featuring Candy from “The Chocolate Shop” this sale will end on January 28th - Also we will have “Brown Cow” Cookie Dough starting January 28th (the same cookie dough company used in the fall fundraiser) – This fundraiser runs through February 11th with pickup for BOTH fundraisers on March 22nd - contact Colleen Tranquilli with CANDY questions @ 684-2999 and Jill Maraschiello with COOKIE DOUGH questions @ 868-5992

 Our 2nd Bowling party of the year will be on February 10th – with ticket sales January 29th – 31st - Get your tickets early so as to not miss out ! & look for the flyer in the “flyers” menu on the PTO portion of the website

 Our next PTO Meeting of the year will be March 6th @ 7pm – there will be Board and Committee nominations for the 2013-2014 school year at this meeting so please attend if you are interested

 Last Meeting – MAY 1st – board elections for 2013-2014

 DISTRICT PTO UPDATE

 The district has started the 2013-2014 school budget process.

 It has been verified that all of the buildings in the district have functioning carbon monoxide detectors.  The district will try to close school for bad weather by the 11:00 pm news report, if this is possible. Otherwise, the goal is to notify families by 5:00 am of that day.

 Our next District PTO Meeting will be held on January 8th at William Street School.

Your WSS PTO will be working hard all year to make this a great year for your children. Your support of the fundraisers is essential to providing all we do for the children of WSS. Thank you in advance for your support and volunteerism this year.