Originally delivered on 9/20/2019 8:12 am

SUBJECT: Herff PTO: Upcoming Events and Volunteer Opportunities


 

LATEST NEWS
September 20, 2019

Attention Parents: Your kids need to see you at school!

Parent involvement in education is crucial. Regardless of family income or background, students whose parents are involved in their schooling are more likely to have higher grades and test scores, attend school regularly, have better social skills, show improved behavior, and adapt well to school.  In short, when you show up your kids succeed. 

Here are two ways you can get involved at Herff Elementary and show your kids that school matters:

Inspire a love of reading!

At this age, kids get so excited about visiting the school library and picking out books they love.  The great thing is that their joy is contagious!  If you are looking for a feel-good volunteer opportunity consider helping in the school library.  We guarantee you will leave smiling!

So what's involved?

We are looking for volunteers to help in the school library for one hour a week.  You can volunteer during your child's library time. (Class schedule posted online with volunteer sign-up so you can check your child's library time).  As the class comes in, you will help check in and shelve books and then help kids find new books and check out.  That's it.  Pretty simple, but it's a critical role because we anticipate nearly 1,000 books moving through the library each week.  

We will do some basic training the next two weeks and shifts begin the first week of October.  We need 40 volunteers each week, so please consider serving in this way!

Learn moreand sign-up on our PTO website.  Questions?  Please contactAmy Robinson.

Make a Child Feel Welcome!

Do you know how to give a hi-five?  Then you have what it takes to become a Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students). 

Watch D.O.G.S. is an innovative father-involvement, educational initiative of the National Center for Fathering. There are 2 primary goals for the Watch D.O.G.S. program:  

  • To provide positive male role models for the students, demonstrating by their presence that education is important.
  • To provide extra sets of eyes and ears to enhance school security and reduce bullying.

Watch D.O.G.S volunteers perform a variety of tasks during their volunteer day including monitoring the school entrance, assisting with unloading and loading of buses and cars, monitoring the lunch room, or helping in the classroom with a teacher’s guidance by working with small groups of students on homework, flashcards, or spelling.

On September 25 at 6 pm, join us at our "Dads and Kids Pizza Night" to learn more about how you can be involved.  Please RSVP to the meeting.  Questions? Contact Mike Previtera

 

PTO General Meeting
September 26


All parents are invited to join us on Thursday, September 26 for our first PTO meeting.  Hear our goals for the year and learn how we want to partner together to make Herff a welcoming place for all of our students and families.

There will be two meeting times either at 8:30 am or 5:30 pm, both sessions will be held in the school cafeteria. 

As parents, we understand that you have kids at home and may not want to get a babysitter to attend a PTO meeting.  Please feel free to bring your little ones to the meeting.  During our evening meeting, we will have a movie playing to entertain the kids while we meet.  Feel free to bring some movie snacks.

Please RSVP.


 

Have Breakfast with Your Kids
October 2


Students are invited to bring a favorite grownup to school on Wednesday, October 2 to enjoy donuts, coffee and conversation before school.  Breakfast will be served from 7-7:30 am in the school cafeteria.  This is an opportunity to show our students how much we value our time with them.

Please RSVP by 9/27.

We will hold a Donuts with Grownups breakfast on the first Wednesday of every month.


 

Our biggest goal for the year is to purchase shade structures for the playgrounds. 

Please consider purchasing a commemorative brick to help us raise money.  Not only will your kids think it's cool that their name is on the sidewalk, but you will be helping to raise money for the canopies.  Family bricks are $100 and corporate bricks are $200.  Each brick can be customized with three lines of text.  Purchase onlineOpportunity only available until October 31st.  Don't miss out on your chance to be identified as a Herff Elementary founding family!

 

Help Stock the Herff Makerspace

 

The Herff Makerspace is a lab for students to create
their own knowledge by making and interacting with
physical objects. This space will help students develop
into innovative researchers while collaborating,
creating, thinking critically, and communicating.
Students will explore their own interests, learn to use
tools and materials, both physical and virtual, and
develop creative projects. Students will spend time in
the makerspace tinkering, designing, building, and
testing.


We need donations of materials, both
new and gently used. If you are interested in helping
us stock materials for our makerspace, please review
our Wish List of items we could use.  You can drop off at the school anytime.

Go Hawks!

You can still order school shirts from our Spirit Wear store.  Shirts are $20 each and available in a variety of sizes both youth and adult.  Order now!

 



Herff Elementary PTO
PO Box 215
Boerne, TX 78006
HerffPTO@gmail.com