General Nash Home & School Meeting Minutes
January 8, 2015
Thanks to Gabe Baitinger and Allison Lindsay for babysitting!!
The meeting was opened at 7:05pm.
Upcoming Dates were reviewed.
November minutes were approved.
New Business:
1. Mural Update: Joe Low will be in on January 13th to begin the mural! (pending weather). He will be painting the mural during the school day. It will be located between the H&S bulletin board and the Gym door. The mural is a painting of General Nash with colonial children in a school house looking out a window. Through the window are some present day children playing. This mural is being funded by the 6th grade class who will graduate in 2017 and last year's 6th grade class.
2. Vendor Fair: Fifth grade is hosting our annual vendor fair to get a start on fundraising for their 6th grade year. The Vendor Fair will take place on March 27 from 6-9pm. Contact Jenny Platt at [email protected] to rent a table. Also, we will not be running a Mud Shack night in conjunction like in the past. Instead we will try to find something new, such as a painting night.
Coordinator Reports:
1. Box Tops: The winter Box Top campaign is going on now. Box Tops are due by Feb. 18th. Collection sheets can be used again. You can find these on the Nash H&S website.
2. Coordinating Council: The next Coordinating Council meeting will be held on January 21st at 7:00 at the ESC building. The speaker is slated to be Diana Garaitonandia, Supervisor of Go Math for the district. The speaker portion of the meeting is open to anyone who wishes to attend.
3. Citrus Fundraiser: This month is the final month of the citrus fundraiser. Orders can be picked up from Karen Lindsay on January 18th.
4. Spring Fundraiser: We are planning on an Asher's fundraiser for April and a Yankee Candle fundraiser for May. More information will follow!!
5. NPAGE - Super Saturday will be held on March 17th. There are workshops to sign up for (must register in advance). This event is open to everyone and will be held at Penndale Middle School from 8:30am to 12:00pm.
6. AAUW - STEM event for 5th, 6th, and 7th grade girls: Date is March 7 and will be held at Montgomery County Community College. There will be a keynote speaker and workshops for the girls to participate in. Pre-register at aauwlansdale.org.
7. Book Fair: Can we move the book fair to May and hold it in conjunction with Literacy Night? Checking into this with Harleysville Books.
Open Forum:
1. Suggestion to have a summer workbook fundraiser. We will check with Harleysville Books.
2. Math Night will take place on January 13th. It starts at 7pm and is for all elementary grades. There will be different stations for kids to participate in .
Teacher Rep - Mr. Brehm: To take back to teachers: We are looking into changing the March-a-thon a bit for next year. Can we get more teacher involvement? Do teachers have any feedback from the past march-a-thons?
Principal Report: Mr. Martiello: Mr. Martiello gave a presentation on Digital Citizenship. This presentation was also shown to our 5th & 6th graders. Some of the information given can be found at http://www.npenn.org/Page/14553. The presentation included the 9 elements of Digital Citizenship, discussing digital footprints, and discussing actions we can take to improve our digital footprints. We broke up into groups to discuss ideas.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:30pm.
Our next meeting will be held on February 12th at 7pm in the Nash Library. The speaker will be Josie Charnock from the North Penn School Board.