General Nash Home and School Meeting - Minutes
Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 7:00 p.m.
Nash Library
President's Welcome - We had 20 people in attendance!
February 2017 minutes approved
Upcoming Dates:
March:
13-17 Chick-Fil-A Fundraiser
17 Jumpin' Jacks Night -6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
21 Rock Your Socks Day - World Down Syndrome Day
22 Drama Club (Grades 3 & 4) Performance - 7:00 p.m.
23 Drama Club (Grades 5 & 6) Performance - 7:00 p.m.
24 Early Dismissal at 12:35 p.m. (Parent/Teacher Conferences)
24 Mother/Son Event - 6:45 p.m. at Nash
27 No School - In-service Day
31 Literacy and Art Night - 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. (Every student will have a piece of art work and a piece of writing on display. There will also be a Book Swap that evening. A sign-up genius will be coming out soon asking for volunteers to help with the displays of writing and artwork.)
April:
6 H & S Meeting - 7:00 p.m.
7 Disney Spirit Day
7 Zumba Night - 7:00 p.m.
**12 School is open! This is a snow make-up day!
13-17 No School - Spring Break
19 Rebounderz - 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.
20 Spring Pictures
21 6th Grade Vendor Fair at 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
25 Wendy's Dining Night Out at 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
28 Spring Zing - 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Note: The following testing dates are designated for PSSA assessments for Grades 3 through 6 (For Grade 4 - Math, Science and English Language Arts assessments will be administered and for Grades 3, 5 and 6 - Math and English Language Arts assessments will be administered):
English Language Arts: April 3, 4, 5 and 6
Math: April 24, 25 and 26
Science: May 1 and 2
Make-up assessments: April 27, 28 and May 3, 4, 5 and May 8-12 (if needed)
Treasurer's Report - Steph Sharkey
-The Basketball Blast raised $900 so we were able to increase the amount for the Nash Scholarship from $500 to $800.
-Mrs. Hannig is looking at securing a local author for a visit later this school year. The cost would be $500 for the visit (including two 45 minute presentations to the students.) A motion was made to approve spending this amount for the visit.
Principal's Report - Mrs. Koch (Mr. Winkle was unable to attend)
-Thank you for your support for the Nash's Foundation February events!
Teacher Representative - Mrs. White
-Mrs. White shared with us that the Montgomery County Reading Olympics is coming up on April 19th and will be held at Souderton Area High School. She also wanted to give a big thank you to Kristen Mallitz and Christine DiPippo for all of their hard work doing the first grade RIF event in February. She shared with us that the sixth grade had their Greek Fair earlier today and was very successful. She also told us about all of the wonderful things each grade level is learning in the library right now!
New Business:
-We have two open H & S board positions that will be open for next year (Laura Boquist and Shannon Snyder are stepping down.) Jenna Cohen has offered to run one of those positions, but we are still in need of a vice-president. Anyone who may be interested in running for the board, please contact Nicole Pritchett or Shannon Snyder.
-For any future Nash evening/weekend events, the doors to the pod areas will be closed and signs placed at the doors to remind participants not to enter those areas. We will also be looking into having hall monitors during these events and will need to remind the participants to remain in the building for the event.
-We will be running an after school program in May called Science Explorers. There will be more information coming out soon as well as an online registration. The program will run for 5 weeks at a cost for $82 per student. The theme is "3-2-1 Blastoff" and the students will be divided up into 2 groups.
-There will another Social Media/Internet Safety event on Monday, May 1 at 10:00 a.m. in Conference Room A at the North Penn Educational Services Center. This will be a follow-up to the event we hosted here at Nash back in January. Everyone is invited to attend this very important event.
Coordinator's Reports:
-The Boxtops Snowball Fight was a great success! We will be having another box tops collection in the spring.
-There are several coordinator positions open for next school year. We have openings for the Drama Club, the School Store, and the Spring Zing. A flier will be going home to advertise these open positions. Sherry Newell has graciously offered to be the co-coordinator for the Hospitality Committee along with Kristen Mallitz!
-We are still taking orders for the 2016-17 Nash yearbook! Another flier will be coming home soon to place orders.
-The Spring Book Fair was a huge success! Thank you so much to Meredith Corlett and Tara DiLenge for working so hard on this! They were able to fulfill all of the teachers' wish lists and the library's wishlist. They sold approximately $6000 worth of books and $135 was raised for the Wish Tree.
-A Nash Spirit wear order will be coming home soon!
-We are going to table the Olympic Day t-shirts for this year since Miss Johnson is still out on medical leave. We will look at this idea again for next school year.
Open Forum Q&A:
-An idea was brought up to use some of the surplus funds the H & S has at the moment. It was suggested that we enlarge the rainbow picture of the entire student body and staff that was taken back in the fall. We will start looking into the cost and size of what we can afford.
Thank you to Katelyn Newell and Talia Barrow for babysitting this evening!
Our next Nash Home & School meeting will be held on Thursday, April 6 at 7:00 p.m.