Glenridge PTO

We hope this newsletter finds you and your family well.  As we are all adjusting to distance learning and staying home, we want you to know that the Glenridge PTO is still here for our students and their families.  If you have a need, please reach out to us and we will see how we can help.  You can email us at glenridgepto@gmail.com or you can message us at facebook.com/glenridgepto.

Please let others in our Glenridge community know that we are here and contact us if they need help in any way.  We know not everyone is on Facebook or gets the newsletter, so please share information with others.  Thank you!

Order Your Yearbook!

It’s time to order your student’s 2019-20 Yearbook!  With 60 pages of colorful memories, the yearbook is a great way to commemorate this remarkable school year. 

This year, you can purchase yearbooks through the company website and have them shipped directly to your home.  To be guaranteed a yearbook, you must order online by June 1st.  The PTO will have a few for sale when school is back in session, but they might not last.  Order yours today!

Yearbooks are $11 a piece, plus $4 for shipping ($2 a piece to ship additional books).  All orders must be placed by June 1st; deliveries to families will begin June 29th.

Purchase yearbooks here: https://link.entourageyearbooks.com/my/GlenridgeElementary

Teacher & Staff Appreciation

Did you know that Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week is coming up the week of May 4th?  Let’s show our Glenridge teachers some love!  

The PTO will be letting our teachers and staff know how much we appreciate all of their hard work to support Glenridge kids in learning at home.  If you’re doing something to say ‘thank you’ to your student’s teacher, tell us about it at facebook.com/glenridgepto or send in a picture to grptoyearbook@gmail.com for us to put in the yearbook!

Do you have a great idea to recognize Glenridge staff while we’re all at home?  Tell us about it at GlenridgePTO@gmail.com!

PTO Community Support

The PTO is organizing to support neighbors helping neighbors in the Glenridge community!  Grocery delivery, emotional support check-ins, pet care, video playdates, meal prep – there are lots of ways we can support each other while still staying safe! 

Do you have a need? 

Fill out our Request Support Form

Can you help fill a need? 

Fill out our Offer Support Form

Need Yearbook Pictures

 

PTO volunteers are hard at work putting the final touches on this year’s yearbook and we are looking for candid pictures of your students!  All pictures from this school year are welcome, including pictures of living and learning at home during the school closure.  Send pictures to grptoyearbook@gmail.com.  We can’t guarantee that they’ll be included, but we will do our best!

PTO Board Elections

Do you have ideas and energy to support the Glenridge Elementary community? Would you like to be more involved with leadership of the PTO? Consider running for a Board position!   

The PTO is accepting nominations for the following positions until May 8th and voting will take place at the May 12th PTO meeting.  Email GlenridgePTO@gmail.com to submit your name or the name of someone else you think would be great!  Nominations are welcome for all of the following Board positions; those marked with an * have someone willing to continue in the position next year.

--*President/Co-President: Serves as leader and key contact for the PTO.  Runs the PTO meetings and coordinates the overall work of the PTO Board and volunteers.  

--Vice President: Participates in decision-making and coordination of PTO projects, performs the duties of the President if the President is unable.  This position has the option of coordinating PTO fundraising efforts.

--*Communications Secretary: Manages communication with the PTO and larger Glenridge Elementary community.  Creates and shares PTO updates and notices via social media, newsletters, flyers, etc., and manages the PTO’s Facebook page.

--Recording Secretary: Attends and take notes on monthly PTO meetings

--*Treasurer: Manages the PTO’s finances.  Responsible for custody and disbursement of all PTO funds, prepares monthly financial reports, and ensures sound financial practices and management

KSD Laptop Support

The Kent School District (KSD) Customer Support Center (CSC) offers ongoing laptop support by appointment on Thursdays from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Make an appointment and visit the KSD Administration Center to:

• Have your laptop repaired or swapped out for another.
• Pick up a laptop for a KSD student.
• Drop off a laptop for a student leaving KSD.
• Pick up a hotspot (quantities are extremely limited due to national shortages).

If you are unable to pick-up a device during a Thursday appointment, please contact your school's principal to see what other options may be available to you.

Kent School District Meals

Throughout the school closure, Kent School District will continue to feed all children in our community, up to age 18, whether they are on the Free or Reduced Meal program or not.  No KSD student will be turned away. Children do not have to be present for someone to pick up a meal for them. 

A box of ten meals are available at select schools, community partner sites, and bus stops across our district every Monday.  Email glenridgepto@gmail.com or fill out our Request Support Form for help with KSD meal pick-up and delivery.  Full details available HERE

KSD Meal Pick-Up and Delivery

PTO volunteers can pick up and deliver KSD meals boxes to Glenridge families, one time or on an ongoing basis, as meals last.  If KSD meal boxes are unavailable, PTO volunteers can possibly provide grocery delivery.  Email glenridgepto@gmail.com or fill out our Request Support Form to set up delivery. 

Kent Buy Nothing (Northeast) Facebook Group

The Kent Buy Nothing (Northeast) Facebook group offers members “a way to give and receive, share, lend, and express gratitude through a worldwide network of hyper-local gift economies in which the true wealth is the web of connections formed between people who are real-life neighbors. Post anything you'd like to give away, lend, or share in this Buy Nothing community group. Ask for anything you'd like to receive for free or borrow.”  Learn more and request to join HERE

Kent Food Bank and Emergency Services

Kent Food Bank and Emergency Services is distributing food in pre-packed boxes at the East Food Bank entrance Wednesdays and Fridays, 10am-1pm.  The Clothing Bank is currently closed.  More information available HERE.

Calling for Volunteers

We want to partner with you!  Even though it’s only April, the PTO is already organizing for next year and we’d love your help.  

There are so many big and small ways to participate in the PTO and support Glenridge – you don’t have to have a lot of time or even come to a meeting to make a difference.  We invite parents, guardians, grandparents and other family and community members to consider volunteering with the PTO – you can organize an event, work on an ongoing project, or contribute to the running of the PTO itself.  Email GlenridgePTO@gmail.com -  we’d love to talk with you more about it!