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F/u to changing schools post
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Don't know if you all remember my cliques post from about a month ago where I said I was changing schools next year. Well, we went to tour the other school and synagogue last week and we've decided to stay at the school where we are at now. It was a good school and synagogue but we didn't get the "I love you and it" feeling that we did when we met our current director and toured our current school. We may still join the other synagogue at some point but for not we're staying put. Any doubts I had to our decision disappeared when Benjamin saw one of his teachers from last year at camp today. She was subbing for one of the other classes but when they saw each other at car pool this morning, they just fell into each others arms. They have a huge bond and I'm so so glad we're staying. I also found out yesterday that she is going to be one of his teachers again next year so yay!
I had a really good meeting with the director yesterday and she agrees that we need to make the school more of a community and she's charging me with helping her do that. I think she's creating a "head of pta" position and putting me in it. We talked over some ideas and we're going to meet again in a few weeks to talk some more. I'm very excited about this! It's been way too long since I've had anything to sink my teeth into (I used to be involved on boards in way too many groups) and this is exactly up my alley!
So, if you could foster a sense of community in your preschool, what would you want to see? Or if you have a good parent community in your preschool, what do you like about it or don't like about it? The pta was basically has been in name only for years so this will be the first time someone will be helping organize everything. I know I'm taking on a huge project and I'll be starting with baby steps but would love to hear ideas that I may not have thought about yet.
Thanks for reading if you got this far! :-)
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Re: F/u to changing schools post
It does sound RIGHT up your alley to be involved with the pta and community. Good for you!
I wish I had some ideas -- I know there are fundraisers at that school from time to time (we recently bought raffle tickets from a parent there). I don't know much else about the community. At DD's school we've had some little events like "Moms and donuts day" where we arrive early and moms have donuts with the kids. It's a chance for the moms to mingle a little bit also.
DMoney will be a kickass big sister
Maybe y'all can have a garden at your school and all parents and kids can help take care of it.
Also, have a fundraiser where y'all can pack/organize stuff together.
Our daycare has a family night out but most parents hang out with the same group of parents.
I think the key is to focus on an activity based event so everybody can do something together.
Good luck!
We are required to volunteer 15 hours a school year as a family at our school. It is easy to get volunteer hours, like every time it is your turn to bring in snack you take home laundry and get 1 hour, but we have a lot of festivals as well, so a winter festival, earth day, may day, etc. It is nice because when you volunteer they place you with parents from other classes so you get to know them.
We also have coffee days, once a month I think, where after school starts you meet with other parents and there is a topic and you sit around and talk about it. I went to two and it was interesting!
And there are tons of committees at the school too, so signing up for those helps bring people together.
I was going to say this, our school had this and I loved it! I wasn't sure if it was this way at every school or not. At the meet n greet before school started you could sign up to "host" the parties they had throughout the year and there were 2 or 3 parent sign ups for each class. A bunch of parents had been going to our school for a couple of years at this point and this was our first year so we didn't know anyone until we got started and this was a super awesome way for us parents to get to know each other. Plus the teacher left it open that all parents were invited to all parties, so most of us SAHM's were there for most of the parties and could talk and such. Plus it was SUPER easy to "host" a party, so it was really low key.
and the garden that donna mentioned is an awesome idea! the school that finn will go to next year (and for potentially the next 8 years) started a garden a year or maybe two ago and it has been a huge community event. we've been participating even though we weren't going to the school yet.
but yay, good for you! have fun with it!