• Lisa Rankine,
• Mary Hale,
• Diane Harvey,
• Catherine Cook,
• other parents

Administrator and teachers present :

• Ms. Martha Forney Westview Principal,

II.Principal’s Report – Martha Forney

III. PTO report – Lisa Rankine

IV.PTO treasure report -

See budget link

VII.Box Tops report -

VIII.School Store – Diane Harvey Anderson

During lunch time we sell funny school supplies, cell phone charms and sometimes T-Shirts but normally stuff for little money. It does not create a big profit but children love it and it is fun to do and a great opportunity to know the children. Please sign up ( contact Diane Harvey Anderson ) even if it is for one time only. We need at least 3 parents, one for each lunch time.

IX.Web Site – Catherine Cook/Tammy Lee

Catherine is the webmaster of the PTO website

X.Other Business

• Next meeting :
  

Do you have a dish to beat all others? Does everyone ask you to please bring “that” dish to celebrations?

If so, you need to plan to enter our second annual “Chef’s Best” competition, hosted by the library in conjunction with the “Sweet Reads Book Fair”. The competition will take place on Wednesday evening, November 3rd 2010, from 5:30-7:30 pm.

Planning to compete? Here’s what you do:

5:30 bring in your best dish to the library. Entry forms will be available when you arrive.
5:45 dish judging begins. While dishes are judged, shop at the book fair
6:45 winning dishes are announced
7:00-7:30 shop at the book fair and share the leftovers!

Chef’s best Dish Categories:

• Appetizer
• Entree
• Side
• Dessert

Prizes:

One Grand Prize winner will be announced for each category. Grand Prizes for each category will be a CHEF’S BEST BASKET, filled with culinary items.

• Lisa Rankine,President
• Mary Hale, Treasurer
• Diane Harvey,School Store Coordinator
• Catherine Cook,Webmaster, Secretary
• Sylva Ibanez, Secreatry

Administrator and teachers present :

• Ms. Martha Forney Westview Principal,

II. PTO treasure report – Mary Hale

See budget link

• Dance and cheerleaders, requested assistance by teacher sponsor
• Offered advice to Mr. Calderon; may need volunteers

Questions on budget:

• Dance
  • DJ: have we asked before for a volunteer parent DJ, as this was done in the past at Parmer lane Elementary School ?
  • We got a lot of postive feedbacks for the dance and the DJ we had.
  • Mary mentionned that  we made $200 in sales at dance which  is more than ever before.
  • $300/hour for the DJ or $600/night. Questions were asked about getting discount, possibly make advertisment flyers ?

Motion to accept budget passed.

III. Principal’s Report – Martha Forney

• Westview completely staffed now, including 7th grade principal
• There are 2 members on long-term leave.
• Students enrollment : 968 students total
  • 312 students in 6th grade
  • 316 students in 7th grade
  • 340 students in 8th grade
• Student holiday: Oct 11
• Early release: Nov 3
• Test for 8th grader on Nov 3 : Ready Step Test
• Programs at school
  • Capturing kids’ hearts: share the kids among teachers for their learning
  • Teaching with poverty in mind
    • Ex: how to distinguish anger and disappointment ?
    • Ex: improve IQ with activities
• Next CAAC meeting : 12/6 with discussions center around topics such as staffing, budget, school initiatives, data, planning, and so forth.

IV. Box Tops report – Mary Hale

• This year, we made over $100 thanks to the HEB bonus box tops. Last year half of the money came from the HEB bonus offer as well.
• Our first dead line is October 22. Please give your box tops coupons to the 1st period teacher or put them in the Box Top box in the library.

V. School Store – Diane Harvey Anderson

• We need volunteer during lunch time. 
• We sell funny school supplies from 50 cents to $2.
• We also have 25 cents gift cards.
• Please consult our catalog online.

VI.Tee-shirts

• We are doing well. .
• We placed orders for hoodies and 144 batch almost all sold.
• Thanks for front office helping selling T-shirts.
• Hoodies should be there for football games.

VII.Web Site – Catherine Cook
Website updated with:

• Catalog School Store.
• T-shirt Order Forms
• Minutes and Treasury Reports
• Corrections to some email addresses

VIII.Other businesses

• Nov 11 : National Junior Honor Society reception: 7pm at the cafeteria.
  • National Junior Honor Society color theme: blue and white.
  • Ms. Michalka asked for just cookies and punch but the PTO would like to provide the chocolate fountain including fruits, cookies and marshmallows.
• From Nov 1st to Nov 5th : Book Fair
  • Family event to celebrate the book fair: Nov 3 @ library from 5:30 to 7pm : the Westview’s “Chef’s best” competition. Same as we did last year. See flyer.
  • Donations: chef’s hats
• Food drive: Nov 1st – Nov 5th. Sponsor: Mrs Morgan
  • Need incentives for winning classroom: class of 30: fudge sundae, Chick-Fil-A, Culvers tickets ? need ideas…
• Next meeting : November 3rd, 2010 @6:30pm @ WMS library during Chef’s best competition
• Meeting ajourned @ 7:28pm

Box-tops-HEB

If you go to HEB from today to oct 5 , you can buy 5 participating Box Tops products and get 20 Bonus Box Tops ($2 value) or buy 10 participating Box Tops products get 70 Bonus Box Tops ($7 value) + $5 to spend for the school. This is a great deal and we made most of the money from this offer last year.

Spread the word !

Return the Box tops coupons either to the school store or to the 1st period teacher or put them in the Box Top box in the library.

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DO NOT FORGET Westview Express Fundraiser : Giftwraps, cards, candles, calendars and candy snacks.

Kick off : October 8th 2010

Return Packets: October 20th 2010

Volunteers needed when the items will be delivered which will be mid November. We will have it separated by grade level and alpha order, so we will have 3 stations set up and will need assistance distributing the items at each station.

Contact Erica Ramirez: Erica.Ramirez@pflugervilleisd.net

Welcome to a new year at Westview PTO. We are excited about another school year and hope you can join us at meetings, dances, sporting events, and many other happenings at Westview.

Check out our new events for the coming month:

Saturday – August 21st – Ice Cream Social from Noon to 1:30 p.m. All parents and students are invited. We will be providing PTO information.

There are many PTO opportunities available for both this year . Whether you want to participate on the Board, work an event when you can, or coordinate something on a one-time or frequent basis – we can use your help: PTO Board Positions

Lisa Rankine is our PTO President for the 2010/2011 year. You can contact her at lisrnkn@aol.com. Look for more from Lisa about all things happening in the upcoming months.

Thursday – September 2nd – Open House

• Lisa Rankine,
• Mary Hale,
• Diane Harvey,
• Catherine Cook,
• other parents

 Administrator and teachers present : 

• Ms. Martha Forney Westview Principal,
• Heather Christie – 6th grade Assistant Principal,
• Toni Festi – 8th grade Assistant Principal,
• Vivian Morgan – 8th grade ELA Teacher

 II.Principal’s Report – Martha Forney

•  952 students enrolled in Westview.
• New staff members, Mrs Brinson retired so a new 7th grade level principal will be hired soon.
• New grading policy : assessment 80 % of grade, practice 20% grade. If failure student can take the test again.
  • Assessment = student knowledge for instance tests, quizzes
  • Practice = homework for instance 
  • All middle schools in PISD had implemented this new policy last year except Westview. By 2010 it has to be implemented, district wide.
• Traditional schedule is implemented in school , all periods have the same time, there are no extended periods.
• There are 3 lunches and 325 kids at each lunch. 
• School starts at 8:10 am and finishes at 3:35pm
• The building opens at 7:30 A.M and students must enter the building and go to the cafeteria until bell rings, so there is less congestion this year.
• There is though still some congestion between 7th grade period lunch and 8th grade period lunch.
• New goals for the school: create team of teachers and attend athletic events together to get a closer community. We should be concerned about everything and not only the academic school.
• Parents who want to attend to the CAAC (Campus Academic Advisory Committee) meetings should send their email address to Mrs Forney. CAAC meetings are there to discuss everything about school: staff , budget, campus improvements. Parents, teachers, community representatives and counselors can be present at those meetings. Dates of meetings to be announced. 

III. PTO report – Lisa Rankine

Lisa explained the role of PTO and actions done in the past. How we support students (student incentives for instance) , and teachers (thank you breakfast or lunches every 6 weeks, staff appreciation week). PTO make a profit on dance parties: we have concession stands and we sell spirit items, food, drinks, T-shirts. Contact the PTO Board if you want to volunteer. Do not forget to sign in PISD website to be a volunteer parent.

New T-shirts have been ordered and will be sold for the first time on September 2, 2010 at open house. PTO last year suffered from getting those T-shirts too late in the year to make a good profit. This year Lisa and Mary ordered them during summer. All T-shirts will be sold for $10. They can be sold at any event or ordered. Forms on this website need to be sent to Mary or Lisa. There are no hoodies yet, we may take orders for the hoodies later. 

PTO also sell spirit items such as pompom and megaphones, but these were not a great success last year. We may try to sell purple scarves this year. 

IV.PTO treasure report – Mary Hale 

See budget link 

VI.Dances/Concessions- Lisa Rankine- Martha Forney 

New dance parties were scheduled during this meeting 

• BACK to SCHOOL Dance: September 24, 2010 from 4pm to 6pm so that children can stay after school 
• Valentine Dance: February 11, 2011 

VII.Box Tops report – Mary Hale 

• We made $325 last year with the box tops coupons. 
• If you go to HEB from today to oct 5 , you can buy 5 participating Box Tops products and get 20 Bonus Box Tops ($2 value) or buy 10 participating Box Tops products and get 70 Bonus Box Tops ($7 value) + 5 dollars to spend for the school. This is a great deal and we made most of the money from this offer last year. Spread the word ! Return the Box tops coupons either to the school store or to the 1st period teacher or put them in the Box Top box in the library.

 

VIII.School Store – Diane Harvey Anderson

During lunch time we sell funny school supplies, cell phone charms and sometimes T-Shirts but normally stuff for little money. It does not create a big profit but children love it and it is fun to do and a great opportunity to know the children. Please sign up ( contact Diane Harvey Anderson ) even if it is for one time only. We need at least 3 parents, one for each lunch time. 

IX.Web Site – Catherine Cook 

Catherine is the webmaster of the PTO website and she did a presentation of the website and explained the contents: 

• Last and past events 
• Minutes of PTO meetings 
• Budget reports 
• Contacts 
• How to subscribe to Yahoo list or how to subscribe to the PTO Westview google calendar. 

X.Other Business 

• Student incentives: Gattyland buffet : students love those. 
• Tickets for dance sold by PTO on the day of the dance during lunch. 
• There is a “Men in Education” association on the PISD web site. Meetings are from 7 – 8:30 p.m. and are generally on the first Wednesday of the month.This is great for men to be involved in education.See link: http://www.pflugervilleisd.net/MEN/index.cfm
• Next meeting : October 6th, 2010

• Attendance of PTO Board and Members -Diane Harvey Anderson, Hua Gray, Lisa Rankine, Catherine Cook, Arlie Pfeifer, Rosa Munoz, Jesus Ibanez, and other parents
• Administrator Present – Ron Gonzales

• Secretary’s Report- Arlie Pfeifer

  • Minutes read and approved
  
  
  
  
• Treasurer’s Report – Hua Gray

  • Box Tops  $325
  • Total Concession Sales $1376.75
  • Total Income $3017.49
  • Total Expense $2736.40
  • Net Income $281.09
  
  
  
  
• Principal

  • Progress reports go home this week
  • Kick Start  students traveling to Dallas this week
  • End of the year of assessments next week
  • CBAs coming up
  • May 24 8^th grade to NW Park
  • 8^th graders to CHS for orientation in divided groups (see Wildcat Herald for details)
  • May 31 School Holiday
  • Last school day is Jun 3
  • Spring Fling Jun 1 (Like WestFest) (cancelled 5-18-10)
  • Jun 2 evening Award Night 7 PM
  
  
  
  

• Dance planning: 5/14 – 6^th & 7^th grade, 8^th grade
   
  •  Decorations and Posters
  •  Email to the List Serv
  • Food – pizza and soda
  • Cake/punch for 8^th graders
  •  More decorated for the 8^th grader
  •  Bring digital cameras for pictures
  
   

• Spring Fling plans – booth  – Note on 5-18-10  This event has been cancelled.

•  To be held outside
•  ?want an inflatable
• Toilet toss
• Rock Climbing wall treadmill
• PTO can spend $300 or less

  • Diane nominated
  • Arlie second motion
  • All approved
  
   
  
  




• Teacher appreciation schedule:

  • Last week of school

    • Award Ceremony (June 2^nd)
    • Last day of school June 3^rd , early release
    • June 4 Teacher’s Last Work Day

      • Donate Light Breakfast snacks
      
      
      
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
• Officers/positions for the 2010/2011 school year

  • Lisa Rankine for President
  • Catherine Cook – Webmaster
  • Nominated Mary Hale for Treasurer
  • Nominations for Secretary Jesus Ibanez, potentially interested
  •  Box Tops Coordinator – Jesus Ibanez
  •  T-shirt Coordinator –
  •  School Store Coordinator –
  •  Spirit Items Coordinator–

    • Suggestion of Big Ribbons (customizable for each game)
    • Selling opportunities next fall, Schedule pick up day, 6^th grade orientation, Back to School night,
    • Check with Cheerleaders for opportunities to sell or other organizations, students to help, WEB leaders, World Changers, What can be offered as monetary incentives?  Ms. Castillo will help coordinate
    • Ms Pena and Ms Adediji interested in PTO participation. 

      • Wearing Blue Jeans could be a possible incentive
      
      
      
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
• Speakers for job week – Ms. Munoz

  • Invitations sent for parents to talk about their careers
  • May 25-28 are the days scheduled and math/science/engineering background for Ms Hitt on Jun 2nd
  • Can be for an hour or for all day, whatever the parent can offer
  
   
  
  
• Distribution of money ideas –

  • Get more information regarding ideas
  • Table for next fall
  
   
  
  

• Wildcat Herald has incorrect PTO web address

  • wmspto.wordpress.com
  • Money forms edited and presented

    • To be reviewed and approved next fall meeting
    
     
    
    
  
   
  
  

VI. Adjourned at 7:50 PM

Speakers wanted for end of school.  

Parents are invited to talk about their careers or any talent from May 25th  to May 28th. It can be for an hour or for all day. Contact Mrs Munoz for any details.  

One Last Breakfast…
Although the kids are out of school on Thursday, June 3, the teachers must continue for another day. The PTO would love to provide them with a good-bye breakfast on Friday, June 4 to wrap up this wonderful year! If you’re able to donate fruit, baked goods, juice or any food item for this effort, it will help them all end the school year with a huge thank you! More information on this will be forthcoming…

There are many PTO opportunities available for both this year and next. Whether you want to participate on the Board, work an event when you can, or coordinate something on a one-time or frequent basis – we can use your help: PTO Board Positions for next year.  

Lisa Rankine has assumed the role of PTO President for the upcoming year.  You can contact her at lisrnkn@aol.com. Look for more from Lisa about all things happening in the upcoming months.
This year, the PTO received a BoxTops check for $325 ! That’s an amazing job, especially for a middle school. Way to go, Wildcats! Remember, keep collecting those BoxTops over the summer. We’ll be looking for them again next year!
The Westview PTO School Store is closed for the school year. Thanks for a great year and see you in September!  

The 2009 yearbook sold out before the end of last school year. Many were left without a yearbook. Don’t miss your chance to get the 2010 yearbook this year! You can buy one at www.classscene.com for $39

1. Lisa Rankine, nominated for president
2. Catherine Cook, will continue as web master
3. Need Treasurer – Diane to check with Sheri Tripp
4. Need Secretary
5. T-shirt coordinator
6. School Store Coordinator
7. TAKS Snacks Coordinator
8. Teacher Appreciation Coordinator

Contact us if you are interested by any position.