PTA POST
2023-2024 School Year Vol. 15
Upcoming Dates
November 13th: BPS Internet Safety Presentation via zoom @ 6:30pm
https://birmingham-k12-mi-us.zoom.us/j/89663583996
November 22nd - 24th: No School - Thanksgiving Break
December 1: Picture Retake Day
December 7: 1/2 day, dismissal at 11:50am
December 7: Hanukkah begins
December 8: Bodhi Day
December 15: Hanukkah ends
December 25: Christmas
December 22 - January 2: Winter Break
January 12: 1/2 day, dismissal at 11:50am
January 15: No School - MLK
January 24: Kindergarten Round Up
January 31: STEM Family Night
Thank you to all our volunteers who helped at the book fair this week or who volunteered to stock our staff lounge for conference dinners. We are so appreciative of you!
The PTA would also like to give a very special THANK YOU to Mark Doolittle, a Pierce parent, who volunteered his time this fall to do a full independent audit of our PTA financials. Completing this fulfills one of our requirements from the MI PTA to get our tax exemption letter. THANK YOU, MARK!
Pierce PTA Sponsored Events
Math Pentathlon
Math Pentathlon is a PTA sponsored program where students meet weekly before school to play board games designed to enrich sportsmanship & critical thinking skills. 2nd – 5th grade practices have just started while Kindergarten/1st Grade will begin in December. For more information, or if your student would like to participate, email piercemathp@gmail.com or visit https://piercepta.membershiptoolkit.com/mathpentathlon
Coming Soon: STEM Night
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Save the date for an amazing family event at Pierce! Ann Arbor Hands on Museum, Robot Garage, and Michigan Science Center will all be coming ON LOCATION to Pierce to hold an awesome evening of fantastic STEM activities. Keep an eye out for more details to come and how you can help out!
Volunteer Opportunities
Front Office Volunteers
Volunteers will be helping with teacher requests (copying, laminating, etc) along with miscellaneous front office tasks that are needed for support regularly. We appreciate the help every school day! There are 2 shifts/day: mornings = 9AM – 10AM & afternoons = 2:30PM – 3:30PM. If you can help, please sign up here!
Noon Aid Sub
Noon Aids assist daily in our cafeteria and on our playground, helping our lunch time run smoothly. At times, we need subs to fill in when our usual noon aids are out. If you can be available from 11:15 AM – 1:30 PM and would like to be placed on the Noon Aid On-Call List (you will only get called when there is a need), please email Rose at RDorre@birmingham.k12.mi.us.
More Key Information
TRUE Martial Arts Fundraiser
TRUE Martial Arts, a local martial arts studio, is owned by a Pierce family and does all of the martial arts after school classes through community education at all of the Birmingham elementary schools including Pierce. TRUE Martial Arts is offering a special fundraiser for Pierce families this fall – for $69, students can do 2 weeks of unlimited classes, including a uniform and all $69 comes back to the Pierce PTA! See the attached flyer for details. Special thanks to TRUE Martial Arts of Pierce & our families!
BOLD Flow Yoga Fundraiser
Save the Date for Wednesday, Dec 6 – Friday, Dec 8. During this time, BOLD Flow Yoga is offering 10% back to the Pierce PTA for all new packages purchased + merchandise! BOLD Flow studios are located in West Bloomfield, Royal Oak (in the Woodward Corners plaza), and in Grosse Pointe! Thank you, BOLD Flow, for sponsoring our PTA.
Birmingham “Night on the Town” Fundraiser
Save the Date for the evening of Wednesday, Dec 6 for a night out in Birmingham. Working with a number of Birmingham shops, Pierce families & supporters will have a chance to shop and ‘buy local’ while also supporting our PTA. We will also have a local restaurant to meet up at for some social time in between purchases! Stay tuned for more info on participating shops and restaurants!
Other Great Information
PTA Open Positions
The Pierce PTA is searching for a Legislative Liaison that would help connect with all sorts of advocacy and legislative groups, reaching up all the way to the U.S. Department of Education and Michigan Legislature to understand what is happening that would affect students locally in our district. And then, from there, the idea is to pull that information back down to the local level, raising awareness and bringing people in our community to action.
For next school year, we have many positions currently filled by 5th grade parents who will be ‘graduating’ from Pierce. With that, we will be looking to fill the following positions: Secretary, Wellness Chair, Kindergarten Round-Up Coordinator, BEF Liaison, Fundraising Chair, and Academic Chair. Reaching out now allows time to shadow these chairs during the remainder of this school year.
If you are interested in learning more about any of these open PTA positions, either for this year or next year, please reach out to pierceelementarypta@gmail.com for more information. We appreciate your time and energy!
Trunk or Treat Feedback
We are still soliciting feedback on the October Trunk or Treat event. If you have any comments or suggestions on how we can improve for next year, please submit it here
Accelerated Reader
Accelerated Reader (AR) is a PTA sponsored program to drive reading and reading comprehension for grades 2-5. For more information, please visithttps://piercepta.membershiptoolkit.com/ar
Not new, but helpful information.
MTK
What is Membership Toolkit (MTK)? MTK is a website managed by the Pierce PTA and is available only to parents of Pierce Elementary School students where you can:
- Visit our Store
- View the Pierce Online Directory
- Browse Volunteer Opportunities
- View the Calendar
- Review PTA Meeting Minutes & access prior PTA Posts
- Learn more about PTA sponsored programs
Hot Tip! Download the Mobile App available for either Apple or Android! With the app, you will have all of this information right at your fingertips easily accessible.
Questions? Email pierceelementarytreasurer@gmail.com.
Spirit Wear
Purchase your Pierce Spirit Wear here!
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Contact Information
Pierce Elementary School
1829 Pierce
Birmingham, MI 48009
Phone: 248-203-4325
Fax: 248-203-4393
https://www.birmingham.k12.mi.us/pierce
Ms. Carey Shields (Larson)