Beverly PTA News
A letter of thanks-June 2018
A message from the President
What a difference two years can make. These past two school years I have had the honor of serving this wonderful community as your PTA President. While my first year involved in the PTA was full of adventures, it will be this year at Beverly that will forever have an imprint on my heart. This community has experienced more than its fair share of stress, heartbreak and grief this past year. And from all that hurt some really beautiful things happened. Beverly has been at the receiving end of so much love in the form of cards, notes, flowers, food, hugs, and well wishes from schools all across the Edmonds District and the PTA Region 7 area. We also had community members showing Beverly lots of love this year. The #indayvidsname volunteers, all friends of Dayvid’s family, supported the holiday giving drive and school pantry all year long. They even volunteered at Carnival when we were short on help. Thank you Kori and friends for giving your time and love to Beverly this year. We love you!
I watched this community step up and take care of each other in a way that can only be described as beautiful. The Family Resource Pantry received donation after donation of snacks, drinks, food, clothes, school supplies and so much more. Anytime a call for help or a need was expressed this community met the need plus more.
The PTA membership voted to grant the resource pantry $2000 this year which is being put to good use to create an amazing family resource center. Keep a lookout for before and after photos of the space on Facebook this summer! Speaking of PTA grants-membership also voted to allocate more money to many more line items like the teacher classroom supply reimbursements, grants for special supplies or projects like S.T.E.A.M. night and a new lamina-tor for the staff workroom and more. We are still getting our final numbers tallied for the year but there was definitely a lot of good done with the money raised by our students this year.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for welcoming me with open arms when I took this job on, having no idea what I was doing. Thank you for forgiving my mess ups, there were many. Thank you for always answering my calls for help, there were many. Thank you for going along for the ride when I had crazy, never done before ideas that I had no idea how to pull off but just knew it could work.
This crazy ride called PTA tested me this year. And sometimes I passed with flying colors. And some days I got a big fat F. Still, I strongly encourage everyone out there to try it! If I can do it-anyone can! You do not have to be perfect. Honestly. You can battle anxiety and depression. You can get lost sometimes and need help. You can have no idea what you are doing. Nervous about getting outside of your comfort zone and coming to a meeting? Been there! Nervous about volunteering and not knowing what to do, or if you will know anyone? Been there! Reach out to me anytime and I would love to join you at a meeting or work a volunteer shift with you to show you the ropes. And there are many more crazy PTA volunteers like me that would also welcome you with open arms. This is a family that can never be too big. And the goodness you get back ten fold is worth every second of hard work.
I look forward to working as your F.A.C.E. (family and community engagement) Chair next year. I met with Rashanah Botley today and we have so many exciting ideas we can't wait to try and pull off next year. I am really excited to work with the incoming board as Vice President. It is going to be another amazing year.
Have a great summer Big Dogs! You deserve it! Be safe and we will see you back at Beverly August 30th for the Back to School Bonanza!
With all my aloha,
Candace Pruett
*read the entire flyer for a link to a slide show of PTA events from the year*
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
We have so many people to thank for this amazing year!
Thank you to all the volunteers who gave the gift of their time. Thank you to everyone that donated supplies, concessions, food and gifts for staff and more to help us pull off event after event this year. The Monster Mash was so much fun and would have never been possible without all the volunteers and donations of supplies, decorations and food.
Thank you to the PTA veterans that still know more than me and always take a call, email or text with questions. Thank you to all the PTA rookies who took a chance and gave it a try.
Thank you to the board members I served with the past two years. We will forever be bonded by this wild ride we went on. Cheesy I know but its true.
Thank you Ms. Sanders and Cathi Wrolstad our admin and teacher reps for always being the voice of reason and great supporters of PTA.
Thank you to our volunteers that took on chair positions. Every successful event needs a good leader. It also needs a great team. Thank you to everyone that served on a committee, there is a lot of planning and preparation that goes into each event/program and it can take many hands.
It takes a village and Beverly has an amazing village full of kind, hard working and passionate people.
Thank you for making a difference for every student at Beverly.
Thank you to all the Big Dog Dash planners, volunteers and sponsors! This event takes A LOT of work and man power. Thank you for making it possible for PTA to do so much good at Beverly with all those donated funds.
Thank you to all our event sponsors that generously donated to the PTA to help off set the cost of putting on the Big Dog Dash.
A big THANK YOU to our neighbors across the street at the Meadowdale 76 and Subway purchased a water bottle for EVERY student and staff member at Beverly to have at the event.
Thank you to all the companies that donated fun prizes for our fundraising top earners!
A HUGE SHOUT OUT TO THE BIG DOG DASH PROCUREMENT TEAM FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK, WHAT A GIFT TO BEVERLY!
Join us for our first park meet up of the summer! Monday, July 9th at 10am@ Meadowdale Neighborhood Park. (the park down the street from the school). We will be there at 10am with popsicles and cold drinks! Feel free to bring snacks to share
The Back to School Bonanza will be back! August 30th is the date of this event so mark your calendars! As we have more info we will email it to PTA membership this summer so join us! Event details will also be posted on Facebook closer to day of the event. This is when you will find out what class your students will be in, drop off your supplies and check out all the information available to prepare you for the year at Beverly. We will have booths from after school programs, the PTA, project I AM and more! You don't want to miss it!
Please help me welcome the incoming PTA Board Officers of the 2018-2019 School Year!
Jamie Regis-President
Diana DuJardin- Treasuer
Maryjo Green- Co-Secretary
Anastasia Hollenbach-Co-Secretary
Candace Pruett-Vice President
Just a reminder that you have to join the PTA each school year. GOOD NEWS! You can join as soon as July 1st! Find the PTA table at our summer meet ups for more info and prizes for anyone that joins on the spot! You can also follow our Facebook page for membership info all summer.
We have a few areas that still need help next year. If you think you might want to help with Carnival, Reading Night or the Book Exchange please email Candace Pruett at ptacandace@gmail.com We will also have information on Facebook this summer and at the back to school bonanza.
We are currently on the hunt for local businesses to sponsor the Big Dog Dash fundraiser in October. If you are a business owner, or know a business owner that might be interested in helping the PTA off set the fees for the event please email Candace Pruett at ptacandace@gmail.com. In return they will get their company logo and information on our fundraising website, digital newsletters, the PTA Facebook page and MORE! We would LOVE LOVE LOVE to be able to provide a Big Dog tshirt to EVERY student next year but we can't do it alone. Don't know of a business personally? Not too shy to ask? We would love help procuring sponsorships this summer, email Candace for more information!
Beverly Elementary PTA
Email: ptacandace@gmail.com
Phone: 0000000000
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeverlyPTA/