While you’re on vacation, or at the beach, or waiting for your child to finish another day of camp, why not get yourself organized for the new school year (which starts in 7 weeks?) Here is a list of some things you can do now:
PTA Check out our newly revamped PTA website HERE . We’ve organized it and added more functionalities! This is where you’ll be able to go as we get closer to the start of school to complete your First Day Packets, buy Franklin logowear, and more! Information is still being updated for the 2017-18 school year and we will send you updates as needed, but feel free to look around the site! Please send any feedback or questions to John Jericiau at franklinpresidentpta@gmail.com .
PTA Be sure you are subscribed to receive our Monday/Thursday eblasts (they’ll resume in August.) Sign up to get important tweets from the Franklin PTA President. LIKE us on Facebook @FranklinSchoolSantaMonica! Subscribe to the Franklin PTA Google Calendar and have all the events for the 2017-18 school year right on your device(s), updated in real time! You can do all of this and more on the PTA website.
PTA Take a look at the list below of open positions in the 2017-18 PTA. Please consider contacting us with your interests. We would love to have you involved!
PTA Membership Chair
SMMEF Liaison
First Day Packets (help us stuff the envelopes at the beginning of the school year for each family)
Back to School Picnic (shadow this year’s Chair for her last year)
Green Team (we need a co-chair)
Disaster Preparedness
Online Directory (this position can be filled from the comfort of your home)
Box Tops for Education
Gardening & Beautification (we need more committee members – calling all Green Thumbs!)
Carnival (we need more committee members … weekly meetings will resume at the start of school)
Red Ribbon Week
Website help (we’ve built it – now we need maintenance workers!)
PTA Your 2017-18 Franklin PTA Executive Board and members – official as of July 1, 2017 – are hard at work this summer preparing for the upcoming year. We are getting the store ready on the new website (thank you Andrew Raiher), designing and printing the new Logo wear and Franklin T-shirts (thank you Sandra Carapinha & Patti Senior), getting the bulletin boards jam packed with important information (thank you Lizl Peters), cleaning out and organizing the PTA closets (thank you Kelli Haas), overseeing the progress of the new sunshade (thank you, Ryan Robinett), continuing to find Carnival Sponsors (thank you Roksana Ebrahemi and Alexis Elsea), working on revamped drip irrigation for the planters (thank you Elisabeth Ward), booking the speakers for our Parent Education series (thank you Lisa Ellison) and much much more! What a great year we are going to have! Thank you as well for the thoughtful guidance of our past PTA Presidents Megan Histand, Samira Poulos, and Erin Einstein Dale who continue to provide helpful insight and counseling as we head into a new school year.