Bailey Elementary PTO

We are thrilled to offer new gift items and cozy pajamas this year for our fall/winter Spirit Wear sale! Please click on the link below to check out the online store, which will be open through December 1st. Only 38 days until holiday break!!!

CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE STORE

It’s the most magical time of year!! Bailey’s most beloved event “THE HOLIDAY SHOPPE” is right around the corner! Mark your calendars for Friday, December 6th from 6:00pm – 8:30pm.

Students will have the opportunity to shop for gifts for their family with the help of our incredible 5th grade elves and visit with Santa! We will have face painting, hot chocolate, & cookies as well as a raffle for a brand new bike! Please be on the look out for more information in the coming weeks and a Sign Up Genius for volunteers to make the night a huge success!

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask our event chair, Kelly Cousino (kcousino1123@gmail.com).

Next week (November 11 – November 15), we will hold spirit week and dress up days, in conjunction with the food and personal item drive! Our service projects team has come up with creative ways to tie-in with the list of most needed items at the Dublin Food Pantry.

Boxes for collection are in the lobby now and labeled by grade! Items will be counted, and the winning grade level will win a special prize, voted on by students. Teachers of the winning grade will also win Ohio Home hoodies! Please join in the fun next week, and help us have a record breaking collection for those in need!

I have attached the link to the google sign up form for the Watch D.O.G.S. program.  I have also outlined the changes to the program within the form.

CLICK HERE FOR WATCH D.O.G.S. SIGN UP

Please remember that in order to volunteer for this program, you must complete a background check and be approved by Central Office prior to coming in and volunteering.  Background checks are good for five years so if you recently had one completed, you should be good to go! 

CLICK HERE FOR BACKGROUND CHECK

Important pointers about the program:

• The program will run from November through the end of March.
• Watch D.O.G.S. are permitted to volunteer on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
• Volunteer time in the classroom is limited to 40 minutes (It was previously 60 min.).
• We ask that you coordinate your time with your child’s lunch/recess, meaning you can volunteer in the classroom and then go to lunch/recess with your child or come in for lunch/recess with your child and then volunteer in the classroom.
• Please email your child’s teacher two days prior to volunteering to setup your schedule.

We are currently seeking co-chairs for this year’s Family Bingo Night and Mini Course Night. These are fun events and you would be trained by the existing chairs in an effort to learn and help with these events in the future. It is truly a great opportunity to get involved!!!

If interested, please email the existing chairs below.

Mini Course Night: Jodi O’Sullivan (osullivanclan5@gmail.com)

Family Bingo Night: Jennifer McHale (jmchale0613@gmail.com)

For any other volunteering opportunities or general PTO and event questions, please contact Emily Marshall at smcchic99@gmail.com.

It is that time of the year again to host our food and necessity drive to benefit the Dublin Food Pantry. From this Wednesday (11/6) through Friday (11/22), there will be donation boxes against the back wall of the Commons, just outside the Main Office. Each box will be labeled by grade and the grade with the most donated items will win a special prize!!!

The most needed items right now are:

• Pasta
• Mac & Cheese
• Side Dishes (rice, boxed sides, etc)
• Condiments
• Salad Dressing
• Deodorant
• Toothpaste
• 4 Packs of Toilet Paper

Please be on the lookout for more details and next week’s themed spirit days to help get our kids excited about this important service project!

We are proud to announce that information and details for this year’s Bailey Bulldog 5K and Kids Dash will be available soon. Please check back periodically or subscribe to the PTO website to receive email notifications when new posts are added to the website.

If you have any interest in volunteering at Bailey Elementary then you must complete the background check process. It is simple, free, and takes less than 5 minutes!

Click Here to Get Started Right Now

The Bailey PTO is pleased to share the below P.E.R.C. programs that will be available this autumn. If you have any questions or would like to discuss P.E.R.C. programming, please contact our P.E.R.C. liaison, Linda Killworth, at lkillworth@yahoo.com.

August 27th – Syntero Health and Wellness Event

Sept. 19th – Snaps, Sexts and Social Media

Sept. 24th – Book Talk – How to Raise an Adult  (RSVP only event)

Oct. 23rd – How to Raise Emotionally Healthy Boys in the Digital Era

Additional information below…

Interested in a fun, innovative, team-building experience?

Destination Imagination teams are beginning to form for the winter/spring DI season. This program is a fun, hands-on system of learning that fosters students’ creativity, courage and curiosity through open-ended academic Challenges in the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), fine arts and service learning. Our participants learn patience, flexibility, persistence, ethics, respect for others and their ideas, and the collaborative problem-solving process. Teams may showcase their solutions at the local tournament on Saturday, March 7, 2020 in Circleville, OH. If you are interested in learning more about DI, check out this site:https://www.destinationimagination.org/.

Interested?

Email Kristina at kvanbuskirk@gmail.com of your interest. Kristina will try to match you with same grade peers. Don’t forget each team needs at least one team manager (parent volunteer).

Starting a new team or have an existing team?

Email Kristina with the name of your team manager, list of team member names and grades. This information is needed for administrative and insurance purposes.  If you want to use a room at Bailey after school, please contact Kristina for instructions.