President's Note Hello Parents and Guardians! We have made it more than halfway through the school year- it truly seems to be flying by! As we enter the season of electing PTA officers and securing committee chairs for the 2024-2025 school year, I want to thank all who are currently volunteering your time in one of these many roles. You are appreciated and valued! From working in the school, to planning class parties, supporting our staff appreciation activities, buying Evergreen spirit-wear, helping our wonderful librarians, building a stage for our 5th Grade moving-up ceremony, helping in the cafeteria, planning Before School Enrichment and Running Club, brining back our Reflections Program ….and so much more….it makes a difference! THANK YOU – We could not do it without you! Spring is an exciting time for our PTA as we look forward to hosting our annual 4th & 5th grade dance on Friday, March 22nd and a new event- our Eagle Community Night on March 26th at 5:30 pm. Together we CAN do a lot. GO EAGLES! Thank you, Sarah Werner-Ellis PTA President President@eepta.com |
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Upcoming Events | | Thursday, February 29 | | | Thursday, March 7 | | | Tuesday, March 12 | | | | Wednesday, March 13 | | | Thursday, March 14 | | | Friday, March 15 | | | Tuesday, March 19 | | | Wednesday, March 20 | | | Friday, March 22 | | | | | Saturday, March 23 | | | Sunday, March 24 | | | Monday, March 25 | | | Tuesday, March 26 | | | | Wednesday, March 27 | | | | Thursday, March 28 | | | Friday, March 29 | | | Monday, April 1 | | | Tuesday, April 2 | | | Wednesday, April 3 | | | Thursday, April 4 | | | Friday, April 5 | |
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| 2023-2024 PTA Executive Board
President: Sarah Werner-Ellis Vice President: Mary Budny Treasurer: Mary Narum Secretary: Christy Bush |
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THANK YOU to our March Community Business Sponsor, JARROD HOUP THANK YOU to our March Community Business Sponsor, JARROD HOUP, with SHAEEN, RUTH, MARTIN & FONVILLE, for sponsoring a St. Partick's Day themed celebration for our Evergreen Staff. |
| PTA Meeting Information Our PTA believes that families are one of the essential ingredients we need to ensure a high-quality education and experience for every student at Evergreen Elementary. That is why this year, we are bringing back in-person PTA meetings, and to make our meetings more engaging, we are aligning each monthly meeting with a family-friendly program, guest speaker, or school event. We want everyone to feel welcome and be able to attend these important meetings and events. Children are welcome to attend, and we will have games, books, and other items to help entertain them; however, we ask that parents/guardians remain responsible for their children in attendance. Remember… ALL parents/guardians are welcome and encouraged to attend monthly PTA meetings. You do not need to be a PTA member to attend a meeting, but we hope you will become a PTA member because increased membership will help us to build a stronger Evergreen Elementary Community. Below is a list of our meetings for this school year. We hope to see you! March 26 @ 6 pm- PTA Meeting & Guest Speaker TBD April 23 @ 6 pm- PTA Meeting & 5th Grade Talent Show @ 6:30 pm May 28 @ 6 pm- PTA Meeting/Elections & Middle School Information & Preparation Panel @ 6:30 pm
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| EEPTA 2024-25 Officer Nominations The PTA Nominating Committee is soliciting nominations for individuals interested in serving as officers on the PTA Executive Board for the 2024-25 school year. We are looking to collect names of people who you feel would be a great fit to be a PTA Officer. Please feel free to nominate yourself. Please CLICK HERE to nominate yourself or someone else.
Our PTA does wonderful things for our students, staff and families.
We welcome new faces and fresh ideas!
**Filling out this form does not commit anyone, it just let's us know you are interested, so we can reach out!**
TOGETHER WE CAN DO A LOT!
Questions? Please contact The EEPTA Nominating Committee
Colleen Rust, Logan Carter and Samantha Saul at nominating@eepta.com.
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| Become a Volunteer…Why YOU should get involved! As you can see, we are a busy group. This is where you can come in! We need your help, and so do your children. Over 500 independent studies on parent involvement show that when parents get involved in their children’s education grades go up, test scores improve, and they have fewer discipline problems. Get involved TODAY! Please consider signing up to be a PTA Committee Chair for the 2024-2025 school year and help make a difference in your student’s educational experience!
CLICK HERE for more information or to volunteer! |
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| 2023-24 Evergreen Elementary School Yearbook On Sale Now! Capture this significant year with a yearbook. Ensure that your student doesn't miss the opportunity to cherish these unique memories. Order their 2023-24 yearbook today! CLICK HERE to reserve a copy of the 2023-2024 Evergreen Elementary School yearbook today! Our school code is 13712. You can purchase yearbooks, purchase dedications/fanmail, and share candid photos, to be considered for the yearbook, all at the same convenient website. Use the EShare button for uploading candid photos, use the Yearbook Ads button to purchase dedications and fanmail, and use the Buy a Yearbook button to purchase your yearbooks. Questions? CLICK HERE for more information or email Ainsley Caruthers at yearbook@eepta.com **PLEASE NOTE: The last day to buy 5th Grade Dedications and Fan Mail is Monday, March 25th. The last day to buy a yearbook is Monday, April 1st. (No late orders will be accepted and extra yearbooks will no be ordered).** |
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| Mileage Club Update Hello Parents! Mileage Club is coming back! We start running on March 13 and March 15. We have many random schedule changes in the Spring due to Spring Break and other Holidays - please follow the EEPTA Facebook for the updates and let me know if you know someone not getting emails. As a reminder this is the current leaderboard! (Note - at the end of the year this will be broken out more and normalized for days ran. For this update, I'm just updating everyone on the most miles ran by grade. This is not how the final will necessarily shake out, but is a good indication!) Overall: 1. Jeppe Keller - with 45 miles! 2. Oliver Forster - with 42.50 miles! 3. Chris Cin - with 40.75 miles! First place by grade: K - Kai Dean - 16.75 miles 1 - Daniel Ansell - 25.5 miles 2 - Garrett Harmeyer - 20.75 miles 3 - Lillian Buchholz - 16.38 miles 4 - Iylee Ansell - 22.37 miles 5 - Jeppe Keller - 45 miles We will work on a firm date for our end of year celebration and communicate that as soon as we have the date finalized! See you soon! |
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| Join the EEPTA Membership for the 2023-24 School Year For only $7 (or $14 for a family membership) you can help support the Evergreen Elementary PTA. The EEPTA serves as a forum where parents, teachers, administrators, staff, and other concerned adults discuss ways to promote quality education, strive to expand the arts, encourage community involvement, and work for a healthy environment and safe neighborhoods. Becoming a member of the PTA shows that you want to help support the programs and events that help enhance students' experiences at our school. It does not obligate you to attend the PTA meetings or volunteer. While we would love for everyone to attend, we understand families are busy during the school year and have other important commitments. Minutes are available and posted online for you to review. However, attending meetings and volunteering at any of the several PTA sponsored events provide opportunities to meet other parents. Always feel free to contact us if you have any ideas, suggestions, or comments.
For membership questions please reach out to our membership chair at membership@eepta.com.
Please click here to join! |
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| March Cafeteria Volunteers Volunteers are needed during the lunch times for each grade at Evergreen. Helping during lunch includes assisting the kids open packages, getting condiments/napkins or simply answering questions. Volunteering in this way really helps the teachers be able to have an actual lunch break. You can sign up for your child’s grade and stay to help out other grades if you would like! It is a very flexible volunteer opportunity! You simply check in at the front office as usual, and then grab a volunteer apron and start helping out the kids! Please click hereto sign up. We look forward to seeing you at lunchtime! Thanks for volunteering!
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| K-Cup Coffee Donations For Staff Lounge Help us stock the teachers lounge with K-cups for them to start their day off right or for a well deserved pick me up throughout the day!!
Click HERE to donate! |
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| Watch D.O.G.S. is Back! Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) is back. This year there has also been a change to include Watch M.O.M.S (Moms of Marvelous Students). We would like to invite our dads, moms, granddads, grandmoms, uncles, aunts and other role models of our students to join us and volunteer to spend a half day here at Evergreen. Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) and Watch M.O.M.S (Moms of Marvelous Students) is a National program designed to get positive role models to volunteer in the school ONE DAY a year in order to inspire child(ren) in our school. ONE DAY is all it takes to make a huge difference. But we're pretty sure you'll enjoy yourself so much you'll be ready to sign up more than once.
We ask that you only sign up a maximum of 2 times to start so that everyone who would like can have an opportunity to join us. You will be scheduled to support classrooms and will be in your students room at least for part of the day. You can sign up for a morning or afternoon slot. We will request that you arrive a little early so that we can get you signed in to volunteer. We are providing 2 spots a day to create more opportunities to come in and support our students. We will begin October 16th, so we hope to see many of you here. Feel free to email Mrs. Davis at summer_davis@ccpsnet.net if you have any questions.
To sign up to be a Watch D.O.G. please CLICK HERE!
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| Volunteers Needed Evergreen Elementary PTA plans many educational and social events for the children throughout the school year. The PTA Volunteer Program is one of the best ways that parents can support the students and staff at our school. We know that parents today juggle very busy schedules and the Evergreen Elementary PTA strives to offer many opportunities in ways each of you can help. Please click here to review the brief descriptions of each volunteer area and indicate your preliminary interests. Your contact information will then be forwarded to the PTA board member or committee chair that is pulling together that activity and they will be in touch with you. Thanks for volunteering! |
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We have several awesome Spirit Nights set up for the month of March! When you participate in these events, EES gets a percentage of the sales back. Thank you in advance for your participation! |
| Our EEPTA PAPA JOHN'S Spirit Week is March 22nd - 28th Order all day at any of the RVA PAPA JOHN'S locations for carryout or delivery from March 22nd - 28th and 20% of your order will be donated back to the school. Just let them know you are an EES family on the phone or order online at papajohns.com and type in EVERGREEN in the PROMO code box. All orders also count toward Dollars for Dough competition, where we have a chance to win up to $10,000 (250 orders using our school code are required by the end of May 2024 for us to qualify for a chance to win)!! Please feel free to share our school code EVERGREEN with your family and friends. This code can be used ANY time you place an order at Papa John's-not just during our Spirit Weeks! Thank you for your support! |
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Ways to Help Support the EEPTA |
| Box Top For Education Start earning free money for Evergreen Elementary simply by taking a picture of your receipt. Just download the Box Tops for Education app on your phone, create an account, use the zip code 23114 to find and select Evergreen Elementary as your school. Then you are ready to start earning free cash for our school! You can even scan receipts from grocery delivery. Our goal for the year is $2500 and all funds raised will go to support our teachers in their classrooms with needed supplies- so far, we have earned $25 towards our goal. |
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| Papa John's Pizza Supporting our school is easy as pie! Take a night off from cooking and order from Papa John’s. When you enter our school code, EVERGREEN, in the promo code box, our school will receive 10% of all online sales using the code AND Papa John’s will donate 1 FREE PIZZA for every 10 orders. Order as many times as you would like to eat pizza! Anyone can help support your school even if they don’t have a current student so share your school code with family members, friends and coworkers or anyone that wants to support your teachers and families. |
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| Attention Kroger Shoppers Are you a Kroger shopper? If so, you can connect your shopper's card to Kroger's Community Rewards program in just a few clicks and Kroger will give a percentage of your purchases to Evergreen. It's a very simply way for Evergreen to earn money! Simply log in to your Kroger account at www.kroger.com (or create an account if you do not already have one). Your loyalty card number is connected to this account. Find "Your Account" then scroll down through your Account Settings until you reach "Community Rewards". Enter Evergreen's information. Our # is KN213. Simply select our school! |
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| Publix Rewards Program Publix Partners is turning groceries into education. Over the years, Publix Partners has donated more than $36 million to over 4,600 schools and organizations. And participating is easy. Simply sign up for a Publix.com account. Find "Your Account" then scroll over through your Account Settings until you reach "MY PUBLIX PARTNER". Then search for and select EVERGREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Then just enter your phone number every time you check out and Publix will give a percentage of your purchases back to Evergreen. It's a very simply way for Evergreen to earn money! |
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| Clothing For Cash Recycling Program Donate your gently used clothing in the bins located in the Evergreen parking lot to earn money for our school! Items in ALL conditions, unwanted, outgrown and out of style. The following are accepted: All Clothing (New and Used Women's, Men's and Children's clothing, coats, etc.) All Footwear (Shoes, sneakers, boots, cleats, etc.) Textiles (Bedding, sheets, blankets, towels) Accessories (Handbags, backpacks, gloves, scarves, jewelry, wallets) Toys (Stuffed animals)
Items NOT accepted: Furniture Food Foam cushions Plastic items
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| Evergreen Food Pantry Help keep our Evergreen Elementary Food Pantry stocked. Donations directly benefit our Evergreen family. Please send unexpired and unopened items to school with your child or feel free to drop them off at the school in the bins located outside the main doors at any time throughout the year. Needed items: Instant oatmeal, Cereal, Breakfast bars, Granola bars, Pop tarts, Crackers, Canned tuna fish, Canned chicken, Canned fruit & veggies, Small jars/containers mayonnaise, Peanut butter, Jelly, Individually packaged snacks (cookies, chips, goldfish, pretzels, etc), Crackers, Macaroni & cheese, Ramen noodles, Pasta & pasta sauce (no glass pls), Beans (bagged, canned, Soups, Rice, Microwave meals (not frozen), Tooth brushes & tooth paste, Sample size soaps/shampoos, Tissues/toilet paper, Laundry detergent “pods”/supplies, Deodorant , $20-$25 gift cards to grocery stores Thank you in advance for your support! |
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Thank you for Supporting Evergreen Elementary PTA! All donations go directly to supporting programs and activities that benefit your student and their school! |
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