Thank you for a great school year.
Have a wonderful summer,
Your PGO
June 20th, 2014
Dear
Crocker Farm Families,
What a year!
Looking back, we have fond memories of so many school events from the
year. We are grateful to everyone who
helped with various PGO events or activities this year, who supported our
events by attending, or who contributed to our annual appeal or participated in
our other fundraisers. All Crocker Farm
families are automatically part of the PGO, and we couldn’t do what we do
without you. We are grateful too to the
school staff and teachers, especially the staff in the front office: Dr.
Tesauro, Mr. Shea, Ms. Mills, & Ms. Aldrich. Thank you for your help throughout the
year.
Some of the
highlights of the year for the PGO:
(though there are too many to mention in a short list)
- Chess
Club. The PGO restarted the afterschool chess
club, and close to 60 students participated. Amherst College student volunteers
assisted with the club, and we had a special guest, Charles Hertan, a
highly rated chess player who writes books for kids about learning chess.
- Winter
Clothing Share. This year, with
PGO support at all the Amherst public schools, the winter clothing share
expanded to all the schools and served many more families.
- Martin
Luther King Jr. Celebration.
The PGO coordinated the school-wide breakfast and funded Evelyn
Harris’ performance at the event.
- Book
Swap. It was so wonderful to see students
enjoying their “new” books. We are
grateful for all the book donations we received from families and from our
librarian Ms. McQuaid.
- Mosaic Mural. This beautiful addition to the Crocker
Farm School involved the whole school community, and has so many wonderful
details, we could look at it for hours.
Special thanks to the Massachusetts Cultural Council for their partial
funding of this project, and to our art teacher Ms. Travis and mural
artist Mr. Winer for all their work with students creating the mural.
- Science Night. The PGO leaders first talked with Dr.
Tesauro about having a school-wide science night when we met with her in
July 2013, and it was so nice to see it come to fruition. What an
event! Many thanks to the teachers
and classes for their informative science displays, to Dr. Tesauro and the
guidance staff for arranging the bus transportation, and to all the
volunteers.
- Crocker Press. The “publishing” of stories from Crocker
Farm’s kindergarten through third grade students is truly a labor of
love. Teachers have their students
prepare stories, and then volunteers type them, print them, and bind them
into books using student-illustrated covers. Special thanks to parent Jeni Kaplan for
coordinating this year’s Crocker Press and carrying on this wonderful,
long Crocker Farm tradition.
The
Crocker Farm PGO is still seeking volunteers to join the PGO leadership team
for next school year. PGO positions are
flexible and can work around volunteers’ schedules, and serving on the
leadership team is a very rewarding experience.
If you are interested in serving as a PGO officer or in finding out
more, please contact us.
Have
a great summer!
Tracy
Zafian & Justyne Ogdahl,
Crocker
Farm PGO
