Weekly Skillin Scoop
The best way to stay in the know about important dates, calls-to-action, and other information that impacts our Skillin Skyhawks each week. Please take a moment to read this week’s announcements!
The Move-a-Thon is this Friday!
The Skillin School PTA is hosting our first annual Move-a-Thon fundraiser event on Friday! The Move-a-Thon is a super fun student participation fundraiser where students run, walk, skip, and dance laps around the playground to raise money for our playground project, Learning Gardens, and playground equipment.
Don’t forget to help your student gather pledges and donations. If each student can raise $50, we will meet our fundraising goal!
Here’s how it works:
Students collect pledges or donations. Donors can pledge by flat donation or per lap around the playground completed (expect a student to complete 15 to 30 laps).
If pledging by flat donation - donations are collected online via GiveButter
If pledging by the lap - a paper pledge sheet was sent home in take home folders, use this sheet to track per lap donations and follow up after the event with the final total
Friday, May 26th is the Move-a-Thon at school during recess! Come out to the playground and cheer on our students as they make their laps
All donations are due by Friday, June 2. Immediately after the Move-a-thon students will get their final lap totals and can notify donors of their final donation amounts
4th Grade Community Field Day is Thursday!
There’s a celebration for all South Portland 4th graders this Thursday at Wainwright Sports Complex during the school day. It’ll be a day of outdoor activities, making connections with others, and ice cream!
Want to be involved? If you have attended a training and have been background checked, you can sign up here to volunteer. If not, there is a need for a few items to make the day fun, you can donate items off of the Amazon wish list.
Monthly CLYNK Bag Pickup this Saturday
The Skillin School PTA is offering monthly CLYNK bag pickup, this month’s pickup is this Saturday, May 27. To add your name and address to the pickup list, text Joe Beaulieu at (207) 619-1152.
Need pre-labeled CLYNK bags? E-mail us at skillinschoolpta@gmail.com, or direct message us on Facebook or Instagram and we will make sure they are sent home with your child.
May PTA Meeting Highlights
It was our last meeting of the school year, and what a year it has been! This year has been a rebuilding year for the Skillin PTA, and we are building something amazing. We had strong participation and support for the entire year. Thank you so much to all of the volunteers and donors for your time and effort to support us, the school, and our students!
Some highlights of our discussion…
Tasha gave an update on recent efforts:
Spring Fling: A huge success! We had a great turnout with roughly 100 families joining us to celebrate the start of Spring.
Teacher Appreciation Week: A big thank you to the Skillin Schooners and all who volunteered and donated for Teacher Appreciation Week. Our teachers are feeling the love and are ending the year on a high note.
Tasha also gave an update on plans for the rest of the year:
Move-a-Thon: Our first annual Move-a-Thon is this Friday and we’re ready to go! Don’t forget to help your student gather pledges.
NWEA Test Week: Our students will need some motivational help during testing week. Thank you to all who volunteered to stuff goodie bags! The next ask is to create motivational posters for the whole school, if you have some time and creativity, reach out to SkillinSchoolPTA@gmail.com and we can drop off poster board at your house. When you’re done, simply drop your posters at the Main Office.
Countdown to Summer: Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and get ready for some fun giveaways during the last week of school!
Katy and Principal Connolly gave an exciting update on the Playground Project: the new playground will be installed this summer! Timing and finer details in progress but the new equipment is here and will be in place in late summer.
Tasha gave a look ahead to the 2023-2024 school year:
The Board has been finalized, but there are still some open roles.
A big welcome to our Interim Co-President Kristin Racine! Kristin is new to South Portland and will be working with Tasha over the summer to get up to speed and form strategies for next year. A vote will be held in September to officially appoint Kristin to the board.
Committee Captain positions are mostly filled, we are still looking for captains to head up the Events Committee and Teacher Appreciation Committee. Learn more about what’s involved here.
Our meeting cadence will be changing from a monthly member meeting to a bi-monthly member meeting.
Have a great summer and we’ll see you next year!
Upcoming Important Dates
Fri, 5/26 | Move-a-thon (during recess)
Sat, 5/27 | Monthly CLYNK Pickup
Mon, 5/29 | Memorial Day, No School
