January 2018 OHMS PTSA Meeting Minutes

OHMS PTSA - Minutes

January 11, 2018

Called to order: Shannon Smith

Meeting commenced at: 12:42 PM

Pledge: Shannon Smith

Attendance: Shannon Smith, Maxine Conrad, Emily Stout, Beth Kunz, Andrea Hogan, Denise Heninger, Steve Cherry, Mike Glenn, Tressa Spigarelli, Stephanie Hansen, Jill Smith

President's Report – Shannon Smith

·  Volunteer hours:  OquirrhFest – Please log your hours on the volunteers sheet. Next President’s report is due February 1^st.

·  Minutes from December 2017 PTSA Meeting approved.

·  Cone meeting

·  SCC Meeting tonight if anyone wants to attend.

·  Year at a glance and meeting times – decided to leave meeting at 12:30 pm the 1^st Thursday of each month.

·  Board members next year: Still need to fill a few positions

o    President – Maxine Conrad

o    Pres. Elect –

o    Secretary – Denise Heninger

o    Treasurer – Amy Powell

o    Legislative –

o    Volunteer Coordinator - 

o    Membership –

o    Red Ribbon -

o    Blue Ribbon – Beth Kunz

o    White Ribbon -

o    Reflections –

o    Teacher Appreciation/Birthdays/PTC Dinners –

o    Book fair Chair – Tressa Spigarelli

o    Webpage Coordinator –

o    Eagle of the Quarter –

o    Memory Book Co Chairs – Beth Kunz / Amy Powell

·         February is PTA Membership Drive month – We will send out an announcement to all parents that we will be putting everyone’s name in a drawing for JetBlue tickets if they join the PTSA.  Jill will get a list of what PTA does for you to send out on the announcement.

·         WHY – We Help You

Book Fair – Mar 13^th and 15^th - Tressa is working on it. We need to get volunteers to sign up to help.

Parent / Teacher Conference – Mar 13^th and 15^th

·         One day will be Hawaiian Feast

·         Second day still figuring out – possibly a Food Truck

·         (Lots of options were thrown out: Rumby, Café Rio, Jim’s, Olive Garden, Sizzlers, Kneaders, Costa Vida, Salsaleedos, Marco’s Pizza, Texas Roadhouse, Midvale Mining

March White Ribbon Week – Mar 19 – 22 - Wendy Osborn is in charge. She can contact Mr. Cherry if she needs any help.  In the past we have had different activities on each day. Some examples are: White Out (everyone wears all white), 500 white flags with signatures on each side, hand out cookies or donuts at lunch, Video clip during TA, etc

Treasurer’s Report and Budget - Stephanie Hansen

Reflections - Noelle

Eagle of the Quarter 9-11- Emily

PTA Day at the Capitol – Beth Kunz and Rebecca VanSkyHawk

·         They are deciding between getting a bus ($250) or renting suburbans

·         PTSA students will go and are considering asking the SBO’s to attend this year

·         Contacting Lt Gov Cox to see if we can get in to see him.

·         February 22^nd is the date planned

·         Budget is $350.00 this year to cover transportation and lunch at the Capitol

·         Last year we spent $282.30

PTSA – Ms. Hogan

·         Thank you for all the help during OquirrhFest!

·         One PTSA Student has moved (Penelope) and they will be using the Alternate to take her place.

·         Book Fair Volunteers from PTSA – They will get one student per per shift to help.

·         They are working on getting hoodies for PTSA students. The cost is $17.29 each. Usually the students pay $5.00 and the school covers the rest.

Principal’s Report – Mr. Glenn

·         IB Programs at High Schools – all schools have to apply to be an IB School and the Board will select which school

·         The School Board will fund the program

·         All schools  have to have similar classes

·         Hillcrest does it now.

·         State changes to Middle School class offerings

·         Graduation Requirements are changing

·         New Class is Digital Literacy that will be offered in 7^th or 8^th in place of keyboarding

Counseling Center – Mr. Cherry

·         Rah Rah January 25 for incoming Seventh Grade Students

·         Meeting about Seventh Grade Registration for Parents and Students January 25 at 6:00 PM

·         Study Skills Update

Other business:  JetBlue Travel Certificates – Jill

·         We discussed when would be the best time to have the ticket valid for. We decided as a group to have them good from June 1, 2018 – May 31, 2019. Jill will get them ordered and then we will decide how to distribute them between parents and teachers for the Membership drive in February.

Next Meeting – Thursday, February 1st, 2018 at 12:30 pm (first Thursday of each month)

Meeting adjourned: 

OHMS PTSA Board Nominations for 2018-2019 School Year

The Nominating Committee has proposed the following people to fill these positions–These officers are to be elected in March – So far this is our list:

1.      President – Maxine Conrad

2.      Pres Elect –

3.      Legislative – Rebecca Van Sky Hawk

4.      Treasurer – Amy Powell

5.      Secretary – Denise Heninger

December 2017 OHMS PTSA Meeting Minutes

OHMS PTSA - Minutes

December 7, 2017

Call to order/ Pledge: Shannon Smith

Meeting commenced at: 12:45 PM

Attendance: Shannon Smith, Maxine Conrad, Brittany Maxfield, Mike Glenn, Jill Smith, Stephanie Hansen, Denise Heninger, Tressa Spigarelli, Rebecca, VanSkyHawk, Beth Kunz, Steve Cherry

Approval of Minutes:

Food – Please grab some food!!

President's Report – Shannon Smith

·  Volunteers for Oquirrh Fest – Need volunteers in the morning and at both lunches.  Sent list around for sign ups.

·  Council Meeting – Reflections

Treasurer’s Report and Budget - Stephanie Hansen

·         $15, 115.82 – Starting Balance

·         $394.66 -  Health/Safety

·         $75.82 – Eagle of the Quarter

·         221.08 – Reflections

·         $43.12 – Reality Town

·         $206.12 – PTC dinners

·         $14,175.02 – Ending Balance

  

Reflections – There will changes on how to submit artwork

                        The awards breakfast was a good thing

                        The “Principal’s Award” should continue

Eagle of the Quarter – January – Things are in control! There was a suggestion to offer fruit at the breakfast as another option.

 Webpage – We need to post Meeting Minutes and Reminders

PTSA – Ms. Hogan

Principal’s Report – Mr. Glenn

·         Oquirrh Fest is going well. We have $7,000 so far but it usually goes up the last week. The jail is going great! There is so much positive energy!  Healing Hearts, Riverton Holiday Heroes. Gordman’s is matching up $2,500 to buy clothes for teens that need clothes. That should help about 250 kids.

·         Some of the different groups that came up with the ideas for Oquirrh Fest: PTSA, Stage Crew, SBO’s, Lit Magazine, Science Olympiad, Soar.

·         Next year they want to focus on a Service-a-thon at the Elementary

·         Voting on change for graduation requirements:

1.      Computer Tech – a mandatory 8^th grade class was proposed. Currently, it is required in 7^th or 8^th. It will be called Digital Literacy – it is a 1 semester class.

2.      PE may only be required in 8^th or 9th

·         Every teacher has a computer lab

·         Math is on video so they can watch it over if they need it.

·         Using Tech to make our classes more engaging

·         Kids are cheating – taking pictures and sending to friends.

·         More quizzes

·         Blended learning – learning technology to help with learning

·         Standard Based Grading – we are moving towards this in all classes.

Counseling Center – Mr. Cherry

·  Reality Town – Thank you for Reality Town!!

·  End of Year testing – usually 5 weeks and SAGE will be 1 essay instead of 2.

·  It will start May 7^th and be in a 2-block schedule – different departments will test each day.

·  7-8^th grade test

·  9^th grade – no test

·  10^th grade Inspire – ACT Prep test

·  11^th ACT

·  BYU Credit Recovery Program – needs hours of work from Mr. Cherry. We will need to set it all up. We can pick standards we want to focus on. Our goal is to launch mid-way 3^rd Quarter

·  Testing – May 18^th

·  AP Test Geography will be at Oquirrh

·  Utah Scholars – not doing it this year.

·  Regents – there are changes in the program. It will be based more on need.

·  PTA Day at the Capital – Mr. Glenn must get a drug test. Andrea Hogan will be the other driver. Rebecca VanSkyHawk will be going this year.

  

Assignments: 

New Business: 

Next Meeting – Thursday, January 11th at 12:30 pm (2^nd Thursday next month)

January Meeting Date

Our OHMS January PTSA Meeting will be held on Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 12:30 PM. All are invited to attend.

November 2017 OHMS PTSA Meeting Minutes

OHMS PTSA Meeting Minutes

November 2, 2017

Called to order: Shannon Smith

Meeting commenced at: 12:35 PM

Pledge/Thought:  Shannon

Attendance:  Shannon Smith, Stephanie Hansen, Beth Kunz, Emily Stout, Maxine Conrad, Rebecca VanSkyHawk, Tressa Spigarelli, Jennie Maestri, Jill Smith, Denise Heninger, Steve Cherry, Mike Glenn

President's Report – Shannon Smith

·         Cone meeting/volunteer hours – This is a meeting between all school for questions, concerns and updates. *Required 4 times/year

·         Includes Riverton, South Hills, OHMS and Feeder Elementary Schools

·         1^st Hour – Counselors *R277-717 Law trying to pass for credit recovery.

·         2^nd Hour – Counselors, Admin, PTA, CTE, Community Partner (RPT)

·         Talked about Credit Recovery, BYU, 27 credits to graduate, Mastery Grading

Treasurer’s Report and Budget – Stephanie Hansen

·         Budget

·         Starting Balance $16,265.54

·         Spent $2,177.48

·         Ending Balance $15,115.76 for October 2017

·         Plug for Membership

PTC Dinners

·         Dinners were great! There are a few leftovers for next month PTA Meeting.

·         Budget for Teacher’s Bdays is $200.00

Book Fair – Tressa

·         We made $1,300 Scholastic Dollars

·         $400 for Language Arts Teachers

·         $900 for the school

·         We got an extra $100 this time because we put it in the newsletter

Reflections – Oct 11^th – Noel/Jennie reported

·         Breakfast Nov 9^th during TA for winners

·         We had about 50 entries

·         Principal’s Award

Red Ribbon Week November 6-10 - Beth Kunz

·         We need volunteers Wed and Friday during both lunches to help with games and handing out donuts

·         Our theme is Real Heroes Don’t Do Drugs

·         Monday - Who’s your hero?

·         Tuesday – 1^St Responders

·         Wednesday – Don’t Do Drugs – Military Camo/Red

·         Thursday – Teacher Hero – Wear Teacher favorite color/crazy hair day

·         Friday – Superheroes are Drug Free

Principal’s Report – Mr. Glenn

·         Mr. Glenn thanked the PTSA for: Blue Ribbon Week, Red Ribbon Week, Parent/Teacher Conference Dinners, Book Fair

·         Technology Update: We got a grant for 9 more Chromebook computers, 3 more mobile labs, 2 more Ed Tech $$

·         Every teacher has a mobile lab

·         Canvas/Google Classroom

·         Nov 15^th – Fine Arts Field Trip to Riverton for Play

Counseling Center – Mr. Cherry

·         Reality Town – Nov 7^th from 8:00 – 9:45 and 10:00 - 11:45

·         Job based on GPA from 7^th & 8^th grade

·         Standard Based Grading – starting next semester in Language Arts for Grades 7, 8 and 9 (Grades are 4, 3, 2, 1)

·         BYU Credit Recovery – Trying to get launched before Christmas

Update:  PTSA bought 300 beanies - $7.00, trucker hats and baseball caps - $10.00 and socks for Student of the Month.

Next Meeting – Thursday, December 7^nd at 12:30 pm (first Thursday of each month)

October 2017 OHMS PTSA Meeting Minutes

OHMS PTSA – Meeting Minutes

October 5, 2017

Called to order: Shannon Smith

Meeting commenced at: 12:39

Pledge/Thought:  Shannon proposed that we say the “Pledge of Allegiance” at our meetings. It was seconded and affirmed by a vote.

Attendance: Beth Kunz, Stephanie Hansen, Maxine Conrad, Tressa Spigarelli, Emily Stout, Shannon Smith, Brittany Maxfield, Noel Hinton, Steve Cherry, Denise Heninger, and Andrea Hogan. Jill Smith and Mike Glenn excused.

President's Report – Shannon Smith

·         Council Meeting—discussed lower membership numbers in recent years both in Utah and nationwide. Shannon raised the question of how little money stays at the school level. Others explained that higher level PTA members negotiate for Trustland funds. Without greater membership and funding, we could lose positions at the state level.

·         September minutes approved.

Treasurer’s Report and Budget - Stephanie Hansen

·         Current balance is $16265.54, and we have 187 members of PTSA at OHMS.

PTSA – Ms. Hogan

·         Had 25 Seventh graders apply to be on the PTSA leadership team.

·         Has some new Eighth and Ninth graders this year.

·         Working on a sweatshirt design for the PTSA students.

·         Prison prints shirts at cost. Contact at 801-576-7738 or uciclothing @utah,gov. Go to companycasuals.com to get order number for the desired style.

Reflections – Noel

·         Due date is Wednesday, Oct 11, 2017. She used PTSA students to help put up posters around the school. She had vinyl banners to put up on the fences. The projects will be displayed in the Media Center, nad there will be an awards breakfast in November. She will pass out treats on Monday to make the students aware of the Reflections due date, and Steve will send out a Skylert. (Later that deadline was extended through Wednesday, Oct 18, 2017 at 3:00 PM. All students were sent a Skylert to make them aware of the change.)

PTC Dinners – Oct 11 & 12 – Denise/Brittany

·         Wednesday is Soup, Salad, Bread and Pumpkin Desserts

·         Thursday is a Taco Bar—will have vegetarian and gluten-free options available.

Book Fair – Tressa

·         Feels that she has enough help to set-up and run the Book Fair this year.

Eagle of the Quarter – Emily

·         Everything on track for the 16^th, 17^th, and 18^th. PTSA students will help with this.

Principal’s Report – Mr. Glenn (excused)

Counseling Center – Mr. Cherry

·         Reality Town—needs 50 volunteers. A lunch students will go first, and B lunch students will go second.

Assignments:

·         Vision Screening 10/24/17—needs 10 volunteers.

·         PTSA Flyer to hand out at Parent/Teacher Conferences

New Business:

·         Blue Ribbon Week feedback was positive.

·         Red Ribbon Week on track will get 1200 donuts from Peterson’s for 11/6/17.

·         Memory Book—students working on choosing a cover.

·         Ideas to boost PTSA membership: Airborne, Fast Pass for lunch, Arctic Circle coupons, and student drawings. For faculty—3 pairs of airline tickets for a total of 6 tickets (Jill Smith).

Next Meeting – Thursday, November 2^nd  at 12:30 pm (first Thursday of each month)

Meeting adjourned: 1:47

REFLECTIONS 2017-2018

The PTA Reflections Program is underway! “Within Reach” is the theme for this year. You can enter a project in one or more of these categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography and Visual Arts. The due date for entries is Wednesday, October 11^th by 3:00 pm in the office. There will be a table set up in front of the office that morning. All the rules and forms can be accessed here - http://www.utahpta.org/reflections . You can also pick up an entry packet in the office. You will need to complete a Student Entry Form, Artist Statement and Consent Form if required for your category (please view the “Consent Form Guidelines”). Make sure you closely read and comply with the “Rules Summary” and the specific rules for the category(s) you enter. You may submit 1 entry PER category. Prizes for all participants…so, encourage your friends to participate. Get your creative juices flowing…we can’t wait to see what you create! Contact Noel Hinton 801-694-1764 or nym2@hotmail.com with any questions.

2017-2018 OHMS PTSA Board

OHMS PTSA Board Members 2017-2018

President                                     Shannon Smith

President Elect                          Maxine Conrad

Legislative VP                            Rebecca VanSkyHawk

Treasurer                                    Stephanie Hansen

Secretary                                     Jill Smith

Volunteer Coordinator            Denise Heninger

Membership

Red Ribbon Week                    Beth Kunz

Blue Ribbon Week                   Beth Kunz

White Ribbon Week                Wendy Osborn

Reflections Coordinator         Noel Hinton

Teacher Appreciation/           Brittany Maxfield/ 

Conference Dinners                Denise Heninger

Book Fair Chair                       Tressa Spigarelli

Webpage Coordinator            Denise Heninger

Memory Book Co-Chairs       Beth Kunz/Amy Powell

Updated OHMS PTSA By-laws

Here are the updated bylaws for you read and review. Click the link below.

OHMS PTSA Updated By-laws