From Your PTA
Co-Presidents:
Dear Garrison Mill Parents,
Welcome back to an exciting year at Garrison Mill
Elementary. It promises to be a productive time in the life of this
wonderful school. Many thanks for your continued support in the PTA through
membership, volunteering, and leadership.
It is time for the GM PTA to REACH...
Your PTA leadership will REACH out to all GM families,
encouraging them to become active in the life of their child’s school and
communicating clearly opportunity and needs.
Your PTA leadership will REACH up to build on the many
programs and plans, and explore new, creative ways to strengthen the school
Your PTA leadership will REACH into every classroom,
so that each child’s learning experience is enhanced.
It is important you REACH your PTA:
1. Stay informed through the very current GM PTA
website: www.gmpta.org.
It includes:
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PTA school
wide PAWS newsletter
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PTA
published official calendar of events
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Downloadable PTA forms
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Links to
other important sites
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Frequently
Asked Parent Questions
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Opportunities/Needs of GM PTA programs
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Budgets/Minutes of GM PTA
2. Update or enter a PTA Parent Volunteer Profile:
www.gmpta.ptomanager.com
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Sign up to
help with specific programs
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Enter
general availability for volunteer work
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Enter
general interest for volunteer work
(you will
receive an e-mail outlining needs based on your profile)
3. Keep current on official school plans through
www.cobbK12.ga.us/-garrisonmill.org
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All faculty blogs/e-mail links
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Policy and Procedures of GM
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Map of campus
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Mrs. Wilson, principal, current messages to parents
and students
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Accelerated Reader links
GM PTA will reach its goals when parent interest is
matched with GM needs to better the outstanding education for all children
at GM. We look forward to a year of great success in making that happen.
Sandy
Olsen Carol Swan
PTA
Co-President PTA Co-President
scolsen5@yahoo.com
johncarolswan@bellsouth.net
Garrison Mill 2007-08 PTA Commitment: REACH
REACH Out to all Garrison Mill
Families
Communication: keeping parents informed
Parental Involvement: keeping parents engaged
REACH In to the classrooms of GM
Enhance Educational Programs
Engage each child creatively and intellectually
REACH Up to build on tradition of
excellence
Strengthen community ties
Improve learning environment
PTA National Purpose Statement: From PTA
web page:
www.pta.org
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To promote the welfare of the children and youth in
home, school, community, and place of worship.
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To raise the standards of home life.
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To secure adequate laws for the care and protection
of children and youth.
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To bring into closer relation the home and the
school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the
education of children and youth.
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To develop between educators and the general public
such united efforts as will secure for all children and youth the
highest advantages in physical, mental, social, and spiritual education.
Vision -
It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be.
Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make
the picture your own. --Robert Collier
