Glenfield Middle School PTA

Visual and Performing Arts Magnet

Fundraising Opportunities

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MFEE Annual Appeal – Be a Glenfield Supporter! – Past Event

Help win up to $2,000 for Glenfield! The Montclair Fund for Educational Excellence (MFEE) is our town’s local education fund that supports all Montclair students, teachers, staff, and caregivers. Glenfield students receive social/emotional support and innovative teaching tools through MFEE grants, teachers boost their learning through out-of-the-box Professional Development grants and MFEE’s new Teacher Learning Communities, and families get resources and support through MFEE Programs like Learning Circles on Race, PEEPs in Nature, and Navegadores Escolares. Your donations – no matter how small – fuel all of this work!

From now until February 28th, any donor who gives $20 and above will be entered in a lottery to award a $1,000 grant to their favorite school. Two winners will be chosen! CHB and Hillside won $1,000 last year; it’s Glenfield’s turn! Be sure to “credit” Glenfield’s team page when donating. While you’re there, check out all of the ways that your donations boost learning at Glenfield.

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Fundraiser lets families get “schooled” with lawn fish

As Montclair’s lawns get cleared of snow Glenfield parents can temporarily invite a “school” of decorative fish to surprise or otherwise delight students, neighbors and others, while raising funds for Glenfield PTA programs.

If you’d like to school someone (or yourself) fill out this form.

Meanwhile, if you’ve been schooled and want to see the school move on to another lawn, fill out this one.

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Notes from January Glenfield PTA Town Hall

The Glenfield PTA held a town hall on January 12th. Below are note from the meeting.

I. Welcome & Opening Remarks – Sarah Spagnola Young, Co- President
Happy New Year! We understand that everyone has questions regarding the start of hybrid learning (scheduled to begin Feb. 8) but we do not have any answers at this time. We would like to schedule a townhall with Principal Pierce and Vice Principal Aboushi ASAP and will get the word out. The executive council is meeting with Ponds soon, so please include your questions in chat and we will collect and present them if possible.

II. PTA 2020-21 Budget Overview – Amira Williams, Treasurer

  • Not a lot of activity due to remote instruction.
  • PTA made an investment into Glenfield Garb, and sales are starting to show some revenues, more to come.
  • Chipotle fundraiser was successful and easy, raised about $450. We are only allowed to do Chipotle once per year, but we hope to do more dinner night fundraisers with local restaurants.
  • Amazon Smile, raised $91 so far which exceeds total from prior year – so that’s great! Need to get word out – such an easy fundraiser when everyone homebound.
  • Usually we’d be having our bi-annual big fundraiser this year to support the budget but that’s not happening due to Covid-19. Need to come up with smaller, socially distant ways to raise the money (supports graduation celebration, teacher/staff luncheons, mini grants, student activities, etc.)

III. Fundraising Events/Ideas: Need Volunteers to Spearhead these Great Ideas!

  • Family Trivia Night – Feb 5! Order your Popcornopolis!
  • We will push for membership drive in next PTA memo
  • Pennies for Pages
  • Bricks for front walkway – inscribed
  • Raffle – do we have the paperwork that allows it?
  • Direct Appeal for 8th Grade Graduation, thermometer
  • Need to start committee for Fall ‘21 Fundraiser – volunteer?
  • Spring ‘20 Fundraiser/outdoor social – volunteer?
  • Winetasting Zoom Night Parent Sommelier – volunteer?
  • Flower arranging zoom parties – volunteer?
  • YOU GOT SCHOOLED! (lawn fish) – Montse and Sarah Y volunteered
  • Kimya suggested we include all these ideas in an email to class parent liaisons so we can send to house leaders to include in e-blasts.

III. Remote Learning Survey Results – Amy Uhlfelder

  • Decent participation by parents, very few student responses. Results show clear improvement from spring’20, but mixed opinions about the frequency and value of break out sessions, synchronous vs. asynchronous lessons, etc. We asked parents to share lessons/practices they liked in order to share results with administration and support professional development.
  • Complaints re attendance reporting are common but they are working on it (students being marked absent mistakenly, e.g.) Please communicate mistakes to office.

IV. 8th Graduation – Amy Uhlfelder

  • We need to start thinking about how we can give our 8th graders a celebration. Typically held in high school auditorium, with party after at local area reception hall. What can we do to find an outdoor site, maybe combine effort with Ren and Buzz to book a place for the day to hold ceremonies? Need to think this through and present ideas.

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New (and old) ways to support the Glenfield PTA

Hello Glenfield Families!

As Glenfield prepares for a return to in-person schooling the Glenfield PTA is also ramping up for an exciting second term. Here are a few ways you can help out, or join in. Please read all the way through for important information and updates:

Interested in joining the PTA?
This is a great way to show your support for the work that we do. Get one for you and/or sponsor a teacher. Click on the link to join: Glenfield PTA Membership Form 2020-2021

AmazonSmile
Does a big portion of your life revolve around Amazon deliveries? To support Glenfield AT NO COST TO YOU, always shop at: smile.amazon.com. Remember, only when shopping at smile.amazon.com or when smile is enabled in the app do we get a portion of the proceeds.

How AmazonSmile works:
In your browser, type smile.amazon.com
Go into settings and choose “Your Amazon Smile”
Choose or change charity: 28131 Glenfield School PTA
On your mobile device: Go into the app and type Amazon smile in the search bar.
Turn on Amazon Smile/choose charity as above.
Note: AmazonSmile is currently only available to AmazonSmile customers using the Amazon Shopping app on Android phones with OS version 5.0+, iPhones with OS version 12.0+ or the web browser in any device.

Other ways to help out
Want to help us raise money for the school in non-fussy ways? Please let us know ptapres@glenfieldpta.org if you can take any of these opportunities on:
1) Simone Cameron needs you ASAP to help create topics and coordinate details for our first Kahoot Trivia Night Fundraiser on February 5th! Please reach out at simone07050@yahoo.com. Registration is now open.
2) Restaurant donation coordinator – ongoing
3) Read-a-thon coordinator – month of February – ASAP
4) Popcorn fundraiser
5) 8th grade committee
6) Zoom flower arranging workshop
7) Coordinating sales of legacy bricks in front of the school

Equity Initiatives
Interested in learning more about Equity Initiatives at Glenfield? Please reach out to Linda Kow at lindakow@yahoo.com. She is currently in discussions with SACs regarding student advisory opportunities, professional development, book bundles, and more. She is also working to get a grant from MFEE to help fund our initiatives.