Vinal School PTO Meeting Minutes
March 12th, 2025
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Welcome from Susan Davis (President)
In School Enrichment:
Recent:
Teacher’s Lounge Cart
Thank you Danielle for doing March!
Lauren and Beth to do April
Katie to do May
Field Trip & Grade-Level Enrichment
Crocodile River Music – Art & Music! What a success!
Upcoming
Teacher Appreciation
Teacher & Lounge snack cart ongoing
Elementary Conferences on Thursday, April 10 -- we will be doing a soup lunch on the 1/2 day!
Teacher Appreciation week is May 5-9, Cara Rinaldi on-board to run this, but will be looking for volunteer support!
BalloonTalk coming on April 4! -How does a hot air balloon fly?
Corey the Dribbler (Previous Harlem Globe Trotter) coming to do a presentation on leadership! This is paid for thanks to the Dads Hockey event!
Spring is a busy time for field trips! Lots of fun activities coming in each class!
Community Events
Upcoming:
Spring stay and play 5/16
Field Day planning will begin! More to come!
Fundraising
Recent:
Dad’s hockey event raised $19K!!! Split across both Cole and Vinal. Thank you to the volunteers that ran this event!
Upcoming:
Vinal Pickleball event on Sat, March 29, 5-8pm Boston Pickle Club, Norwell Open
to men and women! Make your team and sign up!
Papa Gino’s / D’angelos fundraiser on Wednesday, March 26th
Square One Art
Fifth Grade Send-off
Dump the Junk Fundraiser scheduled for March 22!
Email for this is vinal5thgradesendoff2025@gmail.com - please direct any questions or concerns there.
Next committee meeting date is 2/28 9AM at Vinal Cafeteria
Treasurer
Administration Updates:
Upcoming Norwell Town Override: New Ballot Committee formed: SOS: Save Our Schools to advocate
for the passing of the override to ensure significant cuts aren’t made to all Norwell Schools. More information here.
CRITICAL DATES
Monday, May 5, 2025 Norwell Town Meeting (evening): In-Person Vote on the ballot will be conducted and it must pass with a majority vote.
If it passes at the May 5th Town Meeting, a ballot vote will be held on Saturday, May 17 from 6:00am - 8:00pm at the Norwell Middle School and must pass with a majority vote.
Other:
St Patty’s Day Mon March 17th: Green Beaded necklaces
Earth Day Tues April 22nd: In April we want to focus on Earth Day. Last year we gave our seed packets - planning of something fun ongoing now!
