Our monthly meetings are currently held via Zoom.
Please contact [email protected] to join!
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Nuestras reuniones mensuales se llevan a cabo actualmente a través de Zoom.
¡Póngase en contacto con [email protected] para unirse!

What should I expect from a PFO meeting?
Check out recent meeting notes to find out!

2024-2025

August - August 19th, 2024
PFO Recent Activity
  • Board met, created a budget for the school year
Upcoming Items/Needs
  • Kindergarten Orientation
    • School needs volunteers to watch kids in the gym
      • PFO has secured 2 volunteers
    • Kindergarten team would like pizza provided for families by the PFO
      • PFO has an order for 25 pizzas as well as drinks
  • Staff Appreciation
    • Welcome  Back
      • Monday August 26th
        • PFO will provide breakfast for faculty
  • Restaurant Night
    • Qdoba - September 17
  • School Greenyard
    • Rooted starting 9/15
      • Create program for the school year to tend garden and create content for classrooms
    • Garden needs cleaning up
September -  September 16th, 2024
PFO Recent Activity
  • Kindergarten Orientation
    • Went well, decided needed more volunteers to help in gym next year
    • Pizza and drinks were just enough (27 pizzas)
  • Staff Appreciation breakfast
    • Faculty enjoyed the event, considered a good mix of food
  • Community Resource Appreciation week
    • Appreciation items/decorations were given to the community resource coordinators
Upcoming Items/Needs
  • Meet And Greet
    • ​September 24th
      • ​PFO will have a table with information, and will also hand out take home STEM kits to families
  • ​​STEM Night
    • ​Date set for January 21st!
  • ​Bulletin Boards @ Leopold
    • ​A bulletin board by the office will be designated for the PFO to use for 'marketing, announcements, etc.'
  • ​National Custodian Day
    • ​October 2nd
      • ​PFO will provide appreciation items to the 4 custodial staff
  • ​​Hispanic/Latinx Community Event
    • ​PFO will host a station to promote PFO and do DIY pinatas for families


October - october 21, 2024
PFO Recent Activity
  • Staff Appreciation
    • Custodian Appreciation
      • Delivered a basket to the school
    • Classroom supply initiative
      • Faculty lounge supply closet was organized by PFO, and organizational supplies purchased and utilized
        • Needed supplies documented
          • Survey sent to staff to see what supplies are needed most
        • Supply Drive incoming
  • Community Events
    • Meet and Greet
      • STEM handouts were popular
    • Latinx/Hispanic Heritage festival
      • Piñatas were popular with families, will use again in the future
​Upcoming Items/Needs
  • Staff Appreciation
    • Faculty Lounge Updates
      • PFO was awarded a $750 grant to update the staff lounge at Leopold
        • Survey to go out to faculty to see how they'd like to have funds utilized
        • PFO will purchase top-rated results
    • Parent Teacher Conferences
      • Lunch to be provided by the PFO
        • Sign-up genius to go out to school to help out
    • Bake Sale
      • Election Day @ Leopold
        • Baked Good donations and volunteers needed
  • STEM Night
    • Wonders of Physics will be coming to Leopold same week as STEM Night
      • DOR Adopt a School Partner to join with PFO to create "STEM Week"
        • Bulletin boards to have STEM posters
        • Library to showcase STEM books
        • Handouts for classrooms
        • Looking for other ideas/help to make the week a success
  • PFO Meetings
    • Quarterly Gathering?
      • Looking to see if there is a desire for casual in-person quarterly meetings on top of the monthly Zoom meetings
School Needs
  • Winter Gear Drive
    • ​Winter clothes needed to hand out to families who are in need
      • Ideally collected by Parent/Teacher conferences
  • Replacement clothes
    • Clothes, especially pants, in size 4t-7 are needed by Nurse Caitlin for when students need a change of clothes
November - November 18th, 2024
Activities Since Last Meeting
  • Staff Appreciation
    • Parent Teacher Conferences Meal
      • Julia and Katie W made an amazing spread for faculty during Parent/Teacher conferences - they served lunch and left plenty of food for staff to have dinner as well! The Church, an Adopt a School Partner, brought lots of desserts to help round out the meal. Faculty appreciated it greatly!
    • Classroom supply initiative
      • The classroom supply drive is still ongoing! Tell your friends! People wanting to donate to the cause can go through the Facebook fundraiser page, or order directly through our Amazon Wishlist.
  • Fundraising
    • Bake Sale
      • Ari led the PFO efforts in hosting a bake sale on Election Day. $1294 was raised for the Leopold CAN fund! There was a great turnout from the community for providing baked goods, volunteering, and of course donating money! Ari did an amazing job pulling this all together!
  • PFO Bulletin Board
    • The PFO has a bulletin board right by the office! Take a look next time you're in school - if you have suggestions about what should go on the board, send them to [email protected]
Upcoming PFO Items/Needs
  • Weeks of STEM
    • STEM Night
      • The Sign up Genius has been created for STEM Night volunteers. STEM Night is January 21st from 6:30-8:00. Please consider volunteering if you are able! Any questions can be sent my way.
      • We are also looking for Sponsors for STEM Night - if you know of a company that would be a good fit, please let me know - Julia, who is managing the sponsors, has a list of companies we have already asked to make sure we don't "double ask" anyone.
    • Weeks of STEM
      • Around STEM Night and the Wonders of Physics presentation at school the PFO will be working with the Adopt a School Partner Department of Revenue to have "Weeks of STEM" at Leopold. Part of this will include having in-class STEM activities, as well as books/STEM stations in the library. If you have any ideas/items that you'd like to donate to this cause let me know!
  • Faculty Lounge Grant
    • We received feedback on a survey that was sent out to faculty about how best to utilize a small grant the PFO received for updating the faculty lounge. Now it's on to curating a list from the results and start purchasing items - stay tuned next month for (hopefully) an update!

We are looking for more active members for PFO, so if you know any other parents that would be a good fit please talk to them about potentially joining - the more members we can get, the more we can accomplish as a group!
December - December 16, 2024
Activities Since Last Meeting
  • Staff Appreciation
    • Emily W. put together a mailbox treat for faculty including a nice pen and fun card to help brighten their day.
    • Katie W. purchased classroom supplies and is in the processing of re-stocking the newly re-organized supply cupboards in the staff lounge to round out the classroom supply drive.
  • Fundraisers
    • We are hosting a fundraiser with Dave and Busters through the end of January.
    • Patricia secured Target gift cards for families who needed an extra boost for the holidays, working with the community resource and social worker team to get it in the hands of the families who could use them the most.
Upcoming PFO Items/Needs
  • Community Events
    • Weeks of STEM
      • PFO will be hosting Weeks of STEM @ Leopold. This will run from Jan13 -24 and will include STEM Night on Jan 21st, Wonders of Physics on Jan 23rd during the school day, a STEM bin in the library and activities for the classrooms. Adopt a School Partner Department of Revenue is helping with this initiative.
  • Staff Appreciation
    • Faculty Lounge
      • PFO had a small grant for faculty lounge updates. There was a survey out to faculty about what they’d like to use those funds on; during February a purchase list will be created and implemented.
  • Fundraisers
    • January 16th we will have a restaurant night at Portillo's.
    • Restaurant Nights and Tito Fest are currently the PFO’s main source of fundraising outside of being awarded a grant (which is intermittent at best). Currently our fundraising efforts are insufficient to meet next year’s projected budget, so we are looking for ways to bring more donations into the PFO. If you have any ideas, please reach out!
School Needs
  • Be on the lookout for upcoming volunteer opportunities for Black History Month and Read Your Heart in February!
 
There will be no PFO Meeting in January. Thanks everyone and enjoy your break!
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