Parents Helping Parents
The SIT Committee’s pilot program, Parents Helping Parents, needs parent volunteers to conduct workshops. If parents can please contact Tonya Winchester about the title of their potential workshop, it would be greatly appreciated. Please email Tonya at twinchester@nc.rr.com.
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February Dining Out Night at Chuck E. Cheese
Please join us for our next dining out at Chuck E. Cheese on February 9th from 3pm-9pm. Chuck E. Cheese is located at 3724 Mayfair Street in Durham, near Sam’s Club. Pearsontown will receive 15% of all register sales generated by our participating family members and friends.
When you buy your food and tokens at the counter you must state that you are with Pearsontown in order for us to receive 15% of your purchase. This applies Only to all food and tokens purchased at the Counter. If you purchase tokens out of the machine our school Will Not get credit because they cannot count it.
Please come out for a fun evening to support our school!
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Upcoming PTA Sponsored Events for February 2012:
February 9th – Dining Out at Chuck E. Cheese From 3-9 pm
February 10th – Movie Night
February 21st – PTA General Meeting in the Media Center @ 6:00 pm
February 24th – Walk to School and Spirit Day
February 28 – March 2 – Bookfair
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****** UPDATE ON PTA MEMBERSHIP FEE ******
PTA Memberships are now $8.00 per person.
They can be purchased in the front office. Memberships can also be purchased by community and family members, and friends, so we encourage all of you to reach out and help us get to our goal of 360!
In addition, we would like to encourage all staff members to join and support your PTA. We appreciate all of your participation, as we are truly appreciative and grateful for all you do for our children and school.
Thank you for your continued support of Pearsontown!
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Double Your Contribution with Campbell’s Labels!!!
Help Pearsontown by electronically donating simply by purchasing Campbell’s products at retailers. We can get double the amount by you purchasing the items at the register, AND clipping them and sending them to Pearsontown! Click here for details and click here for a printable flyer!
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Please click here to preview the new bylaws.
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In thinking about the 2011-12 school year, the PTA is in need of volunteers to chair the following committee:
Beautification
If you are interested in chairing this committee, please contact Lisa Lee at lee_lisa01@yahoo.com or Aretha Burford Rice at aretha29@hotmail.com.
In addition, we are always looking for volunteers to help aid all of our committees. We welcome any amount of time, big or small, that you can dedicate to helping us succeed.
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We would like to welcome new families to the Pearsontown community and welcome back returning families from the 2010-2011 school year.
As many of you already know, Pearsontown is a rich community because of the incredibly strong support of our families and our wonderful and caring staff.
We are very excited about the upcoming school year and all the activities we’ve planned to enrich the lives of our children.
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Don’t forget to Re-link your Harris Teeter VIC card to Pearsontown #1288. The programs starts August 1st. To link your card, give the cashier our code 1288, and your linked for the entire school year. Please ask your family members, friends, and co-workers that shop at Harris Teeter to link their card to Pearsontown. Once your VIC card is linked, Pearsontown receives a percentage of your Harris Teeter brand purchases in the form of cash. This is a free and easy way to help raise money for our school. Reminder cards are available to print out to the left.
Please click here to link your Harris Teeter VIC card online.
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If you shop at Kroger’s, please don’t forget to link your Kroger Plus Card to our school. You will need a barcode to link your Kroger Plus Card to Pearsontown. Please click here to print out a barcode.
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Don’t forget if you shop online to please visit our Furtal site below to help support Pearsontown.
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The NC PTA has endorsed Furtal.com as their online fundraising platform.
You can visit www.furtal.com, learn more about the program, and then type in pearsontown, or you can go directly to the Pearsontown Elementary page by clicking on the image below:
Furtal raises money without costing anything to parents, it engages our local and the online business community to support our PTA, and provides 24/7/365 fundraising opportunities.
Whenever you need to make a online purchase click on the link above and shop through the portal. Create a shortcut on your desktop, too!
You won’t notice anything different about your shopping experience. Companies included in the program, to name a few:
Amazon / iTunes / Target / GAP / KOHL’s / Fandango / Barnes&Noble / Bass Pro Shops / Walmart / Kmart / Piperlime / footnote / Petsmart / Sears / Macy’s / Office Depot
You can shop by categories such as – Gifts and Flowers – or by alphabetical listing. Please take time to check it out and support our school! Please share our Furtal site with your family and friends.
