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February 10th is "The Great PTA Sign Up Day!"
Please help us reach our goal and grow our membership! Sign up spouses, grandparents, and children too!
Membership is an easy way to support our school, especially in a year like this one where fundraising is challenging.
 Click here to become a PTA member online ​​
Help us meet our membership goal by Wednesday, February 10th!
​Sign up today!

ADVOCACY

You can easily take action in advocating for every child.  The National PTA has a page dedicated to help you find your elected officials and look up federal legislation. They will often have forms you can complete right on their page to support different initiatives. 

​There are currently two items on their page you can complete to support. Take Action: Schools Need Resources Now! is for a COVID relief package. Funding Family Engagement Must be in the Next COVID-19 Relief Package is to seek emergency funding in the for the Statewide Family Engagement Centers in the next COVID-19 relief package.  

Visit https://www.pta.org/home/advocacy/take-action to support these items. Click on each and fill out the pertinent information. 

You can also sign up to receive alerts regarding future take action items.
Manetuck PTA
Holiday Giving Campaign 
The Manetuck PTA is participating in a Holiday Giving Campaign. Together with a few organizations and faculty and staff, we want to make the holidays extra special for our scholars and their families. The PTA is assisting in the collection of pajamas, slippers, and children's books.
There are 19 children to select. If you would like to adopt-a-child, you will be responsible for providing 1 new pair of pajamas, 1 new pair of slippers, and 1 age appropriate children's book.  Each child's age and sizes are listed below. All items for the child should be unwrapped and bagged together.  
Contributions must be received by Tuesday, 12/15. Information regarding drop off will be sent to those who sign up.
Click here to view the sign up list if you are interested in participating.

We are grateful to be a part of the effort to provide an extra special holiday for our scholars and their families.

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Introducing a great new fundraiser called Givebacks!
You get to save on things you can actually use - and our PTA gets up to 20% back!

Simply go to our E-Store to shop, save, and support.

Our PTA automatically gets up to 20% donated back!
We’ll be adding new Givebacks about every week from brands you know and love, plus some new finds to discover.

This is the perfect way to jump start your holiday shopping!

It’s that Simple - CLICK - SAVE - SUPPORT

Don’t forget to share your purchases on social media! The more you share, the more funds we raise.
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Get ready to shop till you drop!
Our Holiday Boutique is going Virtual!!!
This 2020 holiday season children can shop Manetuck’s Holiday Boutique from home!
Nov. 20th – Nov. 30th
Click Here to Shop
School Code: Man1120

If you have any questions, please contact Jackie Reetz
jaclynreetz@gmail.com or (631) 455-1583
​*Orders will arrive in time for Hanukkah & Christmas*
*All orders will go home in backpacks*
Show your SCHOOL SPIRIT, Order for family and friends! 
Ordering Deadline : November 11th

Online Store: wimanetuckelementary2020.itemorder.com

Email Jacquie.Frangoulis@gmail.com with any questions or concerns
National PTA Reflections Program
2020 Theme is "I Matter Because..."

Students reflect on the theme and create original works of art.

Students may request an application by filling out the online form at https://tinyurl.com/nysreflections2020 
Please submit requests no later than October 12, 2020. Deadline for entries is November 9th.  
​Please see flyer for more details.  
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​Welcome to the 2020-2021 school year.while this year will look different than those in the past, our mission as a PTA, to make every child’s potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children, has not changed. Your Executive Committee has been hard at work and we are committed to bringing home and school together. Health and safety are our top priorities, and we will address new challenges as they present themselves.
The PTA will provide breakaway mask lanyards to all Manetuck students. These lanyards will allow children to safely remove masks without having to put them down on a surface or in a pocket etc. Your support also provided folders for each student.

Special welcome signs to the Kindergarten Class of 2033!  

Schools out! But your Executive Committee is Just Gearing up!


Woo hoo!  We all survived the end of the school year quarantine/distance learning style. A huge thanks to everyone for a successful end of year. Give yourself a pat on the back for doing your part! Parents, students, educators, and everyone in between really worked hard to make the best of the situation.  

Congratulations to our 5th grade students who are moving on to Udall!  The moving up parade was awesome! Click here to see pictures.  

Thank you to this year's past Executive Committee.  We appreciate all your hard work, dedication, and commitment to our school and students.  Thank you to our volunteers who chaired or helped at events. You were essential to our success. 

The 2020-2021 Executive Committee has already begun to plan for the new school year.  They are working well together to navigate through some of the challenges we may face with the return to school and COVID-19.  We are thankful to have such amazing people to be a part of our PTA and are looking forward to another incredible year!

THANK YOU TO ALL of the aMazing Teachers and Staff at Manetuck!

If the video below isn't viewable, click this link to view. 

Yearbook orDers

Orders for yearbook can be placed at https://manetuck.memberhub.store/shopping/categories/7010

 A Message from us...                                                                                         3/20/2020

We hope everyone is staying safe, healthy, and sane during this unprecedented time.   As a PTA, we are working on figuring out what the best course of action is for handling activities, fundraisers, and events that have been canceled.  We understand that this is a difficult time and want to be sensitive to your needs and also the need for normalcy while we come up with a plan for how the next few weeks/months will play out.  

Some of you may have already received e-mails from LifeTouch regarding the sale of our yearbook this year. Our yearbook was set to go on sale right when school closures took place.  What used to be a 68 page book is now 80 pages with so many more photos of our children.  The only event that won't be in our yearbook this year is the STEM Expo.   But don't worry, our yearbook is almost complete!   You may order a yearbook online right now.  A copy of the order form we were going to be sending home is located here.  The link to order yearbooks can be accessed by clicking here. The yearbook order code is 13416820.  The link should take you directly to that but if not, you may manually enter the code to find it.  All 5th grade students receive a complimentary copy of the yearbook.  We have always accepted a cash/check payment in the past.  For now, we are only accepting online orders and will provide instructions regarding accepting other payment forms at a later time.  If you are able to order online, please do so.  The yearbooks will need to go to print and your orders placed now will allow us to make sure we have enough copies. 

Please see district website for update on School Activity Cancellations.

The following events have been canceled:
  • Getting to know Manetuck #1
  • March 16 PTA Meeting
  • March 17 Winter Reader's breakfast
  • March 20 Manetuckville Parent/Teacher Social
  • March 31 Spring Photos
  • April 1 Evening STEM EXPO (day expo still taking place)
We will advise of rescheduled events as the information becomes available.
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We hope all our scholars enjoyed their shopping experience at our book fair.  If you missed the opportunity to shop, or the book you wanted was sold out, you can still shop online.  Please visit https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/manetuckelementaryschool1 to make additional purchases.  The link is open through February 13.  

​For your convenience, we've uploaded the wish lists of the teachers who completed one so you may purchase a book for their classroom.  You can locate them here. 

Happy Shopping!
We're excited to kick off PARP.  To help you stay on top of all the exciting activities we have planned, please reference here for a copy of the calendars.  You may read a copy of the welcome letter or reprint lost logs here.
​It's been a busy January!  Reminder that 5th Grade Yearbook Cover Contest submissions are due January 24, 2020.

The PTA is currently accepting nominations for our 2020-2021 Executive Committee.  A form is located on memberhub for you to place your nominations.  All positions are 1 term only and are open for nominations.  A person may serve for two consecutive terms in a position.  All positions of the current Executive Committee are serving the first term of that position and are eligible to serve again in the same capacity.  To be eligible for an Executive Committee position, you must have held a Committee Chair position.  If you have any questions about positions or eligibility, please email manetuckpta@yahoo.com

WIHS is serving their Hershey Park fundraiser.  You will find order form here.  This is the only discount ticket sale they will be running and tickets will be in by May.

WI Council of PTA's is conducting a raffle for an iPad at their Founders' Day Award Recognition night on February 3rd.  Raffle forms must be sent in by January 30th.  You can print a form here.
NYS PTA put out a survey over the summer.  Nearly 1,000 fellow PTA members shared feedback and great comments that will help NYS make PTA membership better for you.  All who participated were eligible to win PTA swag.  Look who one the grand prize?!?!  

We're so excited!!!

We had a great turnout for our first PTA Meeting!  We shared a lot of information and will be updating the website to reflect many of the things we discussed! 

Just to recap a few items:  Online Sign ups are available through memberhub.  You can find memberhub by clicking here.  You would have received login instructions when your membership was processed.  You must be a paid PTA member to access the signups.  The link to join is listed toward the bottom of this web page.

The following committees are some of the open committees we would like to fill sooner than later: 
Yearbook, Health & Wellness, PARP, Holiday Visitor

The following committees are new this year and will need to be filled:
Hospitality, Communications

Please e-mail manetuckpta@yahoo.com for further information.  We will update you with descriptions of the committees over the next week.