Have you helped out in the classroom or volunteered for a PTA event this year?  If so, check your e-mail or your child’s backpack for an invitation to this year’s Volunteer Celebration. Hope you can join us on Thursday, June 5^th from 7 pm to 9 pm at the Barn Pub and Grill.  Contact Julie Amery, 388-1825, julie.amery@verizon.net, or Dee Cote, 388-6541, deecote@comcast.net, for more information

Each year the PTA is required to have an independent audit of our financial information.  We are looking for 3 people who would be interested in participating in an audit committee to review recent financial statements.  No prior financial background is required.  If you are able to help, please contact PTA treasurer Dee Cote, deecote@comcast.net, 388-6541.  Thanks!

We would like to review some of the things the PTA did this past year and thank everyone who made it possible-

The PTA has provided over $13,000 in financial support so far this year to
fund fields at both schools and to bring in terrific assemblies like
Techsploration and Pumpernickel Puppets (Tara Nelson).  The PTA also offered
over $3,500 in financial support for schools in the form of teacher gift
cards, and school donations, First Day of School event, Principal's
Coffees, Amesbury Candidates Forum (Julie Amery), Are You Smarter than a 4th
Grader, Excellence in Education, Field Days, 4th grade celebration. We had some
great events for families:  A welcome back Ice Cream Social (Tara Nelson), a
swashbucklin' Mother Matey Pirate Palooza (Dee Cote, Sherri Ziomek, Linda
Lynch), a fantastic Family Fun Fair (Linda Lynch, Dee Cote, Sherri Ziomek),
an educational and rewarding Science Fair and Star Party (Julie O'Neill).
The awesome After School Enrichment Program (Cindy Russell, Janet Wetherbee)
offered 36 classes to 454 students.  Families were kept busy and active
during Vacation Breaks (Lisa Cassidy, Linda Lynch) with trips to CoCoKey
Water Resort, rollerskating, swimming and Chunky's Movie Theater.
Teachers were blown away by two spectacular Teacher Appreciation Luncheons
(AnnMarie Holbrook, Tara Nelson). Our Fundraising Chair (Linda Lynch) went above
and beyond this year to bring back some "fundraising favorites" as well as
some new money-raising ventures.  As always, our Square One Art fundraiser
(Jessika Welch) was popular and successful.   And a thank you to the PTA
board members whose organization made this all possible: Julie Amery, Cindy
Russell, Deb Jancewicz, Kathy Rutter, Dee Cote, Gail Browne, Sharon McAfee
and to all you UNBELIEVABLY INCREDIBLE volunteers! 

Save your Shaw's receipts! The Amesbury PTA has recently enrolled in the Shaw's Receipt Rewards Program.  Anytime you, or a friend or a relative shops at Shaw's or Star Market's,  just turn in your receipt to the envelope at  AES or CES.  The PTA will earn a percentage of the total receipts we turn in.