Did you miss our PTA meeting last week? No problem! You can view the livestream at the GWMS PTA Facebook site. Ms. Bendinelli, assistant director of school counseling at Minnie Howard, presented great information for our rising 9th grade families. Mr. Hayes from Alexandria City’s Complete Streets Program talked about the safe routes to school audit for GWMS. Ms. Vinson provided her Principal’s update and our School Board representative, Mr. Willie Bailey, gave insight into the ACPS Budget. And our PTA Officers talked about all the great things the PTA is doing to support our students and staff.
A note from our Hospitality Chair, Greta Gordon: Thank you, GW parents and families for contributing to our Teachers Conferences dinner on Thursday! We had lots and lots of grateful teachers, and lots and lots of smiles and thank you’s! Thanks to Café Pizzaiolo for handling the bulk of the dinner, and to parents for contributing fruit, salad, bread, pasta dishes, desserts, and seltzers. Thank you to the parents who helped set-up, serve/oversee and clean-up. Team effort for the win! Thank you, GW teachers and staff for all you do every day! Shout out to the following Honor Roll of Volunteers parents:
- Teri Gennarelli
- Robert Knotts
- Emily Garrahan
- Melanie Peterson
- Lara Payne
- The McCommons Family
- Jill Koly
- April Bryant
- Kathryn Holloman
- Cori Woods
- Matt Mulder
- Bernadetter Fernandez
- Elizabth Salgado
- Meredith Sawyer
- Cindy Ferrier
- Sarah Mehaffey
- Sandy Heenan
- June Shih
- Amy Ernst
- Jennifer Lay
- Ashley Lombardi
- Brooke Lombardi
This week is Bus Drivers Appreciation week and we’d love to help handing out treats to our bus drivers on Friday, February 24th. If you can help from 7:15 am to 8:30 am, please let Joy know at [email protected].
Finally, last week our VP of Fundraising informed our community that our Honor Roll of Donors Campaign had not reached its goal this year and asked the community to consider a donation. We received $1,170 in donations! Huge thank you to our new additions to our Honor Roll of Donors:
- Pamela Townsend
- Mary Lutz
- Anna Dvorchik
- Andrew Corso
- Alexander St Clair
- Meghan Knott
- Tara Kilfoyle
- Jill Koly
- Heather Stouffer
- Greta Gordon
- Lara Griffy
We want to keep funding teacher grants, social events, PBIS, and teacher appreciation. The first 50 people who donate $100 or more through Honor Roll of Donors are eligible to win $2,500 in landscaping from Del Ray Landscapes; so far, we only have 37 eligible donations. Please donate $100 or more and get us to 50!
Joy Pochatila
GWMS PTA President 2022-2023