Patton PTA Pulse Newsletter

Thank you to Tina Shah for being the PTA Reflections Program chair and for coordinating and collecting all the amazing projects we had come in for our theme, “Accepting Imperfections.” We appreciate you and cannot wait to see how far our Patton students go this year!

We would LOVE to shout out your name in our next newsletter! Can’t wait for YOU to get involved!

Did you know that Patton has 59 staff members?

Many of them, such as support staff, lunch supervisors, and long-term subs don't often get remembered at holiday time. PTA wants to make sure that all the Patton staff during this holiday season feel our love and appreciation.

Consider contributing a $20 to $25 gift card to the Patton PTA to provide to Patton Staff before the winter break (cards will be given to staff the week of December 16-20).

Examples of gift card locations could be Target, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts (don’t forget about local businesses like Gerry’s Cafe, Sweet T’s, Passero), etc. We are looking to collect enough gift cards or funds for all 59 Patton Staff.

If you can’t make it to a store, but want to contribute, you can provide donations via Zelle (cgandor@gmail.com) or Venmo (@Christine-Gandor) or cash donations.

Please drop off gift cards or monetary donations by December 12th at 1107 N Chicago Ave.

Any questions contact Jamie Knapstein (jamieannk1@gmail.com; 920-540-2260) or Lindsay Sudol (lindsaysudol@gmail.com) or Chrissy Gandor (cgandor@gmail.com; 847-650-4440).

Help Patton earn a $2,500.00 grant by becoming an ABC/25 Foundation member today! We only need 3 more members to reach our goal!

Join for $40. Each membership is applied towards all AHSD25 schools your children attend. Membership must be renewed annually.

Your membership and any additional donations will help fund grants applied for by teachers and administrative staff. Plus, you'll get free or discounted entry into our events with a membership!

Year books are available for purchase. Two free customizable pages are included. If you have any problems please contact yearbookpatton@gmail.com

You can order online here.

Final day to purchase for school delivery: April 30, 2025

Personalized pages due: April 8, 2025

If there are any financial issues please contact: Barb Donahue bdonahue@sd25.org

Mark your calendars to attend our PTA meetings this school year. They take place at 7:30 PM in the Patton Commons.

• January 15th
• March 12th
• May 14th

All parents are invited and encouraged to attend - we'd love to see you there! Even if you've never attended before, please consider attending! Your participation and presence makes a difference! Come see all that we do and learn more about where our budget goes, upcoming activities, hear from Mrs. Chin, and more. We promise we won’t make you volunteer for anything unless you want to! After the meeting, join us for a meetup somewhere fun to be social and meet some new people. Hope to see many of your faces there!

• Picking up or dropping off your kiddos? Spend a half an hour helping out our wonderful and fun traffic team one shift or more each week! Can’t commit?! Feel free to sign up to sub. Have questions?
• Fill out the Google Form and Volunteer Now!
  
• As a reminder: Kiddos need to be seated on the right side(curbside) or have access to get in and out curbside if you are utilizing the car line. Our volunteers can not for safety reasons for both the student and volunteer load or unload a student from the left side of the car.
  

• You may see our wonderful traffic team out setting up before 8:50 am. They aren’t quite ready to receive our wonderful students. Please arrive after 8:50 am. Please note there is no supervision until 8:50 am. Please make sure kids aren’t arriving before then as our traffic volunteers can not supervise.

Just a reminder there is no supervision until 8:50am so please do not drop your child off before then. The traffic team is not responsible for supervising your child.

Please contact the following email addresses INSTEAD of asking Patton School:

• General inquiries: ptapatton@gmail.com
• Traffic / Juvenile Safety: pattontrafficteam@gmail.com
• Room Reps / Class Parties: pattonroomrep@gmail.com
• Membership: ahpattonptamembership@gmail.com
• Yearbook: yearbookpatton@gmail.com
• Budget / Money: ahpattonptatreasurer@gmail.com

Email: ptapatton@gmail.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/pattonpta
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ptapatton