Patton PTA Pulse Newsletter

Please join us for our next PTA Meeting on Wednesday, November 20th at 7:00pm. One of our School Resource Officers, Chris Seebacher, will be hosting a presentation on Digital Citizenship. Parents of students of all ages are welcome to attend. However, the presentation is geared towards parents of 4th and 5th graders as they approach middle school and children having their own cell phones. Parents will be provided with different resources for online safety recommendations, hear about cyberbullying, and listen to some of the issues related to student online behavior that our school resource officers have seen in the 19 different schools where they are working.

Please note, this presentation is for parents, not for students. Each year students learn about digital citizenship and last year our school resource officers taught a lesson in each of our 5th grade classes, sharing information similar to what will be shared with parents in this presentation. Please fill out this googleform if you plan to attend to help us plan adequate seating.

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

Looking for a way to showcase your child’s talents and artistic expression? Encourage your child to submit entries for this year’s national PTA Reflections program, with the theme: Accepting Imperfection.

Students can submit their completed works of art in one (or more) of the art categories: dance choreography, film production, literature, music composition, photography and visual arts. Please read through these specific PTA reflections rules for each category submission.

All projects must be submitted to Patton’s main office by the end of school day on November 20th. Please fill out this student entry form to accompany each project. Feel free to reach out to Tina Shah (tinashah1@gmail.com) with any questions!

The holiday spirit wear sale is taking place now through November 24th! The Patton spirit wear sale features designs by Patton’s very own 2nd Grader Claire S. and 4th Grader Hannah H.! Spirit wear makes a great holiday gift or stocking stuffer!

When: November 11th through November 24th

Order online! Orders will be delivered directly to your child’s classroom before winter break.

Contact patton.spiritwear.pta@gmail.com with any questions.

Join us for the Patton Spreads Joy Event on December 6th!

This is a very special event to show our Patton kids how to give back and learn how to donate to our community. Also, it’s SUPER FUN for the whole family to attend!!!

Spread the Patton Joy!

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).

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.

• November 20th (7pm start)
• January 15th
• March 12th
• May 14th

Please join us for our next PTA meeting on Nov. 20th! There will be a SPECIAL PRESENTATION before the PTA meeting. One of our School Resource Officers, Chris Seebacher, will be hosting a presentation on Digital Citizenship. Parents of students of all ages are welcome to attend. However, the presentation is geared towards parents of 4th and 5th graders as they approach middle school and children having their own cell phones. Parents will be provided with different resources for online safety recommendations, hear about cyberbullying, and listen to some of the issues related to student online behavior that our school resource officers have seen in the 19 different schools where they are working.

Please note, this presentation is for parents, not for students. Each year students learn about digital citizenship and last year our school resource officers taught a lesson in each of our 5th grade classes, sharing information similar to what will be shared with parents in this presentation. Please fill out this googleform if you plan to attend to help us plan adequate seating.

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