PTA Buzz

🎃🐝 Hello, October — and welcome to a fresh new month at NRE! 🎃🐝

October is here, and our town is turning into Halloween, TX! 🎃👻 With cooler mornings, fall colors, and plenty of spooky fun in the air, there’s so much to look forward to this month at NRE.

As we settle into the season, don’t forget that Reflections submissions are due this month — we can’t wait to see the creativity and imagination our students have to share! 🎨✨ And as October comes to a close, we’ll lace up our sneakers for our Fun Run, bringing our NRE community together for a day of fun, fitness, and school spirit. 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️💙

We’re grateful for every student, family, and staff member who makes NRE such a warm, creative, and joyful place to learn. Here’s to a month filled with learning, laughter, creativity, connection, and a little Halloween magic! 🎃🐝❤️

Our PTA focuses on a single mission:

to make every child's potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children.

Your membership strengthens our community.

💛 🐝 Bee the difference — join the PTA and help our school buzz with success. 🐝 💛

We will be having a student membership drive through October with special prizes to be announced! Any student memberships received since August 1 will count towards the drive, so - don't delay, join today!

Did you know that students can join our PTA? Benefits of student participation in PTA can include:

• Student Voice and Empowerment
• Enhanced Family-Student Relationships
• Skill Development
• Sense of Belonging
• Positive School Culture

• Areas of support from the PTA at our school:
• Open communication between school Admin, Teachers and Parents
• Fieldtrip support for each grade
• Teacher classroom supplies support, teacher appreciation
• Fun Run Support
• Carnival Day
• AND More!

JOIN NOW👇

You may submit dues via joinPTA.org or our Cheddar Up store. Please note that joinPTA does not offer the $6 student rate for Newton Rayzor PTA memberships. For you convenience, you can submit dues for adult memberships and child membership in one transaction via Cheddar Up.

Please note that both sites charge a processing fees. Membership forms and envelopes are available in the front office.

The National PTA Reflections program is returning, and this year's theme is "What My Culture Means to Me." Students are invited to showcase their creativity by creating an original work in one of six categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, or Visual Arts. Whether your child loves to draw, write, dance, compose music, take photos, or make videos, Reflections is a wonderful opportunity to share their unique perspective and talents. For more information visit Newton Rayzor's Reflections website. Entries can be submitted HERE.

Coffee Walk is once a month; the next ones are Oct. 20 and Nov 16!

We need 2 volunteers to meet at the PTA storage room (by the 2nd set of stairs near the front door) at 8:00 am. We’ll set up the cart and start making rounds by 8:15 am. Also, please consider donating $5 - $10 for Teacher Appreciation so we can shop for coffee walk supplies.

Small Donations Make a Big Impact!

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Fun Run Fundraiser

Starting October 20 through Oct 30, ending with a FUN RUN during the school day

🏃‍♀️🐝 Get Ready to Run, NRE! 🐝🏃‍♂️

It’s time for one of our favorite NRE traditions — the Fun Run! This exciting school-wide event brings all of our students together for a day of fun, school spirit, and fundraising for our NRE PTA.

Every student has the opportunity to help their class and grade level by collecting donations and raising as much money as possible. Every donation makes a difference, and we’re excited to see what our NRE students can accomplish when we work together!

Students will be working together to reach school wide goals and earn fun rewards throughout the week of Fun Run. These will include dress up days (simple things they can put together with what they have at home) and opportunities to have their teachers do silly activities.

🪙 Coin Collection Challenge: October 26–30

But that’s not all! Get ready to fill those coin jars! During the week of October 26–30, students will participate in a special coin collection challenge. The grade level that collects the most coins will earn a special prize!🏆💰

🎉 Come Cheer Them On!

Parents and families are invited to come out and cheer on their students during the Fun Run! Each grade/class will have a dedicated run time, and those times will be announced soon. We can’t wait to fill the sidelines with NRE families, encouragement, and school spirit!

Thank you for supporting our students and the NRE PTA. Let’s make this year’s Fun Run our biggest and most exciting one yet! 🐝❤️🏃‍♀️

According to our PTA bylaws, we only have to meet 3x a year-August, March and April. Our next general PTA meeting will be in February. We know parents and students are busy with activities and life, so we try to keep our meetings to a minimum and communicate as much as we can through monthly newsletters and our social media pages (please make sure you are following us). We will send more information about our next general meeting as soon as we can.

• Oct 12, 13 - No School
• Oct 14 - Reflections Submissions Due
• Oct 23 - Fun Run Fundraiser Starts
• Oct 26 - Coin fundraiser starts
• Oct 30 - Fun Run

Thank you to A Time to Dance for talking with students about dance choreography at Community Arts Night!

Thank you to Albertsons on University Drive in Denton for donating books for Newton Rayzor teachers, families, and students!

Don't forget that if you want to volunteer in the school, each person has to fill out the application each year. Get yours done now!

President - Stacy Stone

VP - Cassidy Shelby

Treasurer - Jill James

Secretary - Heather Swafford

Parliamentarian - Natalie Lea

Communications - Katie VanNatta

Membership -Sarah Lynn Fisher

Volunteer Coordinator - Cody Johnston

Arts in Education/Reflections Coordinator - Lara Tomlin

Book Fair - Daniela Ortiz
Fundraising - Luis Martinez