Our Teacher/Staff Appreciation Week events recognize all our Scribner Road employees. Each year, the PTA provides rewards, refreshments, and other recognitions as a “thank you” to the excellent Scribner Road teachers and staff.
Responsibilities
- gathering the committee together in January/February to meet and begin planning
- contacting the Main Office staff to determine the official week for Teacher/Staff Appreciation Week (usually the beginning of May)
- contacting the PTA Treasurer to determine budget
- developing a theme for the week
- planning one activity or gesture for each day of the week, trying to include a homemade project from the students
- sending a letter in April to families indicating the theme and how each child may participate
- asking that completed projects be returned to the classroom teachers and placed in an envelope by the teacher; collecting all envelopes by a specified date
- compiling the projects and displaying them throughout the school, e.g., on hallway walls and bulletin boards
- The week prior to Teacher/Staff Appreciation week, distribute a schedule of events to the staff letting them know what to expect the following week.
- during this week, making sure that each day the staff receives a small appreciation for the hard work they do with the children
- after the week is finished, compiling a list of volunteers, writing a thank-you article and submitting it to Scribbles
- providing a special luncheon for all Scribner staff in the Scribner Road Cafeteria (held annually the day after the last day of school for students)
- in May, decide on the menu (which items to cater and which to buy/supply ourselves)
- reserve cafeteria for set date, completing the form for room set up
- at the beginning of June, order catered items through catering company (has been Wegmans)
- purchase needed items (paper products, centerpieces, tablecloths)
- set up luncheon, pick up and deliver catered items, serve buffet style
- clean up cafeteria and kitchen