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PPE PTO Newsletter 5/2/25

in Schoolwide News on May 1, 2025

Our annual Field Day and Cinco de Mayo celebration is this coming Monday 5/5 (rain date 5/9)! Thanks to all those who volunteered and helped us fill every slot. We can’t wait!

Important Dates

Note: Dates are subject to change. The BEST way to stay updated is with our PTO Google Calendar – view and subscribe here!

  • May 2: Tiger Tennis Fundraiser (rain date)
  • May 4: Rising Pre-K and K Popsicle Party
  • May 4: 5th Grade Mother-Son Event
  • May 5: Field Day and Cinco de Mayo Celebration
  • May 9: 5th Grade Father-Daughter Dance
  • May 13:  5th Grade Party
  • May 15: Papa John’s Spirit Night
  • May 18: Spring Event – Percy’s Moving Party
  • May 20: General PTO Meeting
  • May 21: 5th Grade Promotion Ceremony
  • May 22: Last Day of School (11:30 dismissal)

Upcoming Community and Fundraiser Events

Help us celebrate the end of the school year and the end of an era as we say goodbye to our current building and help Percy move to his new building! While the new building won’t be open to attendees except Percy on this day, we have so many fun things planned, including our 2nd Annual Tiger Dash (Down Memory Lane)! Can you volunteer to help out?

General Announcements

PPE Kindergarten Readiness Camp: July 22-23

Calling all Rising Kindergarten girls and boys for 2025-2026 school year.  Save the Date for July 22-23 for our Kindergarten Readiness Camp.  You can register HERE!

Join Mrs. Murray Dick & Mrs. Amy Patterson to get a “Sneak Peek” at a day in the life of a kindergartner in our NEW BUILDING! Your child will have the opportunity to meet new friends, engage in hands-on learning experiences, tour the NEW school, visit ‘kinder’ classrooms, and so much more!

Sign up today!!!

Teachers and staff will have a very short timeline to pack their classrooms before they must exit the current building for summer break. While MNPS will arrange for moving their packed boxes, many teachers would love help organizing, sorting, tossing, and packing their classrooms. Can you help? We absolutely need as many people as possible to chip in for this so if you haven’t had a chance to volunteer lately please join us. There are several options for dates and times! Sign up here!

MNPS Kindergarten Registration

Kindergarten Registration for the 2025-26 school year is open.  If you or someone you know has an incoming kindergartner, please encourage them to complete registration as early as possible.  For information regarding enrollment requirements, please visit this site.

Please join us for a book discussion on Jonathan Haidt’s bestseller,  “The Anxious Generation.”  The conversation will be led by past PTO President Brandi Kellett and Ms. K-B.
Where  & When: PPE’s Year-End PTO Meeting, Tuesday, May 20th from 6:00pm- 7:15pm (more info about the meeting coming soon!)

Fundraisers

It’s time! Get your school supplies your student(s) need – the exact items – delivered to class on day 1. Get the “must-have” list DONE in a few clicks and support the school at the same time. Sales close June 30 so buy now and cross this off your list!

PPE friends and family, take the night off from cooking on May 15 and feed the family while supporting the school! Use our unique code: PPES when ordering from Papa John’s and the PTO will receive 20% of all orders placed using that code. You can pre-order days in advance just make sure to select the appropriate date and input our unique code PPES.

Get Involved!

Come Have Lunch!

Parents, grandparents and special friends are welcome to eat lunch with students! To help us with space and accommodating guests, we ask that visitors sign-up to come eat lunch using the bookings link below. Please be sure to select the correct grade level and teacher. When signing-up, we also ask that you only sign-up for one day at this time. Thank you for your help and we hope to see you for lunch soon. Sign up to come eat lunch with your student!

Grandparents and Special Friends Email List

We know there are many grandparents, family and special friends of PPE students who would like to be involved. You can keep up with the latest news by signing up for the PPE Grandparents, Family & Friends List here.

Small Fundraisers Spotlight

For a list of all of our ongoing small fundraisers, please visit our Small Fundraisers webpage.

How to Stay Connected

Email Lists

New families – Be sure to sign up for our school newsletter, which includes grade-level information each week. Register today.

Add PPE happenings to your calendar automatically!

You can subscribe to our PTO calendar and have all of our events show up on your calendar, so you never lose track of important dates! Following the links below will prompt you to subscribe to the calendar via your preferred calendar app. Any time the PTO updates an event through the website, it will update on the calendar of all subscribers (how often your calendar pulls updated info will be based on your individual personal settings – every 5 minutes, 1 hour, 1 week, etc).

For Calendar Apps (apple calendar etc), click here.

For Google Calendar, click here.

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