February Newsletter
PTO Monthly Newsletter
February 2025
Happy New Year! The Worcester Dual Language School PTO has been hard at work fundraising, hosting community events, organizing the school library, and starting the planning for next year! Find ways you can join us and get involved here. We also have a new facebook page and instagram account.
Save the Dates!
Join us for some fun events coming up!
April 3, 6:30pm-8pm: Paint your own pottery family event in the school cafeteria
April 26, Community Earth Day Cleanup
May 15, PTO Annual Meeting
June 6, Family Prom at Worcester State
June 13, Spree Day, volunteers needed!
The library is open!
We have had five amazing weeks of the school library being open, and we hope your children have been able to bring home some great books to read with you. So far students have checked out 1607 books, classes have visited 91 times total, and volunteers have donated 228 hours of their time! If you’d like to volunteer in the library you can fill out this form.
School Spirit Wear
The school store is open and the PTO gets 20% of the purchase. We’ve raised over $800 so far! Be sure to get your swag!
https://worcesterdualpto.org/schoolstore
Committee Updates
The PTO has reorganized into a committee model, and committees work in different areas such as events, fundraising, hospitality and the library. The commitment is about an hour or two a month. If you’d like to sign up for a committee you can do that here. Click the link for more detailed descriptions of the committees.
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Fundraising Updates
The winter concert raffle raised $1056 ($500 more than last year) and Penny Wars raised $1900 ($700 less than last year). So far this year PTO has raised $14,606 and our goal is $17,500.
Click here to learn what our fundraising goal is and what we put the money towards.
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Hospitality Updates
In December, the hospitality committee put together an amazing teacher appreciation brunch for all the educators and staff at WorDL. There was over $2300 worth of donations from families. Thank you to everyone who donated food items, raffle items, and volunteered their time!
Next PTO Meeting rescheduled to:
Tuesday, March 11
at 6:30 pm via zoom
You can see PTO meeting agendas and minutes on the PTO website.