PTA Newsletter -- April 14

Hope everyone enjoyed their Spring Break!

Upcoming Events

PTA meeting

Pancakes, pasta, and PTA! Please join us this Tuesday at 7pm for our next PTA meeting. The meeting will be in-person in the staff room, or you can join on zoom at this link.

Read the agenda at this link. Read the minutes from the March meeting at this link. Please join us to learn about our fun upcoming events and how you can help!

Tuesday, April 15 @ 7pm

ELAC Meeting

The English Learners Advisory Committee (ELAC) is an advisory committee developed to advise the school about programs for English learners students. A school that has more than 21 EL students is required to have an ELAC. See here for more information on ELAC, on the RCSD website.

Monday, April 21 @ 8:20am

Color Run -- April 26

Mark your calendars -- the Henry Ford Color Run will take place on Saturday, April 26 at 9am.

This event promises to be lots of fun for the entire family, complete with a Pancake Breakfast hosted by the Dad's Club!

Buy tickets NOW!! Limited number of tickets will be sold at the event.

Pasta Dinner

Our biggest community event, affectionately called "Pasta Dinner", includes carnival games, spaghetti dinner, Wine Wall, basket raffle, and online auction. This fun event will take place on May 16, 2025.

This event is entirely volunteer-run, and we need your help!

* Auction -- everyone can help! Reach out to a favorite local businesses for donations for their support. Take this donation letter with you and ask them for a donation. Email auction@henryfordpta.org once you have a donation for us so we can keep track. You can also host an event/experience for children or parents to attend. Families will bid on a spot to attend your event. These are always popular auction items!

* The Wine Wall is back by popular demand! Tickets are $25 each and every ticket wins a bottle of wine. Last year 41 tickets were sold for a total profit of $1025!! If you would like to donate wine, donate money for wine purchases, or if you know of a local community that can donate wine, please contact Audrey Moore audreykimmoore@gmail.com.

Please email volunteer@henryfordpta.org if you have any questions, or want to help out with any part of this amazing event.

Direct Donation Drive

The PTA funds many programs that our children benefit from every day, and we need your support. Programs such as PE, music, art, field trips, and so much more are funded through the PTA.

Any donation amount is appreciated to meet our funding goals for the school year -- no donation amount is too small! All donations are tax deductible.

Ways to donate:

ONLINE via Credit Card: Click HERE

IN-PERSON: Make checks out to Henry Ford PTA. Cash and Check donations can be delivered to the school office addressed to "PTA Direct Donations".

CORPORATE GIFT MATCHING: Don't forget corporate gift matching! Please email officers@henryfordpta.org if you plan to submit your donation for matching. If you don't know if your company matches, just ask!

Don't forget...

To bookmark our PTA website and subscribe to this newsletter.

There are two ways to be added to the newsletter list:

1) Create an account through Membership Toolkit. This will also allow you to easily purchase tickets to future events.

2) Email ptanewsletter@henryfordpta.org

Parents WhatsApp group

Join the parents WhatsApp group! It's a great way to stay in the loop with other parents, be reminded of events and join in our wonderful community!

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