February 20, 2020

FSA Agenda

  • Administrator’s Report: Elaine Gaffney/Kelly Foyle

 

  •   Officer’s Reports
    • Presidential Board Report: Rachel Groth and Megan Kreiter
    • Treasurer’s Report: Moira Benton

 

  • Updates from the committees:
    • FSA representative from the school board – Nicole O’Brien
    • After School Enrichment – Sarah Cranley/Katrina Murrihy
    • Art Fair  – Jessica Scheller/Mel LaGilia
    • Young Authors – Erin Shea and Eileen Stoiber
    • Book Fair – Mary Morgan/Heather Wills/Lakeishia Hayes/Carolyn Burke
    • Hospitality – Lauren Skerrett
    • Father Daughter dance – Nicole O’Brien/Anita Snow
    • Programs – Megan Curran-Hurless/Noelle Carson
    • Fun Food- Jeanne Byrne/Karen Moran/Katie Looney
    • Spirit Day – Nora Gill/Elise Brand
    • Eat and Earn – Lauren Doig/Julie Perfetti
    • Baldricks – Jessica McCarihan
    • Mother-Son Dance – Megan Kreiter/Kristin Pendergast
    • New Parent
    • Box Tops
    • Year Book
    • Play
    • Skating Parties
    • Liaison Coordinators
    • Big Bucks
    • Mothers Day Decorating Committee
    • Market Day – TBD

 

  • What do the next four weeks look like?
    • St. Baldrick’s
    • We need to fill open board/committee position for the 2020-2021 school year.
      • Reach out to Rachel and Megan to discuss interests. 
  • Questions/Comments/Ideas/Suggestions
    • Any and all feedback should be constructive and respectful

 

Next Meeting Thursday March 19, 2020 7:30pm

 

 

January 23, 2020

 Minutes

  • Administrator’s Report: Elaine Gaffney/Kelly Foyle 
    • Student council breakfast after mass Wednesday 1/28
    • Play is Feb 27-29
    • Cultural inclusion of parents. Met 1/10 with 2 students to discuss ways to grow the celebration of school diversity.
      • Students brought up concerns of racism. Students are presenting concerns about racism and are requesting help from parents and teachers to address issues of racism. Next meeting of cultural club is 1/31. 
        • FSA rep will attend next C&I meeting 
      • April 1st is the goal to break ground on the Capital Campaign. The construction should be completed within a year; date to break ground is still not definite.
      • Golden Apple nominees
      • FSA social media/vaping presentations for Jr. High
  • Officer’s Report(s) 
    • Presidential Board Report: Rachel Groth and Megan Kreiter
    • Treasurer’s Report: Moira Benton
      • Use the tax-free exemption when purchasing items for events 
  • Updates from the committees:
    • FSA Representative for School Board 
      • Big Dig Meeting planning
      • Braclets sold to raise funds and awareness for the Big Dig
      • We love Marco's posts
    • Athletic Board – John Chatz
      • Athletic Board is brining in partner: Sports Brain to advise on concussion protocol.
        • Parents expressed questions on Sports Brain’s role and the importance of primary care doctor follow
        • Athletic Board encourages all parents to research vendor and bring question to workshop
        • Sport Brain workshop TBD: Athletic Board to share info with FSA and FSA will disseminate through all channels
    • Art Fair: Erin Konrath / Jessica Scheller/Mel LaGiglia 4/24-26
      • Erin passing on Art Fair but staying for the transition to Jessica Scheller and Mel LaGiglia.
      • Same format as last year.  Ms. Malinowski will also continue to be involved. 
      • May try to award some of the artwork. Possibly work with the Beverly Arts Alliance.
      • Other ways to make money at the Art Fair: 1) donation box, 2) raffle basket, 3) split the pot
      • Trying to help push Young Authors more to the forefront.
      • Discussion of school owning the Art Fair
    • Young Authors now headed by Erin Shea and Eileen Stoiber 
    • Book Fair: Mary Morgan/ Heather Wills/Lakeishia Hayes/ Carolyn Burke 
      • Will be held in the Church Basement 4/24-26
    • Hospitality: Lauren Skerrett
      • Catholic Schools Week, Teacher Appreciation Day is the next event
    • Father Daughter dance (Sweetheart Soiree);
      • used the decorations from the 8th grade dance- this saved lots of time and money.
      • Already asked 8th graders to save the decorations from this year. 
      • Decorations were then donated to another school.
      • Ticket sales through Membership toolkit worked well. 
      • Reduced the food purchase but might need to adjust up for next year. 
      • Need final $$ amount.
      • Need to identify a leader for next year’s committee so we can have a transition meeting.
    • Programs: Megan Curran-Hurless / Noelle Carson 
      • Wheel of Wisdom is all set up for 1/27.
      • Earth Day program in March booked (full school).
    • Spirit Day: Elise Brand / Nora Gill
      • Entertainment booked but need to start discussing alternative layouts in light of ground-breaking on construction.
    • Eat and Earn: Julie Perfetti / Lauren Doig
      • Milanos 11/25 and 11/26
      • Buona event on 1/31 only earned $60.
    • Fun Food 1/31.
      • Orders through Membership Toolkit; due 1/26.
    • Baldricks 3/7/20 – Jess McCarihan –
      • program in honor of Pat MacNamara; SB student who lost his life to pediatric cancer.
      • All funds support pediatric cancer research. 
      • Separate permission slip just for face painting going home this year.  Volunteers.  $50 minimum contribution for face painting or shaving.
      • Going to need lots of volunteers; will use membership toolkit.
    • MARKET DAY –
      • Need a someone to chair
      • We need to decide if we are going to push this. How to push?

 

  • What do the next four weeks look like?
    • Catholic Schools week agenda (Open House 1/26)
    • Mother/Son outing 2/16/20 at Bourbon Street.
  • Questions/Comments/Concerns/Questions:
    • Parrazolo cannot do Jump Rope for Heart. Does FSA want to take it on? 
      • There doesn’t seem to be a person to run the event. Rachel will respond.

 

October 17, 2019

 Minutes

  1. Administrator’s Report: Elaine Gaffney/Kelly Foyle 
    • 7th and 8th graders will be offered electives (dancing, baking, etc)
    • Jr High will participate in a Drug Awareness Program
    • Break ground is currently scheduled for April 1 for the Capital Campaign. 
    • Halloween Parade Route has been changed
  1. Officer’s Report(s) 
    1. Presidential Board Report: Rachel Groth and Megan Kreiter
      • Membership Tool Kit helpful hints will be sent out to assist with signing up
      • FSA Board offered suggestion to the administration to consider a  Volunteer Code of Conduct.
      • Member suggestion: Add Volunteer Code of Conduct to the Handbook 
  2. Treasurer’s Report: Moira Benton
    • Use the tax-free exemption when purchasing items for events
    • Reiterate you will not be reimbursed for taxes. Make you use the Tax Exempt form
    • Please get your receipts in within seven days.  We are trying to close out back to school events and needs costs in.
    • Please check with Moira for you committee's budget. There is an expense/revenue (if applicable) target for every event.
  3. Secretary Report: Nora Gill-NA
  4. Board Reports:
    1. FSA Representative for School Board 
      • Suggestion: Dicussion surrounding 1:30 dissmissals before 1/2 day, especially in Oct coming off of PT conferences.
    2. FSA Representative for Finance 
    3. FSA Liaison to Athletic Board: John Chatz 
      • Any update about Team Snap? John will look into it
      • Reinforcing registration payments. No pay/No play
  5. Updates from the committees:
    1. Fun Food: Jeanne Byrne
      • First Fun Food is Thursday 10/31
      • Online orders will be taken this year via Membership toolkit
      • Those wishing to order via cash or check will need to print their own order form. They will not be sent home.
  6. After School Enrichment: Sarah Cranley / Katrina Murrihy 
    • Send out class ideas to classroom liaisons onto parents.
    • Looking for more parent / teacher involvement
    • Advertise/Promote classes earlier
    • Explore HS students teaching a class- is this feasible?  Would be need a "supervising adult"?
    • Working with School Administration to address “incident protocol”
  1. Art Fair: Erin Konrath / Jessica Sheller/Mel LaGiglia
  2. Book Fair: Mary Morgan/ Heather Wills/Lakeishia Hayes/ Carolyn Burke 
    • Where will the event be held?
      • Working this out with the school
  3. Box Tops for Education: Karen Quiroz / Moira Mulcahy
    • Box Tops due by Oct 28th via digital or clip it
    • If you’ve scanned your receipt send a snapshot of you scan to Moira so that your student can get credit for the classroom contests.
  4. Faculty/Staff stocking stuffer: Cara Grant/ Sarah Peterson
    • Start collecting in November
  5. Hospitality: Lauren Skerrett
    • PTC was a successful lunch
    • Upcoming: Catholic Schools Week, Teacher Appreciation Day
    • Please reach out to Lauren if you'd like to get involved with this important Committee
  6. Programs: Megan Curran-Hurless / Noelle Carson 
    • Parenting the iGen update – will send out information once iGen provides it to the school
  7. Fall Fest: Amy Kaskie/ Cara Grant
    • Update post-event Great event .
    • Low volunteer turnout. Need to work on getting more volunteers
  8. School Arts Performance: Lynn DeHoyos 
    • Auditions are complete, the show was cast and everyone was notified Monday
    • Parent meeting for the cast/crew was Wednesday
    • Volunteer coordinating (Shannon Griffin)
  1. Spirit Day: Elise Brand / Nora Gill
    • Entertainment booked
    • Need to meet with Elaine and Kelly to discuss space plans for Spirit Day now that we know groundbreaking is one 4/1.
  2. Eat and Earn: Julie Perfetti / Lauren Doig
    • Eat and earn at AD&B was a success but still waiting on final numbers
    • Next eat and earn is Monday, November 25th and Tuesday, November 26th at Milanos. Flyers will start circulating soon.
  3. What do the next four weeks look like?
    • Howl at the Moon: Anita Snow
    • Fun Food: 10/31
    • Spirit wear before Christmas
    • Progressive Tickets are now on sale
    • Stocking Stuffer Kick Off
  4. Closing Remarks/Questions

 UPCOMING VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:

-SERVICE DAY: OCTOBER 25

-FUN FOOD: OCTOBER 31 (need help during all lunch periods)

-BOX TOPS (Moira will need help cutting to get box tops post marked by 11/1)

 

 

DATE/LOCATION FOR November FSA MEETING:  11/21/19, 7:30 pm, Location TBA

October 17, 2019

 AGENDA

  • Administrator’s Report: Elaine Gaffney/Kelly Foyle 
  • Officer’s Report(s) 
    • Presidential Board Report: Rachel Groth and Megan Kreiter
    • Treasurer’s Report: Moira Benton 
    • Secretary Report: Nora Gill
  • Updates from the committees:
    1. FSA Representative for School Board 
    2. FSA Representative for Finance 
    3. FSA Liaison to Athletic Board: John Chatz 
      • Any update about Team Snap?
    4. After School Enrichment: Sarah Cranley / Katrina Murrihy 
      • New classes/suggestions for classes?
    5. Art Fair: Erin Konrath / Jessica Sheller/Mel LaGiglia
    6. Book Fair: Mary Morgan/ Heather Wills/Lakeishia Hayes/ Carolyn Burke 
      • Where will the event be held?
    7. Box Tops for Education: Karen Quiroz / Moira Mulcahy
      • Next collection coming up
    8. Faculty/Staff stocking stuffer: Cara Grant/ Sarah Peterson
      • Start collecting in November
    9. Hospitality: Lauren Skerret
      • Lunch for teachers during parent-teacher conferences
    10. Programs: Megan Curran-Hurless / Noelle Carson 
      • Parenting the iGen update
    11. Fall Fest: Amy Kaskie/ Cara Grant
      • Update post-event
    12. School Arts Performance: Lynn DeHoyos 
      • Auditions are complete, the show was cast and everyone was notified Monday
      • Parent meeting for the cast/crew was Wednesday
  • Volunteer coordinating (Shannon Griffin)
  1. Working on the budget including paying Mrs. Rashidee her stipend
  1. Spirit Day: Elise Brand / Nora Gill
    • Entertainment booked
  2. Eat and  Earn: Julie Perfetti / Lauren Doig
    • Eat and earn at AD&B was a success but still waiting on final numbers
    • Next eat and earn is Monday, November 25th and Tuesday, November 26th at Milanos. Flyers will start circulating soon.
  3. What do the next four weeks look like?
    • Howl at the Moon: Anita Snow
    • Spirit wear before Christmas
    • Progressive Tickets are now on sale
    • Stocking Stuffer Kick Off
  4. Closing Remarks/Questions

DATE/LOCATION FOR OCTOBER FSA MEETING:  11/21/19, 7:30 pm, Location TBA

 

 

 

 

 

THE OCTOBER FSA MEETING IS HERE!

 

Please join us


10/17/2019
7:30 p.m.


Convent North Room

 

All Parents are welcome to attend.  Please bring your questions and ideas.  Refreshments will be served.

 

*Committee heads please get updates to Nora Gill no by Wednesday.  

 

 

FSA PORCH MEETING MINUTES/ September 17, 2019

Opening remarks from Principal Elaine Gaffney

              Smart Gen presentation 9/26

              Homecoming was a success

              Reminder to check the newsletter

Presidential Board update: Instigators of change

              FSA Goals and Guidelines

              Online phone book privacy settings (Membership toolkit)

              4-week platform

 

Updates from the committees:

FSA liaison from the school board – Nicole O’Brien

  •               Info Sunday new format was successful
  •               Back to school night
  •               Working with FSA and athletic board for Fall Fest
  • FB page – please don’t mention teachers by name; teachers can’t defend themselves. Remember there are two pages

FSA liaison from the Athletic Board – John Chatz

  • The athletic board manages sports for the school and the parish.  Each sport has 1 manager who attends the meetings.  Board will start posting athletic info including teams and schedules on the website. 
  • If you have an issue with a coach, please go to the team liaison first (Krista Ganat); info will be posted on the website.
  •               Athletic board funded a new scorers’ table and the new gym floor
  • Working on getting new banners for the gym à what to do with the old banners? Possibly an auction?
  • New code of conduct, primarily for 6th-8th grade.  Code is posted; main idea is that being an athlete is second to being a student.
  •         Team Snap- board will follow up; looking into getting a school-wide membership

After School Enrichment – Katrina Murrihy

  • Membership toolkit gives access to all vendors
  •               Outside vendors: if there aren’t enough enrollees, they will cancel the class
  •               Working on getting more locations/solidifying locations for ASE classes
  •               Working on getting a system in place to make sure the enrollees get to their classes
  •               Suggestions?  Want to teach a class? Email Katrina or Sarah at ase@stbarnabasparish.org

Art Fair – 4/25/2-0 and 4/26/20

  •               Working on getting the outside vendor contracted

Book Fair is also 4/23-4/26

Big Bucks for Teachers – Up to 14 tickets

Box Tops – Moira Mulcahy

  •               School gets 1 cent per top, can be scanned from an app
  •               Date for 1st collection?
  •               How will the scanning affect the student contests?

Faculty/Staff Stocking Stuffer

  •               November cash collection – provides a bonus for the staff and administration

Father-Daughter Dance – January 17th

  • 6th Grade, no report yet.  Dance is managed by the 6th grade parents.
  •               Anita Snow and Nicole O'Brien volunteered to head up the committee.
  •               Suggestion: re-use the 8th grade dance decorations

Fun Food – Jeanne Byrne

  •               3 xs/yr, local vendors, raises money for FSA
  •               Open to suggestions of locations, will accommodate allergies
  •               Need helpers

Hospitality – Lauren Skerrett

  •               Back to School Coffee was a success
  •               10/10 lunch for faculty (Thursday) during conferences and snacks on Wednesday 10/9
  •               Needs a committee

SB eats out – Julie Perfetti and Lauren Doig

  •               Week-long 10/7-10/11 at American Dog and Burger (ADB) on 96th and Western
  •               Just mention St. Barnabas and SB gets 5% backHow frequently?  Keller did 1/month.
  • Rotate between something sit down and something drive-thru?
  •               Week of Thanksgiving?

Breast Cancer Walk and Mother-Son Outing

  •               Bernadette Barsch and Megan Hurless will be seeking help at a later date

New Parent Committee – Amber Chatellier

  •               Happened at the park, successful event, luau theme
  •               New parent night set up
  •               Looking for new people to join, looking for feed back

Pat Mac’s Pack – Jessica McCarihan and Colleen Cooney

  •               March 6 in gym during school for students and fundraiser that night, in gym, for adults only
  •               Raises money for Pat Mac’s Pack/St. Baldrick’s (Pediatric cancer)
  • Streamlining ways to pay this yearà Face tattoos will be through regular permission slip but head shaving will be all on-line

Programs – Noelle Carson and Megan Hurless

  •               Aim to bring in educational programs to all grade levels
  •               Next:  Parenting the iGen will be 9/26 for students and at night in church hall for parents
  •               Future events:  Wheel of wisdom, 8th grade dance class

School Musical – Lynn DeHoyos

  •               5th-8th grade cast and crew, dates are 2/7-2/9, to be announced Wednesday at mass
  •               Auditions are week of 10/7, rehearsals start right after call backs
  • Parents of the kids in the play become the committee, Mark Murphy and Jen Lee run the cast and crew and will work with Kevin.  Sasha Rashidi is outside musical director.

School directory – Kristin Hillburger and Beth Sheils

  • Info went out with back to school info, all on-line in membership toolkit, no printed directory this year
  •               Membership toolkit: have to be a member to access
  •               Will send another email blast through the class liaisons

Skating party – Carly Hurd and Katie Rao planned

  •               8th graders acted as helpers
  •               Garbage collection at end of party was an issue

Spirit Wear –

  • next big sale around Christmas and then before Spirit day

Volunteer Coordinator – Shannon Griffin

  •               Evolving process, trying to find a better way to communicate w/ volunteers
  •               Fall fest is a different platform because volunteering was open to the parish
  •               Can track payments for yearbooks, etc.

Yearbooks – Sandy Czajkowsky and Allison Kiper– 2018-2019 books went home today (9/19)

Young Authors – Noelle Carson

  • K-8th grade participants, books displayed during the Art Fair/Book Fair usually in the gym with the art
  •               Student Council reads all the books and chooses the winners for different categories

 

What do the next 4 weeks hold?

              Fall Fest- Volunteers NEEDED, especially set up

              Howl at the Moon – Anita Snow for 10/19 event

                             In the gym, dueling pianos, will benefit the capital campaign

                             Tickets for sale at fall fest and parent teacher conferences

                             Can buy a table (6) or single tickets and there are premium tables available

              Parenting the iGen

              Parent teacher conferences

              First SB eats out

No Questions

 

Next Meeting 10/17 – location TBD

****Virtus training is the same night******

Thoughts on advertising the Virtus training to the new families/Pre-k parents earlier (like maybe at registration) so that they do not miss out on early events?

 

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER FSA MEETING 

 

We invite all parents to our first FSA Meeting of the year on Thursday 9/19 at 7:30pm on the Rectory Porch.  Our hope is that you’ll enjoy seeing old friends but also meet a few new ones;  explore opportunities to stay involved , to get involved, or get involved in something new; most importantly to have some fun!