Thanks for all the great newsletters and ideas! I guess I need to expand. In addition to your ideas, I thought I'd do a "Clip and Communitcate" section (i.e. Meet My Child) and a "Kid's Corner" that I can cut and paste from a Between the Lions email that my kids get. I also have ideas for next year, including a section of suggested conference questions for parents' use.
This year our school had another elementary school merged into our building. We have started a "Let me introduce you. . ." item on the agenda during our PTO meetings. A lesser known staff member has 10 minutes to introduce them selves to our parents and take Q and A. We are also using this time to educate our parents about an upcoming school bond issue, discuss the history of the never ending parking/traffic issue at our school, explain our North Pole Family Event, etc.
We use our bulletin board to advertise events that we have done. The kids love seeing photos of themselves! I should add these to the newsletter too.
Hi--we do the routine announcements and of course the Presdient's column, but we also do a "let me introduce you to" column for our lesser known staff to intro themselves and we also do "in case you didn't know" on lesser know rules of the schools, and then we do reviews of PTO events so everyone knows a. the PTO paid for it and b. what their kids should have taken away from it. We are also going to start a "little prints" in 06 that allows the children to be the editors and reporters of an insert on what THEY like. That should be fun and they have to do it all....if you'd like a copy email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Our school has started a newsletter this year. I got my template off of MSN.com. Or if you have WORKS on your computer it comes with one too.
Our letter is front and back of one page and still not enough room. [img]tongue.gif[/img] On ours we have all the news of what has or is going to happen, next days out of school, upcoming events and recipes as well. But I would like to know what all you have on yours?
Our PTO has become very active in the past two years. So active, that our newsletter stuff was crouding the school's newsletter. The principle suggested that we do our own, printing at the school of course, so I am. I am publishing it the Friday after our meetings so that I can get everything. It's one page, and today I found that BoxTops4Education.com has printable newsletters, that include a recipe, so I am including that on the back as an advertisement for our library fund raiser.
If you produce a newsletter, could you email me a sample at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.? I could use some ideas!
