Welcome to the Wescott PTO!
Our purpose is to support and enhance the Wescott community through events and fundraisers. Make sure to like our Facebook page and check back regularly for updates.
2024-2025 PTO Board Members
Co-Presidents: Maria Milicevic and Soyang Kwon
Co-Vice Presidents of Communications: Cheryl Rebacz and Katie Voss
Co-Vice Presidents of Fundraising: Vacant
Co-Vice Presidents of Technology: Taylor Maggi and Ping Yu
Co-Secretaries: Jen Hayley and Halley Winer
Co-Treasurers: Jihyun (Sarah) Yoo and Jungmi (Jenna) Min
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us, wescottpto@district30.org.
Learn More
- Agendas and Minutes
- Committees
- Treasurer
- Executive Board 2024-25
- Fundraising
- PTO Events
- Communications
- Special Lunch Days
- Ice Cream Days
- Wescott Birthday Signs
- Wescott School Swag
- Wescott School Spirit Wear
Agendas and Minutes
Please join us!
2024-2025 School Year
2023-2024 School Year
2022-2023 School Year
2021-2022 School Year
2020-2021 School Year
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September 2020 | Minutes
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January 2021 | Slides | Facilities/Renovation presentation | Minutes
2019-2020 School Year
2018-2019 School Year
2017-2018 School Year
2016-2017 School Year
Prior Years
Committees
Parents interested in becoming involved and volunteering on any of the committees can do so by contacting the PTO via wescottpto@district30.org (email).
Thank you, we appreciate your involvement!
EVENT COMMITTEES
Responsible for the coordination of a Wescott PTO event. May include publicizing the event, collecting money, organizing volunteers, ordering food and/or supplies and running/overseeing the event.
STANDING COMMITTEES
Responsible for Wescott PTO activities that run for part of the year or the entire year.
Wescott PTO Committees Guidelines and Reminders
Lower Board Chair Position descriptions
Event Committees
Event Committees
Book Fair |
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Christina Margolis & McKenzie Gratz The book fair committee is responsible for coordinating and organizing this bi-annual event. Their tasks include working with the book company, publicity, recruiting and scheduling volunteers for setup, sales and take down, and running the event.
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Family Picnic |
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Julie Cameron & Emily DeSmidt
The Family Picnic is an annual spring event which invites families to "picnic and play" at Wescott School and field.
The committee chairs are responsible for devising a plan/budget for the event, securing food vendors and entertainment, organizing sub-committees and volunteers, running the event, and clean up. |
Fifth Grade Luncheon |
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Nancy Finder & Frewoini Gebremeskel The The Fifth Grade Luncheon takes place at the end of the school year and serves as a send-off for the fifth grade class. This committee is in charge of the food, decorations, DVD, games and memory wall for the celebration. |
FALL Fest |
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Carrie Mangoubi This committee is responsible for planning and executing the first-ever Fall Fest, a fun-filled day of carnival games and attractions for families. |
Popsicles in the Park |
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Ellen Stern & Illene Auerbach This committee organizes a free event for incoming Wescott kindergarten students to meet up with their new classmates. |
Walk for Wescott |
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Amanda Hamner This annual fundraiser occurs during a school day in October. Committee responsibilities include planning and promoting the event, designing the annual banner and collecting donations from the Wescott community. |
Welcome Back Luncheon |
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Amanda Neidhardt, Jacqui Siegel, & Pamela Manicioto The Welcome Back Luncheon is for the Wescott teachers and administrative staff to kick off the new school year. It is designed to be a "thank you" from the PTO to the teachers and staff during their back to school week prior to the official start of school. This committee plans, acquires food/desserts, sets up, participates in, and breaks down this event. |
Wescott Madness |
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Parties and Raffles: Connie Park & Patty Metropoulis Wescott Madness is a PTO fundraiser that emphasizes community and fun. Parties and special events aimed at both students and parents are made available through the generous contributions of Wescott teachers and parents. The Raffles Committee runs the student-focused part of Wescott Madness. This committee works with the principal and staff to develop a list of donated events and parties, sells raffle tickets to students, and announces the winners. The Parties Committee organizes the parent-focused part of Wescott Madness. This committee recruits parents to donate events and parties, sells spots to the events and parties via email blasts, and works with the PTO Treasurer to bill and collect payments. |
Teacher appreciation week |
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Laura Smith This commitee organizes a lunch, gifts, or activity to show our teachers, bus drivers, crossing guards, ganitors, etc. that we appreciation them. |
Standing Committees
Standing Committees
Birthday Signs |
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Shalini Shah The birthday signs fundraiser lets you surprise your child with a lawn full of “Happy Birthday from Wescott” signs (currently 25 signs for $25) on their special day. Parent/Guardians are responsible for picking up, installing, and returning birthday signs.
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Car Magnets |
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Erin Gilman This committee handles the sale of Wescott car magnets, a fun way to show your school pride! These are available for $10 each.
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Cultural Arts |
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Carrie Mangoubi, Maria Milicevic & Amanda Neidhardt This committee is responsible for bringing a variety of performing arts programming to the school and classrooms. It selects quality cultural and educational programs for students. The committee members attend the annual "Showcase" where presenters and performers audition and are available for questions and bookings. This position works closely with the principal. |
Special Lunch/Food Days |
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Tristen Springer, Lisa Fishbain & Jacqui Siegel The food days are the PTO sponsored Wednesday special lunches. This committee works under the guidance of the second vice-president in charge of food days. The responsibilities of this committee include ordering the food, organizing the volunteers, and running the actual food day. |
Ice Cream Days |
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Carrie Mangoubi & Jami Gryll This committee is responsible for ordering the treats, organizing the volunteers and running the actual day once per month. |
Hospitality |
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Sara Rhode This committee organizes meals for teachers and staff at teacher appreciation luncheon and parent teacher conferences. Committee duties include planning, contacting bakers and set-up and clean-up at the events. |
Room Parents |
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Allison Greene & Jacqui Siegel Room Parents are responsible for organizing classroom parties, recruiting field trip volunteers and the running the field day lunch period. They maintain contact with the classroom teacher to discuss any needs or preferences the teacher might have for these activities. This committee is responsible for the selection of room parents prior to the beginning of the school year. Committee members organize the room parent folders and hold an informational meeting shortly after the beginning of the year. They also send out reminder emails throughout the year to alert room parents of upcoming classroom parties and events. |
School Supplies |
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Maria Redmann The school supplies committee is responsible for working with School Tool Box, a company which offers grade-level school supply boxes delivered to your door. Committee members are responsible for obtaining the finalized school supply list from Wescott in the spring and then work with School Tool Box to offer these items through online sales. School supply boxes are available for purchase from May through August. |
Social Chair |
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Julie Purkal, Kacy Raffe & Kristen Leverso The Wescott PTO Social Committee aims to foster socialization and community by organizing a variety of fun, interesting events for Wescott parents and guardians. The Social Committee will be responsible for planning and coordinating activities that will bring us together simply to 'mix and mingle.' |
Spiritwear |
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Erin Gilman & Pamela Manicioto This committee is responsible for organizing the sale of items with the Wescott logo. Committee members research and interview companies that sell personalized products, develop order forms to include in the Wescott Word, set up samples, collect the orders and money and distribute the items. There is generally a fall sale and a spring sale. |
Yearbook |
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Stephanie McGuinness, Shalini Shah, Eleni Katsoulis, & Wendy Wang This committee is responsible for collecting photographs throughout the school year and working with a yearbook company to create a yearbook available for distribution in the spring. Payment for the book is due at the beginning of the school year. This committee is responsible for the sale as well as the creation of the yearbook. |
MULTICULTURAL night |
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Amanda Neidhardt This committee plans the Wescott International Night and coordinates parent volunteers to represent countries. |
Diverse book commitee |
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Vida Gosrisirikul & Amanda Neidhardt This committee reviews and recommends diverse books for Wescott's library and assists in bringing diverse authors to the school. |
Inclusion and Belonging |
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Soyang Kwon This committee works with the school leadership to provide equity fund ((e.g., PTO registration, Special lunch, Wescott Madness Parties, yearbook) to under-resourced famlies to enecourage participation in school or PTO activities; identify and implement strateiges to encouarge famlies from various backgrounds to participate in PTO activities ; provide DEI perspectives and considerations in PTO decision-making |
Treasurer
Executive Board 2024-25
About the PTO
The Wescott PTO is committed to encouraging and promoting an active and connected Wescott community. Many of the programs and events at Wescott would not be possible without the help of parent volunteers.
If you are interested in becoming involved please contact our PTO President.
Wescott PTO Executive Board 2024-2025
Members of the Executive Board are selected in March and their official duties begin on July 1. All positions serve a term of two years. Anyone wishing to be considered for a position on the Executive Board should contact a member of the nominating committee of the current Executive Board before the end of February.
- President
- Soyang Kwon and Maria Milicevic
- Co-Vice Presidents of Communications
- Cheryl Rebacz and Katie Voss
- Vice President of Fundraising
- Vacant
- Vice President of Technology
- Taylor Maggi and Ping Yu
- Co-Secretaries
- Jen Hayley and Halley Winer
- Co-Treasurers
- Jihyun (Sarah) Yoo and Jungmi (Jenna) Min
Fundraising
Wescott PTO Fundraising
The primary objective of the Wescott PTO is to coordinate and organize fundraising activities to provide for additional educational programs, equipment and other resources at Wescott School. Thanks to our generous community and hard working parents, the PTO has donated many items to Wescott over the past six years, including the following:
- Teacher’s Lounge updates including; new cabinets and counter tops, fridges, microwaves, couch, and highboy coffee table and chairs
- Flexible furniture to modernize classrooms
- Basketball hoops for the gym (combined with a donation from Lew Blond Memorial)
- Classroom set of VR (Virtual Reality) glasses and equipment to incorporate with the Science Program
- iPads for 1st/2nd Grade Classroom Centers
- 4 Standing Desks for our more active learners
- Elmo Presenters for Resource Rooms
- LCD Projectors for Resource Rooms
- Digital Cameras
- Bike Racks
- Folding Chairs and Storage Dolly
- Interactive White Boards for classrooms
- Stage Pieces
- 50th Anniversary Welcome Mat
- Motorized Screen and Projector for gym
- Large Screen for MPR.
In addition to the specific gifts listed above, the money raised through the PTO supports the Cultural Arts Program, Assemblies, Great Books, and so many more enriching activities every school year.
The PTO also uses funds raised to help unify the community and celebrate our achievements. Specifically, the PTO sponsors all luncheons honoring our children and staff, including the Teacher Appreciation Luncheon and 5th Grade Luncheon. In addition, the PTO hosts receptions welcoming new parents to the community and provides gifts on behalf of the community to departing teachers and staff as a token of our appreciation.
PTO Events
Wescott PTO Events
There is always something going on at Wescott!
Refer to Wescott Calendar for further details
As a reminder, at all PTO events, students are expected to follow all instructions from
designated chaperones and conduct themselves in accordance with school behavioral expectations as set forth in the Student Handbook (Board Policy 7:190). Parents will be notified during the event of any infraction. Loss of the privilege from the event is an option if the issue can not be resolved.
Communications
Contact Cheryl Jacobs or Katie Voss with all inquiries regarding messaging to our PTO community.
Special Lunch Days
Wescott's Monthly Wednesday Lunch Program: 2024-2025
Online ordering begins August 19 | Click HERE to order.
September 18 | Once Upon a Bagel |
October 16 | Culver's |
November 20 | Egg Harbor Cafe |
December 18 | Potbelly |
January 15 | Noodles & Co. |
February 19 | Happi Sushi Yummy Bowl |
March 19 | Josh's Hot Dogs |
April 23 | Tropical Smoothie |
May 21 | Grill House |
Ice Cream Days
Once a month, all PTO registered kids will receive a sweet treat (allergy option available). Bellow are the current ice cream days for the 2024-25 school year.
September 11, 2024
October 9, 2024
November 13, 2024
December 11, 2024
January 8, 2025
February 12, 2025
March 12, 2025
April 9, 2025
May 19, 2025
Wescott Birthday Signs
Wescott Birthday Signs
The Wescott PTO runs this fundraiser in which families can rent on your lawn the night before your child's birthday. This year birthday signs will be installed by you! You will receive an email telling you your pick up time, date, and location. You will also be responsible for bringing the sign back to its original location.
Wescott School Swag
A fun way to show your school pride!
Click here to order your favorite Wescott Swag.
Wescott School Spirit Wear
Spirit Wear
The first Friday of every month is school spirit day!
Below is the link to order your favorite Wescott gears.
https://www.shopbfriendsonline.com/collections/wescott-spirit-wear