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UPDATED April 14, 2008
 PTA
Meetings
Our next
PTA meeting will be held in the Media
Center on Tuesday, May
13, 2008 at 7:00 PM. For those who wish to meet and talk to
our principal Mr. Burley,
before the PTA meeting, please come at 6:30 PM
PTA
meetings provide an excellent opportunity to learn about what is available
to the students, make connections with other parents, and get an update as to
what is happening within the school. You can also review the last approved minutes of the
previous PTA meeting by following the link here.
FOMS
PTA Executive Committee Needs Volunteers
We are
currently in the process of finding replacements for PTA Executive
Committee for 08-09 school year. Please
contact Ms. Gail Gilpin at
301-258-7375 if you are interested in taking a committee position.
MCCPTA
MCCPTA is
an affiliate of Maryland PTA and they
are the Voice for Montgomery County Children. For any issues related to MCCPTA, please
feel free to contact Andrea Kramer
and Allen Kramer, FOMS PTA
delegates to MCCPTA. You can visit the
websites of these PTA organizations by
following the links in this message for more information on these useful
resources.
FOMS PTA Newsletter
You can
download the latest FOMS
PTA newsletter from here. If you have any comments or would like to
contribute towards the next newsletter for the 2007-08 school year, please contact Kate Simon . If you want to receive
the newsletter by email only, please let us know. This way PTA will save
postage on mailing the paper copy and we would save a few trees by not
having to circulate it in paper form.
 PTA
membership
PTA is the
largest child advocacy group in the country, and your membership does make
a difference. Join the FOMS PTA and become involved in our school. The membership fee is only $15 for the
year and also includes a free FOMS PTA directory.
Join our FOMS PTA Yahoo Group
You may do
this by going to the following link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FOMSPTA/.
Click on the Join this group! button near the top of the page.
Box
Tops for Education
Please
continue to send in those Box Tops! A collection box can be found in the
main office.
Attention:
Safeway Shoppers
If you
have not yet registered for the eScrip Safeway program, go to http://www.escrip.com/
and click on "sign up". There is no cost to you to sign up and
every purchase you make will add up to $$ for Forest Oak
Middle School. If you
participated in last year's program -- renew today! Your valuable
contributions will stop unless you renew.
Giant
A+ BonusBucks
To ensure
that Forest Oak Middle School
earns proper A+ BonusBucks credit, be sure to
designate our school. Remember, even if you designated Forest Oak
Middle School last
year, you MUST re-designate this year by going to http://www.giantfood.com/aplus/.
The Code for FOMS is 03268.
Forest
Oak Blue Letter
View a
copy of the latest Blue
Letter. The Forest Oak Blue Letter contains up to date information
about the activities and announcements at FOMS.
Volunteering
at FOMS
Volunteering
is a great way for parents and community members to help our students and
make Forest Oak Middle School
a better place for all our children. Many opportunities exist to help our
staff and students. Volunteers help in the media center, serve as team
parents to help teachers and as chaperones at school dances; help with fundraisers,
the school book fair, staff appreciation activities and health screenings;
assist teachers in the classroom; and support the school in many other
ways.
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