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Welcome 2011-2012 Walker Families from PTA President Trysh Pope
Welcome Walker Star families! On behalf of the entire PTA Executive Board, we are honored to serve Walker Elementary for the upcoming 2011-2012 school year! We look forward to partnering with you to make it the best year yet for our Walker Star Students and Staff. It is our goal this year to build strong Walker Communities that benefit not only our children, but serve as a valuable resource for entire families.
Healthy Lifestyles is a huge area of focus this year! The City of McKinney, MISD and Texas PTA are challenging all families to explore healthier habits. Walker PTA will partner in that effort with Healthy Lifestyle initiatives throughout the year, including a 5K challenge this spring.
We are proud to be the very first PTA in McKinney to offer SAGE, which stands for Special And Gifted Education! The goal of SAGE is to be an information resource of support and education for families of diverse learners—both gifted and special education. SAGE is a work in progress and we hope that parents will partner with us to develop this resource for our families.
Volunteers are vital to the success of our programs and events! There are opportunities for everyone to share your time, your talents and your heart with our Walker Stars. Volunteering sends a message to your child that you are invested in their school and that their school is a priority — I encourage you to find a volunteer community at Walker that you are passionate about and be a part of the awesome volunteers that make Walker great!
Walker PTA is a proud supporter of Rachel’s Challenge again this year! There will be opportunities throughout the year to show our kindness through our Community Outreach efforts in McKinney and our continuing participation as a Sister School to Vega Elementary. Students will enjoy participating in Junior Achievement, Go Van Gogh and Reflections again this year, as well as assemblies and programs that focus on character and kindness. We will have parent education guest speakers at brown-bag lunch PTA meetings during the year—so please join us as we learn about topics that help us support each other as parents in our community. Our major fundraiser for the year teaches values and promotes character, instead of product sales, and we hope that you will support all of our programs, events and our PTA efforts to offer our school assistance with areas affected by state & district budget cuts, by supporting our Boosterthon Fun Run fundraiser.
We hope that each and every one of you Join PTA this year! By joining PTA, you become part of the largest child advocacy organization in the state with nearly 600,000 members across Texas. By joining Walker PTA, you “Team Up” with every Walker staff member and hundreds of parents in our Walker Community as partners in our children’s education.
I am so proud to be part of the vibrant community that is Walker Elementary and blessed to be part of a PTA Executive Board that is very committed to serving our Walker community. Please don’t hesitate to contact me or any of our Board members if you need anything throughout the year. To stay informed on all the latest PTA information: “Like” Walker Elementary PTA on Facebook, visit our website www.walkerstarspta.net or McKinney Council PTA website at www.mckinneypta.org. Thank you for the opportunity to serve as your PTA President!
Trysh Pope — tryshpope@gmail.com