Your PTO news & updates
It's almost May!
The spring is full of lots of fun Collicot activities including field days, field trips, art shows, music concerts, and Teacher Appreciation Week!
Wondering when a concert, field trip, book fair, or field day is?
Click HERE for the Collicot calendar.
You can always find this link under upcoming events below.
We update this calendar as soon as an event is scheduled.
Stay tuned for an email coming soon with Teacher Appreciation Week and Book Fair details!
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BOKS Begins this week!
Thank you to all who registered! You will be receiving a confirmation email on Monday, 4/25!
Tuesday April 26th – May 17th 7:20am – 8:05am
Thursday April 28th – May 19th 7:20am – 8:05am
Location: 7:20am Drop off at the Collicot Gym (across the playspace behind the school)
8:00am Supervised drop off to Collicot Cafeteria
*Free breakfast available via food service program*
Fee: $20 per child Registration fee for either Tuesday or Thursday
($40 for both Tuesday and Thursday)
*scholarships available upon request
Please make checks payable to Collicot PTO and bring to the first session.
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Collicot Cares - Green Up Milton
Clean up our Collicot playgrounds and green space!
In celebration of Earth Day, the Milton DPW and Sustainable Milton will be hosting Green up Milton! The Collicot PTO invites you to help us clean up trash, and collect recess equipment and lost and found items on the Collicot/Cunningham campus. Meet us in front of the green space at 11am on Saturday, April 30th. Milton DPW will provide the garbage bags, recycling bags and work gloves. We hope to see you there!
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Collicot Garden Committee - Volunteers Needed!
Hello Collicot families -
Have you noticed the garden growing at the back of the Collicot School, next to the playground? A group of parents and staff planted the garden in spring of 2015, and it's been thriving ever since. We'd love your help to keep it growing strong.
The Collicot Garden will be getting new wood chips this spring before spring planting begins. We are looking for volunteers on Saturday April 30th from 9-12 to help spread the new mulch. This will help with weed control and freshen up the area.
Please reach out to Katie Meehan if you are able to help for an hour or two. Many hands make light work!! KatieLMeehan@yahoo.com 508-254-0756.
The Garden Committee is also looking for new members! Anyone interested, please reach out to Katie. Gardeners and non-gardeners are welcome. Join to learn, or share knowledge, but more importantly to include the Collicot community in this amazing garden right at school.
Stay tuned for more exciting Collicot Garden news coming soon!
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Volunteers Needed!
Fill out your CORI form ASAP!
There will be lots of in school volunteer opportunities this spring from field trip chaperones, to field day, the Scholastic Book Fair, and other activities.
All volunteers must have a CORI check and they take two weeks to process. If you are thinking of volunteering, please take the time this month to fill out you CORI!
CORI forms can be accessed HERE. Please bring this form to the Collicot office along with your driver's license AT LEAST two weeks prior to your desired volunteer date. (Copies also available in the office.) Joanne Barker will be available to process CORI forms daily after drop off or after school until 3:45PM.
***Please note: For any in-person volunteering with students for the remainder of the year, a new CORI form must be completed. If you have older children in the school, CORIs from Fall 2019- Spring 2021 are no longer valid.***
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PHOTOS NEEDED!
Grades K-5
Each year the 5th Grade Committee creates a yearbook with photos of the graduating class from Kindergarten through Grade 5. Photos must be from school or PTO sponsored events and the best photos include 3 or more students.
We encourage parents to take photos whenever they volunteer in the classroom or for field day, field trips, etc.
We have a Drop Box account where parents can upload pictures into their child's class folder. The folders are organized by the year they will graduate from Collicot and will travel with them from year to year. We encourage parents to utilize these folders as a way to provide pictures for all to see and to help make the 5th grade yearbook that much easier to create. Please feel free to upload any pictures you may have from your child's time at Collicot.
Here are the links to the folders for each of the classes:
Class of 2022(Current Grade 5):
Please use Pictavo - see your email.
Class of 2023(Current Grade 4)
Class of 2024 (Current Grade 3)
Class of 2025 (Current Grade 2)
Class of 2026 (Current Grade 1)
Class of 2027 (Current Kindergarten)
Please feel free to go into a folder and upload any pictures you may have!
Add your science fair photos too!
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5th Grade Activities Committee
The PTO's 5th Grade Activities Committee is hard at work planning year end activities for the Class of 2022!
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Birthday Books!
Click HERE for all the information and donation form. The cost is $10.
Don't want to forget? Why wait? Sign up now and the book will be delivered during your child's birthday month!
The Collicot and Cunningham library relies on donations to add to its collection. Please consider the school library for your used children's book donations.
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Tuesday, 4.26: BOKS Begins
Milton Town Election
Wednesday, 4:27: Administrative Professionals Day
Monday, 5.2: Virtual Dentist Visit K
Monday 5.2 - Friday, 5.6: Teacher Appreciation Week
Tuesday, 5.3 - Thursday, 5.5: Scholastic Book Fair
Wednesday, 5.4: Massachusetts Walk, Bike, and Roll to School Day!
Grade 5 Math MCAS
Grade 4 Celebrating our Differences - Physical Differences (11:45-1:45)
Thursday, 5.5: Grade 5 Math MCAS
Kindergarten and Grade 1 Concert
Friday, 5.6: National School Nurse Day and School Lunch Hero Day
Hayward Photography Class pictures at 9 am
All staff photo @ 7:45
Grade 5 group photo
SEPAC Coffee
Grade 4 Symphony Field Trip, 10 a.m.
Saturday, 5.7: MFE Celebration at Granite Links
Tuesday, 5.10: Grade 4 Math MCAS
Wednesday, 5.11: Grade 4 Math MCAS
Thursday, 5.12: Grade 3 Math MCAS
5th Grade Field Trip: Gillette Stadium
Friday, 5.13: Grade 3 Math MCAS
The Full Collicot School Calendar can be found HERE.
This calendar will be updated as dates change and/or are confirmed.
Looking for the 2021 -2022 MPS Calendar? Click HERE!
Revised 2/4/22.
For the Collicot website click here. For the PTO Facebook page click here .
For the Milton Public Schools (MPS) Facebook page - click here.
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THIS WEEK!
Milton Town Election
Tuesday, April 26th
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Girl Power Running Program - Starts Monday, May 2!!!
This is a FREE (volunteer parent run) program. The purpose of this program is to provide a come when you can, low pressure, confidence and self esteem building activity that encourages girls to work towards a goal, push themselves at a healthy pace and comfort level while supporting one another and participating in an outdoor, good for your body and soul activity. We will start with a walk/jog, everyone go at their own pace loop and slowly increase our distance with the end goal being to participate in our very own, Girls Rock 2K Road Race on June 6. This will be held at the regular 3:45 time and the course will be in Cunningham Park, details to follow as the date nears.
WHO:
Elementary aged girls
WHEN and WHERE:
The program will meet at the Cunningham Park tennis courts on Mondays beginning Monday, May 2. We will meet at 3:45 for sign in and warm ups prior to our run. Let’s go girls!!!
MONDAYS, May 2
May 9
May 16
May 23
May 30- NO Girl Power- Memorial Day
June 6- Girls Rock 2K
*Monday, June 6 (rain date Monday, June 13) Girl Rock 2K Road Race
IMPORTANT REMINDERS:
*This is NOT A DROP OFF program. Each girl is required to be accompanied by an adult, often times one adult will be responsible for more than one runner but again it is NOT drop off. The program relies on parent and caregiver volunteers to stand at designated spots along our route for safety purposes. Some adults run with the group but you do not need to be a runner. We will need lots of “non running” volunteer help along the course.
*each girl should BRING A WATER BOTTLE with their name written on it to be left in the tennis courts for post run hydration
*and as much as we love dogs, due to safety and liability reasons there are NO DOGS allowed in the tennis courts and NO DOGS allowed to run with the group
*T-shirts will be available for purchase each week, $10 CASH only
REGISTRATION:
There is no formal registration however each girl MUST have a WAIVER FILLED OUT AND SIGNED including an emergency contact number prior to running (we will have waivers at check in each week)
Questions?! Email Heather at smithbergin@msn.com
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Katie's Grace+Grit 5K
On May 14 at 10 am, the Glover PTO invites the entire Milton community to a new road race, Katie’s Grace+Grit 5K.
Katie Crowell was a dedicated member of our Milton community who gave 100% of herself in service to others. She was an advocate, a runner, a volunteer, a fundraiser, a mom, a wife, a daughter, a sister, and a friend. This amazing woman was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic breast cancer (MBC) in 2015 while 32 weeks pregnant.
Katie’s impact surrounds us all—in her beautiful children, in her advocacy, in the lives of other patients who have gained strength from her, in the innovative research that is currently happening thanks in part to the money that she raised. Her impact and contributions will continue to inspire an untold number of future runners. Please join us in a very special 5k so we may honor Katie and continue raising funds to support cancer charities. Come show us your Grace + GRIT! All details and registration info can be found at this link.
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2021-22 PTO Leadership Team
Christine Morrow and Rebecca Stover (Outgoing Co-Presidents)
Lindsay DeGennarro (Incoming President)
Kate Tenforde (Secretary)
Colleen Fogerty and Meghan Paiva (Co-Treasurers)
Please join our group Facebook page here .
Interested in volunteer opportunities? Have an idea for an event? Please contact us!
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