Parent Teacher Organization

FLMS Book Fair! FLMS is hosting its annual Holiday book fair. Please feel free to stop in any time. It is open from Monday December 7th to Friday December 11th during regular school hours. The PTO is always looking for volunteers to help at the book fair for a few hours. Any day is good! Please feel free to email flmspto@freelake.org if you can volunteer just a few hours or more.

Our annual 8th Grade Social is scheduled for Saturday, June 12. We we are looking for volunteers to help out. Anyone willing to help should contact Jen Wright, who has volunteered to chair the event, at flefnutter@verizon.net.

FLMS PTO Board Openings

The PTO has an open position for a Co-Chair President – if you are interested, please email the PTO at flmspto@freelake.org.

FLMS PTO Meetings

The PTO is open to all aduilts with children attending Freetown-Lakeville Middle School. Meetings are generally the first Monday of every month at 7:00 p.m. in the library. Please come to the meetings to assist us with planning, bringing new ideas, and assisting us with exciting activities. The PTO always needs volunteers for the Nurse, Book Fairs, Pee Wee Olympics, Candy Fund Raiser, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade socials, and more. Join us!

The FLMS PTO will be meeting on the following dates:

January 4, February 1, March 1, April 5, May 3, June 7

Fund Raisers

Peer Leaders Fund Raiser Event!!

Of all the materials donated to shelters, socks are one of the items that are donated the least and needed the most. The Peer Leaders are organizing a Sock Drive during the month of October. Donations of new socks for infants, children, men, and women may be brought to school all month. The socks will be given to local shelters to help those in need. Questions should be directed to Miss Sullivan at extension 2206.

Box Tops

The P.T.O. would like to ask your help with Box Tops. It is very simple! Would you please take a few moments and register online for FLMS?:
http://www.boxtops4education.com/AboutBoxTops/FindSchool.aspx
They will email you easy contests to win 10,000 box tops for the school. It is a simple click and you are entered. These happen frequently and are very easy! It enables us a great chance to win money for the school with very little effort.

Do you shop at Target? Then please read this!

Did you know that you can donate $$$ to FLMS simply by shopping at Target? What could be easier? Follow the directions below to get started today:

Register our school at the Target website.

1. Go to this link:

http://sites.target.com/site/en/corporate/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-005158

2. Enter 120271 on the school ID box and click search.

3. Click the button titled "Select this school".

4. Complete the information (first name, last name, Target CC #).

5. Click Complete Enrollment button.

Enjoy shopping at Target.

Stay tuned! Get involved! Have fun!

About our P.T.O.

The focus of the P.T.O. is to enhance the educational and extracurricular atmosphere of the school.  The P.T.O. provides funds for all of the cultural arts programs, sponsors the 6th, 7th and 8th grade socials, provides funds for the field trips, provides all of the drinks and snacks for all of the children during the MCAS exams, and provides funds for the classroom wish list.  The wish list includes, paper, glue sticks, tissues, materials for projects just to name a few. 

Membership and Meetings

The P.T.O. is open to all adults with children attending Freetown-Lakeville Middle School.  Meetings are held on the 1st Monday of each month (unless there is a holiday), at 7:00 p.m. in the school library.

To make our programs successful, we need your help.  You can help as little or as much as you wish.  We are always looking for new ideas and new faces! 

Please download a hard copy, fill out the volunteer form and return it to school.  Checking something off does not obligate you to that function if a conflict arises.  We need to have a list of volunteers we can call upon throughout the school year.  Thank you so much. Helping your children is a very worthwhile investment! 

Current Members

E-mail us at: flmspto@freelake.org

Chairperson	Justine Poillucci	508-947-9053
Co-Chairperson	OPEN
Communication Correspondent	Jessica Couto	508-962-0375
Recording Secretary	Wendy Graca
Treasurer	Beverly Weber
Asst. Treasurer	Sue Lahaie
Volunteer Coordinator	Sue McTernan	508-728-5036
Candy Volunteers	Judy Ashley and Dawn Cambra

**All volunteers must complete a CORI form.

Areas where you can also help

To all of the FLMS parents of 8^th graders: Apponequet HS is accepting PTO members for the 2010-2011 school year! If you are interested please contact Pam at bpdziura@verizon.net.  The PTO at the HS does some exciting things including fund raising by working at Patriot’s place for games as well as plan the after prom party.  Contact Pam for more information

Baking committee- The chairperson will call if we need a baked good for a specific event.

Book Fair- Help to set up or work at the book fairs.

Fall Fundraiser- Volunteers count money and/or distribute candy bars.

Staff Appreciation- Volunteers bake, cook, or coordinate an individual day of food for the staff. (Springtime)

Library- Assist the librarian.

Photocopying- Volunteers copy classroom materials as needed.  Schedule is flexible.

Office work- Generally done on a individual basis.  PTO coordinates with the office staff specific hours that each interested volunteer is available.

Assist Nurse- Light paperwork and various screenings.

Box Tops- Counting and bundling of box tops sent in by students. This can be done from home.

Assembly Committee- Plan and book assemblies at the school for the students.  We really need help this year!!

Classroom volunteer- Help teacher in planning a party or activity for the classroom.

Congratulations to our Freetown-Lakeville Middle School P.T.O. for receiving a new England League of Middle Schools Parent and Community Group Award for 2003! Here is part of the letter our PTO received from New England League of Middle Schools (NELMS) on February 7, 2003:

"Congratulations! your group has been selected to receive a New England League of Middle Schools Parent and Community Group Award for 2003. The purpose of this award is to honor and recognize parent and community groups who value, understand and support effective middle level education. You have met or exceeded the stated criteria! It is obvious from the materials we received that the group understands how young adolescents learn and that the group is a champion of and actively promotes middle level education. The group has built community support for middle level education, and recognizes that middle level education is a distinct entity within the K-12 educational system."