Roy Elementary School PTA

Open House - PTA sponsors the Roy Elementary Open House held each year, right before school begins.   PTA pays for the food and other expenses to welcome new and returning students to our school.  Each student was given a welcome bag courtesy of the PTA this year. 

Battle of the Books - Battle of the Books is a voluntary district-wide reading program sponsored by the Elementary Teacher-Librarians and each school's PTA . The purpose of this program is to encourage students to read good books while preparing for an engaging competition. The program requires the student participants to read a minimum of five books from a selected list of 18-20 titles selected by the participating librarians from the newly released Sasquatch Award list and the Young Reader's Choice Award list. The students form teams of four students to compete against other teams. Within each school the teams compete in a tournament similar to the College Bowl. During the competition the teams earn points by correctly answering questions about the books on the list. The team with the most points at the end of the tournament wins and is invited to continue to the next level of competition at the district level.

The Roy Elementary tournament date is to be announced still. The winning team at the district competition brings a trophy back to their school to display for the year.  Each participating school's PTA donated $100 last school year, which went toward the purchase of ribbons, trophies, certificates, and prizes for all the participants.

Spirit Award -  Each Friday, every student that wears Roy Elementary colors (blue, white, red or grey) are counted and the class with the most "Roy Spirit" showing get to keep our special stuffed horse wearing a Roy Mustang T-shirt for the next week.  At the end of the school year, the PTA provides an ice cream party to the classroom that has showed the most "Roy Spirit" during the school year.

Popcorn Days - Twice a month, PTA volunteers make popcorn and sell it to students for $.25 to eat at recess.   Each student that wears Roy Mustang apparel is eligible to get a free bag of popcorn.   PTA pays for supplies to make and bag the popcorn.   Although PTA does make some money from the popcorn sales, we general spend more than we make on this. 

Student Store - Once a month, PTA volunteers sell small school supplies and trinkets to students.  The volunteers bag the items purchased and collect the bags for delivery to the classrooms before school ends that day.   This ensures that the items purchased do not distract the students in the classroom.  

Rodeo - PTA volunteers run a booth selling candy, popcorn and snow cones to Rodeo patrons during Roy Rodeos in June and September each year.   This is generally a good fundraiser for PTA.   PTA volunteers are always needed to purchase items, setup, cleanup and sales in the booth.

Fall Dance/Carnival - PTA provides the food and decorations for this event.   No admission is charged and all children receive treats and are able to attend the dance.   Usually, each food and game tickets cost $.25 and that money is used to defray the cost of the event.   This is generally not a money making event for the PTA.

T-Shirt Sales - PTA orders a number of different T-Shirts, sweat pants and shirts, and hoodies with our Roy Mustang logo on them.   We offer them for sale throughout the year and try to have them available for sale at PTA events.   If you are interested, please fill out a T Shirt Order Form and contact a Board Member.   If you wear a Roy Mustangs clothing item on Popcorn Friday, you will get a free bag of popcorn!

Secret Santa Shop - Each year, the PTA organizes a Secret Santa Shop for the children of Roy Elementary.  The Secret Santa Shop is tentatively scheduled for December 12-13, 2011. The purpose of the Shop is to allow our kids a non-commercial, safe place for them to shop for holiday gifts for their family and friends.  The PTA will offer numerous reasonably priced items for sale that the kids enjoy purchasing for family and friends.  The PTA arranges with the teachers for each class to spend time shopping with money that parents send with the child for this purpose.  PTA volunteers arrange for the items that are sold, run the cash register, help the children with money budgeting plus do the setup and cleanup.   PTA made about $500 last year from the Secret Santa Shop.

Staff Appreciation - Each year, the PTA throws the staff of Roy Elementary a party celebrating all the wonderful ways that our staff enriches the lives of our children.  PTA volunteers provide and prepare the food and prizes for this event.

Volunteer Recognition - Every day, parents of Roy Elementary students help our school be a better place for our kids in numerous ways.  PTA volunteer time is logged by the parent on each visit and tracked by the PTA.   PTA sponsors an event at the end of the school year to show our appreciation  for all our wonderful parents and all they do for our school.

Community and District Projects - The PTA Board chooses which community and district projects that our local unit might become involved in.   PTA has budgeted $100 this year for this purpose.   No projects have been chosen yet this year.  If you have a project that you would like PTA to donate to, please contact a Board Member.

Book Fair - PTA provides the volunteers to run the Scholastic Book Fair twice a year.  All monies earned pay for books for the School Library.  Book Fair is held during conference week in October and March.