🤔💭What We Do, Why We Do It.

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Dear Families,

Envelopes for our Jog-a-Thon will go home later this week! Jog-a-Thon is our biggest fundraiser of the year, and it’s how the PTA pays for almost everything we do at Doyle. Below are some highlights of what the PTA pays for your students each year at Doyle. None of this would be possible without families like yours contributing to the PTA. Our Jog-a-Thon must raise over $45,000 this year to ensure that the Doyle PTA can continue to pay for all the good things it has in years past, including:

• $15,000 split between grade levels for “extras” that the school district doesn’t pay for. Here’s some of what has been purchased or planned so far:

• UTK - pumpkins, santa hats, scholastic magazines

• K - pumpkins, Scholastic magazines, butterfly kits, SeaWorld field trip

• 1st - History in a Trunk, San Diego Junior Theater tickets, Zovargo presentation

• 2nd - Studies Weekly Social Studies Curriculum

• 3rd - Tempera paint sticks

• 4th - Studies Weekly Social Studies Curriculum

• 5th - Time for Kids and Storyworks magazines

• $8,000 to have library weekly (without the PTA’s contribution it would only be every other week)

• $5,700 in additional funds were supplemented to the art grant we received so that all students could get 4 full lessons by a teaching artist for each class

• $3,600 BrainPop software license for the whole school

• $250 for each classroom teacher’s supplies (28 classrooms = $5,600)

• $230 for 1 bus for each classroom for field trips (28 classrooms = $6,440)

• $3,000 for PE & Recess equipment (including balls, hula hoops, jump ropes, etc.)

• $2,000 for Student Support Services needs

• New books for teacher’s classroom libraries and new books for the Doyle school library

• We purchase red folders for the whole school, and planners for 4th/5th grades each year

• California Reads Reading Program prizes, medals, and supplies

• Red Ribbon Week supplies and giveaways

• School beautification and school garden items, supplies and materials

• Family events, school assemblies, and movie nights

• UTK and Kindergarten Playdate refreshments and supplies

• We provide an all school Staff Appreciation Luncheon every year

• Smore software for the school and the PTA to ensure that all families can see information in their preferred language

• Website software and hosting to help keep families informed and up to date

• Refreshments and supplies for Parent Coffee

• Fliers, banners, and bulletin board materials
  

The Doyle PTA provides volunteer support for the school, our programs, events, and fundraisers, and this year we expect to spend over $72,000 in various ways at Doyle. Without solid support from our community at our Jog-a-thon this year, the PTA will need to reduce the amount it spends on the above items during the next school year.

Please consider contributing to our cause by donating and encouraging families and friends to donate to our Jog-a-thon – there is no better cause than our children’s futures! Many San Diego area employers offer corporate matching, including Illumina, Pfizer, Sempra, Apple, Qualcomm, Johnson & Johnson, and more! Please check if your company participates in corporate matching, it can double your donation! If you have any questions, you can always reach us at info@doylepta.org

Sincerely,

Debranique Mensah, President, Doyle PTA