An annual event, the Basketball Fundraiser is a fun-filled night where the faculty plays the student basketball teams in an entertaining competition. Each classroom puts together a themed basket like those at PLE/AGIS Country Christmas. Tickets are sold as chances and the baskets are raffled off the night of the event. The money raised is shared between the school and the PTO to benefit the kids at FSEMS.

Parent Volunteers are needed in several ways. Basket Coordinators are needed for each homeroom to collect donations and assemble a gift basket, based on the theme that the students & their teacher select. Volunteers are also needed to help oversee the basket preview days for the students, as well as helping with the baskets and concessions the night of the event. For more information or to volunteer contact Lisa Osborne osbofamily@aol.com or 610-274-8190.

We host a Scholastic Book Fair in the fall and spring as a great way to get everyone excited about reading.  This is also a minor fundraiser for us as well.  Each student has an opportunity to shop during one of their language arts classes and parents are able to do some shopping during parent/teacher conferences. Parent volunteers are needed to help out during the sale, anywhere from one hour to as many as you can give.

The PTO coordinates the General Mills Box Tops for Education program for the school. We collect the Boxtop cutouts which are located on such products as Pillsbury, Hefty, Ziploc, Kimberly Clark Products and of course General Mills cereal boxes. They in turn reimburse us 10 cents for each cutout. While this doesn’t sound like much, it adds up! In the 2010/2011 school year, we made over $1400! It’s an easy and free way to help out the school!

Each homeroom has a collection box for your student to drop the box tops in.  There is also a collection box in the office – just be sure to put them in an envelope with your student’s homeroom name since there will be a contest for the top homerooms in each grade.

If you shop online, the Box Tops program also offers reimbursements to the school for your purchases. You must first go to www.boxtops4education.com to register. Up to 8% of each qualifying purchase is donated to our school! Also, if you shop at Target, you can designate FSEMS as recipient in Target’s Take Charge of Education program.

We sell discounted tickets to Hershey Park in the spring as a cost savings opportunity for the parents. Look for more information on our web page coming out in March.

We host a Holiday Staff Luncheon in December and a Staff Appreciation Luncheon in the spring as our way of showing the staff how much we appreciate all that they do!  Homemade dishes and goodies are sent in from parent volunteers. 

The PTO supports the FSE reading goals by providing motivators to support the students reaching their reading goals.  More information to follow as this updated program is rolled out.

In the fall we have our major fundraiser of the year selling restaurant coupons. The parents buy the coupons, good at several local establishments, and use them for full value as if they were cash. The restaurants agree to only partial reimbursement of the coupons from the PTO, thus providing our profit. The top-selling homeroom from each grade gets some type of party, and top-selling students also get some type of reward. Contact Christine Plankinton at Plankinton@msn.com or 610-274-0331 for more information.