The Wards Creek Elementary School Spring Festival is just around the corner!! The event will take place on Friday, April 20th from 6-9 PM. Come out with your family and enjoy dinner, games, bounce houses, a HUGE basket raffle, face painting, balloon twisting, music and more! We will also feature an expo of great summer opportunities for students (camps and more!), so come out and find fun things to do this summer!

Pre-orders for tickets will take place until Monday, April 16th. You can pre-order food and tickets at a discounted price - and skip the line at the door!! We hope that you will join us!

We also need volunteers to make an event like this a success! If you can help us (a little or a lot!), we would love your help! We are also looking for middle school or high school students to help, so if you have a student needing volunteer hours, this is a great opportunity! Sign up on our signup genius - http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0d4baea723a3fb6-wcespring .

Download the ticket order form here or email wcesptovolunteer@gmail.com if you have any questions! 

The Wards Creek Elementary Extended Day program is now taking early registration for the 2018-2019 school year. If you register before April 6th you receive half off the registration fee (usually $80/child, discounted price = $40/child).  This is a great deal, so get your forms in when you get back from spring break!!

Download the registration form here!!

Extended Day options include before care (6:30-8:15 am), after care (3:00-6:00), or an option for both before and after care. New this year is a drop in punch card program. Punch cards will contain 18 fun-filled visits to extended day for $360. Only one card per family needed and will include all that extended day offers (snack, drink, activities, etc) and the team requests a 24 hour notice that you will be using the service!! No registration fee required for the punch card, but please fill out the registration form!

Any questions, please contact Ms. King, Extended Day Coordinator at ​Christina.King@stjohns.k12.fl.us or 904-547-8737. (Please don't ask the PTO because while we <3 you all, we are only sharing this message, we don't know!)

Spring Break is upon us and probably the last thing you want to think about is FSA Testing (right?!). BUT We really do need your help. The school is required to have a certain number of monitors for testing for our students and there are still gaps that need to be filled. Can you spare 2-3 hours of a day? This is the easiest volunteer job you'll ever have. You come and make sure no funny business is happening during testing. You might help grab a new sharp pencil for someone... but really, that's about as hard as it gets!! Please consider volunteering your time and know that it is GREATLY appreciated by those trying to meet testing goals.  

Sign up here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c44a9ab2aa5f85-fsaproctors

The current members of the Wards Creek PTO Executive Board would like to thank our Slating Committee members for their time and assistance in slating next year's board members. We are excited to announce that our next general PTO meeting will be April 12 at 6pm in the Media Center. At this meeting, we will be approving the slated committee members. We will also take nominations from the floor for anyone who was not slated but would like to run.

Please note that we have several open positions. If you are interested in serving in either of these roles, please contact us at WardsCreekPTO@gmail.com.

Congratulations to the following slated individuals:
President: Chamane Williams
1st VP: Kimberlee Pagan
2nd VP: Elizabeth Janssen
​Recording Secretary: Amy Miller
Corresponding Secretary: OPEN
Treasurer: Alissa Sugrim
Parliamentarian: OPEN
Volunteer Coordinator: Heather Shreves
SAC Liaison: Michelle Lee
Room Parent Liaison: Hilary Branson
Business Partner Liaison: Damorow Jones

Calling all volunteers!! Our annual Daddy Daughter Dance is next Friday, February 23rd and we need you! This is one of our biggest events and is such a wonderful memory for all of our girls and their dads (or special someone). 

As always, we’ll have raffle baskets, a photo booth keepsake, lots of desserts to enjoy and an amazing DJ playing music for everyone to boogie down! The deadline for discounted pre-sale tickets and corsages has passed but you can still pay at the door if you plan to attend! (Sorry, no corsages for sale at the door)
Door prices: $12 for Daddy/Daughter duo and $5 for each additional daughter.

Here’s the link for our volunteer signup genius. This is a great event for any volunteer hours needed at school, too (this includes middle or high school students needing hours...) These events are a LOT of work (but so much fun!) and are next to impossible without the help of our village!! Many hands make light work - so please consider joining us!

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090e45afaf2aa1fa7-daddy