Sam's Membership?

Yolanda Miranda is a Sam's Club Membership Representative.  She is planning to come to PGE on May 16th.  She has a promotion to share with our staff.  With this new promotion you will receive the following: A $10.00 gift card with a new sign up on a  new membership as low as $45.00.  The new member welcome package (worth over $100.00 in saving). If you are interested, come by to see her between 11:30-3:30.  She will be set up in the conference room.

Coach Needed

Mid-Carolina Middle School is actively looking for someone to coach Middle School Volleyball next year.  If you are interested, please email Jared Jones.  His email is jjones2@newberry.k12.sc.us  

No SIP Meetings

No SIP meetings on Monday, May 1st.  Our end of the year Promotion/Retention meetings will take their place.  That meeting schedule is below.
K- May 19th @ 9:35
1st- May 22nd @ 12:35
2nd- May 19th @ 10:15
3rd- May 22nd @ 8:10
4th-  May 19th @ 11:05
5th-  May 19th @ 1:25

Budget Work Session

Our school board had discussion about next years budget items at the first budget work session on April 18th.  To give you some highlights from that meeting.  There is a retirement increase for all employees that will require our district to add $600,000 that will come from the general fund towards those contributions for the year.  Title One funding is expected to take a 10% cut and the district is planning to pick up 3 FTE's from that fund.  There was quite a bit of conversation about adding an additional Mental Health counselor to our district.  The board also discussed adding the step increase for employees.  The next meeting is May 8th at 6:00 p.m.  I'll keep you updated as plans are made for next year.

PTO Project Ideas

Continue sending project ideas to me for our PTO.  I will present them to the PTO council on May 8th.

Congratulations

Congratulations again to our TOY, Paul Winningham and our SSOTY, Sherry Dominick!!  It was a unique experience to recognize these two special people in front of our students at lunch on Thursday.  The students were just as excited as we were to announce this award.

Testing

We are very close to the end of SCREADY and SCPASS testing for this year.  Keep pushing your students to work hard and do their very best.  We will draw for the remaining prizes (big and small) after the last make up is complete.