FOM Meeting Notes & Information
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Meeting Notes for 4/7/21 All FOM Meeting
The FOM All Families meeting reviewed what Families of Magnolia did this year and what are some upcoming events for the rest of the school year. We also announced and walked through the new website. Please flip through the short presentation for more details (the deck is in both English and Spanish).
To read the presentation, please click here.
Some highlights from the meeting were as follows:
The year kicked off by parent volunteers helping staff create, sort, and bundle materials for distance and in-person learners.
Through fundraisers like the the Annual Fund, Annual Fund Auction, Tee Shirt Sale families contributed over $11,000 for the school and through the H-E-B gift card sale families donated over $1500 to fellow Magnolia families in need.
FOM supported families this year by Parent Pals, creating a comprehensive Critical Needs Resources page, Game Nights, book give aways, and the Uniform Closet.
The staff (both in-person and work from home) was shown love and appreciation through gifts of treats, meals, flowers, masks and more.
Grants were given out to staff this year for projects and further learning requested by Guides and staff such as Trauma-informed yoga training, Leadership Coaching, painting kindness rocks, A class chicken co-op, and document cameras for better distance teaching. Grants are available to ANY family/student to apply for as long as it’s benefitting the school! Examples are improvements to a class room, after-school club scholarships, or improvements to campus. You can apply through April this year or plan for next year.
FOM donated money back to the school to contribute to: Montessori materials, conferences, assistant training, and devices for distance learning.
Upcoming events are the fundraiser at Phil and Amy’s where up to 20% of the day’s sales can go back to FOM and the annual STAAR Ice Cream celebration for our students who take the STAAR tests.
The meeting ended with talking about how all families can help out in unique ways! Please take our survey to let us know how you can contribute!