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A Year In Review

The PTO helps students at Brown School achieve their fullest potential by providing educational and personal enrichment, and by encouraging the cooperative interaction of parents, teachers, and the community.

We are grateful for the partnership between the teachers, administrators and parents at Brown School.

Check out all the awesome things we’ve done together!

2022-2023

  • Fundraising Events: Raised by PTO $63,515 (Last year $25,359)

  • Direct Donations ($12,676)

  • Wicked Fun Run and Fall Festival ($9,000)

  • Book Fairs ($2806 plus $1500 in books for teacher, library, and one for each student)

  • Pancake Breakfast ($2,678)

  • Winter Bazaar ($1803)

  • Restaurant Nights: Nick’s Pizza, Baha, Dates and Olives, Anthony’s, BJs, and CPK ($816)

  • Ice Cream Social ($2566)

  • Fun & Games, Mini Golf & Boston Body Pilates ($950)

  • Night at the Woo Sox ($202)

  • Parents Night Out and Auction ($25,167)

  • Square One Art ($2,018), Mabels Labels/Minted/Boxtops and Amazon Smile ($878)

  • Spirit Wear Sales & Pop up Shop ($1955)

    Community- Building Events: Funded by PTO $4,457 (Last Year $1,936)

  • Kindergarten Playdates

  • Welcome Back Movie Nights: September & January

  • PTO Brown Alumni Scholarships (Granted $1,500)

  • Winter Break Ice Skating Event

  • Summer Resource Fair

  • Family Game Night

  • End of Year Family Dance Party

  • Worcester Railers Concert/Hockey Game

  • Multicultural Family Dinner

  • 4th Grade Step Up Celebrations

    Community Service: October Food Drive for Natick Service Council, CoCoTree Kids Underwear Drive & Cereal collected for A Place to Turn

  • Cultural Arts and Science & Field Trips: Funded by PTO - $26,505: CA $13,222, FT $13,823 (without buses) (Last year $18,195)

  • Kindergarten: Ball in the House, NED Show, Pumpernickel Puppets & Discovery Museum Force and Motion

    Field Trips: Apple picking at Tougas Farm

  • 1st Grade: Wingmasters, Discovery Museum: Sound,The Nutcracker with GBSD, Ball in the House & NED Show

    Field Trip: Southwick Zoo

  • 2nd Grade: Animal Adventures, Discovery Museum: Physical Property, Ball in the House and NED show

    Field Trips: Acton Discovery Museum, & Natick Organic Farm

  • 3rd Grade: Ball in the House, NED Show, Discovery Museum: Force and Magnetism, Geodome & Paul Revere House

    Field Trips: Plimoth Patuxet and Natick Historical Society

  • 4th Grade: Mat Heagerty author visit, Wheelock Theater, Discovery Museum: Sound, NED Show, Ball in the House & Geodome Field Trips: Harvard Natural History Museum& Natick Organic Farm

  • Teacher/Staff and School Support Funded by the PTO $12,306 ($11,585 Last year)

  • Teacher Stipends ($5,152)

  • Staff Recognition and Special Occasions ($642)

  • Teacher Hospitality: Welcome Back Staff Brunch in Library, Holiday Cheer Cocoa and Coffee Bar, Valentines Day Treats & Raffle, Conference Survival Snack Bags, Teacher Appreciation week ($2,154)

  • Mini Grants: Joe Pimentel Art Mural ($1500), Cafeteria Decals ($420), Sensory Path $1500, K Tee shirts ($938)

What is not quantified here is the number of hours the PTO board members and event chairs volunteered to bring our community together to execute these enrichment opportunities.

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS!

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