Coyote Creek Elementary

Room Parents should NOT collect money for field trips or Staff Appreciation Week, but may do so for class parties and teacher gifts. For field trips, Room Parents can offer assistance to their teachers by organizing field trip drivers only. For Staff Appreciation Week (SAW), Room Parents are simply asked to support the PTA's outlined agenda for the week. The SAW agenda will be communicated to Room Parents several weeks prior to the event. Any money collected and in turn spent for parties or teacher gifts needs to be well documented. A record must be provided if requested. It's important to note that donating money for class parties or teacher gifts is completely optional. Thus, never send a parent a reminder that they have not paid yet or publish a list of those that have or have not paid.

Teacher gift giving is typical for a teacher's Birthday (or Half Birthday), Winter Holidays (December) and Year End (June). As a Room Parent, you may collect money for teacher gifts. Please be aware that donating for teacher gifts (as well as class parties) is not required. In any teacher gift collection communication, always indicate that participation is optional and parents are free to do an individual gift without recourse or notification that they have not yet paid. It is acceptable practice, though, to only include the names of those families that contributed to the present on the gift card that accompanies the present.