- Career Day is Friday, Feb.12 — Any parent who has a career they would like to speak about is encouraged to volunteer contact the school.
A lot has changed since Feb. 17, 1897.
Not many may know, but it was the day and year the Parent Teacher Association was founded; and, for the Sonoraville Elementary School’s Parent Teacher Association, the year is symbolic.
The number 1,897 represents the dollar amount the school’s PTA was awarded by the National PTA.
Sonoraville PTA was the only school in Georgia to receive a National PTA parent involvement grant of $1,897 for 2010 and among 32 recipients nationwide. AXA Foundation, a national PTA sponsor, funds the awards.
“We were thrilled to be a new school and the only one chosen,” said Bill Long, PTA president of Sonoraville Elementary.
In lieu of the grant check presented Monday afternoon, the PTA has launched a specially themed week, “Take Your Family to School Week,” Feb. 7-13, which began Sunday and will continue until Saturday.
From a family dance to career day, students are encouraged to have mom or dad or a family member come to school and be a part of the classroom this week.
Long said parent involvement is the key to student success.
“Every dollar that we earn as a PTA goes directly back to the school to help students,” Long said.
The Sonoraville PTA has 260 members.
The grant will also fund educational incentives, explained Principal Kelly Bumgardner.
“The bungee trampolines and obstacle course climbing wall will be for students, each setting an individual class goal — Reading Math Language Arts (on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test) — with their teachers and meeting it,” Bumgardner said.
“Those who exceed their goal will get to go to the Rome Braves in May,” she added.
Visit the school’s Web site through www.gcbe.org to learn more about the PTA of Sonoraville Elementary.
School Name Verbal Math Writing Total
Trion HS 537 533 555 1625 Etowah HS 543 557 523 1623 Woodstock HS 524 537 521 1582
Armuchee HS 532 522 520 1574 Sequoyah HS 519 535 511 1565
Rome HS 522 529 507 1558
Ridgeland HS 524 511 503 1538 Cherokee HS 520 520 497 1537 LaKeview-Oglethorpe521 511 501 1533
Model HS 510 506 502 1518
Pepperell HS 499 515 498 1512
Cartersville HS 503 509 493 1505
SoutheastWhitfield 501 499 494 1494
Dalton HS 494 495 500 1489
Coosa High School 511 480 487 1478
Ringgold HS 492 499 477 1468
Pickens County HS 499 487 481 1467
Calhoun HS 484 497 476 1457
Adairsville HS 480 505 471 1456
NorthwestWhitfield 487 488 474 1449
Woodland HS 495 483 468 1446
Lafayette HS 472 467 473 1412
Cass High School 477 470 451 1398
Gordon Central HS 478 457 461 1396
Chattooga HS 452 436 441 1329
Sonoraville HS 436 446 428 1310