The mission of the Northwood Elementary PTA is to support our school’s efforts in providing a quality education for our children; advocate for our students’ best interests; and strive for excellence.
Our goals in achieving our mission include:
Promoting and supporting the educational needs of Northwood students with supplemental programs;
Giving school administration and staff financial and tangible support to meet classroom and other school needs;
Providing financial support to Northwood's extracurricular programs;
Encouraging and strengthening community relationships not only between Northwood staff, students and families, but also with the greater community;
Strongly encouraging parent involvement;
Acknowledging the efforts of students, staff and volunteers and supporting their endeavors;
Communicating and sharing our accomplishments with the school and greater community;
Supporting education as a whole by participating with state government;
To make the new website successful by enrolling as many families and teachers as possible, ideally reaching 100% membership. This to be accomplished by increasing awareness of programs provided by PTA and promoting the use of our new website;
To increase attendance at our PTA General Meetings;
To promote positive communication between the PTA and the Northwood teachers/staff, specifically as it relates to the Legislative issues of the past year. Our main priority is to foster a partnership in working to support our students;
To increase communication between the PTA and the Northwood teachers/staff by having a representative attend at least one staff meeting to explain our PTA programs and activities;
To achieve our fundraising goal of $90,000 for the entire year to support Northwood programs and events
To efficiently plan and execute events by providing Chairpersons with assistance in securing and managing volunteers, planning ahead and notifying them of who will be assisting them.
