I heard that some of the schools in our area are handing out calendars to PTO members. Do any of you do this? What are some of the pitfalls? How is it best done?

We have traditionally printed a calendar and given it out. It is 8 1/2 x 11 with a month on both sides of the paper and wire bound. On the calendar are all holidays, min days, ptc meetings, conferences, etc.

This year we have decided to incorporate a one page calendar into our school directory.

We have 2 different calendars.
The district publishes one that has events from all 3 elementary schools and the middle and high school. Included are School Board mtgs, PTO mtgs from the various schools, school holidays, conferences, etc...
This year it was expanded & is pretty sharp.

Our PTO lists all our events & activities and all the PTO mtgs on a list that also includes the PTO officers' names & numbers. This is included in the membership packet everyone receives at the beginning of the year.

I love intomykids' idea of including the one-page calendar in the directory!

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at our school we print a calender for the year. the front is covered with a border made up of some of the childrens drawings (one to represent wach month.). Then each month has four drawings that have something to do with that month. Then all of our activities such as when our fundraier starts, school pictures which days our chips and ice cream are sold, skate nights, mcdonalds night and so on. The way we distribute them is the first 300 people to join the PTA get one. This works out very well. Hope this answers yoour question.

Thanks for the info. Does it cost much to do a wire binding?

I am the calendar chairperson for our school. We started making a school calendar 3 years ago. Our idea at first was to sell ads to local businesses to pay for the printing and binding of the calendars. We wanted to be able to send a calendar home with every child in our school on the first day of classes. (We have approx. 700 kids in our school) Our calendar lists every event that we know of at the time that it goes to the printer. Also, in the front of the calendar are about 5 pages, front and back of school information such as lunch prices, early dismissal procedures, who to call and when, PTO committee descriptions as well as PTO boardmember names and phone numbers and committee heads and phone numbers.

In this our 3rd year of selling ads, we sold so many that this has become a type of fundraiser for us. After all expenses were paid, we made $2,300.00 profit!!!

Hope this helps