PTO News and Calendar

📜  Message from PTO President

Kristina Tadic |  pto@aas.ru

Dear AAS friends,

Today I would like you to meet Melisa Erdem, a Year 12 student at our fellow school, ISM! Melisa served on the Students Council and is a high achiever in all her studies.

Sadly, in 2017 Melisa fell ill and suffered heart failure. Doctors are advising that she needs a heart transplant in the next six months. Operations such as this are long, complicated and extremely expensive.

Please consider helping Melissa and her family reach the 1,100,000 Euros goal allowing her to undergo this life saving surgery.

DONATE TO MELISSA’S HEART TRANSPLANT

Melissa needs our help NOW!

The AAS Community has always shown its big heart, let's prove it one more time, together!

Thank you all in advance for your support, your big heart and readiness to help when it's needed the most! 
 
Yours,
Kristina

🙏  PTO Vacancies for 2021/22  sign up window closed! 

PTO would like to thank our Election committee for their excellent work, finding amazing and enthusiastic candidates ready to join PTO Executive Committee for 2021/22.

Big THANK YOU goes to

• Alison Abovsky
• Ines Cremers
• Julia Held
• Tiiu Pedaja
   

Election timeline and process details

• May 11 - PTO Executive Committee will approve all the candidates.
• May 12 - The candidates list will be published in the AAS Weekly Newsletter.
• May 18 - The Executive Committee presents the candidate list at the monthly Community Coffee. Positions with only one candidate are approved at the meeting, while positions with multiple candidates will be submitted for e-voting.
• Results will be published on May 19 or in case of e-voting on June 2.

📜  Message from PTO VP ES

Ines Cremers |  pto.es@aas.ru

Dear Community,

Today at PTO Connect one of the topics of conversation was "if your family is moving, where are you moving to?"

This summer our family is leaving after 4 great years in Moscow. We will go back to our home country, the Netherlands.

And when you know moving is around the corner, you start counting how many more weeks to enjoy Moscow. How many more weeks for my kids to go to school? I realized there are only 7 more weeks of school left.

In Elementary School we are planning, together with ES leadership, to have some fun events these last 7 weeks. Such as 5 Grade PYP Exhibitions "Picnic Celebration", Summer field day with ice-cream & End-of-year- parties!

Thanks to ES Class parents these events will be organised, enjoyable and a succes.

Wishing families who are moving too, good luck. And for families who are staying, enjoy Moscow and consider the rewarding task of being a volunteer for PTO school year 2021-2022.

Warm wishes,
Ines Cremers
 

 updates 
 

🚀  PTO CONNECT UPDATE

Kristina Tadic  |  pto@aas.ru

• The weather made us change the location of the meeting but for sure it didn’t change our mood, we spent an hour of fun, chatting and supporting each other 
• THANK YOU for jumping into PTO WebEx and sharing your thoughts, suggestions and concerns
• We have agreed on having a happy hour for parents next week while our students are engaged in DL, follow up our Whatsapp groups for more info soon
  
   

🛍  PTO SHOP UPDATE

Pauline van der Sman-Archer  |  pto.shop@aas.ru

It is hard to believe that the end of the school year is only two months away. For many families that may mean planning for changes and saying goodbye to friends. Hopefully it also means planning for summer holiday trips! At any rate, the summer season will provide good weather and more outside time, which will be a welcome change for us all.

The PTO Shop volunteers want to thank you for your continued support for the PTO by buying uniform and spirit wear items throughout this year. We have had to be creative in getting the merchandise to you, and in many cases we exchanged multiple emails with you to make sure you were getting the merchandise you had in mind. So, thank you for your patience and flexibility.

We want to invite you to think ahead and consider getting uniform pieces now for the next school year. It will likely reduce stress for you and for the PTO Shop volunteers alike in August if your kids are ready to go to school in the proper uniform so there is no last minute scramble.

• You may wish to buy one or even 2 sizes up. You can place your orders before June 1st allowing us enough time to get the order to you.
• You may also want to get some AAS Penguin Spirit hoodies, t-shirts, bags, mugs, either for yourself or for presents for others.
• The link below showcases all our uniform items, as well as AAS hoodies and T-shirts.
  
  See the items here
  Note that the hoodies we have in multiple colors and sizes and the T-shirts come in Youth sizes and Adult unisex and Women’s sizes.
   
• We are also providing you the order forms for both Uniform and Spirit Wear.
  
  Uniform Order Form   Spirit Wear Order Form
   
• Please email us at pto.shop@aas.ru to ask questions and/or place your order.

Again, thank you for all your support throughout the year and we wish you and your family a wonderful summer.
 

📜  Message from PTO President

Kristina Tadic |  pto@aas.ru

Dear AAS Community,

Happy snowy Wednesday to all of you! 

Yesterday was another interesting day in PTO, we held our monthly PTO Community Coffee. Have you joined us? 

As always, I would like to thank all of you for engaging, and for your continued support. 

Thank you goes to all our speakers, we were happy to hear the words from our Director Rhonda Norris, from our Community Relations Director Vitaly Verkhovski and from our PTO officers.

ES Student Council rewarded us with great presentations of what they are doing. We have learnt that the council has 6 different, very active committees and our students are committed to their work and their constitution. They reminded us about the Earth Day on 22nd of April, and they shared with us how we can help:

1. Support your children as they consider Earth Day clothing options or accessories
    
2. Choose some activities for you to help out on Earth Day
    
3.  Respond to the Survey

In case you have missed our meeting, click on the link below, grab a coffee, find a comfortable chair and enjoy yesterday's meeting!

Watch the PTO Community Coffee

Looking forward to seeing you all next week, it’s PTO CONNECT time!

Yours,
Kristina.

 announcements 

☝️  PTO Vacancies for 2021/22

 April 30 

Are you thinking about joining the PTO Executive Committee for the SY 2021-22? Submit your statement of interest by April 30!

• Joining the Executive Committee is a great way to increase your connection to the school and contribute to building our AAS community. Please consider joining the Executive Committee and encourage other parents to do so as well. You are welcome to contact any of the current Executive Committee members for more information about the roles or email your queries to pto@aas.ru.
• The time commitment varies by role, with all members participating in a monthly Executive Committee and Community Coffee meetings.
• There is a "How To" guide for each position available to help get you started.
• All AAS parents are equally welcome to join the Executive Committee. 

The following positions need to be filled

• President
• Vice President - Internal Affairs
• Vice President - External Affairs
• Vice President ES
• Vice President MS
• Vice President HS
• Treasurer
• Committee Secretary 

Brief Description of Positions

Statement of Interest

Election timeline and process details

• March 17 - Elective Committee has been established (4 PTO Members) and starts with its work
• April 30 - Deadline to submit a Statement of Interest to pto@aas.ru
• May 5 & 12 - The candidate list is published in the AAS weekly newsletter
• May 18 - The Executive Committee presents the candidate list at the monthly Community Coffee.
• Positions with only one candidate are approved at the meeting, while positions with multiple candidates will be submitted for e-voting.
• Results will be published on May 19 or in case of e-voting on June 2.