Welcome to the 2023-2024 School Year!

Dear Parents/Guardians & Staff,

First of all, welcome to all *NEW* families! And welcome back to all families who have been here before! We hope you've had a wonderful summer! School is just around the corner and we have some exciting things planned for the year! You'll find some important information on the posts below.

• The school staff and the PTA have a great year planned for students and families! Stay aware of what’s happening each month! The Cooper School Calendar has important school dates and PTA events listed.
• Add this Cooper Family Calendar directly to your Google Calendar using this link.
• Our Back to School Water Ice Night Friday, 9/8 from 6:30pm - 7:30pm at school! All K-5 families are invited! 
• Don’t forget to sign up for PTA Membership! You don’t have to be a volunteer - we need everyone’s support! We are looking for 100% membership from families and staff members!
• We are creating our volunteer list for the new school year! Please fill the 2023-2024 Volunteer Form out if you're interested in helping in any way. Not sure what each volunteer does? See a list of volunteer descriptions.
• We are having our annual Fall mum sale. In order to receive your mums in time, orders are due on 9/13. Orders can be made in our PTA Store. See our flyer posted below!
• Take a cooking break on our first Dine Out Day of the school year at MOD Pizza in Marlton on 9/21 all day. Our school will receive 25% back! See our flyer posted below!
• Join us at our first PTA meeting on 10/4 from 6:30pm - 7:30pm in-person and over Zoom. Agenda and meeting information will be posted on our website. Meet fellow parents and learn more about what's happening at school.
• We’d love your back to school photos for this year’s yearbook! E-mail Back to School and First Day of School photos to yearbook@jfcooperpta.org.
• Our yearbooks are designed for all K-5 students. Pre-order the 2023-2024 yearbook for 10% off on the TreeRing website throughout the month of September. If you do not have a TreeRing account yet, go to https://tr5.treering.com/validate and use passcode: 1014806030344299
• You can easily support us without donating any extra money by using the RaiseRight app.  Read more about RaiseRight here. 
• You can also help us raise funds by earning Box Tops while you shop for groceries and by donating clothes and shoes in the recycling bin in the parking lot at school.
• We also collect books you are ready to pass on to students in need in the South Jersey and Philadelphia area in our beautiful Book Smiles bin located in the foyer at school. Send books in anytime.

Note that a lot of information you are looking for is always on this website:

http://jfcooperpta.blogspot.com - please bookmark it to stay in the know. This site is updated weekly with important information from our PTA as well as Cherry Hill Zone PTA. 

On a desktop, you will see our info tabs at the top of the page. On your mobile device, you will see a highlighted blue bar that says "Home" and a triangle pointing downwards. If you touch this on your screen, a menu will appear to scroll through the tabs. 

For those of you who are on social media, visit: https://www.facebook.com/jamesfcooperpta We cannot guarantee our posts will appear in your feed, but information and reminders will be posted here regularly.

Please visit https://www.cherryhilltomorrow.com/ for more information about bond funded projects happening throughout the district. This information is important for all Cherry Hill families and community members. See photos of how things are going here!

Thank you to all of our Cooper families and friends for making last year so fantastic through their support. We love our volunteers for helping the PTA and school whenever needed. We hope for another amazing year ahead!

If you have any questions about anything, please don't hesitate to reach out! 

Thank you for your attention! The PTA board wishes you a happy first week of school!!!

Sincerely,

Shazia Ansari

president@jfcooperpta.org

MOD Pizza Dine Out Day 9/21/23

 

Fall Mum Sale - Orders due 9/13/23

 

PTA Back to School Water Ice Night

 

2023-2024 Volunteer Form

 

Dear Cooper Families, If you can help us out in any way this year, please fill out the 2023-2024 PTA VOLUNTEER FORM. We realize availability and contact info can change from year to year, so we request you fill the form out even if you volunteered last year. See a detailed list of volunteer opportunities and their descriptions on our website here: https://jfcooperpta.blogspot.com/p/volunteer-descriptions.html Volunteers will be sorted and contacted as the need arises throughout the year. If you have any questions, please reach out at any time! Thank you ALWAYS for your support!

Time to Renew your Membership!

Dear Cooper Families, Staff Members & Friends,

We hope you've had a wonderful summer thus far. We’d like to thank you so much for your support of our PTA during the last school year. We could not have accomplished everything we did without your support. We had a fantastic year and we hope to have another great year ahead.

As we start gearing up for the next school year, we invite you to support our PTA again by becoming a member for the 2023-2024 school year. We need your support because together we can achieve more.

You can renew your membership at our online PTA Store website at: https://jfcooperpta.memberhub.com/store

Yearly membership dues are $10 per person. $4 of this goes towards the NJ State PTA and the National PTA, who advocate for our children within our state, nationwide, and in Washington D.C. $6 of your dues remain in our PTA and will be used to help fund assemblies, field trips, classroom grants, and student events.

You do not need to be an active volunteer in order to be a PTA Member. Parents, grandparents, neighbors, and community members are all invited to become a part of our PTA and show their support for our children!

The PTA board hopes to continue to help create connections within our community and make each child’s potential a reality. Thank you again for your loyalty and support!

If you have any questions about membership, please reach out to our secretary at secretary@jfcooperpta.org.

We hope you enjoy the last few weeks of summer before school starts, and we hope to see you at Water Ice Night on Friday, September 8th!

Sincerely,

Shazia Ansari

president@jfcooperpta.org