For the 2024-25 school year, the CGES PTO will host or sponsor:
Quarterly, themed family social "knights"
Educational assemblies during school hours
Monthly planning meetings open to all CGES parents/guardians/staff (no December or January meetings)
Occasional fundraising events including FUN RUN, Scholastic Book Fair, and Dine to Donate with local restaurants.
In all our planning, we work closely with administration at Center Grove Elementary School to avoid school functions and student testing. Our tentative calendar is below, as well as a link to the district Academic calendar, but dates are subject to change. Check our Facebook page or here for changes.
PTO strongly encourages a love of reading in our students, and Book Fair is one way we do this. Proceeds we make go directly toward book purchases for classroom libraries and help fund educational assemblies, including author visits!
PTO is excited to cosponsor our first ever International Festival evening with CGES Admin! PTO is providing Passports to each Knight who attends, art contest winning bookmarks will be available for free to anyone who shops the Book Fair, Upaint will have animal figurines with various cultural symbolism and those proceeds will go back to the Art Room, and then any Knight who gets ~15 country stamps gets a prize when they leave!
CGES PTO is excited to host four Donuts w/Grownups dates this school year! There are 75 student spots available at our second event, open to last names N-Z only.
There will also be two second semester dates available for those unable to attend in the first semester.
PTO strongly encourages a love of reading in our students, and Book Fair is one way we do this. Proceeds we make go directly toward book purchases for classroom libraries and help fund educational assemblies, including author visits!
Visit our Book Fair homepage to set up an eWallet, view the digital flyer, and shop online: https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/centergroveelemschool1
PTO collaborates with CGES admin to provide raffle kits, to bring in UPaint pottery as one of the activities, and to open the Book Fair for evening shoppers!
The UPaint pottery event at our STEM Knight is a top memory-maker. Students love to paint, and they especially like to build fun holiday traditions with their families! Choose from a variety of ornaments, holiday figurines, plates, and mugs.
CGES PTO is excited to host our second Halloween Costume Skate Party. Please RSVP HERE!
CGES PTO is excited to host four Donuts w/Grownups dates this school year! There are 75 student spots available at our first event, open to last names A-M only.
Last names N-Z will be invited to attend our December date. There will also be second semester dates available for those unable to attend this semester.
CGES Families and Staff are invited to a pool party at Freedom Springs, hosted by the CGES PTO, on 8/18/24 from 6:30-8:30pm!
5pm: CGES Families A-M
6pm: CGES Families N-Z!
Meet teachers and put supplies away. Spirit Wear and 6degree Sno Cones are available for purchase!
CGES Families are invited to a casual meet and greet with our new Principal, Lori Green, on 7/17 from 7-8pm at the CGES playground.
Incoming Kindergarteners and their families are invited to chat about school, play with new classmates, and enjoy popsicles at Independence Park on 7/2/24 from 6-7pm and on 7/29/24 from 11am-noon!
We had a fantastic time celebrating the end of the 2023-24 school year, and students were wow-ed by Pogo Fred!
Looking for holiday gifts and stocking stuffers? Check out our Spirit Wear sale! The CGES PTO is committed to providing low cost spirit wear options for our Knights, using small, local businesses whenever possible.
CGES and Trojan apparel, including holiday styles, can be purchased through Wednesday, Nov. 27th HERE!
Specialty Trojan Hats can be purchased through Wednesday, Nov. 20th HERE!