If you have a student at Blaney, your child should have come home with their cookie dough order form and brochure today. The Spring Cookie Dough Fundraiser is one of our biggest fundraisers.
Funding support provided by the PTA for even the most basic items such as reading books for the classrooms, pencil sharpeners, printer ink, printer paper, Wordly Wise, Saxon Phonics refill kits, replacement headphones for the computers and science lab supplies has become critical due to budget cuts at the state and local level – adjusting for inflation, state funding looks as if it will be cut back to levels similar to funding levels in the early 1970s!
If at all possible, please allow your child participate in the cookie dough fundraiser. Money and order forms are due Monday, March 21st. Additional order forms will be available in the office. A PDF version of the brochure is also available at http://blaneypta.com/cookie-dough/ (This is great if you have out of town family/friends who might like to purchase cookie dough or anyone else who might like to browse their options at their leisure!)
Things to remember when collecting and turning in your order:
- NO TAX
- For checks turned in with your order please remember:
- Make payable to Blaney PTA
- Put your child’s First & Last Name, Grade & Teacher in the memo section of all checks (even if you did not write the check)
- Checks not honored by the bank will incur a $28 returned check charge
- At your discretion, you may have buyers pay you directly & you can write one check for the order total
- If at all possible, please do not send coins
- Please be very careful when sending large amounts of money/checks with your child – put money/checks in a SEALED ENVELOPE labeled with your child’s First & Last Name, Grade & Teacher. - I can not even count how many times I have had to deal with – loose checks, cash just paper-clipped … not in any type of envelope, unsealed envelopes with hundreds of dollars and loose coins, envelopes with no name or teacher, order forms without so much as a student name.
- Double check your order totals (number of products as well as dollar totals) and be sure they match the amount of money you send
- Please put your child’s name, teacher and YOUR daytime phone number (in case we have a question) on each order form – multiple order forms are fine, but please be sure this information is on each form as forms often get separated at some point between the time they leave your home and we begin to total the orders
If you have a very large or complicated order and would like to be present when the order is tallied & the money is counted, please contact the Fundraising Chairwoman, Robin Willoughby by emailing fundraising @ blaneypta.com or leave a message at the school (803) 438-3241 to arrange a time.
