Sligo Middle School’s Fifth Annual Fitness Fun Day (en español)

The PTSA is organizing Sligo Middle School’s Fifth Annual Fitness Fun Day to be held on Friday, November 15th. This school–wide event will promote fitness and school spirit, as well as raise funds for critical school programs. Our goal is to raise $18,000 (about half from corporate sponsors and half from the families in our school). This is our primary fundraiser for the 2019-2020 school year, enabling PTSA to support academic, cultural and fitness activities throughout the year for the 800+ students that attend Sligo.

What do students need to do?

All students will seek donations toward their personal fundraising goals for Fitness Fun Day from family and friends beforehand, and then compete in basketball, dance, running and soccer during their PE/Health classes on November 15th. Every student will get a t-shirt, and students raising $50 or gathering 5 or more individual donations will be entered into a raffle to win gift cards from local businesses.

What can families do?

Consider how much you might be able to donate to support Sligo this school year. Encourage students to reach out to family members and friends for donations. Donations are tax deductible.* Volunteer to help with the event via the Signup Genius sent to PTSA’s listserv or email sligofundraising@gmail.com.

What can students win?

Fitness Fun Day is an event for everyone and there are many ways for students to win prizes. For 3 weeks prior to the event all PRIDE classes have a chance to win prizes such as gift cards and other fun gifts. PRIDE awards will go to the class with the highest percentage of students who have created fundraising pages on Crowdrise for the first two weeks and for the PRIDE class that raises the most money for the third week. Individual students who raise $50 or have at least 5 donations will be entered to win gift cards from local vendors. The top fundraisers securing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place will receive a gift card each!

Week 1 – Ends Nov. 1

PRIDE Class in each grade with the highest percentage of students who have created Crowdrise pages
PRIZE = Dunkin Donuts for the class at breakfast

Week 2 – Ends Nov 8

PRIDE Class in each grade with the highest percentage of students who have created Crowdrise pages
PRIZE = Pick a day of passing music at Sligo

Week 3 – Ends Nov. 15

PRIDE Class in each grade that has raised the most money to date
PRIZE = Pizza for the class at lunch

Prize on Nov. 18

Announce grade winner of Fitness Fun Day competition (6th, 7th, or 8th grade)
PRIZE = Entire class gets ice cream at lunch

On Nov. 26 (fundraising is open until 11/22)

Top 3 student fundraisers in the school receive gift cards
- 1st: $150 Visa gift card
- 2nd: $100 Visa gift card
- 3rd: $50 Visa gift card

Raffle of prizes from local businesses
- Students qualifying for raffle: those with at least 5 donors or $50 in donations

There are two ways to contribute to the fundraising goal:

Fill in the last page of this packet h the contributions your student has collected (checks should be made out to Sligo Middle School PTSA). We will have parent representatives in the front hall of the school from 7:45 – 8:15 on Tuesdays from Oct 22 – Nov 19 to collect students pledge forms and cash/checks.
Create an online fundraising page on our Crowdrise site.
- click on “Join”
- click on “Join a Team”
- find your child’s PRIDE class, click on it, and click on “join the team”
- create a login by providing your child’s name; the email address you would like associated (yours or your child’s); and a password.

Volunteer

We still need a lot of volunteers, consider helping the day of by signing up here.

Businesses

If you are a business that would like to sponsor the 2019 Fitness Fun Day, please contact Chanda Santiago-Williams at sligofundraising.com.

No goods or services were provided to you in return for this donation. We are a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. Our Federal Tax identification number is 52-6070580