Fundraising

Auction Items NEEDED!!!

Coming soon…

IRVING FUN FAIR &

SILENT AUCTION

February 21,2015

WE NEED YOUR HELP FOR OUR SILENT AUCTION!

Mark your calendars as we will once again be having our annual Fun Fair and Silent Auction on Saturday, February 21, 2015!   It will be a day filled with fun and excitement!

The Silent Auction is our biggest annual fundraiser and last year we raised $16,500! The money from the Silent Auction goes directly to the Irving PTO, which continues to fund various programs to enhance the quality of education for our students and teachers. Our success last year was due in large part to your direct support in soliciting items and donating items for this event. Once again we need your support. Please think about talents, items or services you or your employer could donate. Items that are always popular include:

–Sporting—Cubs, Sox, Bears, Blackhawks and Bulls or theatre tickets

–Museum memberships

–Restaurant certificates/gift cards

–Jewelry

–Use of a vacation home or time share

–Services (i.e. interior design, housecleaning, painting, landscaping, contracting)

Anything you like—chances are someone else will want it too!!

Don’t know what to donate to the auction?  How about a parent hosted party?  This can be a parent hosted party for just kids or adult only. Back for a second year, we will be selling tickets to parent- and teacher-hosted parties.  You tell us When, Where, For what age, How many, and Your theme and we will sell the tickets.  We can also work with you to come up with an idea. The tickets will be a set price, no bidding.  Here are some ideas:

-Parent only progressive dinner hosted by a you and your neighbors

-Cocktails and Game Night

-Cooking or Sewing Class

-Creative Crafts for Kids

-Themed Kid Party (Pirate, Minecraft, Movie Night, etc)

Donations and/or certificates can be dropped off at the school office or you can contact me directly. Please fill out the information on the back of this letter and include it with your donation.  If you have any questions about your donation please call or e-mail me.

Thank you for helping in making the 2015 Fun Fair and Silent Auction a huge success!!

Best Regards,

Jessica Flannery

773-459-5414

bairjg@yahoo.com

Silent Auction Parent Letter, Option 5, v4-2

Photographers and Photographs Needed for our 2014-2015 Yearbook!

Calling all Photographers! 

The 2014 Irving Yearbook staff needs you so send us your photos now!

3 simple ways you can help send us your pictures:

1-Burn them to a CD, mark the events and drop them in the PTO box
2-Go to www.replayit.com sign up or sign in and choose Washington Irving and start uploading your pic’s directly from your desktop/laptop
3- Upload the ReplayIt app to your phone sign in, choose Washington Irving and start uploading!

Please be sure to label the event when uploading.

Let’s make our yearbook for the 2014-15 school year the BEST YET!!

Thanks!

Cookie Crumble and Craft Fair

The 15th annual Irving School COOKIE CRUMBLE and CRAFT FAIR is on Saturday, December 13, 2014. The Craft Fair is from 9:00-1:00. The Cookie Crumble starts at 9:00 and ends when cookies run out.

We need homemade holiday treats and are offering a surprise treat for the class that brings in the most cookies. There will be a graph in the hall by the office!

This is a great opportunity for families of Irving to share family traditions and raise money for important programs and improvements at the school.

Each participating family is asked to prepare five dozen of their favorite holiday cookies or confections and deliver them to the office on Friday, December 12th during school hours, or to the mini-gym on Saturday, December 13th between 7:30 & 9:00am. No chocolate chip, please. We will have curbside drop off from 8-9 in the front of the school.

On December 13th volunteers will set up the treats for sale in the mini-gym. Beginning at 9:00am, customers may purchase an empty box for $10.00 and then fill them with a variety of goodies for their holiday entertaining. What a bargain!!!

You don’t bake? No worries, you can help in another way. We need volunteers for setting up, maintaining during the event, and cleaning up afterwards!

You can sign up to bring cookies and volunteer HERE!!