Otis Cookie delivery TOMORROW

Please have your student during school or your student's parent or guardian after school pickup their Otis Cookie orders TOMORROW in the Bates gym 2 pm until 6 pm.

Please come to help with the Otis Cookie Fundraiser delivery TOMORROW in the Bates gym 1 pm until 6 pm.

• When:  Wed, Nov 13th (tomorrow)
• Time:  1 pm
• Where:  Bates gym

Thank you so much for all your help on this successful fundraiser!!

Please call or email me with pickup or volunteer questions,

Deirdre Ralph

410-693-2442 cell

ralphjd@verizon.net

Turn in those Otis Spunkmeyer order forms and money! Thank you!

Thank you for your hard work on our Otis Spunkmeyer Fundraiser!

Please turn in your order forms and money Thursday (tomorrow) and Friday to your Home Room teachers.

Again, cookies and all products will be delivered in November.

Thank you,
Deirdre Ralph and Elizabeth Taylor
ralphjd@verizon.net
Fall Fundraiser Co-Chairs

Last Week to sell Otis Cookie, Brownie, Danish products!

This week is the last week for our Otis Spunkmeyer Fall Fundraiser!

Keep up the great sales this week. Thank you for your hard work for the benefit of the PTA.

Please turn in your order forms and money on Thursday or Friday, Oct 3 and 4th.

1. Keep the pink copy of your order forms for your product delivery.
2. Turn in the order form and cash or check in the Otis Envelope on Oct 3 or 4th to your homeroom teacher.  Checks should be made out to Bates MS PTA.  Make sure the money in the Otis envelope equals the total amount sold as listed on your order form.
3. The Otis products will arrive in November for the students or parents to pick up and deliver to their customers.

Any questions, please ask!

Deirdre Ralph

ralphjd@verizon.net

PTA Fall Fundraiser-Otis Spunkmeyer-Starts!

Hello Bates Families,

The annual PTA Otis Spunkmeyer Cookie Fundraiser has started!!  Your student will bring home the Otis order form packet today. Extra Otis order forms are available in the Bates office at the front desk for big sellers who need more order forms! 

Sale Time Period:  Sept 18 until Oct 3rd.  Envelopes with order forms and money are due on Oct 3rd.  The product delivery date is in mid-November.

Order Forms:  Ask friends and family for Otis orders and collect the money from them.  Submit the order forms and money in the envelope enclosed in the packet on Oct 3rd.  The Otis products will be delivered in mid-November.  Please have your friends and family give you cash or a check made out to Bates MS PTA.

What are We Selling and How Much?  We are selling tubs of 36 frozen Otis cookies, Brownies, Danish Twists or Auntie Anne's Pretzels.  Each reusable tub of Otis Cookies, Brownies, Danish Twists and Auntie Anne's Pretzels costs $16. 

Online Option:  To shop online for other Gift Items and still benefit our PTA fundraiser, visit www.cherrydale.com, click "Go Shopping" and enter your student's information and school name.  

Bates has always had a high percentage of student involvement in this fundraiser.  This year, we are striving for the same great participation!  Last year, this fundraiser netted about $12,000 which helps the PTA off to a solid start to the school year.  Selling 7 tubs of cookies, danish twists or pretzels is the goal we set for each student to receive a ticket to the Big Blast Party, but we are thrilled for any sales your student can make.  

This Fundraiser supports the PTA budget which funds the 8^th Grade Gettysburg Trip, Field Day, the Music Department trip to Hershey Park, Honor Roll Parties among other great events, departments and school clubs.  

Again, orders forms and money envelopes due to homeroom teachers on October 3rd. Please be sure your student completes the information  (name, address, phone numbers, grade, email,  etc.) on the order form and includes the checks for the orders. If we have questions about an order, this information allows us to contact you.

Thank you for supporting our school. 

Please contact us (Deirdre Ralph, ralphjd@verizon.net or Elizabeth Taylor at ebtaylor15@gmail.com)  if you can volunteer to help when the order forms and money come in during the week of Oct 3rd or for the Otis delivery in November.

Otis Spunkmeyer Rewards Party - This Week!

Hello Bates Middle School Community,


The Otis Spunkmeyer rewards party will be this Thursday, December 13th, during 5th and 6th periods for students who sold 7 or more cookie tubs during the fall fundraiser. Wristbands will be distributed to the students during Thursday lunch periods to be used as their entrance ticket to the reward party.  Thank you again for any and all sales that your student or you made for this fall fundraiser.  The funds collected anchor our PTA budget for the year ahead.

In addition, we will need about 8 volunteers to help supervise the party or work the prize table starting at 1 pm until about 2:40 pm.  If you are available to help, please contact Elizabeth Taylor at ebtaylor15@gmail.com.

Elizabeth Taylor
Otis Spunkmeyer Fundraiser Chairperson

Otis Cookies Delivery Day - Wed

Hello Bates Families,

As you know, the Otis Spunkmeyer cookies will be delivered this Wednesday, Oct 24th, to the students who participated in the fundraiser. If your student sold more than 4 or 5 tubs of cookies, please make sure that an adult can pick-up the cookies in the Bates gym before 5pm on Wednesday.  Again, pick-up of the cookies is in the gym this year.

Remember that the cookies are perishable and need to be immediately stored in a freezer. 

Also, we still need a few volunteers for cookie distribution. If you are available for an hour or two between 11:30 am and 4:00 pm, please contact Elizabeth Taylor, ebtaylor15@gmail.com.

Thank you,

Deirdre

Otis Cookie Delivery and Volunteers Needed

Hi All,

Our students did a fabulous job supporting our school with record sales in the Otis Spunkmeyer cookie fundraiser. Sales have now increased beyond last year with the final tallying and reconciliation of all forms.  We need more people than ever to help with cookie sorting and distribution. The cookies will be delivered on Wednesday, Oct 24th to Bates. On that day, volunteers are needed to sort each order and prepare the order to go home. This year, we will be starting this operation much earlier at 11:30 am and continuing until 5:00 pm for cookie pickup.  If you are available next Wednesday, please contact Elizabeth Taylor at ebtaylor15@gmail.com and let her know the hour/hours you are available to help.

Schedule for Cookies Sorting/Distribution

11:30-1:30- gather individual cookie orders

1:30-2:30- pass out orders to students (orders of 5 or less can be sent home with students on the bus)

2:30-4:30- distribute orders to parents (large orders)

4:30-5:00 pm clean-up and pickup of the remaining orders

On October 24th, please plan on your student picking up his/her FROZEN Otis cookie orders of 5 or less from 1:30 until 2:30 during school and taking them home on the bus.  Or please plan on an adult picking up FROZEN cookie orders of 5 and higher until 5:00 pm on October 24th.  

Thank you again for supporting PTA programs with this fall fundraiser.

Deirdre

Otis Cookie Fundraiser

Hi Bates Community,

Thank you for your support on the Otis Spunkmeyer Fall Fundraiser cookie sales.  We collected $33,680 to date with a few orders still being resolved.  Last year, we had collected, $35,027.

Per our agreement with Otis Spunkmeyer, the PTA will keep approximately $12,600.  We are very pleased with our results and we thank all who sold and purchased cookies.  These funds will support our PTA budget which was approved at the September 10th meeting.

Please plan to pickup your cookie orders on October 24th in the Bates MS Cafeteria.

We still have our ongoing PTA fundraisers of collecting Box Tops (collection boxes in the school office and cafeteria) and participating in "free" cash for our school by signing up for the Target, Giant and/or Safeway programs.  Directions for those programs follow.  Thank you for your new or continued participation.

FREE CASH for our School!!!  It’s SO EASY!!

Please take several minutes  to register your grocery cards, credit and debit cards and Target Redcard!  It will add up to a lot of free cash for our school!  Then give this flyer to a friend, neighbor, relative or co-worker and ask them to do the same!   If you would like the school’s Reward Card Coordinator to register your Giant and Safeway cards, please see the next page (please note that Target RedCard does not allow anyone but the cardholder to register for the program). 

1.       Giant

-          Go to giantfood.com/aplus

-          Click on “Register your card” in the box on the left.

-          Enter the first three digits of your last name your 12 digit Giant Bonus card number and click on “Continue to Listings”

-          Enter the Bates School ID (01667) in the Express Box.

-          Click “Confirm My Information”

2.      Escrip – for Safeway and Credit/Debit cards

-          Go to escrip.com

-          Click on “my escrip” on the toolbar across the top of the  page.

-          Enter your user name and password (click on “forgot your password and your user name and password will be emailed to you.

-          Click on “Register grocery/community cards”

-          Any cards you have registered in previous years will be listed on the next screen.  Enter any new cards Simply click on “update.”

-          Make sure Bates Middle School appears under “Group Selection.” If it does not, click on “Group Selection” and enter the school ID number:  6643571

-          On this page you can also register your Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover as well as debit cards to earn even more money for our school!!

-          Once you have entered all your card information, click on “sign off”.

3.       Target REDcard

-          Go to target.com/redcard

-          Click on “Take Charge of Education”

-          Click on “Enroll in Take Charge of Education”

-          Enter the Bates Target School ID #   - 57334

-          Enter your REDcard information.

OR, if you’d like me,Deborah to enter your Safeway/Giant Card information, send me the following message to dcollins127@comcast.net:  Make sure to include all the information or I will not be able to register you!!

Deborah, here is what you need to enroll my card in the:

Giant A+ program:     1. Card Number:

                                     2. Last 3 letters of the last name associated with this card:

Safeway:                      1. My full name, address and phone number:

                                      2.  My Safeway Club Card Number:

Otis Spunkmeyer Cookie Orders are due

Hi All,

Please turn in your Otis Spunkmeyer cookie orders to the main office.   We are tallying the orders now as they were due on Monday.  We are still accepting order forms.  Thank you for supporting this PTA fundraiser which is a main funding source for the PTA budget.

Thank you as always,
Deirdre

Otis Cookie Fundraiser Update

Hi All,

This email is a reminder that the Otis Spunkmeyer cookie orders are due to the homeroom teachers this Monday, September 24th. By selling 7 tubs of cookies, students will be guaranteed admission to the Otis Spunkmeyer Rewards Party. The students won't want to miss this party because there will be food, games, music and much more. 

Additionally, we will need volunteers to sort cookie orders on Thursday, September 27th and/or on Friday September 28th from 1pm - 2:30 pm.  We will be meeting in the Bates cafeteria to organize the orders.  Please contact Elizabeth Taylor, the Otis Fundraiser Chair, at ebtaylor15@gmail.com to inform her that you can volunteer.

Thanks,

Deirdre

Otis Spunkmeyer

Hello Bates Families,

Last Wednesday was the start of our annual, school wide Bates PTA fundraiser, the Otis Spunkmeyer cookie sale! The profit from the cookie sales fund our PTA general budget. Each student should have received a sales packet. This packet contains all the materials that are needed to get started. Extra Otis sales forms are available in the Bates office on the secretary, Mrs. Tongue's, desk.

Bates has always had a high percentage of student involvement in this fundraiser and this year we are striving for 100% participation. There are two great reasons that we encourage all students to participate. The most important reason is so they can attend the culminating event...a party during school. The party is a big bash with music, games, food and cash prizes for our top sellers. The second reason is to support the students, teachers and staff, all of whom benefit from the great programs that our PTA sponsors. If you have questions or you would like to volunteer for the fundraiser, please contact Elizabeth Taylor, ebtaylor15@gmail.com. 

Cookie orders are due to homeroom teachers on September 24th. Please be sure your student completes the information  (name, address, phone numbers, grade, email,  etc.) on the order form and includes the checks for the orders. If we have questions about an order, this information allows us to contact you. Thank you for supporting our school. 

~Elizabeth Taylor

OTIS Spunkmeyer PTA Chairperson