2025-2026 School Year

celebrating all of the connection, fun, and success in the 2025-26 school year!

2025-26 WINGS PTSO Leadership Team

President: Alex Looke

Vice President: Alicia Steinbrink

FUNdraising: Alyssa Lathrop

Secretary: Andrea Wray

Treasurer: Amy Serles

2025-26 Schedule of Events

September 4: Teacher Meeting Snacks provided by WINGS PTSO
September 5: Pizza Friday # 1
September 9: Jason's Deli Share Night
September 20: 7th Annual Phun Run
October 9: Science Night & Culver's Share Night
October 20: 2nd General Body Meeting
October 24: Elementary Fall Dance
November 6: Teacher Meeting Snacks provided by the Whales and Ms. Loughlin & Mr. Dennis's Home Room
November 14: Pizza Friday # 2
December 4: Teacher Meeting Snacks provided by the Sloths and Astronauts
December 5: Family Movie Night RESCHEDULED
December 12: Pizza Friday # 3
January 9: Family Movie Night in the Park!
January 22: Teacher Meeting Snacks provided by the Felines and Ms. Amy & Ms. Alejandra's Home Room
January 25: Nature Club Event (tentative)
January 26: 3rd General Body Meeting & Book Fair Preview
January 26-30: Book Fair
January 28: Book Fair Community Night & Culver's Share Night
February 5: Teacher Meeting Snacks provided by the Honeybees and Sea Turtles
February 10: Class Pictures & Makeup Photo Day
February 13: Pizza Friday # 4
February 19: Teacher Meeting Snacks provided by the Fungi and Mr. Mike & Ms. Charlene's Home Room
February 20-22: Nature Club Camping Trip
February 26: Art Uprising Community Art Event & Culver's Share Night
March 5: Teacher Meeting Snacks provided by the Surfers, Caterpillars, and Butterflies
March 8: Nature Club Event
March 10: Skate World Share Night
March 13: Elementary School Field Day & Smoothie Day!
March 26: Nominations Close for 2026-27 PTSO Board Elections
March 27: Middle School Dance
March 30: 4th General Body Meeting & 2026-27 PTSO Board Elections
April 1: Teacher Meeting Snacks provided by the Owls and Ms. Megan & Mr. Tommy’s Home Room
April 2: Middle School Field Day & Smoothie Day!
April 11: 10th Annual Spring Carnival
April 11 - 17: Silent Auction
April 16: Teacher Meeting Snacks provided by the Geckos and Ms. Kona & Ms. Hannah's Home Room
April 19: Nature Club Event
April 29: Share Night at Dairy Queen (on N. Monroe) to Benefit the Middle School
April 30: Teacher Meeting Snacks provided by WINGS PTSO
May 3: Nature Club End-of-the-Year Tubing Trip RESCHEDULED
May 4 - 8: Safekeeper Appreciation Week
May 11: 5th General Body Meeting
May 14: Hangar 38 End-of-the-Year Bingo Party and Share Night
May 15: Pizza Friday # 5
May 22: Last day of school!
May 30: Nature Club End-of-the-Year Tubing Trip
June 20: Summer Playdate at Cascades Park Splashpad Optimist Park (location changed due to splashpad being out of order) - ultimately cancelled due to inclement weather

2025-26 School Year Overview

PTSO Membership

154 PTSO members:

111 regular members
14 faculty members
28 student members

volunteers

We love and appreciate our amazing volunteers!!! We could not do everything we do without them! This year 110 volunteers served 738 volunteer hours! THANK YOU!

This number does not include hours that the WINGS PTSO leadership team put in for the year!

Lunch FUndraising Program

Tuesday/Thursday Lunches: 1,324 lunches sold and $1,051 raised!

Pizza Fridays: 1,111 pizzas sold and $3,843 raised!

Smoothie Days: 391 smoothies sold (including 79 donated to staff) and $782 raised!

Classroom Mini Grants

The Lunch Program funds our Mini Grant program, which enables teachers for each classroom, special area and elective, and support area to purchase supplies for their classrooms. This year we funded 32 Mini Grants totaling $5,400!

School Community Events

Back to School Splash at Wakulla Springs
Science Night with hands on experiments and fun things to explore and learn!
Movie Night where we joined forces with SAST's PTSA for a movie night with both SASC and SAST on the lawn, with free popcorn and hot chocolate!
Book Fair Community Night, where school families shopped the book fair with their scholars, completed a scavenger hunt, and more!
Art Uprising, where the school showcased scholars' art, Middle School Scholars volunteered and did demonstrations, and students had fun at interactive art stations!
End-of-the-Year Bingo Party at Hangar 38!
SASC Nature Club Annual End of the Year Event at Jackson Blue Springs (all school families were invited)!

Share Nights and Events

Share Night at Blaze Pizza for the first day of school
Share Night at Jason's Deli in September
Three Share Nights at Culver's (October, January, & February)
Share Event at Skate World in March
Share Event at Hangar 38 in May
Share Night at Culver's to benefit the band program in December
Share Night at Dairy Queen to benefit the Middle School in April
Share Night at La Tiendita to benefit the band program in May

safekeekeper appreciation and support

Room Parent Volunteers
Donuts and coffee on teacher planning days
Stocked the teacher and staff lounge with snacks and drinks twice during the year (at the beginning of the fall and spring semesters)
Teacher Meeting Meals to feed the Safekeepers at staff meetings
Pizza and snacks for other long days (e.g., Kindergarten orientation)
A Gratitude Lunch from Bonefish in November
Hot chocolate bar on the last day before winter break
Monthly birthday cakes
Celebrated birthdays for all teachers and staff
A five-day Safekeeper Appreciation Week in May
Ice cream for the last day of school
Annual spirit wear t-shirt for each staff member (including EDP), and a legacy spirit wear t-shirt for all new staff
Purchased a mobile scaffolding platform so that Safekeepers can decorate for showcases without going up and down a ladder

Student Support

Provided popcorn for movie day before winter break
Provided ice cream on the last day of school
Organized volunteers for Field Days
Coordinated volunteers and food for the 5th Grade Celebration Breakfast at the end of the year
Volunteered at the 8th Grade Graduation

Nature Club

57 Nature Club members
Exciting and fun excursions, including:
- Marianna Caverns State Park Tour
- Wild Melody Equestrian Center
- Cleanup Day at Tom Brown Park
- Day on the Farm at Tallahassee Museum
- Hiking the East Cadilac Trail
Camping Trip at Lake Seminole
End of the Year Event at Jackson Blue Springs

Phun Run

Together we exceeded our goal and raised $6,585!!
With these funds, the school was able to purchase TWO water fountains/bottle fillers (one in the K/1 area and one by the clinic).
They were installed in March. Over 600 plastic bottles have been saved so far!

Book Fair

770 total books sold!
Earned $7,600 Scholastic Dollars for our school!
Almost 100 new books were donated to our school!

Spring Carnival

We had so much fun at Spring Carnival, which included bounce houses, a teacher relay, dunk tank, carnival games, and more while raising funds for teacher training! Funds raised at the Spring Carnival will send at least 3 Safekeepers to Conscious Discipline Summer Training!

Elementary Fall Dance

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, K — We had lift-off! We loved seeing the students have an out of this world dance! Funds raised from this event paid for the buses for Field Day in the Spring!

Middle SChool Spring Dance

Tickets for the Middle School dance were sold by the school and funded the bus for the 8th Grade end-of-the-year trip! WINGS PTSO paid for the DJ and helped with volunteers!

Phun Run Funds Update!

Nature club end-of-the-year celebration!

Thank you to everyone who jointed us to celebrate another fun year! This Nature Club event was open to all families and friends from both SAS schools!

Saturday, May 30th

We met around 11:00 am

Jackson Blue Springs

5461 Blue Springs Rd

Marianna, FL 32446

La tiendita share night for band!

5th Grade celebration breakfast!

Thank you to all of the volunteers and everyone who brought food!!

elementary spring playdates

end-of-the-year party
Hangar 38 share night & Bingo!

Thank you to everyone who joined us!! We had so much fun!

safekeeper appreciation week!

🧁 May 4 - Sweet Treat Monday 🧁
PTSO provided sweet treats!

We kicked off Safekeeper Appreciation Week right, with sugar and caffeine for Sweet Treat Monday!

A huge shout out to Bada Bean (https://thebadabean.com) for providing the Nitro cold brew machine and donating cold brew!!

And a huge thank you to the Safekeeper Appreciation Committee for decorating and for providing delicious sweet treats, including gluten-free and vegan options, for our amazing Safekeepers!!

🍴 May 5 - Tasty Lunch Tuesday 🍴
PTSO provided a Cinco De Mayo lunch!

The PTSO provided Burrito Boxes from Moe's for a Cinco De Mayo lunch! Thank to you Moe's for providing a Safekeeper appreciation discount!🥯 May 6 - Breakfast Wednesday 🥯

School families provided breakfast!

Breakfast Wednesday was Amazing! Wow, the school families all really showed up with a delicious spread for our Safekeepers!! Thank you!!

A special thanks to Register's Meat Co. (https://www.registermeats.com) for donating lots of delicious sausage and to Ology Brewing Co. (https://ologybrewing.com/ology-midtown/) for donating hot coffee and yummy creamer!

🌻 May 7 - Blooming Thursday 🌻

Families made a flower, picked a flower, or bought a flower for Safekeepers!

Thank you to the SASC families for bringing flowers! It was amazing to see the variety of beautiful and creative flowers being brought in by the scholars! Each Safekeeper received a bouquet as unique as they are!!

Thank you to the Safekeeper Appreciation Committee and volunteers for making bouquets for all of the other Safekeepers and staff (including Special Area Safekeepers, support Safekeepers, EDP staff, school administration and staff, School Resource Officer, and bus drivers) to make sure they know how much they are ALL appreciated!

🎁 May 8 - Gift Card Friday 🎁
Families donated gift cards!

Thank you to the SASC families for dropping off gift cards for the Safekeepers to choose from! You are appreciated!!

dairy queen share night for the middle school!

Thank you to everyone who joined us!!

10th annual spring carnival

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middle school spring dance

Tickets for the Middle School dance were sold by the school and fund the bus for the 8th Grade end-of-the-year trip! All Middle School students were invited. Middle School scolars decorated, and PTSO paid for the DJ!

thank you to Just Fruits & exotics!

Just Fruits & Exotics generously donated three blueberry bushes, a blackberry bush, seeds, and seed starting trays for SASC's garden! A big thank you to Just Fruits & Exotics!!

elementary school field day & smoothie day!

Thank you to all the amazing volunteers who made Elementary Field Day a success and sorted over 300 smoothies!!

skate world share night!

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Skate World Share Night for fun, music, skating, and raising funds for WINGS PTSO! Together, we had a blast and raised over $1500!!

art uprising & culver's share night!

We had so much fun at Art Uprising!

Thank to everyone who stopped by to get inspired at Art Uprising, and thank to everyone who grabbed a yummy dinner at Culver's for share night! We had so much fun!!

book fair!!

A Note of Thanks!

A HUGE THANK YOU AND CELEBRATION to everyone who came out to support the school for this years Scholastic Book Fair!

We are thrilled to share that we earned $16,364.52, which will go towards Scholastic dollars. These funds directly benefit the school and our beautiful kiddos!

Thanks to your support, we were able to get almost 100 books into the hands of our teachers through the teacher wish list shopping!

Thank you to everyone who donated to Share the Fair! Our goal was to get a free book in the hands of every student who qualifies for Free/Reduced Lunch. Thanks to you, we were able to meet our goal!

A very special thank you to all the parent volunteers who donated their time and creative talents. There is absolutely NO WAY we could have done it without you!

The book fair still runs for online shopping until February 8, 2026, so if you haven’t had a chance to shop yet or have more books to purchase, all proceeds will still benefit the school.

- Liz Phillips, Book Fair Committee Co-Chair

These are just a few of the amazing volunteers! THANK YOU EVERYONE!!

Ms. Caitlin is surrounded by all of the books that were purchased for the teachers' classrooms from their wish lists. THANK YOU - you are so appreciated!

teacher meeting snacks - soup bar!

A big thank you to the Felines class and Ms. Amy & Ms. Alejandra's Home Room for feeding our teachers with a wonderful soup bar on January 22!

A special shout out of gratitude to Newk's Eatery for donating delicious soup!!

SASC & SAST FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT!

Thank you for joining us for movie night and your patience as we figured out the technological glitches! We had so much fun connecting with families from both campuses!

sasc spirit swag pop-up store!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by the SASC Swag Pop Up Store! We enjoyed connecting with you! We hope you enjoyed shopping for spirit wear and blankets, learning about upcoming events and Box Tops, and exploring Nature Club!

A grateful THANK YOU to all the volunteers who made it a success!

Popcorn & Hot Chocolate on December 19!

On December 19, WINGS PTSO provided complimentary fresh-popped popcorn for scholars and their Safekeepers so that they could enjoy popcorn during their movies!

We also treated Safekeepers to a Hot Chocolate Bar in the teacher lounge!

A special THANK YOU to the volunteers that made the last day of school before Winter Break special for the scholars and Safekeepers!

Gratitude Lunch Provided by Bonefish!

A huge thank you to Bonefish Grill for generously SPOILING our teachers and staff on November 19 for the Gratitude Lunch, with this delicious spread, including delectable gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan fare!

November Food Drive

Elementary Fall Dance!

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, K — We had lift-off! DJ Dance from Revolutionary Expressions spun out-of-this-world tunes! Thank you to everyone who came to the Fall Dance and boogied! Our Elementary Fall Dance raised money to pay for buses for Field Day in the Spring. A huge thanks to our AMAZING Fall Dance Committee and Volunteers!!

Science Night & Culver's share night

Thank you to our Science Night Committee members for helping to put on an awesome science night! We had so much fun!

7th Annual Phun Run!

The Phoenix Phun Run is our fall fundraiser. Families raise money through donations for the students, and then we all have fun participating and connecting as a school family in the Phun Run!
Last year, we raised funds for special area and electives programs, and we were able to purchase a pottery kiln for Art, speakers for Drama, and more!
This year, our goal was to raise $6,000 to offset the cost of purchasing and installing a water fountain / bottle filling station for the elementary school! This will allow students to refill their water bottles during the school day with cool and refreshing filtered water.
We reached our goal - THANK YOU!!!

⭐️ THANK YOU TO OUR VOLUNTEERS!! ⭐️

Thank you so much to all of the volunteers! We could not do events like Phun Run without you!!

⭐️ JOIN US IN THANKING OUR AMAZING PHUN RUN SPONSORS!! ⭐️

Thank you for joining us at our September Share Night at Jason's Deli!

We had so much fun connecting at the Back to School Splash at Wakulla Springs! Thank you for joining us!

Thank you for ditching the dishes with us and joining us for Share Night at Blaze Pizza!

What is a Share Night or Share Event? A Share Night or Event is a fundraising event organized by a non-profit and hosted by a local vendor. During these events, vendors donate a percentage of their sales to the non-profit based on purchases made by customers who mention the organization or during the specified event time.

We aim to offer a variety of Share Nights and Events throughout the year, featuring fast food restaurants, sit-down restaurants, and unique experiences like Skate World.