President: Breanne O’Doherty

Vice President: Angie Hodge

Treasurer: Erin Frazier

Vice Treasurer: Jess Gariano

Secretary: Sadie Zollinger

Member at Large: Kelsey Buchanan

After School Arts

Find art teachers who will work well with children and come up with engaging projects. Find teachers with a variety of specialties. Work with art teachers to come up with class themes and projects, come up with a schedule of classes, work with the principal, vice principal, and/or teachers to place classes in classrooms, give new teachers an orientation, and make sure teachers get paid. Liaison to Hutton Parents and Hutton Staff – answer questions parents might have. Communicate the location of classrooms to parents and the dismissal process, communicate with Express staff and make sure Hutton teachers know there will be an art class in their room and on what days. Registration occurs online, through the Hutton PTG website.

Chess Club

Work with a local Chess Club and the PTG to come in and do an after school instructional class. Distribute sign-up flyers to the classes. Come on the first day to make sure kids know where to go and the Chess teachers have everything they need.

Citizen’s Advisory

Attend the Citizen’s Advisory Committee (CAC) meetings and take notes to report back at the PTG general meetings.

Directory

Create a flier encouraging families to add their family info to the directory. Determine the dates for accepting info on the Hutton PTG website. Download the data, append contact info for the front office, and email the PDF to the families who provided their contact information.

Family Fun Nights

Organize our four Family Fun Nights which are: Ice-Cream Social, Monster Mash, Books and Bingo, and Spring Fling.

Green Team

Guide students through the process of adopting a project that will benefit the Hutton Elementary community. Encourage students to ask questions, think creatively, work collaboratively, and discover new solutions to challenges. Explore themes that might include improvements to indoor building processes (like recycling) or outdoor projects (like gardening for wildlife benefit or exploring urban ecology). Support teachers by mentoring younger students and securing materials for classroom projects related to sustainability. Enjoy as much outdoor time as possible!

Hawk Walk

Organize our one and only fundraiser of the year. Solicit new and past sponsors to advertise at the event and have their logo on the shirts. Secure several volunteers to work before, after, and during the event. Order all the shirts for kids, staff, and parents. Distribute the shirts at Hawk Walk. Facilitate the counting of money throughout the fundraiser.

Hospitality

Organizing several staff appreciation luncheons/events throughout the year.

Junior Achievement

Pass out informational flyers to teachers and students on what JA is all about. Solicit volunteers to teach the 6-week course per grade. Work with JA to acquire all of the teaching kits and then distribute them to the volunteers. Organize a training for the volunteers.

Mini Grants

Reach out to teachers about their classrooms applying for different grants from the PTG. Students are encouraged to write the request themselves as an exercise in what grant writing looks like. The committee then goes through the approval process.

Missoula Children’s Theater

Working with the Missoula Children’s Theater by helping them book dates that work for Hutton, finding them a host family, and helping them with logistics the week they are here.

Website

Make sure all appropriate announcements regarding school events and activities are posted on the Hutton PTG website.

World Languages

Secure language teachers to teach different languages. They then create a flyer to distribute to the classes. On the first several days they make sure the kids know where to go and the teachers have everything they need. Registration occurs online, through the Hutton PTG website.

Yearbook

Designing the yearbook, coordinating with Dorian Studios throughout the yearbook process, gathering images throughout the school year via email from Hutton parents, taking photos at the different events, facilitating the ordering process, and distributing the yearbooks prior to the last few days of the school year.