CMS Parent Teacher Organization (PTO)
Dear Parents,
Welcome to the 2024/2025 school year at CMS! The mission of the Carmel Middle School PTO is to strengthen and enhance our children’s education and development through the collaborative effort of parents, teachers, and administrators. We’re here to help provide the highest possible educational experience for our students by allowing them to reach maximum potential in all aspects of school life.
Every year, the CMS PTO raises funds and mobilizes parent volunteers to elevate our students’ CMS experience. Some of the activities that we supplement include:
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We would love your participation! Please consider joining our next monthly meeting, contributing to our annual fundraiser, or volunteering your time. Here’s to an amazing year for our kids!
During the 2023/2024 school year, the PTO was able to fund and organize the following teacher requests and student activities:
- New Student Outreach
- Ohana Day
- Climate & Culture
- Advisory
- New Parent Outreach events
- Teacher appreciation week food, snacks, and drinks
- 8th grade dance, promotion and brunch
- Leadership snacks and prizes
- Fun Friday Snacks & Prizes
- Chinese New Year
- Core Olympics
- MBOE
- 6th Grade BAC shirts
- Renaissance Faire
- Wellness Center additions
- Academic competition participation fees
- Academic competition participant and winner lunches and prizes (battle of the books, spelling bee, geo bee)
- All the school dances
- Directors for both the Fall and Spring plays
- Music in the Parks (Great America)
- Nancy Fowler Music scholarship
- Bird Seed for the Habitat
- SPED rewards and lunches
- New uniforms for after-school sports, including newly added Cheerleading
- Nepal fundraiser lunch
- Various teacher stipends and grants, such as the purchasing of new equipment for Fun Friday events
- ...and much more