Author: Enelia Faithful

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Dine, Sweat and Donate: Support some great local businesses and earn donations for McKinley at no additional cost to you!

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Join the PTA

By joining the PTA, you help us meet our school’s needs that are outside the scope of their budget. Membership is $10 per person and includes an exclusive McKinley Mustangs wristband.

Join the PTA Now!

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Dine, Sweat, and Donate

Support local businesses and earn donations for McKinley!

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Get Your Spirit Wear!

Here’s a chance to freshen up that SIP wardrobe. You grab your Mustang swag at our TeeSpring store! There are many options to choose from in all sizes, styles, designs, and colors. Get 10% off using code: BYESUMMER valid until Sunday, August 30th at 11:59 PT.

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Save the Date for Our First PTA General Meeting!

Join us for our first PTA general meeting of the 2020-2021 school year from the comfort of your home.

When: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 @ 6:30PM

Agenda and Zoom link to come

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Join the PTA

By joining the PTA, you help us meet our school’s needs that are outside the scope of their budget. Membership is $10 per person and includes an exclusive McKinley Mustangs wristband.

Join the PTA Now!

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Dine, Sweat, and Donate

Support local businesses and earn donations for McKinley!

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Get Your Spirit Wear!

Here’s a chance to freshen up that SIP wardrobe. You grab your Mustang swag at our TeeSpring store! There are many options to choose from in all sizes, styles, designs, and colors. Get 10% off using code: BYESUMMER valid until Sunday, August 30th at 11:59 PT.

Shop Now!

In the interest of the health and safety of students and staff, Petaluma City Schools announced that they are planning for all traditional schools to begin on August 12th under the Distance Learning Model. You may read the full update from PCS here.

• Written Version of Elementary Update
• PCS Student and Family Handbook for COVID-19 Safety

The PCS District collects information about families through an online platform (Aeries) at the beginning of the school year. This contact information is placed on a contact database that is used by the PCS District and the schools to communicate with families.

If you are not receiving information from the PCS District (e.g. email sent on 4/22/20 regarding contact information updates) or McKinley School (e.g. weekly newsletter sent out every Sunday) or receiving only some of these emails, follow these guidelines below in this order. 

1. Check your Spam-Social-Promotions-etc. folders or your filters to make sure they are not there. PCS emails usually get sent from and McKinley School emails come from McKinley Communications ()

2. Check your information on the Aeries portal to make sure it is accurate and it is listed in the right place (under student’s contact).

1. Log in to Aeries Parent Portal 
2. Click on Student Info > Contacts
   
3. Verify that you are listed as a Contact

Note that having a contact email under the general profile will not be enough. Each student has a section for contacts for that student and the information in that section is the one that schools use. If you have a Jr. High student and a McKinley student, you must have your contact information properly entered in each student’s contact section in order to receive communications from both schools. Otherwise, you will only receive communications from the school to which the student with proper contact information goes.

3. If you are still having trouble after trying #1 and #2 and not getting the Sunday newsletter/PCS District emails, contact the PCS District to get further assistance  General Phone: (707) 778-4813; Aeries Portal: Setup, Updates, etc.:

Keep connected: Make sure to subscribe to the PTA mailing list, PTA Facebook page, McKinley School Community Facebook closed group and your grade level closed group to stay up to date.

Summer meetups: Unfortunately, McKinley PTA will not be able to have a June summer meetup due to restrictions in place. We want our McKinley families safe and do not want to put anyone at risk.

We will keep a July summer meetup open if restrictions are lifted.

Next school year update: We will send out an email this July regarding all the information that you’ll need to get you up to speed before school starts. Make sure to subscribe to the PTA mailing list

New website and family communication platform: we will have a new website and a new platform to keep in touch with all parents! Keep an eye out this summer to sign up for the new platform.

Want to contact us? Please feel free to reach out to your new PTA president and co-president, Chris Lum & Ashley Fitting at  if you have any questions.

The National PTA has recognized McKinley School and McKinley PTA as a 2019-2021 School of Excellence for their accomplishments in building a strong, effective family-school partnership that is enriching the educational experience and overall well-being for all students.

National PTA’s School of Excellence program supports and celebrates schools and PTAs that make a year-long commitment to improving family-school partnerships. Throughout the year, the schools and PTAs collect feedback from their school communities and create and implement plans of action to make a difference for every child. Through the School of Excellence program, PTAs and families become key partners in decision-making and school improvement efforts.

McKinley School and McKinley PTA are one of only 326 PTAs and schools nationwide to be designated a 2019-2021 School of Excellence.

PTA President Amy Malaise says that “McKinley is proud of the work we have been doing on family engagement and issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity. We have worked hard over the last few years to make sure that every family feels included at McKinley and that every individual has a voice. We will continue this work over the next few years to ensure that we are doing our very best to make our families feel welcome.”

To celebrate their achievements, National PTA presented McKinley School and McKinley PTA with a certificate and a National PTA School of Excellence banner to hang in their school.