What's Going On This Week

10/9/2025 2:59 am

1. Pumpkin Walk: Get Your Tickets

2. 5th Grade Volunteers Needed: Pumpkin Walk

3. Volunteers Needed: Open PTO Positions

4. Birthday Book Club Shoutouts

5. Save the Date: Loring Eats

6. School Photo Retake Day

7. Loring Social at 1716 at the Wayside Inn

8. Volunteers Needed: Room Parents

9. Volunteers Needed: Lunch/Recess

Questions on anything PTO-related? Email cochairs@loringpto.org.

Pumpkin Walk: Get Your Tickets

10/9/2025 2:58 am

Please support the Loring 5th graders and the 5th Grade Class Fund and secure your tickets for the Pumpkin Walk, available now! Walk one of the Sudbury Valley's Trustee's local trails, look at the beautifully decorated pumpkins along the way, and enjoy some fun surprises! Also, new this year is a stroller-friendly/wheelchair accessible path!

Saturday, October 25th: 10am - dusk

Sunday, October 26th: 8am - 3pm

Tickets are $10 per family and can be purchased here! Please purchase by 10/22 to get the trail map.

5th Grade Volunteers Needed: Pumpkin Walk

10/9/2025 2:57 am

Let's make this year's Pumpkin Walk the most PAWSOME one yet! To do that, we need all the 5^th graders to help! Decorate and display a pumpkin (carve, paint, draw, etc), make a sign to place around the walk, and/or help with setup or cleanup (parents, we will especially need help & wheelbarrows for this). Family members are welcome to create pumpkins too! Please reach out if you need help getting a pumpkin.

SIGN UP HERE 

Can’t wait to see what creative pumpkins you all come up with! We are excited to work with you to raise as much money as we can so your class gift can be the most PAWSOME gift ever!

Volunteers Needed: Camp Fair

10/9/2025 2:56 am

We are looking for new committee members to help with the Camp Fair, as well as someone to shadow the committee chair to take over as chairperson next year! Please email cochairs@loringpto.org if you would like more information or are interested in helping out!

Birthday Book Club Shoutouts

10/9/2025 2:55 am

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

We extend a big thank you & Birthday Book Club welcome to our latest members: Whitney Martin (August), Kallen Freiman (September), and Logan Ute (September)!

Thank you so much for all the terrific new books joining our library collection in honor of you and your big day!
If you'd like to celebrate your child's birthday with a book, visit our Birthday Book Club webpage for more information. Questions? Email birthdaybook@loringpto.org.
Scholarships may be available. Contact Karen Blumberg for more information.

Tuesday 10/21: Loring Eats at Lotus Blossom

10/9/2025 2:54 am

Save the Date for Loring Eats @ Lotus Blossom on October 21st!

Have you eaten at Lotus Blossom since it re-opened after they experienced a kitchen fire earlier this year? This is a great chance to support this local business as well as the Loring PTO! Dine in or take out on Tuesday, October 21st (5-9pm) and Lotus Blossom will donate a portion of the proceeds to the Loring PTO. Please note you must mention "Loring Eats" when placing your order.

Loring Social at 1716 at the Wayside Inn

10/9/2025 2:52 am

Join us on October 17 at 6:30pm for a laid-back outdoor social at 1716 at the Wayside Inn. Come with the kids or without, bring dinner or just grab something there...it’s totally up to you. No agenda, no pressure; just a fun chance to meet other Loring families, catch up, and enjoy an evening out together.

School Photo Retake Day

10/9/2025 2:52 am

Missed school picture day? Want a re-do? Retake Day is Thursday, 10/30!

If you would like to have your child participate in picture retake day, save the date! 

Retake Day is open and free for:

• Anyone who had their photo taken and wants a retake (if they purchased images or not).
• Anyone who had been sent a request from Coffee Pond to have a retake image taken (due to quality control of the original image).
• Anyone who was absent on Picture Day and needs their first image taken.

If you have already purchased a photo package but are retaking photos, please return your original undamaged portrait package to the photographer that day.

Volunteers Needed: Room Parents

10/9/2025 2:51 am

Each fall, the PTO helps to recruit room parents for each classroom, which is a relatively small time commitment for volunteering. This year, room parents are asked to do the following:

• Coordinate a holiday and end-of-year class gift (more information to be provided)
• Take pictures or collect pictures of students in your child's grade from teachers/other parents for the yearbook (e.g., at events, at recess, etc.) 

We are still looking for room parents for the following classrooms: Durant (2nd), Williams (3rd), Krance (4th), Corron (4th), Eddy (5th), Nikolich (5th).

Please contact Dana Reese if you are interested in acting as a room parent for your child's classroom.

Volunteers Needed: Lunch/Recess

10/9/2025 2:50 am

Every Friday, we will be looking for 3 volunteers per grade to help cover recess and lunch. This allows our classroom teachers to have consistent planning time each week. It's an easy volunteering opportunity if your schedule has flexibility during the day, and it's also a fun chance to see your kids and their friends during the school day!

If you are interested in volunteering, sign up at this link to help your child's grade! Please be mindful of how many shifts you sign up for at one time - we'd like to afford as many caregivers as possible the opportunity to help.

Before volunteering, make sure you have an active CORI form on file with SPS by checking in with Paula Saliga or Vicki Harrington in the front office. Additionally, please be sure to click here and review the orientation slides and click here to watch the training video. You will also need to sign a confidentiality agreement. These forms are available in the front office and can be completed when you check in for your first volunteer shift. 

When you arrive at school to volunteer, please check in at the front office 5 minutes prior to your start time. This will allow you time to sign in, obtain a badge and proceed to the playground. 

Can't make your shift? PLEASE try to find a replacement first. If unable, please email the Loring Office.