What is Spruce Experience?
It’s a list of parties and events that our Spruce Street families or the PTA host and sponsor throughout the school year. Spruce Street families pay to attend the parties, and ALL the proceeds go to help Spruce Street make a difference in your kids' education. It's an excellent opportunity to meet other Spruce families and students!
Check back here frequently for more events to go live!
Please reach out to [email protected] if you would like to host an additional event or help us on an existing one.
It’s a list of parties and events that our Spruce Street families or the PTA host and sponsor throughout the school year. Spruce Street families pay to attend the parties, and ALL the proceeds go to help Spruce Street make a difference in your kids' education. It's an excellent opportunity to meet other Spruce families and students!
Check back here frequently for more events to go live!
Please reach out to [email protected] if you would like to host an additional event or help us on an existing one.
Where do the proceeds go?
To the Spruce Street PTA general fund. That is, to the school. Spruce Street PTA's efforts each year ensure that our school has the resources needed to fund essential school programs that are not part of the DOE budget (which, as you may already know, is a sadly shrinking one). This includes modern instructional technologies, professional development for teachers, NDI, Chess, our library, and much more. While it’s hard to realize the necessity of many of these funds due to programming being halted this year, it’s always important to think ahead.
First Fridays events are not meant to make money and are run at or below cost. Please organize a sponsored event to fund our program!
Who are the parties for?
All students, parents and families of Spruce Street School. It depends on what you choose to host: some parties will be more family-oriented, some will be more for kids, other for adults (please don't plan a wine tasting for elementary school students).
Sounds fun! I want to host a party, what next?
Awesome! We need you to make the Spruce Experience a success and we welcome all ideas! Please reach out and let us know what you have in mind.
Dates and times are completely up to you.
Wait a second. I said I want to host a party, but I don't really know how.
Barely an inconvenience. Let's get in touch and figure out together what could be fun and feasible.
We have a long list of ideas and projects that can be adopted by motivated families. With a little organization, there's so much that can be done!
Do I have to host a party alone? I have a great idea but it's too much work / too expensive.
Not at all. While we can't promise to help with the practicalities, nor finance an event (the whole point of this being that Spruce families run the show and that the event funds the school through the PTA, not the other way round) we have seen in the past that the easiest way to sort this out is to involve another family, either to help with the organization or to co-sponsor the event. Still - if you need vendor contacts, ideas, suggestions on how to make things feasible, you can definitely count on us.
We hope to see you soon for all sorts of amazing Spruce Experience events!
To the Spruce Street PTA general fund. That is, to the school. Spruce Street PTA's efforts each year ensure that our school has the resources needed to fund essential school programs that are not part of the DOE budget (which, as you may already know, is a sadly shrinking one). This includes modern instructional technologies, professional development for teachers, NDI, Chess, our library, and much more. While it’s hard to realize the necessity of many of these funds due to programming being halted this year, it’s always important to think ahead.
First Fridays events are not meant to make money and are run at or below cost. Please organize a sponsored event to fund our program!
Who are the parties for?
All students, parents and families of Spruce Street School. It depends on what you choose to host: some parties will be more family-oriented, some will be more for kids, other for adults (please don't plan a wine tasting for elementary school students).
Sounds fun! I want to host a party, what next?
Awesome! We need you to make the Spruce Experience a success and we welcome all ideas! Please reach out and let us know what you have in mind.
Dates and times are completely up to you.
Wait a second. I said I want to host a party, but I don't really know how.
Barely an inconvenience. Let's get in touch and figure out together what could be fun and feasible.
We have a long list of ideas and projects that can be adopted by motivated families. With a little organization, there's so much that can be done!
Do I have to host a party alone? I have a great idea but it's too much work / too expensive.
Not at all. While we can't promise to help with the practicalities, nor finance an event (the whole point of this being that Spruce families run the show and that the event funds the school through the PTA, not the other way round) we have seen in the past that the easiest way to sort this out is to involve another family, either to help with the organization or to co-sponsor the event. Still - if you need vendor contacts, ideas, suggestions on how to make things feasible, you can definitely count on us.
We hope to see you soon for all sorts of amazing Spruce Experience events!