Thank You Sligo Community!

Hi, SMS Families,

I would like to take this opportunity to thank our Sligo MS students, administration, and community for supporting our Sligo MS PTSA at today’s annual Fitness Fun Day! While the weather was cool and breezy, we still had a great day. I would especially like to thank Kate O’Sullivan, the Sligo MS PTSA VP – Fundraising. Without Kate’s meticulous planning, persistence, and commitment, Fitness Fun Day would not have happened. Kate led our wonderful & generous army of volunteers (more than 50!) through our successful Fitness Fun Day 2021.

Fitness Fun Day is the Sligo MS PTSA’s big fundraising event for the school year. We don’t ask the students to sell items out of a catalog, we don’t have a winter auction, and we don’t do a spring event. Fitness Fun Day is our big call to the community to ask for financial support to allow the PTSA to provide for Sligo MS.

While we do count on local businesses to help sponsor this fun event, the majority of the PTSA’s fundraising comes from Sligo MS families. Your donations provide for numerous enrichment activities not covered by the MCPS budget and help enable the PTSA to support academic, cultural, and fitness activities throughout the year, to continue to support Sligo families in need, and to provide much-needed resources to teachers and staff in the form of mini-grants. In fact, we spent over $10,000 last school year on bridging gaps that our families faced during the pandemic shutdowns and the related effects that had on many of our families. Our PTSA members and supporters recognize that, when our students thrive both inside and outside of school, our communities thrive.