Originally delivered on 3/24/2025 7:00 am

SUBJECT: Mackay HSA Newsletter - March 24th

Newsletter- March 24th

For a list of all important upcoming events go to mackayhsa.membershiptoolkit.com/events

Winter Clubs & Spring Clubs

Winter Enrichment

Winter enrichment has ended EXCEPT the following classes that will meet this week.

Monday - STEAM

Tuesday - Crochet

Thursday - ALL Classes


Spring Enrichment

Last call!! Registration will CLOSE Tonight at 11:59pm.

All club information and schedules can be found at mackayhsa.membershiptoolkit.com/enrichment

*To view the classes you are signed up for log in to toolkit > My Account > Previous Orders.

Lunch

Lunch ordering closes every Tuesday at 7pm for lunch the following week. We encourage you to order now through March and make changes if needed to ensure you don't miss the weekly deadline.

*For all lunch information click HERE  

*Volunteers needed for Wednesday Pizza Days only! Sign up HERE

*If your child is absent on a day you ordered lunch, contact the main office before 12pm and Mrs. Bergman can put their lunch on the side for you to pick up 

Lunch Survey

We are looking for your input on our lunch program.  Fill our our lunch survey HERE

Tricky Tray

Please purchase your tickets so we can get a head count for food!! Invite your friends!! Adults only!

*Tricky Tray entrance ticket is $35. This includes light food and soft drinks. Drinks will be cash bar. 

*Raffle Tickets are sold in sets of 10 or 50. Each set of 10 tickets includes 1 additional Door Prize ticket. The Door Prize is a Special Mackay Themed Basket. Door Prize ticket is NOT an entrance ticket.

*For those not familiar with a tricky tray…

All the baskets will be on display at the event. We have over 40 baskets to win!!

You will place 1 or more raffle tickets in a designated container for each basket you would like to win. So if you see 20 baskets you would like to win, you would need at least 20 raffle tickets to put 1 in each basket raffle. This way you only win prizes you WANT!

**Purchase tickets HERE or by going to My Account > My Forms/Registrations.**

*Pre purchasing both entrance tickets and raffle tickets are encouraged to speed up the check in process the night of the event.  All tickets will be held at the door and will NOT be mailed to you.



Read A Thon

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Thank you for all who participated in the Read A Thon!  The logging of minutes has ended but donations will still be accepted until March 27th.

We collected $4625 in donations so far. 

**Be sure to redeem your RAT bucks on the read a thon website  

Our Top Readers...

Kindergarten - Nathaniel Morales

1st Grade - Mika Kur

2nd Grade - Thor Petersen

3rd Grade - Jayme

4th Grade - Evan Coi

5th Grade - Alex Liu

Mean Girls Jr at TMS

Support the students of TMS as they perform Mean Girls Jr. 

Friday, March 28th 7:00pm

Saturday, March 29th 3:30pm

Sunday, March 30th 3:30pm

Purchase tickets HERE.

District Updates

Our HSA Co-Presidents meet with Superintendent Michael Ben David once per month.  Here are some updates he shared.

1- Summer Enrichment and Recky's will take place at Mackay Elementary School for summer of 2025.

2- There will be NO SACC offered this summer.

3- Many referendum projects will be accomplished this summer including the updating of all 6 buildings security vestibules.

4- Overview of the Science Curriculum was presented and can be viewed on TPS website.

5- 2025-2026 School Year will start August 27th.  2026-2027 proposed calendar will start August 31st.

6- SACC currently runs at a deficit to the district.  It will be outsourced to an outside company that will most likely use most of our staff and have access to more of our staff.  Prices will go up for SACC but they will go up less than if the district were to continue running the program.

TEF 5K

Tenafly 5K Run and Dog Walk will take place on Sunday, June 1st.  Sign up here https://runsignup.com/Race/NJ/Tenafly/Tenafly5KRunandDogWalk and make sure to join the Mackay Team so we can bring the trophy back to Mackay!!

*If you have any questions contact Chloe at socialmackay@gmail.com

Mackay Logowear!

Our NEW Mackay Logowear is here!! Order your items with the winning logo designed by one of our own Mackay students, and voted our winner by a vote on election day.  http://mackay-elementary-merch.myspreadshop.com

*Items ship directly to you!

*Youth and Adult sizes available in a variety of colors and styles. Please make sure to click on all the categories to see all the goodies available including accessories. (Unfortunately, when you click all items, all items do not show up on one page)

5th Grade - Friday Snack Sale

Every Friday, after school, under the pavilion.  Sales to benefit the 5th grade promotion committee.

*5th grade is also collecting stationary to sell along side of their snacks.  Donations can be put in a box near the office.

Still Need Gift Cards?

If you need e-gift cards throughout the year, please consider going through RaiseRight!

A percentage of your orders help Mackay...at no cost to you.  Sign up for a FREE account 

https://www.raiseright.com/enroll/RR-S24D44D91Q

*E-gift cards will be available in your virtual wallet for printing (This option is available all year long)

HSA Dues

HSA Dues are collected 1 per family in the amount of $50.  These funds are used to support school wide initiatives.  (Assemblies, field trips, author's day, International Week, and so much more.)

To pay your dues log in to mackayhsa.membershiptoolkit.com > My Account > My Forms/Registrations

*We would love 100% participation!

Join the Mackay Parents WhatsApp Group

Join the Mackay Parents WhatsApp group. We know sometimes there are so many emails and things get lost, so we created a WhatsApp group to add an extra place to get reminders. Join HERE 

Community Events

Join the town pool here: tenaflynj.org/pool

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