PTA

Kimberlin Academy for Excellence PTA

Established 1987

PTA newsletters

The Kimberlin Connection is sent out each week through your Skyward email. It contains information about PTA activities and ways to get involved.

Officers 2024-2025

  • President - Kelly Folds

  • 1st Vice President - Programs - Kayley Bartosch

  • 2nd Vice President - Membership - Kaylie Paulson

  • 3rd Vice President Room Representatives - Blanca Rivera

  • 4th Vice President Fund Raising Fundraising -  Haley McMinimy

  • Secretary - Brandi Helm

  • Treasurer - Chris Barber

  • Parliamentarian - Cindy Medina

The Complete PTA Board Roster is available if you need to contact a board member.

How to join Kimberlin Academy PTA

What is PTA?

Attend a PTA meeting to learn more about the PTA, ask questions, and register to join. You may also contact the President, Kelly Folds.  Watch for important dates and information posted in the weekly S'more. Updates about PTA sponsored activities will also be posted on the Kimberlin Parents Facebook page. It's always a good time to join PTA! Visit joinpta.org today! It takes less than two minutes, and it benefits the school in so many ways.

 

PTA funds activities with membership dues and revenue from...

  • Fun Run
  • Carnival
  • Spirit Stick Sales
  • Spirit Wear (t-shirts and sweatshirts for students and adults)
  • Pre-packaged school supplies
  • Box Tops
  • Donations & contributions
  • Membership
  • Spirit Nights
  • Yearbook

There are several easy ways to support our school when you shop, dine out, or search the internet. We will have multiple spirit nights throughout the school year. Keep an eye out for announcements in Ms. Murdoch's Weekly S'more for those fundraisers and their dates.

Box Tops for Education

New this year!

Connect your Walmart account to the Box Tops app. Every time you purchase participating products, you earn money for Kimberlin without scanning a receipt! 

PTA sponsored activities

  • Numerous program opportunities 
  • Class holiday parties in December and February
  • Parent education programs
  • Reflections program
  • Teacher appreciation luncheons
  • Grandparent's Day Breakfast
  • Carnival
  • Math and Science activity days
  • A Knight to Remember Dance
  • Donuts with Dudes
  • Muffins with Misses
  • Multicultural Night 
  • Art Night
  • PTA newsletters
  • Kimberlin's Yearbook
  • and more...

Reflections contest

The National PTA Reflections Program challenges students to create an art project that relates to a specific theme.  The 2024-2025 theme is "Accepting Imperfection". The projects can be completed at home or at school.  Entries will be judged on interpretation of the theme, creativity, and artistic merit.  The Garland ISD Council of PTAs will recognize all the winners from our school district at their luncheon in May.

Students may submit original work in any of the following categories...

  • Dance Choreography
  • Photography
  • Film Production
  • Musical Composition
  • Visual Arts
  • Literature

Membership

It's always a good time to join PTA! Visit joinpta.org today! It takes less than two minutes.

Annual photo yearbook

We appreciate all donated pictures of your child's school events.  We need to fill up the yearbook with smiling faces.  Download the Tree Ring app. If you have not used Tree Ring before, use the validation code: 1013844461451210. Upload photos in the app! You may see them in the yearbook!

Kimberlin Academy PTA

The Kimberlin Academy PTA has been active since 1987 and currently has over 400 members.  It is a local unit in the Garland Council of PTAs in District 10 of Texas PTA.  Our PTA has won several district awards in the past year.

To learn more visit Kimberlin Academy's PTA website and the Garland Council of PTA website.

National PTA

The National PTA is the oldest and largest volunteer organization in the United States working exclusively on behalf of children and youth. There are nearly 6.5 million members working in 26,000 local units through schools and communities in all 50 states. It was founded on February 17, 1897 as the National Congress of Mothers. It has grown to be an effective advocacy organization promoting the education, health and safety of children and families.

National PTA stated objectives

  • Promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, and place of worship
  • Raise the standards of home life
  • Secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth
  • Bring into closer relation the home and the school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the education of children and youth
  • Develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for all children and youth the highest advantages in physical, mental, social, and spiritual education

For more information, visit National PTA. You can also visit the Texas PTA.