GEMS PTA

10/19/2026

🌮💙💛 NEED DINNER PLANS? WE GOT YOU!!! 💛💙🌮

Join us THIS Wednesday, October 21st, for GEMS PTA Spirit Night at Tijuana Flats in Lake Mary! 🎉

📅 Wednesday, October 21, 2026
⏰ 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
📍 3005 W. Lake Mary Blvd., Ste. 109

🌟 20% of your purchase benefits GEMS PTA! 🌟

Whether you’re dining in, picking up takeout, or ordering online or through the app, you can help support our GEMSstars! 🚀💙💛

🌮 Ordering in person? Be sure to mention Spirit Night at the register!

📱 Ordering online or in the app? Use code SPNT103.

Bring the family, invite your friends, and let someone else handle dinner while we support our school! Every order makes a difference! ⭐️

We can’t wait to see our GEMS families there! 💙💛

10/19/2026

🍬👻 Our Candy Monster is BACK for more! 🍫🍭🎃

We had SO much fun collecting candy donations during car rider drop-off on Friday! 🤩 A huge THANK YOU to all of our amazing GEMS families who helped fill our Hungry Candy Monster’s belly! 💛

But guess what?! He’s still hungry! 😋

🍬 He’ll be back out tomorrow morning starting at 8 AM through Friday morning during car rider drop-off, ready to collect more delicious candy donations for our upcoming Halloween Trunk or Treat! 🎃👻

🚨 Can’t donate during car rider drop-off? No worries! Our Hungry Candy Monster will also be hanging out in the front office ready to be eat up your candy donations can be dropped off anytime Monday through Thursday next week 8:30 - 3:30PM! 🍫🍬
You can also donate candy by ordering off our Trunk or Treat Amazon wishlist! 🧞‍♂️💫 Just follow the link …
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/GEMSCandyWishlist

Every bag of candy helps make our GEMSstars’ Halloween celebration extra SWEET! ⭐💛

Thank you for always showing up and supporting our GEMS community! 🧡

Teamwork makes the dream work! 👻🍭

10/17/2026

🎉🎨✨ Calling our GEMS Stars Families! ✨🎨🎉

Deadline has been EXTENDED! 🤩🤩🤩

📅 School submissions new deadline is Friday, October 23, 2026!

GEMSstars, we can’t wait to see how you express yourselves through the arts! 🎭🎬📚🎶📸🖌️

Students can participate in Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, or Visual Arts! ✨

📝 Be sure to follow the category guidelines, complete the Student Entry Form with all required signatures, and submit your form and artwork through the GEMS PTA Reflections submission site.

🔗 Submit your entry here: https://forms.gle/A7TWnoRtNx82A4dA6

Questions? Contact [email protected] for more details.

Let’s celebrate the creativity, culture, and unique voices of our amazing GEMSstars! 🌎🎨💫 Show us what inspires YOU! 💙💛

10/16/2026

💙🤗 A BIG THANK YOU from GEMS PTA! 💎🌟

A huge thank-you to everyone who shopped our Hospitality Amazon Wish List and donated so many of our teachers’, faculty’s, and staff’s favorite things for our October ‘FaBooLous’ Teacher Treat Cart! 👻 🥰🍪☕ Your generosity helps us show our amazing GEMS team just how much they are appreciated!

Thank you for always showing up for our GEMSstars and the incredible staff who support them every day! 💙🚀

If you would like to donate towards our November cart please follow the link here ➡️ http://bit.ly/Amazon-Hospitality

If you are interested in sponsoring a cart please reach out to our PTA president at [email protected] and someone from our hospitality committee will get be in touch with you with more info.

10/16/2026

👻🍬 Our Hungry Candy Monster Had a SWEET Morning! 🍫🎃

Our Hungry Candy Monster had a blast hanging out with our amazing PTA volunteers this morning, collecting delicious candy donations for our upcoming Halloween Trunk or Treat! 😋🍭

But guess what?! He’s not full just yet! 🤭🤤 He’ll be back out in carline tomorrow, ready to gobble up more bags of candy! 🍬🍫🍡

If you’re able, send in a bag of sweets to help make our event extra SPOOKTACULAR! 👻🧡

A HUGE thank-you to our wonderful GEMS families for always showing up and supporting our GEMSstars! 💙🌟

Teamwork makes the dream work! 🎃🍬💙

10/16/2026

🌟💙 Popsicles, smiles, and GEMSstars! 💙🌟

We had SO much fun celebrating our membership contest winning classes with their popsicle parties during lunch over the past two days! 🥳🍦 Seeing all those happy faces made it extra sweet!

A huge congratulations again to our winning classes, and a BIG thank-you to all our GEMS families for supporting our PTA and helping us make a difference for our school community. 🤗❤️

Your support makes our GEMS community shine! ✨

10/15/2026

🤩 Another Easy Way to Support GEMS! 🤩

Did you know you can support the Goldsboro Elementary Magnet School PTA just by shopping at Walmart? 🛒✨

Through Walmart’s Spark Good Round Up program, you can select GEMS PTA as your favorite local charity and choose to round up your Walmart.com orders to the nearest dollar at checkout. Those spare cents can add up and help support our GEMSstars! 🌟

💙 Want to help? Visit our Walmart Spark Good page and select Goldsboro Elementary Magnet School PTA!

🔗 https://www.walmart.com/nonprofits/466178ce-ed96-4035-800c-a46cc17c8962/profile

Every little bit makes a difference, and we’re so grateful for our amazing GEMS community! Thank you for continuing to support our students, teachers, and school! 💎🚀

Together, we make GEMS shine! 💙✨

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10/15/2026

👻 🍬🍫 GEMS FAMILIES! 🍭🍡🎃

Starting TOMORROW morning from 8am - 8:30am through October 23rd, keep your eyes peeled during carline drop off because our Candy Craving Monster will be making his spooky-sweet appearance! 👀👹🍬

He’s hungry for CANDY and needs your help! 😋 If you’d like to donate a bag of sweets for our upcoming GEMS PTA Halloween Trunk or Treat, he’ll be ready and waiting to gobble up your delicious donations! 🍫🍭🍬

Let’s fill his belly and help make this year’s Trunk or Treat a SPOOKTACULAR success for our GEMSstars! 🌟🧡🖤
If you are not able to drop off during morning carline that’s ok. Our candy monster we be ready to eat in the front office from 8:30-4 also 🤩😈

As always, we truly appreciate your generosity and continued support of our GEMS community! 💙💎

🎃👻

10/14/2026

GEMS COMMUNITY!!! 🤩
Host a Trunk at Goldsboro’s Annual Trunk-or-Treat! 👻

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Date: Fri., 10/23/2026
Time: 3:30pm - 7:00pm EDT
Location: Goldsboro Bus Loop

We’re looking for families to host decorated vehicles for this spook-tacular event that our students love!
Bring your creativity, your spirit, and let’s make this Trunk-or-Treat the most spook-tacular one yet! 🦇🍬

🚗 Host a decorated vehicle trunk 🚙
Sign Up Here → https://tinyurl.com/GEMSHostATrunk

Host a Trunk at Goldsboro’s Annual Trunk-or-Treat! Friday, Oct 23, 2026 • 5:30–7:00 PM We’re looking for families to host decorated vehicles for this spook-tacular event our students love! Bring your creativity and decorations, we’ll provide the candy. Cars may begin entering the bus loop ...

10/13/2026

🫧🧼🚀 REMINDER, GEMS FAMILIES! 💙💚

Come join us TONIGHT for our GEMS PTA Healthy Kids & Families Night! 🌟

🗓️ October 13, 2026
⏰ 6:00–7:00 PM
📍 Astro Café

Bring the family for a fun, hands-on evening where we’ll learn about proper handwashing, healthy habits to help prevent illness, and how to take care of ourselves when we’re sick! 🫧👐🏽💚

Let’s work together to keep our GEMSstars healthy, happy, and shining bright! ✨💙

We can’t wait to see you there! 🚀🪐