Welcome to Franklin & Randall Elementary Schools and to the Franklin-Randall PTO

All parents and caregivers with a student at Franklin or Randall are part of the PTO, along with the principals, teachers and educational support staff of these schools. Whether you want to connect with other parents, volunteer in school, help out with PTO-sponsored events, or just hear about what’s going on with the PTO, you can find the right platform below.

The Franklin-Randall PTO distributes information through a few different platforms:

Communication	How you get it	What’s included?
PTO Newsletter	Everyone with an email address on file with Franklin or Randall will receive the PTO newsletter every two weeks	School and PTO events, volunteer opportunities, community events and resources, important upcoming dates
PTO Google Group and PTO Facebook page	Join the Google group to receive emails (later searchable in the group’s conversations). Anyone in the Facebook group can post about and discuss school or extracurricular events, PTO news, volunteer opportunities, etc.	Community events, volunteer opportunities
PTO Instagram	Members of the PTO board post on the Instagram page	Fun events, volunteer opportunities
Volunteer page	Website maintained by the PTO	Volunteer opportunities through the PTO or schools, with links to sign up or email the appropriate people
Email list for kindergarten playdates	Emails from the kindergarten playdate coordinators	Playdate information for incoming kindergarten families before the school year begins
Support the PTO	Website maintained by the PTO	Information about the Fall Fundraiser and Box Tops for Education, with a link to give directly

Franklin and Randall schools, and MMSD as a whole, have several communication channels to provide parents with different types of information. You’ll get these automatically if you have a student at Franklin or Randall.

Communication	How you get it	What’s included?
Peach Jar	Fliers emailed to you directly from MMSD and Franklin	School menus, MMSD activities, community opportunities for families and kids
Parent Square	School-to-home messaging platform via email and text (automatically); can also choose phone or the free ParentSquare app	School and class communications. You’ll automatically receive notice of a communication via your preferred method.You can also direct message with your student’s teacher or school admin.
Infinite Campus	District-wide student information system to manage attendance, grades, schedules, test scores, etc.	Class schedules, bus information, absence reporting and other attendance information, grades, and report cards. Schools also post important information on the home page, such as events, notices, etc.
School Newsletter	Occasional newsletter from the principal	Updates and information about what’s happening at Franklin or Randall
Classroom Newsletter	Newsletter directly from your child’s teacher	What happened in school recently, what they’ve been learning, upcoming events or classroom-specific volunteer opportunities

Do you want to:

• Contribute to our community’s needs? Community Support
• Support the PTO and our schools financially? Support the PTO
• Volunteer, either for PTO efforts or with students at Franklin or Randall? PTO Volunteer page
• Find links to all things Franklin-Randall PTO? PTO website
• Hear what’s happening at our schools and in our community? Read the PTO newsletter, emailed to all parents and guardians every other Friday. You don’t even need to sign up! 
• Connect with other Franklin-Randall parents, or see posts about events? PTO Google Group, PTO Facebook page, Franklin-Randall PTO Instagram
• See who’s on the PTO Board? PTO Contacts

Teacher assignments typically come about a week and a half before school starts in August. This ensures that we are able to accurately account for all students that register in early August and that class sizes are well balanced before we announce teachers to avoid having to move students once they have been assigned. There will be an opportunity for you to meet your child’s teacher at Ready Set Go conferences and your child will have a chance to walk in and find their room (without you) at the Franklin Fly-in the week before school. More details will be shared by Principal Powers in the summer. 

Transportation information is available on the MMSD Transportation site. You can find information about your child’s assigned bus stop in Infinite Campus: 

• Log in to your Infinite Campus Parent Portal
• Click “More” on the left sidebar
• Click “Transportation”

You can find information about the curriculum and state standards for all levels, by clicking on each of the subject areas (Literacy, Mathematics, etc.) on the MMSD Curriculum and Instruction site.

Tours of the school will be provided at select kindergarten playdates without staff. Your child will also have the chance to go in and find their classroom and meet their teacher during Franklin Fly-In (parents do not walk in with students at this event).