This Week Is Your Last Chance for Auction Tickets!

The deadline for purchasing tickets to 2020 Vision: A New Perspective, our Annual Auction is Friday afternoon. That’s right — this week is your last chance to register for the social event of the season. Support learning while celebrating with the Queen Anne Elementary community! More than half of our PTSA funding for THIS year comes from funds raised during this auction.

You might be a parent to an older kid who has had plenty of auctions under your belt. Or maybe you have a Kindergartner and wondering if you’ll know anyone, if it’s worth going. All our families chose to be part of this community. This is our chance to keep building that community AND support our school. You'll get to know other parents, eat, drink, dance and be merry. Or just check out all the cool kids photos and class art if that’s more your style.

• See (and bid!) on amazing art projects created by our kids
• Dance the night away at our afterparty! 
• Bid on amazing items, ranging from fun class baskets to a Hawaiian vacation
• Enjoy great food, wine and dessert. With friends (old and new)!

The Auction accounts for more than half of all funding raised by the QAE PTSA. Join us on March 13th to help ensure that our school can have tutors in classrooms, teacher development, curriculum support, a reading specialist and so much more. See you there?

Our Thoughts on Coronavirus
Obviously, the coronavirus has been front of mind and conversation for many of us at home, work and at the playground.  The auction team and PTSA board had the added conversation of how this impacts our Annual Auction on March 13th.  Do we hold it? Postpone it? Plan B? Plan Z? How would that impact our funding?

First off — no one associated SPS has been become sick with COVID or quarantined. SPS is keeping the doors open, we should follow their lead.

After discussing, we also know:

• Based on committed vendors, venue and contracts this is not an event we could easily postpone to a later date.  We would cancel the evening all together.
• Our kids are still going to school, we can certainly still party with each other. We contemplated various backup plans where we move everything online but it will require a number of families to enjoy the frenzy of bidding from their computers. If information changes we will certainly reconsider these plans. 
• The annual auction raises over 50% of the PTSA budget.  Without this evening we need to reconsider our financial commitments for the remainder of the year. 
• It is an evolving situation and we will continue to follow the news and guidance.  We will continue to monitor and make decisions accordingly.
• And just like the daily messages we get – if you don’t feel well then I hope you will stay home and toast us in spirit with your lemon honey tea 😊

To that end, please purchase your tickets to join us for an evening of fun that we could all use. We’ll continue to monitor developments. Questions? Contact [email protected] 

We look forward to seeing you on March 13th!
-- Sandra, Mary, Jenn and the rest of the QAE Auction Team