The Blacksburg Middle School PTO would like to invite you to explore our site.  We are very excited and proud of our community and our school.  Please feel free to contact our members if you have any questions.

Goals and Missions

The purpose of BMS PTO is:

	To enhance and support the educational experience at Blacksburg Middle School
	To develop a closer connection between school and home by encouraging parental involvement
	To improve the environment at BMS through volunteer and financial support.

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Membership

The BMS PTO is open to all parents/guardians of Blacksburg Middle School students with a fee of $5 Family, $3 Individual.

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Meeting Times

 BMS PTO Meetings are held at 6:30 pm in the Blacksburg High School library
3109 Prices Fork Rd., Blacksburg, VA 24060.

The principal, John Wheeler, will attend every other meeting, or more frequently if needed.

Meeting Dates are as follows:

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BMS PTO Fundraising Policy and Major Year-long Activities

In recent years, the BMS PTA has adopted a simple, effective philosophy towards its fundraising efforts.  We believe students should be students and parents should be more involved with their kids' academic interest rather than buying and selling fundraising products.

Like most public schools, the BMS PTO has needs and expenses beyond those covered by established budgets. In addition to necessary administrative costs, these expenses include funding various programs such as students awards and scholarships, cultural arts, teacher appreciation activities, the PTO Newsletter, grade level parties and field trips, Reflections, special events like the Spring Blast for the end of the school year, and much much more.

Traditional fundraising programs usually involve tiresome, repetitive solicitations, requiring considerable time, effort and attention of our students, parents and staff. Instead, we have elected to implement a simple, one time parent solicitation for voluntary contributions.  Your tax-deductible contribution can be made payable to BMS PTO.

If you have already sent your contributions we are very grateful. If not please consider it very soon since we have so much to do before the end of the school year and our funds are not necessarily in great shape.

As important as financial gifts are, nothing replaces your personal involvement in your child's education and school.  Your ideas, talents, and time, in addition to financial gifts are all greatly appreciated and necessary to continue to achieve the quality education all our children deserve.

In addition to financial gifts you can also help the PTO earn money for the school by collecting BoxTops and signing up for the BMS Kroger card.

The school receives 10 cents for every BoxTop brought in and they really add up! Simply clip the BoxTop from participating products and send the coupons in to your child’s Titan Time teacher. For more info on BoxTop collecting email Laura Snelgrove at lsnel@vt.edu.

To sign up for the BMS Kroger card simply download the form below and send it in to your child’s Titan Time teacher along with $5. When you use the BMS Kroger card to buy your groceries and gas, Kroger donates 5% of every purchase to the school. For more info on the Kroger card email Hope Lester at hope.lester@gmail.com.

Both of these can add up to a lot of money at no cost to you.

Kroger Card Form

 

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BMS PTO Board and Committee Chairs

President	Adrean Harris abharris@radford.edu
Vice President	Michelle Harris harris.michelle11@gmail.com
Treasurer	Dawn Wilson dodgerdawn@gmail.com
Secretary
Newsletter	Lisa Acciai lisa@acciai.us
Membership	Wendy Kendall wendyk413@yahoo.com
PR & Communications	Margaret Christle
Hospitality	Kris Alderson hokiegrad89@yahoo.com
Volunteer Coordinator
Fundraising - Box Tops	Laura Snelgrove lsnel@vt.edu
Fundraising - Kroger Cards	Hope Lester hope.lester@gmail.com
Fundraising - Restaurant Night	Judy Hole jhole@mcps.org
Fundraising - Shelor Motor Mile	Allison Turk allisonjturk9870@aol.com

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