Address: Burbank Elementary School 266 School Street, Belmont, MA 02478
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The PTA would like to thank all families who donated to the PTA last week, and esp. those who took the extra step to ask their employers for a corporate match of their contribution! We are currently at 68% of our annual goal, so let's keep the momentum going! Without the generosity of Burbank families, none of the PTA’s work would be possible. The funds raised and spent by the PTA have a significant impact on your child’s daily school experience. Every bit helps, so please join us and give what you can.
Congratulations to our Week 2 raffle winner, Elizabeth Mulcahy, who will be receiving the $100 gift card to The Spirited Gourmet. Huge thanks to The Spirited Gourmet for generously providing this prize to help with our fundraising efforts.
For our Week 3 giveaway, Burbank PTA is raffling off a week of BASEC summer vacation camp for 7/1-7/3! Any donations of $25+ received between 4/1 - 4/6 will be entered to win this amazing prize valued at $297. Winner will be drawn on Monday 4/8.
Next week is our annual Belmont Books Shopping Event! Belmont Books is generously donating 10% of online sales (use Code BURBANK24 when checking out) to our PTA during the week of 4/6 - 4/13. Shop in-store on Wednesday, 4/10 2pm-6pm, and 10% of those sales will also be generously donated to us! Grab some spring reads for yourself and your family. Also did you know many of our wonderful Burbank teachers have wishlists at Belmont Books? Grab some books off Teacher Wishlists to stock classrooms and donations will also go to the PTA - it's an easy win-win!
STEM Night is back by popular demand and it's bigger than ever! The Burbank PTA has assembled over 30 activity stations to explore and learn something new, featuring the BHS Science Team, Record Robotics, rocket balloons, gumdrop molecules, engineering fun with marshmallows and toothpicks, and much more! Thanks to our event sponsor Belmont Orthodontics & Belmont Pediatric Dentistry for their generous support of the Burbank PTA and STEM Night.
The event will be held in the Burbank Gym and Cafeteria, and Nick's Pizza will be on-site selling pizza by the slice or whole pies. Additionally, ice cream from Rancatore's and drinks/chips will be available for purchase as well. Food and Drink tickets can be purchased online ($1 per ticket) or on-site. If you have any leftover food and drink tickets from past PTA events, feel free to use them up at STEM Night.
There is an important local election on Tuesday, April 2 in Belmont. There are two ballot questions including the override (question 1) that will directly impact the school district budget for next year. There are also contested races for many town leadership positions and for town meeting. The Belmont League of Women Voters has information on all races and ballot questions if you are looking for information. https://my.lwv.org/massachusetts/belmont (Note: information is provided by the candidates and ballot question committees themselves.)
We encourage everyone who can vote to take part. As a small town, townwide elections are sometimes determined by a hundred votes (and town meeting members by single votes). You can find your voting location here: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/WhereDoIVoteMA/WhereDoIVote. Your vote counts!
To find out more about the school and town budgets you can review many documents here (we recommend the Summit IV presentations): https://www.belmont-ma.gov/town-budget-information
Burbank PTA Group