Membership Drive and Ice Cream Social

At the beginning of each school year, the PTA welcomes new and returning Butler students and parents to meet, play, and mingle at the Butler playground while eating delicious ice cream donated by Moozy's! We use this night, September 11th, to encourage parents to join the PTA and donate to support activities for your child.  Everyone who joins can enter the raffle to win prizes donated by our generous local businesses! Do you want to help? We need parent volunteers during the picnic to help serve ice cream, run the raffle, and talk about the PTA!

Picture Day

The PTA works with Hayward Photography, who will come to the Butler school on September 25th to take individual portraits and class photographs of all the students. All students can keep their class photos, and parents can purchase individual photos. Parent volunteers will wait with students and encourage great smiles for their photographs!  Bonus: Pre-orders give Butler a portion of their proceeds!

Walk/Bike to school day

This national event will be held October 8th. This celebration encourages parents and students to leave the car at home and walk or bike to school. Butler designates meet up spots on the way to school for people to gather and walk together, often with music and celebrations! Parent volunteers walk with students, welcome students at the Butler playground as they arrive, and hand out stickers.

Green Team Garden Events

The Butler gardens are maintained by the PTA's Green Team! We grow flowers and herbs, as well as compost. Parent volunteers help students weed, water, and tidy up the garden at several points throughout the year.

Fun Run

The Butler Fun Run, October 17th, is the primary fundraiser for the Butler PTA, with the goal to raise over $18,000 to support field trips and in-school enrichment programs. Butler students collect pledges from friends, family, and neighbors and then participate in a multi-lap run around the Butler School. Parent volunteers organize the Fun Run with the fun run committee, meet throughout the summer and fall to work on local sponsorship, manage the student donations, and coordinate all the logistics to make the Fun Run happen.  Parents are welcome and encouraged to volunteer and attend!

Art Night

Butler Art Night showcases Butler student art and also gives students and parents an opportunity to create their own art at stations around the gym. Parent volunteers organize, set-up, run art activities, and clean-up for this event. 

Literacy Week

This week-long celebration of literacy, March 2-6, includes special guest readers and a fundraiser at Belmont Books on March 5th. Parent volunteers help coordinate daily events, distribute reading rewards, and work with Belmont Books on several events throughout the week.

Snack Drive for Teachers and Staff

A parent volunteer works with a member of Butler Staff to organize and promote a week-long snack drive, March 9-13, for our incredible Butler teachers.  Each day families can donate different drinks and snacks to help keep our Butler teachers fueled.

STEM night

This hugely popular will be held January 23rd in the Butler Cafetorium! Parents organize math and science games and experiments, giving Butler students the opportunity to experience math and science in exciting ways. Parent volunteers create and run the games and experiments that evening, as well as help set up and clean up the activities.

Multicultural Night

Butler students and their families can celebrate the many wonderful cultures at Butler on May 15th at Multicultural Night! Families can set up their own booth, display different parts of their culture, share food, art, games or more with the school community. Do you have something from your culture you'd love to share? Please join us!

Spring Dance and Gift Basket Raffle

Join Belmont favorite DJ Paul Madden for Butler's Annual Spring Dance on April 9th! DJ Paul Madden spins popular songs, plays games, and hosts an amazing night for the students. During the Dance, the PTA hosts the annual Gift Basket raffle, with class gift basket donations organized by the room parents!

Talent Show

Come show your talent to the Butler community! Whether it is singing, dancing, acting, playing instruments - all talents are welcome! Performing students must participate in a dress rehearsal on November 6th, prior to the show itself on November 7th.

Teacher Appreciation Week

Show the Butler staff how much you appreciate them! The PTA organizes special initiatives throughout the week May 4-8 to show the teachers and staff how grateful we are for everything they do. Teachers have been treated to mini massages, La Victoria Taqueria for lunch, Tatte desserts, Blackbird Donuts and more!

Color Day

Color Day is Butler’s end of the year field day and is full of fun, games, and activities. During school on June 3rd each class will be split into three different color teams; red, white, or blue. The teams compete against each other in fun and cooperative games throughout the morning. Parent volunteers run the games, serve the refreshments. and cheer on the Butler students!

Moving on ceremony

3rd graders celebrate moving on from Butler with a ceremony attended by parents in the morning on June 12th. Parent volunteers form the committee that plans the ceremony, makes yearbooks, and order swag for the students to celebrate our third graders moving on from Butler.