Burn$ Park Buck$ is our school scrip fundraiser. Beginning in September, families have an opportunity each month to purchase gift certificates and gift cards at cost to be used at local groceries and other retailers; the school receives a percent profit from the merchants.

The Burns Park Press is the monthly newsletter of the PTO, distributed to all families, faculty and staff in electronic and paper format. The Press is our regular way of communicating as a community, and carries news, an events calendar, and regular contributions from PTO officers and our principal. All families receive the electronic version of the press, and can get a paper copy sent home upon request.

Please select from our available issues below:

2010-11

Once a month this committee works to print, collate and distribute copies of the Burns Park Press to families that have requested a paper copy.

Scheduled annually on the first Sunday in May, the Burns Park Run, a 5K and 10K race through the streets around the school, is a community wide event and a major fundraiser for the PTO each year. The run committee needs over one hundred volunteers for a variety of tasks before, during and after the race.

Visit the BP Run site: http://www.burnsparkrun.org/

The PTO’s mission is to support and enhance the intellectual, physical and social experience of the students in our school. As educational funding at the federal, state and local level decreases each year the PTO’s financial support becomes even more crucial in maintaining a rich academic tradition at our school. PTO fundraising benefits your children and our school in many ways. Each year the PTO uses the money from fundraisers and PTO dues to help pay for field trips, to give each teacher a classroom allowance, to fund Golden Apple grants, to fund programs such as math/science night, Walk & Talk, lunchtime choices, Thursday thing and service learning projects, to support school wide gatherings such as fall festival and the ice cream social and to purchase items from a faculty created wish list.

Join with the Burns Park community each fall for picnic dinners and music on the grass!

The Fall Festival committee plans, sets up and cleans up our first school wide social event of the year. On Tuesday, September 18, Burns Park families will gather in the park next to the school to share a picnic dinner. Please bring a dessert to share and money to buy drinks from the fifth grade graduation fundraiser. Tappan jazz band will provide the music.

Our school and PTO has a long tradition of helping less fortunate families in our community. This annual program gives Burns Park families the opportunity to anonymously donate money and gift certificates to other Burns Park families in need during the December holidays.

The upper elementary students work with the PE teacher to organize and supervise games for two field days (upper elementary and lower elementary) which are held in early June. Parent volunteers supervise the students and help run games during these afternoon events.

This committee coordinates the fundraising for fifth grade graduation, including: drink sales at the Fall Festival and concession sales during intermission of the Burns Park Players play. The committee then plans the events for the fifth graders during the last week of school, including: "fun" day, service day, the graduation ceremony and a brunch immediately after the ceremony.

Look here for a list of key forms for PTO volunteers, including items like the reimbursement form and other similar items that still have to be submitted on paper!