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

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Goals and Missions	Membership
Fundraising and Activities	Board and Committee Members
Meeting Times	BMS Home Page

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
	and 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 7 p.m. in the Blacksburg High School library at 3109 Prices Fork Rd., Blacksburg, VA 24060. There is no meeting in December due to the holidays. The principal, John Wheeler, will attend every other meeting, or more frequently if needed.

 This is the 2011-2012 schedule for meeting

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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.

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BMS PTO Board and Committee Chairs

President	Allison Turk	allisonjturk9870@aol.com
Vice President	Lisa K. Garcia	lkgarcia2011@gmail.com
Secretary	Susan Kell	susankell.kell@gmail.com
Treasurer	Deanna Cox	dcox@rfca.com
Newsletter	Teresa Burke	tmsdab@hotmail.com
Incentives	Gabrielle Minnich	gminnich@vt.edu
Membership	Lynn Everett	leverett@mcps.org
Member at Large	Lisa Garcia	lgarcia@rbnet.com
Member at Large	Lesley Howard	lesley@shadowlakevillage.org
Cultural Arts	Paige Walters	pwalters@mcps.org
Hospitality	Gail Donelli	msgailvt@aol.com
Volunteer Coordinator	Wendy Kendall	wendyk413@yahoo.com
Reflections	Leigh Lally	laleigh@vt.edu
Teacher Representative	Gretchen Distler	gdistler@mcps.org
Fundraising	Andrea Muscatello	andrea@webmail.us

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