Bells Mill Elementary School PTA

Yearbooks are on sale now.  Go to www.freedpics.com and use PW: BELL1819YB to order your copy today!

Come join your friends and community at annual WCHS fundraiser on April 14th from 3-5pm. This year will feature a color run, food trucks, dunk tank, climbing wall and more! All proceeds to directly to supporting our teachers, school and cluster!

Early Bird – $10 (includes packet of throwing color)
Entry on Day – $15

Visit www.wchsfoundation.org for early bird tickets.

The CJMS PTSA’s Nominating Committee is Looking for Board Member Candidates for the 2019-2020 School Year!
The PTSA Nominating Committee (Abigail Luo, Brenda Lee, and Cecilia Maggi) is seeking interested volunteers to be candidates for next year’s PTSA Board. Positions sought include President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and MCCPTA Delegates. Please submit your self-nomination to Abigail at [email protected] by April 10l! Parents to incoming 6th graders for the 2019-2020 school year are welcome. Other nominations for candidates are also welcome and can be made on election day at the May 14 PTSA meeting.

Come join your friends and neighbors at Shake Shack on April 8th!  Order in or carry out and show this flyer and they will donate 25% of your puchase to Bells Mill PTA!

MCPS will hold several New Curriculum Parent Nights in the coming weeks. See the dates below for information for Elementary & Middle School Math & Literacy Curriculum.

New Curriculum Parent Nights
Elementary School Mathematics and Literacy

May 21, 2019
Paint Branch High School
7:00-9:00 p.m.

May 22, 2019
Gaithersburg High School
7:00-9:00 p.m.

May 23, 2019
Rock Terrace School
7:00-9:00 p.m.

Middle School Mathematics and Literacy

April 9, 2019
Montgomery Blair High School
7:00-9:00 p.m.

April 10, 2019
Richard Montgomery High School
7:00-9:00 p.m.… Read Full Post

Not sure how PTA funds are spent? See our updated financials page!

The PTA fundraising survey also asked about how informed the Bells Mill community felt about what the PTA does and how it spends donations. While about 65% of respondents felt informed about what the PTA does, 57% of respondents did not feel informed on how donations made to the PTA are spent. In order to make our community more informed, we revamped the Financials page on the PTA website!… Read Full Post

The PTA board would like to ask all PTA members who are interested in supporting the nomination process for PTA board 2019-2020 to step forward. The volunteers forming the nominating committee would be responsible for nominating eligible persons for open PTA board positions and reporting their nominees to the general membership prior to the PTA election day that will take place during the general membership meeting on May 7th. We encourage all BMES PTA members who are interested in participating in the nomination process or would like to find out more information to send an email to [email protected]… Read Full Post

Come see your 3rd-5th grade classmates and friends show off their talents tonight!  Show is from 7-9p in the APR.   Performers please arrive 30 minutes early.

We need to know if your child(ren) are returning to Bells Mill next year. Please click here to fill out the form and send in to your child’s teacher. this information provides us with more accurate information about the number of students we will have next school year. Our staffing is dependent on the number of students in each grade level. Thank you for your immediate attention to this request.

Thank you for participating in the PTA Fundraising Survey!

The results of the PTA fundraising survey are in! We had almost 100 parents and staff respond to our survey. The survey asked for feedback on how the PTA should raise funds next year. Eighty percent of respondents stated they would support a Read-a-Thon next year compared to 40% who said they would support Boosterthon. The 2019-2020 fundraising preference winner was to continue the direct family donation campaign but add a Read-a-Thon (44% of responses).… Read Full Post