Bathgate Elementary PTA PRograms 2024 - 2025
Our PTA runs and pays for a number of programs to engage each child's unique potential:
- Accelerated Reader Program equips students to become better readers and gives parents and teachers a tool for reading support and assessment. Students are given a reading level to chose books from, read books of choice then complete a reading comprehension quiz, earning points and tracking number of words read.
- Meet the Masters Art Program encompasses instruction as well as visual presentation of famous artists throughout history. Students learn about the artists' lives and contributions to the art world calibrated to each grade level. The child then creates their own art using the artist's techniques.Our
- Celebration Book Club allows parents to commemorate their child's special accomplishment or birthday with a new book donated to our Bathgate School Library. A hardback book is selected from a district approved list, purchased in the student's name for $30 and presented at our weekly Flag Ceremony. Contact [email protected] to order!
- Field Trips (inclusive of bus transportation) to enhance each grade level's curriculum. For instance, Kindergarten takes their first field trip to a working farm to witness firsthand how vegetables are grown. Other grades gain hands-on experience in a tide-pool, examining rocks and fossils at an excavation site, learning about music from the "Disneyland Orchestra", to name a few.
- Community & Family Events such as Family Movie Night, Holiday Event & Carnival!
- Spelling Bee for 3rd graders and up to sharpen their spelling and memorization skills.
- The Talent Show is a way to encourage all students to share their special talents with the larger Bathgate community.
- Book Fairs to promote the importance of reading!
- Million Word Reader celebration celebrates those students that read more than 1 million words in a school year.
- Reflections is a fall arts program open to ALL students, hosted by our national PTA. Reflections has a different theme every year, encouraging students to express themselves creatively and receive positive recognition for original works of art in different areas. (Six different areas include: Literature, Visual Arts, Musical Composition, Dance Choreography, Photography and Film/Video Production.) Bathgate's submissions are judged by local artists and writers. Bathgate winners then proceed to the District, State and National competitions.
- Our PTA also supports Bathgate's STEM lab with requisite supplies.
- Bathgate PTA purchases and maintains safety supplies in the event of a disaster.
- Our PTA also provides each classroom with basic school supplies needed to keep our classrooms running.
- We also sponsor Ability Awareness Day, Read Across America Day, Red Ribbon Week, Walk to School Day and Friendship Day.
- Bathgate promotes good character awarding B.E.S.T tickets for acts of trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. Tickets can be exchanged for fun merchandise and prices at our PTA sponsored B.E.S.T Store and can be entered form a weekly prize drawing held at our weekly Flag Ceremony.