Edgemont School’s PTA is hosting Blue Notes for Green Dollars on Sunday Nov 17th from 4-7pm at The Loft. This is an adults-only fall fundraiser featuring music, refreshments, and a Silent Auction open to attendees online and in person. For more information on this year’s event, click here and buy tickets here.

Do you have or know of any leads for merchandise, gift cards, or services to donate to our silent auction? Some favorite items in the past have been weekend stays at an airbnb or tickets to sports games. Photography and artwork by Edgemont parents are also a hit!  As a registered 501(c)(3) charity, you will receive an acknowledgement letter of your donation for tax purposes.  To donate, click here or email fundraising@edgemontpta.org.

Last year’s event generated more than $17K for our school, and we are hoping to raise even more this year!  All funds raised go toward our elementary student community, supporting families in need with after school enrichment classes, supplies, food for the holidays; teacher grants for supplies and training; and our school-wide special events such as Harvest Day, Halloween Mash, and Fun Day.

Election Day is fast approaching and with it comes our biggest bake sale of the year!

Click here to donate baked goods or volunteer

Edgemont is a polling location which makes for a great opportunity to sell our delicious wares to hungry voters along with Edgemont families. We are looking to start off the morning with an array of breakfast foods such as bagels, muffins and pastries. Then comes the biggest sellers of the day with savory items, soups, and anything else that will help make family dinner easy and delicious. If cooking and baking aren’t your thing, you can help out with paper goods, water bottles or boxes of coffee.

Donations can be dropped off at 8 Bruce Road starting on Monday, 11/4 until 7:00pm and at the site on Tuesday, 11/5 at 6:30am.

Next Friday is our Hispanic Heritage Celebration and we need volunteers to help set up, run the food table and clean up. Click here to sign up!

The school supply lists for each grade are up on the Edgemont home page  – click here to find yours! All of the school supply lists are also uploaded and available for purchase on Yubbler here. Yubbler provides a revenue share to the PTA, which helps support the events and programming we offer.

We’d also like to share an upcoming local event hosted by Essex County – for information click here – the first 700 attendees receive free school supplies!

If your family needs help purchasing school supplies, there will be a formal email sent out next week from our principal with instructions on how to apply for assistance.

Teacher Appreciation Week:  Edgemont’s Teacher Appreciation week is May 20th-24th. For more information on what we have planned, click here.

There are several ways to get involved in thanking our teachers and staff for all they do:

• Bring in cut flowers to school on Monday or Tuesday. On Thursday, the PTA will be making bouquets to hand out to each teacher.
• Sign up to bring treats throughout the week here.

Your donations and support throughout the year helps us execute these events, so THANK YOU!

Calling all parents to volunteer at the best end of year celebration at Edgemont! We need your help to make Fun Day 2024 a success. This is our annual field day with endless fun (water games, outdoor sports, a bouncy castle, arts and crafts and more) and it will take place during the school day on Friday, June 7 (rain date June 14).

We need +50 parent volunteers for this day to be successful so please hold your work calendar and sign up here!  Note that sign ups are divided into time slots and you can see if you’ll be volunteering for K-2 classes or 3-5 classes.

If you can’t volunteer, you can donate. We need TONS of help to make this amazing day happen. 

 Thank you for your support!

Edgemont Green Cleanup Day:  If you missed the last one, have no fear – Edgemont Green is doing another garden cleanup day on Saturday May 18th from 9am-12pm.

This time we’ll be focusing on:

• Creating a flower bed in the perimeter of the pollinator garden
• Planting seeds
• Re-finishing picnic tables

We are looking for parents to join next year’s PTA Board!

You Can Make Edgemont All It Can Be!

Help shape enriching experiences for our kids by running for the Edgemont PTA Board. We’re still looking for candidates for the 2024-2025 school year – especially for the Treasurer position. If you have any inkling of interest, please reach out! If you aren’t interested in being on the Board but would still like to get involved and help, email us! There are plenty of other opportunities and events to lead and we can find the right fit for you.

Email us nomcom@edgemontpta.org. 

To learn more about the positions and committees that comprise the PTA, please click here.

In honor of Earth Day, Edgemont Green is proud to announce that our first Community Cleanup Day is happening THIS Saturday morning!  Join us for a little garden therapy as we dig into some weeding in the vegetable garden and tackle a big cleanup in the pollinator garden.  We’ll have donuts, music and lots of fun!

• When: Saturday April 27th at 11am
• Where: Behind Edgemont
• Please bring your own weeding tools, shovels, hoes, muck buckets and wheelbarrows if you have them!!
• Please bring paper yard waste bags if you have any extra lying around.

If you can’t join us this weekend, please consider donating to our ongoing Edgemont Green Fundraiser that is still happening here.  So far, we have been able to replenish the vegetable beds with new organic soil thanks to YOUR contributions, so THANK YOU!!!  We appreciate the support – any dollar amount helps as we get the gardens back up and running.