Arlington PTA Weekly Newsletter
Sunday, September 27, 2026
ARLINGTON ELEMENTARY PTA
Website: https://www.tusd.org/schools/arlington
Location: 17800 Van Ness Avenue, Torrance, CA, USA
Phone: (310)533-4510
📌ArlingtonSuperstarsPTA link tree - all the PTA fundraiser links in one place for you!
Questions: email Stacie at president.arlingtonpta@gmail.com
LOOKING AHEAD 👀
🌯 9/30 all school Supperstars fundraiser night @ Chipotle (5-9pm) see flyer below
✍🏻 10/1 PTA board meeting
🍔 10/15 5th grade fundraiser night @ McDonalds (5-8pm)
🌊 10/18 Skechers fundraiser walk + Arlington family beach day
🍿 10/23 Movie night on the blacktop + association meeting (6:45 pm, movie 7pm)
🔴 10/26-30 Red Ribbon Week
🎃 10/30 Trunk or Treat + costume parade (9-10am)
📗 11/2-11/6 Fall Book Fair (*date change)
✍🏻 11/5 PTA Board meeting
💰 11/14 Holiday Marketplace @ Arlington
🥫 11/30 Holiday Giving begins
Spiritwear Update👕
All fall orders are expected to arrive and be handed out mid-week! You order will be passed out to your kids in the classroom for them to put the package inside their backpacks. We are hoping to get them to you by Wednesday!
(We'll keep you posted if anything changes).
Reminder: Every Monday the school has an assembly on the black top first thing in the morning! Wear your SPIRITWEAR. But of course you can also wear it any day of the week!
Skechers Pier to Pier Friendship Walk 2026
🐬🌴🏄🏻♂️We have a really awesome FALL FUNDRAISER! 😎🌊🚶🏻♀️
We still would LOVE more Arlington walkers!! Will you make this an activity for your family?
(If you can't physically make it that day 🏀⚽🏈⚾🛫 🧳 that's ok too! You can REGISTER as a virtual walker for each member of your family and Arlington will get 100% of the funds if you check the box TEF Torrance Education Foundation)
The Skechers Pier to Pier Friendship walk is a 3.4 mile long walk down a path lined with students, families, neighbors, community members, and even cheerleaders from the local high schools! We will start at Manhattan Pier and walk towards Hermosa Pier and then walk back.
Last year there were 20ft skeletons at one part of the sand along our walk. 💀
The PTA raises funds for the field trip busses, assemblies, and special events for the kids such as movie night, and a winter dance!
VERY IMPORTANT: When you register you MUST:
✅Join team Arlington
✅Register as a walker (in-person or virtual)
✅Check TEF: Torrance Education Foundation for our school to get the funds
✅ Register each individual person in your family for 1 walker at $30/ea. (All family members can be under the same email)
Any questions: email Chrystal Pastell at vp2.arlingtonpta@gmail.com and she will help you out right away!
After the walk (around 11:30am) we plan to hang out at Manhattan beach for an Arlington family beach day! *parking underground is 10 hours*
Bring your lunch, snacks, swim clothes or go back to the car to grab it and hang with us!
PTA MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
We now have 584 members! Thank you to all those that have already joined. Let's keep the momentum going we're trying to get to 600!
Save the date Wed 9/30! 🌯
Free art contest at our school - lots of categories and room to be creative!
Last year we had dance choreography, stop motion films, singers, drawings, short films, writers, photography, music entries and more!
SUCH A DEAL!! ONLY $50
SAVE THE DATE! 🎃
Bring the family out to a super fun Friday night at the school blacktop. We will be selling pizza🍕and hot dogs 🌭 as we watch the MARIO MOVIE. See QR code on flyer to pre-order your savory food!
Bring your picnic blankets, chairs and a jacket to bundle up!
***You can also redeem your coupon for FREE popcorn + lemonade if you've signed up for the Skechers walk (before 9/19)!***
Please contact Jovey at familyprograms.arlingtonpta@gmail.com if you'd like to help set up/clean up and serve food at the event. THANK YOU!
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THE LIBRARY IS OPEN! 📘📗📕📙
It takes a lot of work to get the library open for the start of our school year. Tuesday the 22nd was the first day it was open for the students yay!
The PTA organizes the books, orders new books, repairs older books, and schedules the volunteers to cover the shifts for each of the classes. The rest of the days during this past week - each class took a turn visiting the library and checking out books. Checking out a book in the school library is optional - some students are reading a book from home or from their classroom library.
As the 4th and 5th graders waited for their classmates to finish checking out books, they sat and read QUIETLY in the hallway. Good job, superstars!
PTA Calendar
**** date change for NOV BOOK FAIR ****
