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Let's gather on the BT Blacktop & Playground and connect with old friends and new members of our BT Community. Bring your own picnics, blankets, and chairs. 

A representative from the school district will be available during the Back to School Picnic to discuss and answer any questions you may have regarding the upcoming HVRSD referendum.

Not sure what to do about dinner on Friday?  

Let the BTPTO pre-order a pizza for your family!

ORDER HERE: Pizza Pre-Order Form

Pizza Pre-Orders will be available for pickup at the BTPTO table at 6:15 pm

Pizza Ordering Options:

16" Large Cheese Pizza - $16

12" Gluten Free Crust Cheese Pizza - $16

*Pre-Orders will close on Tuesday, September 9th at 7:00 pm*

Uncle Ed's will be onsite selling ice cream cups and bottled water. 

You can check out the BT Spirit Wear table, too!

We could also use a few volunteers to help with pizza distribution and spirit wear sales. 

Please click here if you're able to help out!

Questions/Info: 

Jo Fradkin - jefradkin@gmail.com

Jean Ulkloss - jeanmara@yahoo.com

Please join us on September 25 at 7pm for our virtual General PTO meeting. Be on the lookout for an email with the Zoom link to join the meeting in the next few days. We hope to "see" you there!

Calling all volunteers! There are many ways to get involved to help support our Bear Tavern students and teachers for the 2025-26 school year! Please see the opportunities below and consider donating your time if you are able! 

PTO Committee Volunteers/Chairs

Events include Book Fair, Holiday Shop, Fundraisers, Picnics, and more! 

Media Helpers

Sign Up to volunteer as a library helper in the BT media center. Volunteers will provide assistance to our Librarian, Ms. Tozzi.  Media Center volunteers will spend 60 minutes on a weekly basis helping students check in/out materials, shelve books and help with special projects. Please note that HVRSD policy requires all media center volunteers to complete a fingerprint background check.  

Room Parents/Class Photographer

Volunteer to help plan and attend in-person classroom events, attend general PTO meetings, and help your teacher provide communication to your classroom parents/guardians. In addition to room parents, each class will have a designated photographer. This will allow room parents to help while the photographer documents the festivities for the yearbook! 

If you sign up to serve as a Room Parent or Photographer, you will be asked to attend a brief ZOOM meeting this Thursday 9/11/25 @ 7pm. 

The BT Yearbook Committee needs your photos!  We hope everyone is enjoying their first week back at Bear Tavern and taking lots of great back to school pictures!  Please scan the QR code or click the website link to upload your Back To School Photos.  Select your top 3-5 photos, please do not send multiples of the same photo.  You do not need to tag each student 

Enter the topic:  Back To School.  The photo submission website security features will ask you to verify your email with a code prior to submitting your photos.

Upload Yearbook Photos Here!

Questions/Info:  Kellye Jones - kwarn76@gmail.com

BTPTO is partnering with Gatorade to offer customizable water bottles. 

Each water bottle will be customized with your student's name - easily returnable to your student, if it ends up in the lost and found!

The water bottles are $35 each. Please use the link below to purchase.

Order Here: Personalized BT Water Bottles

We have lots of great new clothing options to represent BT!  Shorts, Long and Short Sleeve T-Shirts, Hoodies, Crew Neck and Pajama Pants for the whole family.

Coming Soon!

The BTPTO is excited for the upcoming school year and is hard at work planning picnics, events and enrichments for our children and BT Staff.  Our Annual Appeal - BT Donation Campaign is our primary fundraiser for the year.  We are passionate about maintaining the superior quality of educational enrichments that our children enjoy.  

The anticipated activities and enrichments will cost an average of $70 per student for the 2025-2026 school year.  These costs include 2-3 Assemblies, Grade Level Field Trips, Visiting Author, Innovation Expo, Community Building Events, Field Day, Alumni Scholarships, Teacher Supply Reimbursements, Classroom Technology and much more.

We ask that you please consider sponsoring the enrichment costs for your BT student(s).  The success of the Annual Appeal Campaign will determine how many, if any additional fundraisers will be held throughout the school year.  The goal is to achieve 100% family participation, regardless of donation size.  

100% of your Annual Appeal donation goes directly to BTPTO, when we partner with other companies to do item sales or -athon fundraisers, we only receive a portion of the proceeds.  

Please click HERE to donate!

Questions/Info:  Kellye Jones, BTPTO Treasurer - kwarn76@gmail.com

For Directory Access from a smart phone, users can download our Mobile App from the Apple store or the Google Play store. 

The app features:

• Directory on Demand
• Secure & Password protected
• Parents always have control over which data will be included in the directory.
• Volunteer Sign ups
• Purchase spirit gear and Make Donations

The app is available for free in the Apple Store and in Google Play. Download it one time for all of the organizations that you are affiliated with that are using Membership Toolkit. If you belong to 4 organizations that are using Membership Toolkit, when you log in to the app you will see all four organizations presented and you can toggle between organizations.

The Hopewell Valley Regional School District Board of Education welcomes and invites public comment. During the meeting, public comments will be accepted in-person only. (There will not be an opportunity for those watching the live stream to comment.)

6:30p at the Administration Building 425 South Main Street, Pennington, NJ 08534 unless otherwise noted 

Meeting Schedule:

September 15, 2025- Central High School
October 13, 2025
November 17, 2025
December 15, 2025
January 5, 2026 (Organization) 

Minutes of Board meetings are posted after they are approved at the following month's Board meeting.