Quick Reference Calendar

BT Governor's Educator of the Year 

5th Grade Service Learning Project

Thank You Volunteers

Staff Appreciation Dinner Update

Annual Appeal 

Clothing Donations for School Nurse 

Staff Spotlight

BOE Meeting Schedule

Community Happenings

December 22: Early Dismissal/Pajama Day

December 25-January 1: School Closed for Winter Break

January 2: School resumes

January 12: Day of Service; Wear BT Shirts

January 15: School Closed; MLK Day

January 18: PTO General Meeting

January 31: Early Dismissal; Staff Development

*Reminder that there is no lunch served on early dismissal days

Congratulations to Mrs. Mandi Perez for being named the Governor's Educator of the Year and to Mr. Ronald Buchanan for being named the Education Service Professional for the Bear Tavern School for 2023-24!

Mrs. Perez is a second-grade teacher while Mr. Buchanan is the School Safety Officer. Mrs. Perez and Mr. Buchanan are incredible assets to our school and community. Don't forget to congratulate them if you see them around!

The 5th grade students will be participating in a service learning project with thebagproject.org on December 22nd. They are collecting a range of comfort activities and supplies. See the flyer below to see how your child can help. Collections will continue through December 18th and we would love to fill these boxes up!

We are currently $800 short of our goal for this year's Annual Appeal. If you have already donated to the appeal, a huge thank you!  Your support directly funds field trips, assemblies, visiting authors, and classroom technology. If you haven't yet donated, it is not too late! And, your child(ren) now have the opportunity for a special activity with Mr. Billy with your donation! Please see below for details!

Help us reach our Appeal Goal to fund activities and programs for the wonderful students at Bear Tavern! 

Click Here to Donate

The Staff Spotlight is back! This month's staff spotlight is Mrs. Niefer; one of our Instructional Support Teachers and last year's Bear Tavern Governor's educator of the Year! To learn more about Mrs. Niefer, click here! 

In alignment with the Hopewell School District, the Bear Tavern PTO will continue to use Membership Toolkit for our Student Directory and Communications for the 2022-2023 school year.  

Once you update your Membership Toolkit Account you will have access to the directory, PTO newsletters, donation links, volunteer opportunities, and much more.

You must update your information every year to be included in the directory! For those families who have children attending other Hopewell Schools, you will need to update your information for each school that your children attend.

Here's how: 

1. LOGIN at https://www.beartavernpto.com. (You must login with the email address where this newsletter arrived.) Once the Primary Account is set up, the Primary User can "invite" other email addresses to access the account.  This allows the Secondary User to have their own login information, but still have access to the family account.
2. For those who are new to Membership Toolkit, please follow these instructions:
   1. Go to https://www.beartavernpto.com.
   2. Click on the Register/Login button.
   3. Select "New User".
   4. Select "Create Account" and fill in your name, email (please use the email where this newsletter arrived), and password.  
   5. Click "verify my email" and then check your email for a link to complete the process. The link expires within 2 hours. If you do not receive the email, check your spam or junk folders.
   6. Once you have verified your email address, log back in and finish the 3 step registration process.
3. Complete the Parent/Family and Student Information.
4. Complete the Directory/Publish Preferences. By marking active, you are allowing other Bear Tavern families to see whatever contact information you choose to share. This is a great feature to foster friendships with playdates, birthday parties, etc.

Questions?

Please don't hesitate to contact us at beartaverndirectory@gmail.com.

EMERGENCY CLOSING INFORMATION:

For all emergency schedule changes consult one of these sources:

District Website:http://www.hvrsd.org
District Emergency Phone Message: 737-8449
District Phone Line: 737-4000
HV-TV: Comcast Channel 19, Verizon Channel 32
HVRSD on Facebook

IMPORTANT BTPTO ONLINE LINKS
Everything you need from the PTO:
Bear Tavern PTO Website


Bear Tavern Elementary School website (District Website):
http://btes.hvrsd.org/

Virtual Backpack (important flyers and forms)

https://btes.hvrsd.org/o/btes/browse/112859

Bear Tavern Parent Teacher Organization

Bear Tavern Elementary School

1162 Bear Tavern Road

Titusville, NJ 08560