Wishing the Class of 2024 a new year filled with health and happiness. Parents: Please watch for upcoming emails! We need your help in making year end activities for the Class of 2024 possible. We look forward to making this year a memorable one for our students.

Best wishes for a healthy, happy new year from the Class of 2025.

The Class of 2025 SWAG Shop - your spot for some new Hopewell gear - is OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND! All orders can be placed through the website and you can ship to home or choose warehouse pick up in Cranbury, NJ. The SHIP TO SCHOOL option will resume in September.

Many new items have been added! All items are available with three design choices: The general Hopewell design is available on ALL items. You name it, we have it! 

Check out the link: Hopewell 2025 Swag Shop

Hope to see you in the halls wearing some new threads!

Best wishes for a healthy, happy new year from the Class of 2026.

Happy New Year!

We hope that you had a cheerful and relaxing winter break. May 2024 bring you and your family love, laughter, and happiness.

The CHS PTO has received several upcoming volunteer opportunities for CHS students. Please encourage your student(s) to review this list and click on the preferred links to sign up. Thanks for your help!

• 1.12.2024:  Stony Brook Cookies & Canvas Paint Night
  

New ongoing opportunity: Club DREAMS is a meeting space dedicated to the socialization, academic support, job skill/career training and enrichment for kids, teens and young adults with Down Syndrome. 

Please visit the PTO website regularly to find current student volunteer opportunities. 

Please email Meg O'Connor & Sue Dayner with any questions or to provide student volunteer opportunities.

If you are interested in supporting the CHS PTO, we are in need of a secretary. This executive board position requires attendance at monthly meetings which are scheduled at 9am on the third Wednesday of each month from September to May, in person at CHS. We do not meet in December. 

The secretary takes notes during the meeting, offers them for approval at the following meeting and stores the approved minutes on the CHS PTO Google drive. In addition to the monthly meetings, there are occasional executive board responsibilities which include attention to email matters or a board meeting (often held on zoom).

The ideal candidate will be able to step into the position in January 2024 and complete this school year with the intention of remaining through 2024-2025.  If you have availability, but can only commit to the remainder of this school year, please let us know.  Please email Kerry Nulman & Becky Golian to express your interest. Thanks for considering this important position.

Mark your calendars for upcoming MTPA meetings. Click HERE for the Zoom Link.

• January 3rd
• February 7th 
• March 6th 
• April 10th 
• May 1st
• June 5th

HV CHS Alumni "Mic Drop" Thursday January 4th: A Reunion of Song, Hopewell Valley Vineyards 5:30-9pm. Enjoy an evening with friends and family celebrating CHS's musical talent from over the years. CHS Alumni - soloists & Ensembles - you are invited to perform! No Cover charge; donations requested to benefit the HV Music Parent Association. 

Join us in creating the future for your Hopewell Valley Regional School District!

The Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education will be developing our school district’s next five-year Strategic Plan. To ensure that district stakeholders play a major role in our strategic planning process, the Board is establishing a Strategic Plan Working Group, which will work with our New Jersey School Boards Association facilitators.

On behalf of the Board of Education, the Superintendent is requesting 50-60 volunteers (district teachers, administrators, support staff, parents, community members, and students) to become members of the district’s Strategic Plan Working Group. 

The Strategic Plan Working the group will meet four times on the following dates:

• January 17th  6pm-7.30pm
• January 31st  6pm-7.30pm
• March 12th  6pm-7.30pm
• April 15th  6pm-7pm

If you would like to volunteer to be a part of this exciting process and you can commit the time to participate in all four meetings, please complete the Strategic Planning Google Form by Friday, January 5, 2024.

Please save the date for the Ice Hockey team's annual Salute to Service game! The team will be honoring local veterans prior to their game on Saturday, January 13th at 6:15 pm at the Tsai Field House at The Lawrenceville School. Come and support the hockey team and our local veterans!

Please join us for the next PTO General Meeting on Wednesday January 17th in the principal's conference room at 9am.  All parents and guardians are welcome to attend!  

Get started on planning a great summer for your children! Stive will be hosting a Summer Camp Expo at CHS on January 20th from 10am to 2pm. Learn about camps in the area, meet camp staff. Email Strive PTO for questions.

Please mark your calendar for our next meeting on Thursday, January 25 at 8:00 AM (in person and remote). Below are upcoming Municipal Alliance events and activities.

Summer Job & Community Service Fair is February 21st

Each year Hopewell Valley Central High School students are invited to participate in the annual Summer Job and Community Service Fair. Over 25 employers and service organizations provide jobs and community service opportunities to our students. If you know any businesses or organizations offering summer or year round employment or community service opportunities, please share this Save the Date flyer with them or they can contact me directly.

Hopewell Valley's Night Off is March 7th!

One of the most anticipated evenings of the year has been scheduled! Designed in response to the increasing demands of work and school on personal and family time, this community-wide initiative was created for families to “take the night off” to spend time together. With the support of local school officials, sports leaders, parents, community and religious leaders, all sports practices, classes and homework will be canceled on this special evening. Make it a tech-free night! Don't know what to do with your night off? Visit this link for some great ideas! Make it a tech free night! Post this flyer as a reminder.

Teen Wellness Day is March 13th

Hopewell Valley Central High School students attend during their wellness class. Over 20 community educators provide resources to our students on current health, wellness and safety issues. If you know any organization that can provide our students with resources on current health, wellness or safety issues, please share this flyer with them.

The Trex plastic film collection at CHS is back! Plastic film will be collected in the bins of the CHS main foyer. Help us keep plastics out of oceans and landfills by contributing your clean plastic bags and other types of plastic film. 

Refer to this poster for specifics about what can and can't be recycled. (No wrappers or "crunchy" plastics, please).   Contact Carolyn McGrath if you have any questions or a large collection to drop off. Thank you!

Did you know that CHS is currently building its alumni database? If you are a graduate of CHS, or the parent of a recent CHS graduate, please complete or share this database registration form. Respondents are prompted to indicate the information they want to receive from CHS. Thanks for your assistance.

Click HERE to order.

1. Visit Bulldog TV Morning Buzz for the student production of morning announcements and other CHS news and videos.
2. Read the HVCHS student newspaper.
3. Stay connected to CHS athletic schedules by clicking this link. You can view by type, view schedules, or sign up with Notify Me to get email or text notifications for any sport practices or games. This helps parents keep current with changes in your athlete's schedule in real time.
4. Bookmark the PTO website.
5. Follow CHS on your preferred platform:

• HVCHS Morning Announcements
• HVCHS X account
• HVCHS on Instagram
• HVCHS Athletics X account

The National Summer Program Fair for the Princeton Area is a free event for high school students and their families occurring January 18th from 4:30-7pm at the Recreation Center at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) in Ewing. 

This in-person event will showcase around 100 ways high school students can spend summer 2024, including on-campus pre-college programs at the nation's most prestigious universities, study abroad opportunities, STEM programs, teen travel, art/portfolio prep, test prep, and local nonprofits seeking summer volunteers.

Students and parents need to pre-register to attend, and should do so now to reserve their place and receive event reminders. Students and parents will receive a QR code to show at the event for easy access.

For any questions, please visit www.summerprogramfair.com or reach out to info@summerprogramfair.com.

Do you have metal waste items in your house or garage that you are not sure how to get rid of? The Hopewell Valley Green Team’s Scrap Metal Collection may be just the thing you need! You can bring metal waste to the Hopewell Township Public Works Building, 203 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville (Google map) on Saturday, February 10, 2024, 12‑3 pm. Find out what items will be accepted here.