Welcome to the Closter Parent Teacher Organization Website!
Our website is constantly updated with useful information and upcoming events

How to easily navigate the website
- Information about current events and programs can be found on our Homepage, some PTO programs have a dedicated page under "Programs: Info"
- Items available for purchase appear under the "Programs: Order" menu (viewable after you SIGN IN)

Quick Links:
Join the PTO + Update grade&teacher on My Students + Verify information and directory selections on your Profile

Check out your Dashboard to see all your PTO information in one place! Including: profile, studetns, available items for sale, and recent orders

PTO Lunch Program through No Fuss Lunch has started! CLICK HERE for details, registration instructions, and FAQ

Get Involved! Check out the PTO Calendar and related Committees for the coming year - Sign Up to volunteer

CLICK HERE for the Closter Tree Lighting website and Register HERE for the Gingerbread contest

Tues, Dec 10, 2019 - Wed, Dec 11, 2019
CLICK HERE for class visiting schedule

Please join us for our annual Hillside Holiday Boutique.
Hillside students will be visiting the gift shop with their classes. Parents/guardians are welcome to join if you'd like.

Our Holiday Boutique gives children the opportunity to shop for their own gifts for family and friends for the upcoming holiday season, teaching them valuable budgeting skills and fostering their independence while allowing them to participate in the "Joy of Giving" and supporting our schools.
Please be sure to send in CASH for your child to purchase gifts at the Holiday Boutique on the day their class visits.

We need parent volunteers to help make this event a success. Please consider volunteering an hour or two of your time on one of these days to help us, SIGN UP HERE.

Porch Light Studio, Stage & Schools and The Closter PTO present a production of "Willy Wonka Jr" which will be performed on Saturday, February 8th, 2020. This program is open to Closter students in grades 2-5 only, and capped at 60 participants

Students must register by December 9th
Auditions will be held at Tenakill on Tuesday, December 10, 6-8pm - all registered students are accepted, auditions are for casting purposes only

Please complete the following two steps to register:

1. Register on the Porch Light website

2. Submit fee on the Closter PTO website

Read more HERE

Any questions? please contact melissalindemorrison@gmail.com

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED. ALL ARE WELCOME. ANY GRADE. EITHER SCHOOL.
We need your support. Please consider lending a hand to help make this year's dinner dance even more successful than those in the past. This is our biggest fundraising event of the year, and we welcome all volunteers to help with this fun event.

Our first dinner dance planning meeting is Wednesday, December 11th at 12pm at 24 Yale Place (private residence). 
Please join us for this preliminary meeting to discuss timelines and how you can help. This is a great opportunity to get involved and get to know other parents in the school and outside the classroom. 

CLICK HERE to RSVP for this meeting

Save the date. The Annual Dinner Dance - A HOT HAVANA NIGHT - will take place Friday, March 6th at The Rockleigh in Rockleigh NJ

Sponsorship and donation opportunities are NOW available. For more information about sponsorship (new opportunities available), email Andrea at abreisman@gmail.com for sponsorship packet. Sponsorship is a great way to showcase your local and/or family run business and support Closter schools and the community. 

Donations in the form of goods, coupons, discounts, services and/or financial contributions are accepted with gratitude. All donations are tax deductible (please ask for a Tax Form). All contributors will be acknowledged throughout the evening. 

If you have questions or would like to be involved but can not make the first planning meeting, please contact the Dinner Dance Co-chairs:
Andrea Messinger at abreisman@gmail.com and Erica Garipian at ecumans@aol.com

The 31st Annual PBA Toy Drive is underway. Please consider donating a new, unwrapped toy for children who are in need of knowing the importance of hope, as the toys will benefit children in hospitals and those whose parent is deployed in the military during the holiday time.

Drop off at the Hillside & Tenakill entrances, now through December 18th.
Thank you for your generosity, Happy Holidays.


To help benefit...
Tomorrow's Children Hospital
Sanzari Children's Hospital
Valley Hospital Pediatric Center
508th Military Police
U.S. Military Families
... and many more

You are invited to Conversations with the Superintendent on Tuesday, January 7, 2020, at 7:00 pm in Tenakill Middle School. 

From Superintendent, Mr. Vincent McHale:
I plan on having four sessions throughout the year so if you can't make this one, you will have three more opportunities to attend.  The tentative dates for the next sessions are February 6, 2020, March 25, 2020, and May 4, 2020. 
These informal sessions will be a time for me to share some information about our district, for you to ask questions and provide feedback.  
If you plan on attending the January session, please RSVP to Karen Volpitto, volpittok@nvnet.org. This will assist me in planning on how many will be attending.
I hope you will consider attending one of the sessions!
Regards,
Vincent McHale