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Please join the PTA General Meeting (virtual) on 3/15/23 at 7:00pm.

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The DEI Committee will select recipes as they come in for the cookbook.

Please email your recipes to [email protected]

All course offerings and sign-up information at the district’s Beyond the Bell site.

RSVP here to join: https://forms.gle/CYiSrZkeCE18v5Dk6

Please join us for our PTA General Meeting (Virtual)

Wednesday 12/7 at 7pm

Zoom link: 

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SEPAC SOMA invites you to a virtual meeting on Anxiety in Elementary

Monday, November 21 @ 7:30 PM

How to help not only kids with IEPs and 504s but any K-5 student who may be struggling.

Special Guests:

Arelis Tapia-Vargas and Marilu Gregory

sepacsoma.org

Please join us for the first PTA General meeting of the year!

When: Wednesday, 9/28 @ 7:00 – 8:00pm

Where: Virtual via Zoom (link here)

Meeting ID: 942 7943 9073
Passcode: 4mV8ZS

Please officially join the PTA here before the meeting!

Beyond the Bell (BTB) registration packets are online at https://www.somsd.k12.nj.us/district/btb/. If you are in need of a paper copy, please stop in the school’s office to pick one up.  

Registration for BTB classes is online only and opens next week (see dates below). Paper registrations will only be accepted for scholarships and are available in your school’s office or can be printed from the website link above. Please note, scholarships are available to students who qualify for free & reduced lunch so please make sure you have completed that application.

• Tuesday, September 13th at 7 am at: Clinton, Seth Boyden and Tuscan
• Wednesday, September 14th at 7 am at: Delia Bolden, Marshall, South Mountain and SM Annex

The links for each school under the “Fall 2022 Registration Websites” section will go live on the dates/time listed above.

A couple of things to note:

• BTB will fully refund cancellations prior to September 19, 2022.  
• Once BTB begins, questions/concerns and attendance/pick up related messages should be sent to [email protected] — The site supervisors who are at the school during BTB will check this email to receive/answer any questions so they should be your first point of contact.  

If you have any questions, please contact Jonelle Delk at [email protected]

Seth Boyden PTA Presents…

Ice Cream Social

September 16, 2022 / 6:00-7:30pm

Seth Boyden Back Yard

Pizza and ice cream available for $2 each

Bathrooms will not be accessible

Please consider volunteering to help make this a success! Sign up here.

Buy one roll of Gift Wrap and SB gets $2!

Go to MemberHub to start shopping!! An SB PTA member tested it out for quality control – it arrived within a week (ok it’s not Amazon) and was of superior quality (NOT flimsy).

As a PTA, we see and acknowledge the pain and anger that so many of our Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) families and community members are feeling after the murder of Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Ae Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan, and Daoyou Feng in Atlanta and the increasing anti-Asian racism and violence that people of Asian descent are experiencing.

We stand in solidarity with our AAPI families and community members. We stand against racism, xenophobia, bias, and prejudice in all forms and are deeply committed to equity and social and racial justice.

Please click here to read a letter written by Dr. Mia Charlene White, a local Black woman of African American and Korean descent who organizes with SOMA Justice, in association with our local community and co-signed by many local groups and residents including South Orange Village President Sheena Collum and Maplewood Mayor Frank McGehee. It contains valuable resources for working in solidarity to dismantle white supremacy and stop AAPI hate.

To read the South Orange Maplewood School District’s Statement on Violence Against AAPI Community, click here.

For advice and resources for how to talk to children about anti-Asian violence, click here.

For resources from Stop AAPI Hate, click here.

For books featuring AAPI children and other BIPOC representation, please visit AsianLitforKids’ Bookshop by clicking here.