Did you forget to purchase a yearbook for your 6th or 7th grader? The HSA has purchased a limited amount of yearbooks and are offering them for sale. 

Purchase your yearbook

One of the best SEPAC SOMA meetups of the year ... their annual Dope, Nope & Hope meeting! Join SEPAC to talk about the good, the not-so-good, and wishes for summer and fall, as the 2024-2025 school year wraps up. 

More about the Special Education Parent Advisory Committee (SEPAC SOMA).

6th and 7th Grade Families, 

WE NEED YOU!!  Please consider volunteering your time to help make our 8th Grade end of year events go off without a hitch! Get a sneak peek at what future 8th grade events! 

8th Grade Dinner Dance Volunteer Sign Up

8th Grade Moving Up Ceremony Volunteer Sign Up

Get your child ready for the next grade level!  MMS Summer Experience 2025 helps kids with academic skill building to prepare for their next grade level, work on social skills, participate in summer summer reading with great new titles, and have some fun team building and playing physical education games with amazing MMS staff members!

FREE of charge!  Dates: July 7-August 1, 2024  Location: Columbia High School Hours-9am-12:00pm  Open to all current MMS students!

If you would like your child to participate, please fill the MMS Summer Program Interest Form (complete 1 form for each child at MMS). MMS staff will also reach out to you if they recommend that your child attend this program.  Please complete this form with your interest by Friday, June 6!    

Questions?  Email dgronau@somsd.k12.nj.us

All incoming 6th graders - incoming 12th graders are invited to attend the Summer Music Enrichment Program. Morning or Afternoon sessions available. Lessons located at Delia Bolden Elementary School. 

Cost: $190 for AM or PM sessions $375 for BOTH AM and PM sessions

Sign up via Community pass. 

Hello 8th grade families! Can you believe we're almost at the end of the year!?! Lots of fun stuff is coming up for our kids, so you'll be hearing from us quite a bit in the next few weeks. See below for an overview of what we need from you now (and be on the lookout for sign ups to help out coming soon). Any questions, contact us at 8thgrade@maplewoodmiddleschool.org

Thanks! Sharon, Regina, and Moya  

8th Grade events: 

1. Frogbridge Day Camp Field Trip: May 30. Permission slip is HERE, $80 in CASH to homeroom teacher. DUE FRIDAY, MAY 9. 

2. Yearbooks:$25 online payment can be made HERE.   (You can send cash/check made out to MMS HSA in an envelope with your child's name) DUE JUNE 13

3. Lawn signs: $5 online payment can be made HERE.  (You can send cash/check made out to MMS HSA in an envelope with your child's name) DUE MAY 19

4. Dinner Dance: June 17, 7-9 pm at Maplewood Country Club. Permission form is HERE.(It is the same form as Frogbridge, but there's a place to sign up for only one or the other when you click through the form). $25 online payment can be made HERE. DUE JUNE 11. (You can send cash/check made out to MMS HSA in an envelope with your child's name)

5. You can purchase an 8th grade package of lawn sign, dinner dance and yearbook HERE at a $5 savings. DUE MAY 19 (You can send cash/check made out to MMS HSA in an envelope with your child's name)

**No student will be excluded because of an inability to pay. If you are experiencing financial difficulty, please select that option on the online form and the HSA will cover the fees (for yearbook, dance, and lawn sign). 

For Frogbridge, contact Mr. Brown: lbrown@somsd.k12.nj.us**

MMS will have 2 student speakers read an original poem at our Moving Up Ceremony on June 19. 2025. Submit to Ms. Gronau dgronau@somsd.k12.nj.us

On June 12, 7th graders will head to Dave & Buster's. Please reach out to your child's Period 1Teacher for this PAPER FIELD TRIP PERMISSION SLIP