Every year, we honor our school's hard-working, dedicated teachers and their outstanding support staff with a luncheon and door prizes. Staff appreciation is when we celebrate our teachers and staff's dedication, hard work, determination, and kindness. As parents, we feel blessed to have such a wonderful group of teachers. Every teacher is an asset to our school, and the parents and students are privileged to be a part of this. We will hold the luncheon this year on Friday, May 98h, 2026.

LUNCHEON

We are collecting monetary donations and items needed for the Luncheon. Please sign up for one of the slots below. If you are donating a beverage, please deliver it to VMS by 2:30 PM Friday, May 1st, so we can chill it in the fridge over the weekend. If donating a dessert, please deliver it to VMS by Friday, May 8th, so we can set up early Friday morning. 

TRICKY TRAY

We will host a Tricky Tray for the teachers and staff on Friday after school. We have already started soliciting donations from national businesses, but we also need contributions from our VMS families and local businesses. If anyone has a local or home-based business, they would like to promote by donating a gift card or basket, that would be wonderful!! If you would like to donate a basket from your family, it would be greatly appreciated. 

We will also accept any new gift cards or items you may not be using that we can put together in a basket (e.g., bottles of wine, wine glasses, store gift cards, etc.). This week is our chance to shower our VMS faculty and staff with the thanks they so greatly deserve. It's not easy to manage middle schoolers!

Thank you in advance for your generosity. We look forward to showing the faculty how much we appreciate all they do for our children! If you have any questions, please email vmspto@oaklandschoolsnj.org.

If you are donating a basket or basket item, please drop it off by Thursday, May 1st, at Alyson Dietrich's front porch at 12 Hatfield Road or contact any of our committee members. We are happy to pick it up from you!

Monetary donations can be made by credit card, cash, or checks made out to "VMS PTO." You can send cash and checks to VMS in an envelope addressed to VMS PTO. To make a donation by credit card, go to our CheddarUp Store.