During the week of October 24th, with a collaboration with the outstanding Rotary Club, students will have the opportunity to learn how Polio is still affecting communities across the globe and to donate a dollar to be matched doubly by the Gates Foundation. Each $1 donated will vaccinate one child. With the double matching of funds, $1 donated helps three children avoid polio!! Keep you eyes and ears peeled for more information!

The Fall Dance SPOOKTACULAR will be held on Saturday, October 29th from 6pm to 9pm in the Fowler Auditorium. This event is for 6th through 8th graders. Tickets are $8.00 in advance if purchased by 10/26 and $10 at the door. Ticket price includes concessions, photo booth, and dancing the night away with friends! Costumes are encouraged and there will be a costume contest.

Link to register for tickets can be found here: https://fowlermspto.membershiptoolkit.com/packet/614 or in the QR code in the flyer below. Once you register your child the PTO will reach out to you about your preferred method of payment (Venmo, Check or Cash).

PTO is also looking for to chaperones & volunteers to sign up and help at this event. You can sign up here at this link https://fowlermspto.membershiptoolkit.com/volunteer/96972

Maynard Music Association’s 12th Annual Casino Game Night Fundraiser

• Saturday, November 12th at the Maynard Elks at 6:30 pm
• Vouchers required (see below for details!)
• Light appetizers & desserts will be provided + cash bar
• Live jazz with Blueprint Jazz Club
• 2 hours of casino games including BlackJack, Texas Hold'em, Vegas Dice, and Roulette
• Live auction includes Patriots tickets for New Year's Day, Boston Red Sox memorabilia, wine party for 20 at Total Wine, Fowler Principal for the Day
• Prize baskets

How to participate in Casino Game Night:

• Purchase a voucher in advance: Vouchers are required to attend the event and cost $45 each. You’ll get $3,000 in chips to play casino games. Purchase vouchers here.
• Volunteer to help before or during the event. Sign up here.
• Volunteer to donate appetizers or desserts. Sign up here.
• Volunteer to be a dealer! Training provided. Contact maynard.music.assoc@gmail.com with subject Dealer!
• Do you need a babysitter? MHS Band & Chorus students have volunteered to babysit at homes on the night of the event to earn service points. Contact: maynard.music.assoc@gmail.com with subject Babysitter!
• Can’t attend? Make a direct, tax-deductible donation to MMA through our annual appeal/Givebutter campaign. Donate here.

Thank you for your continued support. We are partnering with Boon Supply for our fundraiser. They offer useful, eco-friendly quality products, as well as a unique platform that does most of the work for you! No more order forms, counting money or distributing products. All purchases are delivered to the supporter's home, and the entire process takes no longer than 5-10 minutes. All you need to do is just Register, Send, Share and Shop!

Can we count on your help? Here is a quick 2-minute video that explains our fundraiser.

Now just click on the following link to get started: https://www.boonsupply.com/collections/617912-fowler-school-pto?fbclid=IwAR16SpbzS_cY1WJB3GbQngqYbn4WdD9SbI4A6QaV3aGjcvPGQetfJh2xI8I

Remember! No purchase is necessary to support our school. You can help us by participating. First, Register by following the link on the parent letter, then Send and Share with family and friends. More details are available in the attached parent letter.

Thank you for your continued support of our school!

· SEPAC is seeking your family's input! Please take this brief SEPAC survey so we know what topics you are interested in learning more about and other ways we can support you this school year. It'll only take a few minutes!

· SEPAC Board meetings are held remotely via Google Meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm. Meetings are open to parents, guardians, or any Maynard community members interested in special education.

· Our next meeting is Oct 5th at 7 pm. Please check out these additional resources:

o SEPAC’s webpage- https://www.maynard.k12.ma.us/page/special-education-parent-advisory-council, which also includes SEPAC contact information.

Check out SEPAC’s Facebook page - Maynard SEPAC - to receive the most up-to-date SEPAC meeting and event happenings.

Where: Wachusett Mountain

Who: Grades 3-12

When: 6 weekly sessions, Jan-Feb (4pm-8pm); most likely Thursdays

Price: Lift pass: $143 (parents also eligible for pass)

Transportation: $126-242 depending on # of people signed up

1-hour lesson add on is $89

Signups will be Nov 1- Dec 1.

Interest Form: https://forms.gle/FDtNeHdAYRDzo9Jd9 - (copy and paste in browser as this site does not support live links)

Another opportunity - Looking for a fun after-school job with flexibility? The Boys and Girls Club of Assabet Valley is hiring! We are looking for friendly staff members over the age of 17 to help oversee our amazing after-school program. The hours are 2:30-6:00 and hires can work anywhere from 1-5 days a week! Staff is responsible for overseeing children's activities including gym games, homework, arts and crafts, gameroom activities, outdoor play, and more!

If interested, please contact Nikki Tyler Richardson - tyler@bgcav.org

Please note, we are looking for someone who can commit to the winter session so if you are playing a winter sport, please hold off from applying until Spring!

The Winter Athletics Season is quickly approaching! If your child plans on participating in a Winter Athletics Program, please fill out the registration form linked here!

Also, if your child plans on participating in our High School Boys Ice Hockey Co-Op hosted by Assabet, please register them through this link.

If you have any questions regarding the Assabet Ice Hockey program, or the MPS Winter Athletics Programs please reach out to the contacts below:

• Boys Ice Hockey Head Coach: David Quinn (dquinn@assabet.org, (978) 944-0764)

• Assabet Athletic Director: Spencer Burton (sburton@assabet.org, (508) 485-9430)

• MPS Athletic Director: Michael Arria (athletics@maynard.k12.ma.us, (978) 897-8891 ext. 3112)

  
  

For more information on all Athletics programs, visit MPS Athletics Website here.

Casino Night, Nov. 12: The Maynard Music Association’s 12th Annual Casino Game Night returns to the Elks this year! Parents/guardians: Please save the date for this fun event and go to MMA’s website for more information (vouchers go on sale in October).

Coffee Pond will be back for picture makeups, if you were absent or just don't like the picture taken. We'll post the date soon!

Wishing you all a great start to the school year!

We are seeking the school community’s input for the town’s climate action planning (CAP) initiative. This CAP work will include data from the attached survey, future public workshops and ongoing public engagement, culminating in a plan of action to prepare Maynard for the climate heating ahead. The input of young people, educators, parents, and all members of the school community living and/or working in town is crucial. We are eager to hear from you.

Thank you!
Kate Wheeler
Maynard Sustainability Committee
Sustcom@townofmaynard.net

WEBSITE IS LIVE TODAY - DETAILS BELOW 🥳

We are excited to launch the new Fowler PTO website. On this website you can “meet” your PTO, learn about upcoming events, check the status of our fundraising efforts, donate, sign up as volunteers and much, much more! There are new features we will be rolling out in the coming weeks and will announce them in future newsletters. For now if you have a student at the Fowler School please register to stay up date on events and programs going on. To register simply click this link and create your account:

https://fowlermspto.membershiptoolkit.com/create_account

Once you create/register your family account, you should receive an email instantly from the website. This email is very important in order to complete step one of the registration process as you need to verify your account. Click “verify account” in that email and that will bring

you directly back to the Fowler PTO website where it asks for your password again. Once you enter it in you now move onto the last and final step of the registration process. You will be given access to “Your Family’s Account Page” where you need to fill in both forms in “Parent and Student Information” section. Once that is complete your account will be fully registered.

Let us know if you have any questions at FowlerPTOGeneral@gmail.com.We hope everyone has a great final weekend of summer! 🐾

We are a group of volunteers who raise funds to provide annual scholarships, trophies, letterman jackets for student athletes and support to individual teams as needed with special requests.

Fowler School athletes are also recognized with middle school sports awards at the end of each season at our awards night. We would love for some more Fowler Families to join us!

We have a great Booster store where we offer Custom Maynard Tiger Team apparel. We also have Fowler School apparel on the site. Show your Tiger Pride. The store link is https://maynardbooster.itemorder.com/shop/sale/

We primarily raise money through concessions and trophy sponsorships. We are looking for Fall Shack volunteers to help out at soccer games, Friday night football games and field hockey senior night all of which will be held up at Alumni Field. Be ready for our sign-up genius emails that go out to the athlete families. We have many jobs that don’t involve volunteering in concessions as well.

We are looking for fall trophy sponsors right now, the cost is $35 per trophy. If you own a business or are a family that would like to give back, please reach out to us at christinemorgan1299@gmail.com.

Please follow us on Facebook (Maynard Booster Club) for important Booster updates. We meet the second Wednesday of each month unless otherwise noted in the MHS Library at 7pm…our first official meeting is on September 14th kindly join us!

Looking for before or after-school care for your Fowler or Green Meadow student next year? Register for BASEC @ Maynard!

BASEC provides high-quality out-of-school time programming for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Our mission is to cultivate a community in which young people engage in enriching opportunities to nurture their physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development. We are guided by the vision of creative, resilient, resourceful, and responsible young citizens.

As a BASEC student, your child will explore their interests through daily Art, STEM, and Gym activities. They will be supported by a team of thoughtful and compassionate staff that work to build a community where children come to learn, play and grow.

We also offer workshops, vacation camps, and provide resources to parents and educators about out-of-school time learning. Please also inquire about our expanded tuition assistance!

For more information reach out to greenmeadow@maynardbasec.org / fowler@maynardbasec.org or register for the 2022-2023 school year online at https://belmontbasec.org/register/.

The Green Meadow Elementary School project team has submitted its second MSBA submission! This submission is called the Preferred Schematic Report (PSR) and it advances the initial existing conditions verification, educational visioning & programming and Owner / Community coordination into multiple design alternatives, shows MSBA the design alternative evaluation process taken by the project team, and highlights which design alternative was ultimately selected at the end of the process.

Below is a link to a Google Drive folder that contains the previous Preliminary Design Program (PDP) submission as well as the recent PSR submission. As always, we thank you very much for your attention to the project, and we’ll continue to keep you informed as the project moves along the MSBA process!

GMES Google Drive Link