Dear Byam Staff,

We hope you all braved the storm, safe and warm. Thank you to Tom for what must have been a busy and tiring couple of days. Please use extra caution when navigating the parking lot. The spaces will and driveway will be a bit congested. With this recent snowfall, we are optimistic that we will be able to have our popular "snow day" incentive with a day of sledding and fun. Our plan is to announce this incentive on Friday this week and then have our special day on the following Friday (2/11). To make this snowy fun accessible to all, we are asking to see if staff and families might have some extra boots and snowpants to donate for the day.

Best,

Jason and Betsy

The PBIS team would like to again provide a favorite treat for staff. Please answer the below survey if interested. ~ Holly and Meghan

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOrgygyLz8JQ75fEkorYwt_5qkyL6TZuXCyzY_94pJZ37DYg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Thank you everyone for completing our benchmark assessments with your students. Below are the dates and times selected by teams for reading data meetings.

Kindergarten - Wed Feb 2nd 10:35 am

1st Grade - Thurs Feb 3rd 11:05 am

2nd Grade - Wed Feb 2nd 2:15 pm

3rd Grade - Thur Feb 3rd 9:25 am

4th Grade - Fri Feb 4th 10:20 am

This program is accepting registration on a rolling basis; however, test kits are only distributed every other week. The first deadline has passed but if you would like to sign up for the next round to receive test kits for 2/18 please use the link below.

Link: https://forms.gle/P8G7MSB3HaFmHoL68

Next Friday we will be having an official Byam/Chelmsford spirit day. We'd love everyone interested to dawn their maroon and white to celebrate our school spirit.

This school year (more like the past 3) has been hard. The PBIS team is looking for positive comments and ideas of things we can do as a community in the spring to make it a little better. There are also a few ideas we'd like to gauge interest in. The PBIS team would like to get staff feedback on ideas for community building. Please complete the survey google form below to submit ideas for any fun team building ideas or fun things for staff to voluntarily do together.

Meghan Kennedy and Holly Matson-Durkin and the PBIS Team!

Please help us with your feedback on the below Survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdejbXhlF_RB8H6DojVALTEvg5WWS_DmKsAKlzG3lJzWm-Z5Q/viewform?usp=sf_link

Our PBIS team is working on plans for a staff crockpot soup-er bowl lunch in our staff lunch room. More details on the date coming soon.

The date for our Soup-er Bowl during staff lunches is Friday February 11th.

Staff have asked for a reminder on the staff pool testing sign up link and we thought it would be helpful to share with everyone for those interested.

STAFF Pool testing sign up link: https://forms.gle/ujfwAMftVwrcNEXN6

Thank you for student roars to help boost and reinforce their hard work.

Link to submit a STUDENT ROAR below:

==>> https://tinyurl.com/nyj8s83b

Tom Romac for his snow removal efforts

Stella for registering our incoming kindergartners and being the first friendly Byam face families see

K teachers for providing a welcoming atmosphere for parent/teacher conferences

Evan Prees for his immense flexibility

LINK BELOW TO SUBMIT A STAFF SHOUT OUT FOR NEXT WEEK'S NEWSLETTER:

https://forms.gle/EzHgZiBcH6X2rAZN8

• Early Release PD Feb 9th
• BSA Meeting Feb 9th
• Soup-er Bowl Lunch Feb 11th
• PBIS Meeting Feb 15th
• February Break Feb 21st-25th