Good Afternoon,
As we round out the week, I wanted to send out the reminder below. Please see below regarding Superintendent Haas's recent outreach regarding an important parent survey. We appreciate the feedback. There are lots of flyers below that are important reminders of things happening tomorrow and through the weekend. I will also update my memo tomorrow so be sure to check back in!
Thanks
Keith
May 1, 2024
Good morning,
I hope this email finds everyone well as we rapidly head toward the end of the school year.
I am contacting you today to request that you participate in a community survey regarding your students' experiences in the Maynard Public Schools.
We have partnered with the Education Commonwealth Project (ECP), a research group now located at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, to administer our survey, which has been developed over the past year with the full cooperation and assistance of the district’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee and building based administrators. ECP is the group that facilitated our student and staff surveys over the past two years, and their reliable and valid surveys are currently in use in districts across the state, encompassing more than 10% of all students in Massachusetts public schools. Since all of the work done by ECP is state grant funded, there is no cost to the Maynard Public Schools for any of this work. More information on the Education Commonwealth Project can be found here: https://www.edcommonwealth.org/
The information we have gained through our staff and student surveys has been extremely valuable, but we also need the information and thoughts from our parents and caregivers regarding their experiences, thoughts, and opinions as members of the Maynard Public Schools community.
With that in mind, we hope you will take the time to share your feedback with us. Community feedback is very important in our overall planning process as we move toward the close of this school year and plan for the 2024-2025 school year. This is why we partnered with ECP to create a new survey specifically for our parents and caregivers. The survey will not collect personal information. All responses will be anonymous.
The survey itself will take 15-20 minutes to complete. If you have students in multiple schools, it would be greatly appreciated if you could complete multiple surveys as they are specific to each school. The survey window will open today, May 1st, and close on Wednesday, May 15th.
Your personalized link to the survey is copied below. Parents with students at more than one school will receive a separate email and link for each school.
Notes on the survey:
The survey saves progress automatically. You can start, stop, and complete a survey that you started later.
All survey links are unique to the person receiving them and can only be submitted once. They will not work if forwarded to another email address.
Survey translations can be accessed in the dropdown menu in the upper right-hand corner of each page. (See the screenshot below.)
Thank you for reading and for completing the survey.
May 3rd: Glow Dance
Save the Date: Fowler Book Fair
It’s Book Fair Time!
The Fowler School Library will be holding a spring Book Fair Monday, April 29th through Friday, May 3rd! This is a wonderful opportunity for students to discover new and exciting books. Students will be able to visit the book fair during library classes and/or with their teachers as a class. The book fair will also be open the evening of Fine Arts Night in the main lobby, so caregivers can enjoy the fun too!
Please note that checks cannot be accepted, only cash or credit card payments.
Feel free to reach out to Kiley Swenson (kswenson@maynard.k12.ma.us) with any questions.
May 10th: Grade 6 Science Fair (more info coming soon)
May 10th: Early dismissal.
Grade 8 HEADS UP EVENTS (All dates and events are subject to change)
Grade 8 Semi-Formal Dance (Boys and Girls Club): May 3, 2024 - this event is run totally by the Boys and Girls Club. (This has not been confirmed to be the date yet at least to Fowler)
May 24th: Early dismissal
May 27th: NO SCHOOL
May 30th: Ms. Doris Edwards (Holocaust survivor) presentation
Grade 8 Graduation: June 14th (or the last day of school). It starts at 9:00 and is held in the auditorium. Once the ceremony is over, the 8th graders are dismissed for the year (even if it is before the regular dismissal).
Grade 8 Last Lunch: June 13th (or the last full school day) This is a special lunch to celebrate their last lunch at Fowler. The café usually has a BBQ just for the 8th graders. We eat outside and have an ice cream truck come.
Grade 8 Field Trip: June 12th. We are booking a trip to APEX in Marlborough. We will leave Fowler at about 8:30 and return at 1:30.
MCAS Updates:
May 7: Grade 5 and 8 Science, Technology, Engineering (Session 1)
May 8: Grade 5 and 8 Science, Technology, Engineering (Session 2)
May 13: Grade 6 Math (Session 1)
May 14: Grade 6 Math (Session 2)
May 15: Grades 4 and 5 Math (Session 1)
May 16: Grades 4 and 5 Math (Session 2)
May 20: Grades 7 and 8 Math (Session 1)
May 21: Grades 7 and 8 Math (Session 2)
May 28: Grade 8 (Session 1)
May 29: Grade 8 Civics (Session 2)
Have a great weekend!
Keith
