Principal's Weekly
Principal Beth N. Choquette, Bridge Street School
Bridge Street School
2 Parsons Street
Northampton, Massachusetts 01060
413-587-1460 (phone) 413-587-1484 (fax)
Beth N. Choquette, Principal bchoquette@northamtpon-k12.us
Elizabeth Peterson, Administrative Assistant epeterson@northampton-k12.us
Nicole Soutra, Senior Clerk nsoutra@northampton-k12.us
Nora DeJasu, Head Teacher ndejasu@northampton-k12.us
Translation of the Principal's Weekly
At the top of the weekly email, there's a link that reads "View it in your browser," click that and it takes you to the post on a webpage.
Scroll to the bottom where there's a black menu bar and pick the option that says "Translate."
Select the language you would like it translated in and it will then translate it on the webpage.
Traducción del semanario del director
Solo un recordatorio de que el sitio web que uso para crear mis boletines semanales, ahora tiene traducción en muchos idiomas diferentes. Aquí están los pasos para traducirlo:
En la parte superior del correo electrónico semanal, hay un enlace que dice "Verlo en su navegador", haga clic en eso y lo llevará a la publicación en una página web.
Desplázate hacia la parte inferior donde hay una barra de menú negra y elige la opción que dice "Traducir".
Seleccione el idioma en el que desea traducirlo y luego lo traducirá en la página web.
A Message From Principal Choquette 3/15/19
Good afternoon. I hope you all had a nice week. I saw many of you at the celebration yesterday, it was nice for our 1st grade students to have so many visitors. Thank you to Miss Lilly for working with our 1st graders on such a wonderful puppet show of the book 'Beautiful Blackbird' by Ashley Bryan. I've attached some pictures below.
As you may have heard, Massachusetts House and Senate leadership are in agreement that deliberation on education funding should be fast-tracked. Accordingly, the Joint Committee on Education will hold its first hearing on Friday, March 22, beginning at 10 AM, in the State House Gardner Auditorium. It will be important for the Joint Committee on Education to hear the specific ways that insufficient state funding affects our public schools. Public pressure is what's needed to maximize this opportunity. Here are three opportunities to get involved in this time-sensitive matter:
1) Letter Writing Campaign
On Monday, March 18 from 7-9 pm in the Jackson Street School library, please join us for a letter writing campaign to support our schools. Bring a laptop, tablet, or smartphone if you have one (otherwise, paper and pens will be available). Addresses, budget information, and prompts will be provided. Drop by for as few as 15 minutes to write a letter!
2) Fund Our Future Stand Out at Bridge Street
On Thursday, March 21, from 8:15-8:45 join school staff and community members by holding signs outside of Bridge Street School.
3) Testifying at the Hearing
If you can, please consider coming to the State House to testify at the education hearing. The hearing begins at 10:00 am in Gardner Auditorium. People wanting to testify should sign in and plan on speaking for 3 minutes (but can submit longer written testimony). You do not need to arrive right at 10:00 am to sign up to testify; you can sign up whenever you arrive but keep in mind that the later in the hearing you sign up, the sign up list could be quite long.
Additionally, the MTA is running a bus to take MTA members and allies to the Joint Committee on Education hearing. The bus will pick people up at two stops:
1) Northampton, Sheldon Field, 7:00am
2) Chicopee, Home Depot at 591 Memorial Drive, 7:30am
The bus will leave Boston to return to Western Mass by 3:00 pm, so people should get back around 5:00 pm. Please RSVP with this link: http://bit.ly/WMAPROMISEBUS
Please contact MTA Holyoke at (413) 535-2415 with questions about the bus.
School Lunch Menu Update
K-2 Celebration 3/21/19
Important Dates
3/20/19 Science Fair
3/22/19 Report Cards
4/23/19 Spring Concert (grades k-2) (Time-TBD)