Gladstone Community Message #8
October 2024
Gladstone @ Waterman
Email: acorsolatos@cpsed.net
Website: https://waterman.cpsed.net
Location: 722 Pontiac Avenue Cranston, RI 02910
Phone: (401)270-8013
Facebook: Gladstone Elementary School
Message from the Principal
Our Gladstone team has made it through year one in our transition to Barrows and Waterman. This was not any easy move for any of our students, families, or staff but we survived and are moving forward! Our goals this year are to continue to improve our social-emotional initiatives and our strategies and instruction to improve our students’ academic achievement. We have prioritized students' academic and social emotional skills so that they are prepared to succeed in their futures. Our goal is to promote a safe school environment that is based on respect, kindness, and high academic achievement. We also strive to provide fun and enriching opportunities for our students, such as field trips and school events that involve our parents’ participation. In addition to our focus on SEL and student achievement we are working on building our knowledge of and comfort in 21st Century Learning Environments. This includes flexible seating, changing the traditional classrooms, and PBL. These changes will prepare us for a smooth transition to the new Gladstone! We are not only a team at Gladstone, but we are also a family. Together, our dedicated staff and remarkable students are proud to be Gladstone Elementary School Huskies!
Amy Vachon
Weekly Message
Good afternoon Gladstone @ Waterman families,
Thank you to all of the families who donated to our Gladstone Pink Out! We were so happy to see that many of our students participated in the event by wearing pink. Waterman collected $102.77 for Gloria Gemma.
Friday October 25th is our Trunk-or-Treat. We are still in need of cars for the event as well as candy donations. Please see the flier below if you are interested in adding your car to the trunk-or-treat. Please consider donating a bag of candy for this event. We will be accepting donations until the 25th.
Also on Friday October 25th we will be having a beam signing for New Gladstone. All our students will be taking a field trip to Barrows from 12-2pm. For this event students and staff will leave their mark on the new Gladstone. They will be adding their names onto a steel beam that will become a part of the new Gladstone. We are very excited for this event and so are our students.
Our handbook permissions are now going to be completed through ASPEN. Here is a guide to help you through the permissions in ASPEN. If you need help logging in to ASPEN please call the main office 401-270-8013.
If you are dropping students off and picking up at school you CAN NOT park on Mapleton Avenue this interferes with our buses. If you are dropping off a student and getting out of the car please park on Tennyson Road.
Gladstone Pink Out!
Reminders
*Please arrive on time for school. We are only serving breakfast to students from 8:35-8:50am.
*Please make sure your students know if they ride a bus or are getting picked up. All dismissal changes need to be entered into this form by 2:00.
* Please do not park in our staff parking lot. We have limited parking and only enough parking for our staff. If you need assistance with your child in the morning please contact the school and we will try our best to accommodate.
*Please send a refillable water bottle to school with your child.
* We will NOT dismiss to someone who is not on the emergency care card and we will NOT dismiss without a written note if a student is leaving early. Please return lunch applications and Parent Compacts as soon as possible.
*We are NOT dismissing students after 2:30pm.
* Please review the district family involvement policy as well as our parent engagement plan.
Tissue Donations
Gladstone is in need of TISSUES! If you can donate a box to the school, we would greatly appreciate it!
Upcoming Events
October 25th - Steel Beam Signing Event
October 25th- TRUNK OR TREAT 5-6:30 PM at BARROWS (9 Beachmont Avenue)
October 28th-Nov 1st - Halloween Spirit Week (Schedule will be sent out on Monday)
October 28th-Nov 1st- Book Fair
Parents & Teachers of Gladstone
We will be hosting our first PTG meeting on October 2nd at 2:15. The meeting will be virtual, please use this link to sign on to the meeting.
Please join our Parents and Teachers of Gladstone Page on Facebook!
Family Center/COZ Partnership
Our Family Center Liaison is Grace Swinkski: gswinski@cpsed.net
The Family Center/COZ works directly with all Title I schools in the district. Title I is based on the free/reduced lunch population. We provide help & guidance with resources for you & your family. We also sponsor family events both in the schools and in the community. Our office is open year round, please reach out with any questions 270-8078.
Please join our Facebook Group!
We have a Facebook account for Gladstone Elementary School. This will be another way we'll be able to communicate information to you all quickly. If you use Facebook we recommend that you follow us.