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Deer Hill School News . January 31, 2025

Deer Hill Need to Knows

Absence Line & Email Address: 781-383-6115; DHS-notes@cohassetk12.org.

Tips from Our School Nurse: This time of year many children are having playdates indoors, sleepovers, and close quarters with other families on ski trips, etc. One unwelcome byproduct of all of this fun can be lice. Please see these helpful tips for prevention and treatment. Additionally, this position statement from the National Association of School Nurses provides additional background information. Please note that we don't send blanket notifications to families if other students have lice nor can we speak to number of cases or in regard to other students. The exception to this is that the school nurse will send a notification to a whole class if there have been 3 cases in that class as directly reported by the families of affected students (not by word of mouth). As with any illness, thank you so much for communicating with our school nurse if your child is affected so that we can keep accurate, confidential data to guide our response and notification practices.

Claim Lost & Found Items: Our lost and found is bursting with coats, sweatshirts, and other items that would love to be reunited with their owners. Please encourage your children to take a peek at the rack on the cafeteria stage. You are also welcome to come and retrieve any missing items during the school day. Please note that the PSO will be donating all remaining items the week before February break.

Follow CPS on Facebook: Cohasset Public Schools has a new Facebook page. Thanks for following us and stay tuned for more content as we get up and running.

Deer Hill Happenings

Happy Lunar New Year!

A Lunar New Year presentation by Sloane S.'s family

Ms. Augustine led Mrs. DeSalvo's class in a Lunar New Year lesson

All smiles when SRO Lowrance joined Mrs. Fetky's Morning Meeting

Radial symmetry and mandala art in Mrs. Toppa's BASE class

Hugo in the House

Hugo on Instagram: Keep up with Hugo's adventures on his Instagram account, @Hugo.Dogberry

Hugo knows Ms. LaFleur loves dogs, especially bernedoodles!

CPS Purposeful Play & Risk Challenge

Each month Superintendent Shannon includes a suggestion for purposeful play and developmentally appropriate risk. As we wrap up the month it's not to late to give January's challenge a try!

Keeping up with our Anxious Generation purposeful play and responsible risk taking challenges, I am inviting you to join in on our January activities. This month, our challenges are:

Purposeful Play Challenge

So, this challenge is weather dependent ⛄. The challenge this month is to get outside and make a snowperson, build a snow fort, have a snowball fight! Remember the joy and excitement of a fresh snowfall with your children. And, if it doesn't snow, bundle up and take a winter walk in one of our many protected areas in Cohasset. There's nothing better than a brisk walk as a family through Wampatuck, Whitney and Thayer Woods, The Whitney Spur Trail, Great Brewster Woods, or up Turkey Hill! Here are two websites to help you locate each of these sites: NSRWA.org and The Cohasset Conservation Trust.

Responsible Risk Taking Challenge

We're kicking off our new year with a challenge to talk to someone new, to make a new friend, or for those of us who may have lost touch with some folks, pick one to reach back out to and say hello. This challenge helps teach our children how to make new friends, why kindness matters, and how to step outside our comfort zones and put ourselves out there.