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11/8-11/9-Robin Hood and Maid Marion Play Performances

Friday 6:30

Saturday 4:00

11/11-12/18- Flynn Food Drive -Help us fill our food shelf!

11/19- Parent Workshop 6-7 Info Below

11/22- Report Cards go Home

11/25-11/26-Parent Teacher Conferences/NO School

Sign Up Information for conferences will go out on November 1st

11/27-11/29-Thanksgiving Break/NO School

12/5- Annual Title 1 Meeting 5:30

IN Person Flynn Library/childcare provided

Virtual link available soon.

12/23-1/1- Winter Break

Dear Families ~

It is so hard to believe that we have turned the calendar to November! I hope you have enjoyed the amazing fall weather and warm temperatures. As we approach the break later this month you will be scheduling a conference with your child's teacher. Conferences are the most important way that we communicate with families about student progress and growth so far this year.

Thank you for making time to meet with your child's teacher. I will be at school during conference days, please feel free to stop in and say hello or check in. If I am in a conference at that time you can always reach me through email: shayes@bsdvt.org or by phone 864-8478.

We appreciate your partnership as we support your child's learning journey.

Sally

please feel free to browse our Flynn Food Shelf or by reaching out to your grade level school counselor (Emily Russen, grades 3-5 or Jill Everett, grades K-2). They would be more than happy to put together a box for you! **If you are in need of perishable items such as milk, eggs, cheese, or butter please let your school counselor know as those items are not housed in the Food Shelf.

If your student participated in the VTCAP state assessment last spring, you will be receiving your student’s test results with their first report card of this school year. Most students who were in grades 3-9 and 11 last year took these tests. While the score report does show your student compared to their school district and the state, the comparisons are preliminary. The Agency of Education will release official statewide assessment results later this year.

The score reports represent how your student performed on the day of testing. If tested on a different day, they might get a slightly different score. The goal of the test is also to assess our school’s performance: our success in teaching your child. These assessments are only one way of showing your student's accomplishments. Talking with your student’s teachers and school leadership will help you understand your child's performance.

The bear is part of our Global Classroom Connect project; we’re about to send it to Taiwan to our partner class!

Scheduling for our November 2024 Parent Teacher Conferences has begun. Please use the following link to begin the scheduling process:

https://www.ptcfast.com/schools/John_J_Flynn_Elementary_School

November 2024 conferences will be in person on Monday, 11/25 and virtual, Tuesday, 11/26.

If you need to request a virtual conference for Monday, 11/25 or request an alternate conference date, please indicate that using the Special Request box in PTC Fast when you sign up for your conference or contact your child’s teacher directly.Please see the Frequently Asked Questions link below for more information related to virtual conferences using Google Meet.

(Please note that you may now both register for a conference and attend a virtual conference (created by a BSD staff member) with any email address, it does not need to be a Google email address.)

Watch this 5 min video to learn how to schedule a parent teacher conference online using PTC Fast.

Frequently asked questions can be found here: PTC Fast and BSD: Frequently Asked Questions

If needed, please call the school office, 864-8478 for assistance.

St Marks will cooking and delivering Thanksgiving Meals on Thanksgiving Day between 11 and 1 pm.

Sign Up Here

Dear Flynn Families:

On Tuesday, November 19th, Flynn will be hosting a workshop for parents and caregivers from 6pm to 7pm in the Library. The speaker, Krisite Grant will be coming to us from Prevent Child Abuse Vermont.

Kristie will be providing information on the Healthy Relationships Projects Curriculum and how parents can support students to develop healthy relationships.

Please sign up to attend the workshop. The sign up sheet is linked here. Please indicate in the comment section if you need childcare to attend this event and how many children you would bring to this event. We are trying to fund childcare and dinner for the children for this event. Please reach out to me with any questions.

Kindly,

Jill Everett

Thursday, December 5 at 5:30.

We will meet in person in the Flynn Library

or join us by google meet (link available soon)

Childcare will be provided.

Our Agenda

• Explanation of the school’s participation in Title I as a Schoolwide program school

• Information about the requirements under Title I

• The rights of parents to be involved

• Development of the District and school-level parent and family engagement policies

• Development of the School-Parent Compact

• Opportunities for parents to attend regular meetings to participate, as appropriate, in decisions relating to the education of their children

Incredible gratitude to (Grandma) Sue O'Brien and her sewing magic for resuscitating our much-loved (and very battered) canvas floor chairs!!

We've been reading magic tree house stories in 3rd grade. We got information and ideas from the stories that helped us write our own. Then, we got to read them to the Kindergarten students. We even got to practice using synonyms to make our stories more exciting. It was so awesome and fun! - Evie, Maisey, Evelyn, Elise

DECEMBER PTO MEETING: Thursday, December 5th at 6:30 PM in the Library at school. Free childcare is provided. Our remote link is: https://meet.google.com/srx-jqeb-eoq . Our remote set-up is actually pretty great these days -- genuinely feel free to join online!

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VERY MERRY THEATRE presents Flynn students (from grades 3-5) in ROBIN HOOD & MAID MARIAN.

Play performances are Friday and Saturday this week!

Friday -- 6:30 PM

Saturday -- 4:00 PM

Bring cash if you would like to purchase a flower or items from the Bake Sale (Venmo doesn't work easily inside the building)! (Items will be $2 or less.)