The Pawsome Print

We had a great first five-day week at Loring! It was great to see all of you at Open House last night. You are an essential part of our school community. We also had our first early release ILAP day on Wednesday. During this time, all educators participated in professional development activities through the district. I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Sara Harvey

she/her/hers

Dear Families,

I'm looking forward to a great year of getting your students excited about reading!

Loring students have a 40 minute library class every week. During library class, students listen to a read-aloud, discuss the reading and have an opportunity to check out books. Students in kindergarten may take home one book each week. Students in grades 2-5 may take home two books each week. Students may check out new books when they return their previously checked out books.

The library website has more library-related information.

Please feel free to contact me anytime!

Amy Stout

Librarian

amy_stout@sudbury.k12.ma.us

A huge thanks for all the volunteers that we had today for lunch and recess! With your help, we were able to provide time for classroom teachers to meet together as teams.

If you missed the fabulous opportunity, here is the link to sign up to be a volunteer at lunch and recess on Fridays. It is a wonderful way to learn more about our Pawsome Loring community. Please remember that you can sign up for multiple grades even if you do not have a child in that grade. We hope to see you there!

If you would like your child to receive breakfast at school, you must sign up using this link.

Breakfast is available in the cafeteria each morning from 7:35-7:55 a.m. If your child will be part of the breakfast program, they should enter the front doors of the school at 7:35 a.m. and head straight to the cafeteria.

Some students decide to take their breakfast and eat it later for snack in the classroom during snack time. If you want your children to do this, they still need to be signed up and they will need to stop in the cafeteria before heading to the classroom in the morning to pick up their breakfast/snack. Otherwise, you should be sending in a snack each day for your child to have during snack time.

If you are unable to provide a snack for your child, please reach out to Sara Harvey or David Gaita to discuss how we can help with this. Please know that we do not have extra snacks available if your child forgets to bring one.

If you have already filled out the family information form, thank you. If you have not had the chance to yet, please take a few minutes to complete this form. This information is very helpful as we continue to ensure that all students and families have a sense of belonging here at Loring School.

As of last night, we were missing about 250 forms. Please take a few minutes this weekend to complete a form for each of your children.

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We're excited to announce that Kristen Fox will join the Loring School Council for a two year term as a parent representative. Please click here to learn more about Kristen and read why she'll be a valuable addition to the team.

We wanted to share and remind everyone of the attendance policy as we kick off another school year. It is extremely important that your child is in school regularly and on time.

• Students may be excused from school for reasons including:

• Illness or quarantine

• Bereavement or serious illness in the family

• Inclement weather that might endanger the child

• Major religious holidays

• Other exceptional reasons at the discretion of the principal/designee

• Unexcused absences include, but are not limited to:

• Family vacations

• Non-emergency family situations

• School refusal

• Chronic or irregular absences or tardies without medical documentation, which may be requested. DESE considers a student missing 10% of the school year to be chronically absent.

You will receive an attendance letter when you child has:

• Five (5) or more unexcused absences

• Five (5) or more unexcused tardy arrivals

• Five (5) or more unexcused early dismissals

• Ten (10) or more total absences (unexcused or excused) should be used to identify students who are approaching the chronic level of absenteeism.

Join the PTO (virtually) for the first General PTO meeting of the year! Thursday, September 21st at 7:30 pm. Principal Harvey and Assistant Principal Gaita will join for a Q&A for the first 30 minutes.

The PTO will also review the budget and provide some other updates for the school year. Please join us at the link below:

https://meet.google.com/yoh-pait-rgv

Or dial: (US) +1 347-354-1532

PIN: 578 850 815#

September 20

School Pictures

September 21

PTO Meeting

September 22

Fall Book Fair

September 23

Leopard Festival

September 25

Yom Kippur - No School

September 29

Food Pantry

October 4

Early Release

October 9

Indigenous People's Day - no school

October 18

Early Release

At Loring School, we are PAWSOME because we show our Core Values! These values are part of everyday life at Loring and reinforced in the classroom, on the playground and all around school. Students are taught the meaning of each word and how they make us better students and citizens.

Respect ~ Responsibility ~ Caring ~ Best Effort

The Loring Pledge is said every morning during announcements. Loring students embody our pledge and we hope this stays with them not only when they are at school but home as well.

If you have a question, please do not hesitate to reach out!

Email: loring_office@sudbury.k12.ma.us

Website: http://www.sudbury.k12.ma.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=52&Itemid=222

Location: 80 Woodside Road, Sudbury, MA, USA

Phone: 978-579-0870