Samuel Aceto Elementary School

March 21, 2025

Congratulations to our Readathon Winners

Today Ethan B was Principal for the day!! He met with our three 4th place winners to help prepare them for their presentation at Tiger Time next week. So Abby M, Mia L, and Thapasya are ready to share their favorite book!

Leo M was our 1/2 day Safety Officer!!

Of course our school was named Samuel Aceto Eementary School and Owen K, Benny and Andrew were first in line for lunch and treated to pizza and ice cream!

PTO News

March PTO News

Cook’s Night Off

Take a Break from Cooking & Support PRS! 🍽️🐻

Hey PRS families! Give yourself a well-deserved Cook’s Week Off (not just 1 night) and join us in supporting the PRS PTO! From March 10th to 16th, visit any Bear’s location in CT, show this flyer (or order online with code PRSPTO), and Bear’s will donate 20% of proceeds to help fund our Book Vending Machine and Math Mobile.

Enjoy delicious BBQ while giving back—it’s a win-win! So gather your family, skip the kitchen stress, and let’s make this a tasty success for our school. See you at Bear’s! 🍗📚➕🐻

SWPS Shoe Drive

Doing some Spring cleaning? Philip R. Smith is participating in the South Windsor Public Schools Shoe Drive. Please consider donating your new and gently used shoes to our collection box. Your donation can make a big difference!

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2025 PTO Board Election

The Philip R. Smith Parent Teacher Organization will be holding its first ever PTO board election on Tuesday May 13th! If you think you might be interested in serving as an officer of the board, please reach out to us at prsptoboard@gmail.com for more information. Interested persons must notify the board no later than Thursday April 10th.

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PRS 6th Annual Cultural Celebration

Please see the link here for our annual Cultural Celebration. We hope you can join us on April 2nd. If you need a trifold display board, please contact Lisa Lovett llovett@swindsor.k12.ct.us

Student Leadership Update

The Student Leadership Team would like to thank you for your kind support of our Wear Green Spirit Day for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. As a school, we raised $192! That money will help sick children in the hospital. Thank you for helping us to help others.

Chartwells Food Advisory Group

Please see the flier from Chartwells.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W7Skow1gMXFEK6zQFhpPqoTvoqsOl9eq/view?usp=sharing

Kindergarten Registration

Just a reminder that Kindergarten Registration is open. You can begin the registration process online. If you have, or you know someone who has a student eligible to start Kindergarten for the 25-26 school year, please start the registration process asap so you can participate in the transition activities this spring. Registering early allows us to have a better idea of enrollment and the number of classroom sections that we need for the upcoming school year.

Here's the link to access the registration information.

Incoming Kindergarten for 2025-26 School Year

We are planning our Incoming K student and family transition activities. I will share more information soon.

For the upcoming school year we are excited to welcome to PRS two neighborhoods that are currently in PV district. All incoming K students from those neighborhoods will be members of our PRS community. Parents of the incoming K students will have the option to send their grade 1-5 students to PRS too.

Preschool Outreach

Can you please share on your newsletters and on digital displays in your buildings that the our Preschool Outreach Program is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 school year? This can be found on our district website and the link for the application is here