Early Steps Updates ~ Summer 2024

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Dear Early Steps Community:

The children are getting excited in this busy month of December, between returning from Thanksgiving Break, a little snow, and the closeness of Winter Break. One of the students' favorite days is coming up ---- Pajama Day on December 20th. It's a very warm and cozy day where everyone gets to come to school in their comfiest attire for the 1/2 day (early release at 11:30 AM)!

We will be posting the Early Steps registration process for the 2025 - 2026 school year by the end of next week on our webpage, and I will share the link with families then. The Kindergarten Information Night is run through the elementary schools, generally in early March.

Important Parking & Drop Off Reminders:

• Best deal in town! 🙌 Drop off with staff retrieval of students directly from your cars is from 7:50 - 8:00 AM only.
• Safety Issue: ***After 8:00, please refrain from entering Winthrop St.*** as the Hosmer buses are there to drop off hundreds of students. You'll need to park on Mt. Auburn or another street, walk your child to the main office, and mark them tardy.
• Also, please refrain from parking in the Receiving Area behind Hosmer School or the Brigham House parking spots during dismissal.

Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.

Be sure to read the section of my newsletters 'Some Important Dates' and note these dates/times on your calendars. Our Cunniff and Lowell School friends may have slightly adjusted times/days.

Next up:

• Friday, December 20th - Pajama Day 😃
• Friday, December 20th - Early Release @11:30 AM for Winter Recess

• Monday, December 23 - Monday, January 1st - No School (Winter Recess)

Keep each other well,

Dr. Theresa McGuinness

Principal

theresa.mcguinness@watertown.k12.ma.us

Every Child...Every Classroom...Every Day

Quick Resources: Early Steps Website (Under Construction)

WPS 2024 - 2025 School Year Calendar

1 Concord Road

Watertown, MA 02472

Please review and complete the annual Fall Annual Verification 24-25 information. This process utilizes our online registration/enrollment system and is required annually to verify and update student demographic, health, family, contact data and permissions. Here's how it works:

1. Guardians/parents should have received an email for each student with a SNAPCODE . A snapcode is like a key to your student’s current information.
2. Using the link in the Snapcode email, you are automatically directed to your student’s data on Watertown’s Registration/Enrollment site. Each snapcode is unique to one student. Please note, you will receive a separate email/snapcode for each student.
3. Annual Verification needs to be completed by Friday, December 20th, 2024.
4. You can contact the Registrar's Office at (617) 972-4216 or email terri.stafford@watertown.k12.ma.us to ask general questions about the form or process.

Thank you for completing this Required Verification to ensure your family's/student's

information is up to date.

While Nurse Kaitlyn is away, Twila McInnis will join the Early Steps team until mid-February. Nurse Twila comes to us with a breadth of nursing experience, including community health and school nursing. While she has worked and provided clinical instruction at Boston area hospitals and teaching institutions, she has also held leadership roles in different areas of population and community health. We are excited to have Twila in the Early Steps nurse office.

• Friday, December 20th - Pajama Day 😀
• Friday, December 20th - Early Release @11:30 AM for Winter Recess

• Monday, December 23 - Tuesday, January 1st - No School (Winter Recess)

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