Pine Panther Pulse

Hello Pine Families!

Beginning of Year assessments are complete in many classes and others will be finishing up soon! Teachers use the data gathered to know where students are performing, to plan instruction, and to create intervention groups and activities to target specific academic needs. Talk to your child's teacher about how they are performing, whether or not they are in an intervention group, and what parents can do at home to support the learning.

With no school tomorrow on Labor Day, we will only have four days of learning at Pine this week. Let's make the most of them by coming to school on time each day! Looking ahead to next week, don't forget that all MCAS schools will have an early release day on Wednesday, Sept. 11 so that teachers and staff can participate in trainings and professional development sessions. Pine students will dismiss at noon with no afterschool activities or Boys and Girls Club available.

We're looking forward to another great week of learning at Pine!

David A Alvarado

Principal

Doors open at Pine each morning at 8:15. Students have until 8:45 to arrive, have breakfast, and wait with their classmates in the gym. Teachers pick up students by 8:35 to head to classrooms. Students arriving after 8:45 are marked tardy. Be sure your children arrive on time!

Late arriving students should be walked into the office by a family member and signed in. Please refrain from dropping students off at the curb without checking them in. Student absences should be called into the office. Students learn most when they are at school each day! Let's work together to have the best attendance possible!

Pine is rebuilding and revamping our Parent and Teacher Committee, better known as Pine PTC. We are looking for interested parents, legal guardians and grandparents of currently enrolled Pine students to serve and lead on this committee. Leadership positions include President, Vice-President, and Secretary. This committee usually meets once month after school in the Pine Library. Our PTC has held dances, movie nights, craft nights, and runs our Santa Shop at Christmas time, but the sky's the limit on the possibilities of what our PTC could do for Pine students and families.

If you are interested in becoming a member or a leader, please fill out the Google Form linked below. We are in the process of scheduling an informal meeting and will release that information soon. Please consider taking advantage of this opportunity to be involved and help make Pine the best it can be!

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Families of students who are currently not in compliance with vaccination requirements received a letter from the nurse's office this week. Be sure to get caught up before the exclusion date of Oct. 1! Contact Nurse Tiffany Callahan with any questions you may have, or if you need information about resources and opportunities available to get your children into compliance.

All students will have a supervised 15 minute recess each day before lunchtime.

All Pine students are invited to take a school breakfast and school lunch each day at no cost to families. Parents who prefer to send a home lunch with their child are of course welcome to do so.

Talk to your child's teacher about how communication will take place between home and the classroom this year! Whether it be via Class Dojo, email, or some other communication method, when teachers and parents stay in touch and work together, our students benefit the most!