Wentworth School Family News
2024-2025 School Year
October 24, 2024
Upcoming Dates
Mark your calendars:
Friday, October 25 - Spirit Day: Costume Day* See Below
Monday, November 11 - No School for Veterans' Day
Tuesday, November 12 - Fall Conferences Begin
Volunteer Training 5-5:20 PM* See Below
Wednesday, November 13 - Picture Retake Day for all Learning Communities
Wednesday, November 20 - Early Release at 1:45
Tuesday, November 26 - Last Day of Fall Conferences
Wednesday, November 27 - No School for Thanksgiving Break
Fall Conferences
Dear Wentworth Families,
While you are welcome to request to meet with a teacher regarding your child’s progress at any time throughout the year, Wentworth designates time as a school in the fall and spring to offer formal conferences. This year, Fall Conferences will be held between November 12-26. We find these conferences to be valuable, and an opportunity to learn more about your child’s progress in addition to their work and teachers’ individual communications that occur throughout the year. We look forward to meeting with you.
Wentworth School will use Conference Manager by SchoolSoft to schedule conferences. We ask that you please coordinate between parents/guardians the date/time that works best for both of you to meet together. Instructions are included below for how to create an account (or use an account you have already created) to log on to Conference Manager scheduling system where you may select dates and times that are convenient for you and your family. Registration for conferences will begin on Monday October 28th at 6:00AM through Sunday, November 10th at 6:00PM. Once you have completed your requests, an email confirmation will be sent to you.
Please sign up for one conference with your child’s homeroom teacher
We encourage you to also sign up to meet with one or more Allied Arts teachers
Additionally, please sign up with your child’s case manager, math/literacy support teacher and/or student advocate; they are looking forward to discussing your child’s progress toward their goals!
Here is the link for parents to register click here or copy and paste this address to your browser: https://scarboroughschools.schoolsoft.com/login.jsf. If you have questions regarding this process, please contact LyndaLee Landry at 730-4609 from 8:00 – 3:00, Monday-Friday. Our teachers are available by telephone or email if you have questions or have a unique scheduling situation. Thank you for your continued support; we are looking forward to the opportunity to discuss your child’s successes and goals together!
Sincerely,
Kelli Crosby
Principal
Costume Day - Keep it Fun for Everyone!
Dear Families,
Students have used their RESPECT tokens to vote for the October spirit day (on Friday the 25th) and they have chosen Costume Day. Students are invited to dress up in any way they want - their favorite book or movie character, what they want to be when they grow up, as their hero, or in a Halloween costume if that is a holiday your family celebrates. Here are some guidelines:
- We appreciate props being left at home; a costume is just something you wear
- It is still a school day, so something that students can reasonably learn in is required - save the blow up dinosaurs for another party!
- We want to see all of our kids' sweet faces - no face paint (messsssyyyy) or masks, please.
- Nothing gory, bloody, violent or too scary. Think G rated.
- Be creative and have fun!
Thank you for your cooperation and support! Speaking of....
Since students are having an opportunity to show their school spirit on the October spirit day taking place tomorrow 10/25, we ask that any students who celebrate Halloween on 10/31 save the dressing up on that day for Trick-or-Treating. Not all of our families celebrate this holiday, having a costume day ahead of 10/31 allows those who are excited about Halloween to choose to wear elements of their costume while being inclusive of all students who can dress up as a book character, movie star, hero, sports legend, or anything they can dream up! Trust us, 10/31 is a challenging enough school day without costumes! Thank you for respecting this expectation, and supporting our plan. Bonus points if you save the candy for an at-home treat, and send a nutritious snack to school to counteract all the extra sugar!
School Photos - Take Two! Retake Information
Open this link for information (also in the image below) for any family who would like to have their child's photo retaken, or for anyone who missed school picture day.
Volunteer Training
When
Location: Join Zoom Meeting
https://scarboroughschools.zoom.us/j/9577613642?omn=92440982741 Meeting ID: 957 761 3642Who Knew so many of you LOVE to Organize?! Anyone Handy with Repairs?
Thanks for your Responses!
Last week I shared that there are two jobs that have been nagging at me - organizing our out of control Lost and Found, and repairing some playground signs. The response from people who were jazzed up to come organize the Lost and Found was mind boggling! Thank you all so much. I think we are set in this department for now - someone who is here regularly for their child's event is doing some ongoing upkeep. I have several back-up organizers, too. Check out the before and after photos below. Not many things were able to be returned (of all the items, there were approximately 6-8 with labels) but it looks nicer and is more accessible.
I still would love some help with the playground signs. Some of our them, made a couple years ago as part of an Eagle Scout project, need some love. The inserts need to be updated, some need a new piece of plexiglass on top, and before the snow flies, the posts need a neon banner so kids do not get accidentally injured when the posts become one with the snow and difficult to see.
If you are interested in a minor repair job, please contact me at kcrosby@scarboroughschools.org
Thanks for considering!