SPS Weekly Newsletter

This week's header photo features the elementary school students who attended the Spring Author Series event with Monica Acker at the Gibbons School on Monday. They are pictured surrounding Monica, holding copies of her book Brave Like Mom.There is one more visit in the Spring Author Series coming up on May 20. More information can be found further down in this newsletter.

Now that the MSBA (Massachusetts School Building Authority) and Town Meeting have both approved the new elementary school building project, Stoughton voters will be asked to approve funding the project during a special election on Tuesday, June 11. Please visit the Town Clerk’s website for more information about this special election.

We will be having a community forum about the new elementary school building project on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. This is a great opportunity to hear about the latest updates and ask questions before the special election for the project on June 11.

There will be two forums on May 21:

• There will be a virtual forum at noon via Zoom. Click here to register for the virtual forum.
  
  

• There will be an in-person forum at 6:30pm at the South Elementary School, 171 Ash St. Tours of the current South School building will be provided following the presentation and question and answer session.

If you would like to learn more about this project, you can watch this video about the project scope and budget and watch this video about the consolidation plan. You can also visit the project's website by clicking here.

Have a great weekend.

Sincerely,

Joseph F. Baeta, Ed.D.

Superintendent of Schools

Stoughton Public Schools

These Hansen Hawks got to have lunch with Dr. Baeta on Thursday! Lunch with the Superintendent of Schools was one of the raffle prizes you could win at the Hansen School’s Spring Carnival.

Bus Registration for the 2024-2025 school year opens on Monday, May 20 and goes through Friday, June 28. This year the bus application is located in the PowerSchool Parent Portal under Forms. Please click on the button below for more information and instructions on how to register:

If you have questions about logging into the parent portal, please contact your child's school.

If you have any other questions, please send them to transportation@stoughtonschools.org.

Congratulations to Stoughton High seniors Aleksandra Lada (pictured left) and Aadil Khond (right) for being selected to represent SHS at the 2024 Hockomock League Scholar Athlete Award Banquet! The Hockomock League Scholar Athlete Award is given to the top-ranked male and female student-athletes in each school and is based on academics, athletic participation, sportsmanship, leadership, and citizenship. The honorees "successfully balanced a demanding academic schedule along with participation in athletics as well as many extra-curricular activities during their high school career." The event took place earlier this month at Lake Pearl in Wrentham. Ally participated in soccer and tennis at SHS and will be attending Vassar College in the fall to study Physics. Aadil participated in soccer, swim, and tennis at SHS and will be attending Georgia Tech in the fall to study Computer Science.

Roberto Rivas, a Spanish teacher at Stoughton High, was recently featured on the Kelly Clarkson Show! Mr. Rivas is in his first year of teaching Spanish at SHS. Having moved to the U.S. only a year or so ago, Mr. Rivas was working as a server at IHOP (important to the story) when he first became a substitute and then a full-time teacher for us this school year. Something pretty special happened to him at IHOP; so special, in fact, that he landed on the Kelly Clarkson Show because of it. Watch the clip from the Kelly Clarkson Show below:

The annual Senior Walk event will be taking place this coming Monday when members of the Stoughton High Class of 2024, dressed in caps and gowns, return to their elementary schools (and new for this year, the middle school as well) one last time before graduating. It is a day when students are able to reconnect with teachers they had when they were younger. There was a mini reunion of sorts earlier this month at the South School when SHS seniors and former South School Sharks Jayvon Bernard and Maddie Reiser were at the South as part of the internship program through Stoughton High. Jayvon (pictured far left) is doing an internship with the SPS communications department and Maddie (pictured second from the right) is doing an internship for elementary education. Jayvon and Maddie are pictured here with Julie Laquidara and Jessica Gabriels, their 4th and 5th grade teachers, and Amy Montello, now a 1st grade teacher at the South, who was their student teacher when they were in 4th grade.

There was a big turnout at the Multicultural Night at the Gibbons School on Thursday. Open to all SPS families, there were a wide variety of tables and booths to visit, cultures to learn about, and foods to try!

The Stoughton Public Schools Spring Author Series concludes this coming Monday, May 20 from 5-6pm when Marietta Apollonio comes to the South School (171 Ash St.). Students from all of our elementary schools are welcome. To learn more about Marietta Apollonio, click here. For more information about the Spring Author Series, click here. We hope to see you on Monday!

Attention families of current 5th grade students who will be attending the O'Donnell Middle School for 6th grade next school year: The OMS is holding a showcase night on Wednesday, May 22 at 6:30pm at the middle school (211 Cushing St.) so families and students can learn more about what to expect in 6th grade.

Party All Night Long (PANL), the annual post graduation event for the newest Stoughton High graduates, is looking for volunteers! The PANL team is looking for non-senior parents, alumni, and community members to help set up, clean up, or work the event. There are plenty of different shifts and tasks available. Click here to see how you can help.

PANL takes place the night of graduation at the O'Donnell Middle School (Thursday, June 6 starting at 11pm and ending at 5am on Friday, June 7). This is a night full of fun and a chance to celebrate graduating in a safe, supervised environment.

Another friendly reminder that with the school year underway, we want to make sure we have accurate and updated emergency contact information and health information for your child. Please log into your PowerSchool Parent Portal account, click on the forms link in the left navigation menu and update any information that is not accurate in the two forms - Current Student Information/Emergency Form and Current Student Health Information. When you have updated the information, please click on submit at the bottom of each of the forms. If your child's information is accurate, please click on submit at the bottom of each form to indicate that you have reviewed the data and it is accurate.

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