Peter Noyes Friday Flyers

Dear Peter Noyes Families,

We hope your children enjoyed their day off on Wednesday. The staff enjoyed a day filled with adult learning. Classroom teachers met with grade level teams across the district to continue the work with Keys to Literacy, specifically looking at vocabulary development and word study. Special educators received updated IEP training. Clinicians met with Dr. Naami Turk discussing how to evaluate the needs of students with counseling goals. Preschool teachers worked with Global curriculum providers. Specialists worked together on curriculum development. We deeply appreciate having the time to work together to expand our professional learning and we know this important work benefits our students in the end.

Important Information about Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day will be here before we know it and I wanted to clarify how it will look at Noyes. In an effort to be more inclusive and equitable, we are asking families not to send in Valentine’s Day cards or gifts. This change in practice reflects our ongoing commitment to equity and inclusion. Messages of friendship will be part of our school-wide Kindness campaign and may be generated at the classroom level in a variety of ways. When we do projects at school, we ensure all students have the same access to supplies and we avoid placing any undue burden on families’ time or resources.

We understand for many of you this may come as a relief – no last minute CVS shopping on Feb. 13! – and for others it feels like a loss. It needn’t be.

As a school and district, we recognize and celebrate Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to express friendship and our gratitude for family and community. This may look different from classroom to classroom, but the intent is to focus on the underlying Valentine’s Day themes of kindness and connection.

We will be kicking off our Kindness Campaign next month, which lasts all of February. The Kindness Campaign is all about friendship and caring and acts of kindness, which aligns well to our Core Values and the spirit of Valentine’s Day.

Catie’s Closet Clothes Donations – Includes Noyes Lost & Found SOON

During the Month of January, Maddie Stolper (a junior at LS and a Noyes graduate!) is running a clothing drive for Catie’s Closet. Catie’s Closet is a Boston-located organization that collects clothes, coats, shoes, and toiletries, and allows children in need to “shop” at rooms in their school. The goal of these closets, as they are called, is to make children more confident so they can focus on education instead of their appearance. A donation box is located in the Noyes front lobby for the entire month of January to collect new or gently-used clothes and new toiletries. Any clothes in our Noyes Lost and Found will be donated to Catie’s Closet at the end of January. If the item has a child’s name in it, we deliver it back to the student; however, if there is not a name, we will donate the item. Some of these items have been unclaimed for months. If your child is missing something, please check the Lost and Found located on the recess door landing before the end of January.

Warmly,

Annette Doyle

2/9/2024

5:30 PM

Peter Noyes Gym

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