This week’s Paw Prints from Principal Katie Grassa:
- Curley Bike Challenge: The Get Biking Challenge is a city-wide competition to encourage more K-8 students to bike more during May, National Bike Month. Students and teachers will track how many minutes they ride each day. Prizes will be awarded to participants as well as schools and classes based on the percent of students that participate and the amount of days ridden. Prizes include the coveted Golden Pedal Award, free bike raffles, a bike field trip and more! We will provide all of the materials and support resources for the program to be successful in our school, including this calendar to log your student’s hours. Please email Danielle Moran for more information dmoran3@bostonpublicschools.org.
- New Student Welcome Session: Thank you to all the parent volunteers who helped to make our welcome session a success! We look forward to working with all the new students in September.
- School Uniform Survey: Our annual poll for asking the school community about whether we will have a mandatory, voluntary, or no uniform policy for next year is now available. Paper versions will be going out in backpacks, and you may also fill out the survey online as well here. Please note, there is only one vote per family. The deadline for submissions is June 6th. For more information, please contact Nicole Aljoe.
- School Yard Clean Up: Thank you to all families and students who helped with a outdoor school yard clean up on Thursday afternoon. It is important that we all find ways to Care About Our School.
- Listen and Learn Tour: Dr. Tommy Chang, BPS Superintendent as of July 1st, will be coming to the Curley K-8 School on Wednesday, June 3rd from 6:30pm-7:30pm. A group of families and staff will be sharing with him and his transition team the work we have been doing around improving the inequities between Advanced Work Class (AWC) and General Education classrooms. We would love for families and staff to come and listen to the discussion and support the work the Curley’s doing around AWC/General Education curricula.
- Family Potluck: The SPC is hosting a family potluck on Thursday, June 4th from 5-8pm on the playing field. All staff and families are welcome to attend and bring a dish to share.
- 4th Annual Rock Monitor: The SPC is hosting this annual show at the Midway Café on Friday, June 5th starting at 8:30pm. All staff and parents are welcome to attend this adults-only event, and if they want to sing/play they can contact Molly Brigham at mollykbrigham@gmail.com.
- Last Day of School: Due to all the snow days the last day of school has changed and we will have school on Wednesday, June 17th (Bunker Hill Day). As per tradition the last two days of school will be half days Friday, June 26th and the last day of school will be Monday, June 29th.
- Arrival and Dismissal: The school hours are 8:30am-2:30pm. We open each morning at 8:15am for breakfast and students may proceed to homeroom. All parents are welcome to escort their child to class if they arrive before 8:35am. Anyone who arrives after 8:35am is marked tardy. Also we are asking that families do not dismiss their child after 1:45pm to assure a safe dismissal transition.
- Parents Picking Up On Centre Street: Parents who pick up students who leave by the CASP entrance on Centre Street are kindly asked not to stand in the circular driveway of the residential building next to our school while they wait, or to allow their children to play on the trees on their property. Parents are instead encouraged to wait for their students inside the school’s gates. Thank you.
- Social Media: If you are on Twitter be sure to follow me @principalgrassa. This is a great way to share up to date information about the Curley.
