Fall Fling:
From Principal Grassa: Thank you to all the families that made our Annual Fall Fling a huge success on Friday evening! Our students had fun and families were able to connect with one another. We appreciate all the volunteers and donors who made this even such a success.
From Jess and Molly, Event Co-chairs: Thank you to all the families who came out to the Fall Fling. We hope you had a great time! Another huge thanks to all those who sold tickets. We had record fundraising efforts for this event–more than $15,000! We are also so appreciative of City Year, Tenacity, Coach Jacqui from Playworks and our eighth grade volunteers who helped make this a success!
FREE BSO Concert at the Curley:
The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “BSO in Residence Program” is hosting a FREE chamber concert at the Curley at 4 PM on Sunday, October 22nd, followed by a reception. From 6:30-7:30 PM, acoustic music from the BSO and other musicians will accompany families walking around Jamaica Pond at the 34th annual JP Lantern Parade. Hope you and your family will join us for this special community event — go to www.spontaneouscelebrations.org for a schedule of lantern-making workshops!
Progress Reports Grades 6-8:
Parents should be on the lookout for Progress Reports coming home with their students next week. We will do an all call on the day they will be taking them home. This is a great opportunity for families to sign on to BPS Gradebook with their child and reach out to the teachers if you have questions. There is still time for students to improve their grades and we want to collaborate with you to make this happen!
Picture Day:
Picture Day for grades K-8 will be as follows:
Parents will need to fill out separate forms for Sibling Pictures.
Pictures need to be paid for in full and all forms need to be filled out before Picture Day. Please check with your child’s teacher if you need further information.
Sole Train: Boston Runs Together
Sole Train is a community-building and mentoring program that uses running as a vehicle for young people to set and achieve seemingly impossible goals. By building a supportive community of caring peers and adults, Sole Train champions young people as they realize their capacity for greatness.
The Curley K-8 has been a proud Sole Train partner for many years. This is our opportunity to show our support to the program and all the students and staff from the Curley, and many other schools, who are involved!
There will be free food, a free younger kids fun run and fun music! All proceeds go to support the amazing youth in Sole Train!
Register to run/walk! http://www.soletrain5k.com/
Register to volunteer! http://www.soletrain5k.com/volunteers.html
Interested in being a sponsor? http://www.soletrain5k.com/sponsors.html
Want to be an Old Sole (adult volunteer) and run with the students through the year? They’d love to have you and you don’t even have to like running! http://conta.cc/2v1eh2Z
For more information, contact Jess Leffler at:
617.536.0944 X 345 or jleffler@trinityinspires.org
BPS Fall Open House:
October 28th BPS is once again opening its headquarters for a college, career, and life readiness open house. The day consists of interactive workshops geared towards educating and preparing our students. Examples include: Resume building, LinkedIn profile support, Cash Management, Career Exploration, and much more. We would greatly appreciate your assistance in signing up in advance for this event by clicking on this link. There will ALSO be family-friendly events and instructional tools for elementary through high school aged student. Everyone is welcome! Further details and RSVP information can be found here, and will be updated on an ongoing basis. We will also be distributing posters and flyers to your schools and encourage you to share with your school communities.
Halloween:
The Curley K-8 will not have a Halloween celebration during the school day. As a community we are focused on health and wellness and therefore we ask that all candy remain at home. We are also asking that students leave all costumes, masks, face painting and clown paraphernalia at home as well. Thank you in advance for your support around this matter. Attached is our Celebrations Policy Curley K-8 Celebration and Reward Policy_memo.
Library Committee:
Please share with friends and family the news that the Curley K-8 Library is receiving Shelf Help from the Boston Book Festival! from the Boston Book Festival! The organizers of the Festival are promoting and publicizing this wishlist, to help us re-open the library with new, hardcover children’s books. The Boston Book Festival is October 28 in Copley Square, and is a fantastic, free, family-friendly celebration of literature for readers of all ages.
Our first Library Committee Meeting will be Saturday, October 21 at 9 am, in the Community Room of the JP Branch Library on South Street (next to Curtis Hall.) Please join us to talk about next steps for fundraising, publicity, work in the library, and more.
Thank you to everyone who has helped the library, we look forward to a grand opening later in the fall!
Music Class:
We are working hard this year to provide all of our students with as many resources in music as possible. Please join us in bringing more instruments to our two music classrooms! Click here to find out more!
It’s Disney Musical Time for grades 3-5!:
If your child is interested in participating in the Disney musical please come to a parent information meeting Mon Oct 16th or Tue Oct 17th from 5:30-6 in the auditorium. Auditions for the show “Jungle Book” will take place Tue Oct 24th and Wed Oct 25th at 3:45-5 pm also in the auditorium.
Can’t be at the meeting? Mail your questions to Kim Taylor Knight at storyinabox@gmail.com
Looking forward to meeting you!
Curley Ambassadors of Dance (CAD):
is starting this fall! Kim Taylor Knight will begin rehearsals on November 14th at 4-5 pm in the Auditorium.
This year CAD will be performing at the MLK celebration at the Strand Theater in January, the Art Show in April and the District Arts Festival on the Common.
For more information please contact Kim at storyinabox@gmail.com
Social Media:
For up to date information about the Curley K-8 School please sign up for email alerts by joining the Mailing List. You can also follow Principal Grassa on Twitter @principalgrassa and be sure to always use the hashtag #curleycares when sharing/posting/tweeting information about our school.
