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Willow Ave, Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
Phone: (908)-322-7731
Principal: Jeffrey Grysko
(For details, visit Calendar section)
| 05/02 | Spring Fling (7:30 - 11:30pm @ Scotch Hills Country Club) |
| 05/05-05/09 | Teacher Appreciation Week |
| 05/06 | Kindergarten Screening |
| 05/08 | PTA Exec Board Mtg. |
| 05/09 | Mother's Day Plant Sale |
| 05/13 |
BOE Agenda Mtg. (8:00pm) |
| 05/16 | CHILD Student Recognition & Dinner |
| 05/20 | Cultural Arts Assembly - Dinosaur Rock |
| 05/20 |
Book Fair Parent Preview |
| 05/21-05/22 |
Book Fair |
| 05/22 |
BOE Regular Mtg. (8:00pm) |
| 05/26 | Schools Closed (Memorial Day) |
| 05/30 | Fun Fair |
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Teacher Appreciation Week As Teacher Appreciation Week approaches, I would
like to ask you for some help. During the week of May 5-9, we will
be celebrating just how much we appreciate all our teachers do for
our kids. You can help by bringing in food, setting up, cleaning up
and decorating. The breakfast will be Tuesday May 6th from 7:45-9:00
and lunch will be Friday May 9th from 11:15-1:30. We will be setting
up Friday May 2nd after school. |
(courtesy SPF School district)
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Enrolling your child in SPF Public Schools
Principal's Message
May 2008
I am sure you are well aware that the Scotch Plains/Fanwood communities approved the 2008/2009 proposed school budget on April 15th. I would like to extend my thanks and appreciation to everyone actively involved in the promotion of this budget, as well as those who encouraged the residents of our communities to support our District. We would not have received such positive results without your efforts. Your approval sent the message that our communities truly care about their children’s education. This vote of confidence enables us to continue to provide quality programs for our students’ future educational endeavors.
On behalf of our staff, central administration, and Board of Education, we would like to thank you for your support. I would also like to offer my congratulations to the elected members of our Board of Education: Warren McFall and Donald Parisi, from Scotch Plains, and Sasha Slocum, from Fanwood. Please join me in wishing our Board members all the best as these dedicated individuals begin another term, and thank them for their commitment to the Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District.
We have already started to plan for the 2008-2009 school year, beginning with kindergarten registration. To date, 54 children have enrolled for next year’s kindergarten class. If you are aware of any family in our District with a kindergarten-age child who has not yet registered, please ask them to do so now. We are also carefully looking at our enrollment figures for Grades 1 through 4 in order to determine the appropriate number of sections. To establish the number of sections at each grade level, class sizes are compared to other elementary schools in the District and take into account the District’s philosophy regarding class sizes. Over the next few months we will continue to review the size of each grade level. Once again, if you are aware of any families planning to enroll their children at School One for the fall, please ask them to notify our office at this time.
Our fourth-grade students are currently preparing for their transition to Park Middle School in September. An evening program was held at Park for parents to learn more about their children’s fifth-grade learning experience on April 14th, and our students had the opportunity to visit Park on April 10th, to learn more about their experience next year and to spend time in the classrooms. It was apparent when they returned from their visit that they are excited about their fifth-grade experience and the opportunities that will be presented to them.
We are also pleased to announce that an after-school program, cosponsored by the Municipal Alliance Committee (MAC) and the C.H.I.L.D. Association, to prepare our fourth graders for the middle-school experience will be held at School One on two consecutive Tuesdays, May 6th and May 13th. Topics such as how students can maintain a balance between homework and their social life, family responsibilities, peer pressure, and making and keeping friends will be discussed. Over the years our children have done extremely well transitioning into the fifth grade at Park Middle School. I fully anticipate that our present class will experience the same success.
I am pleased to indicate a majority of our assessment programs have been completed including the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJASK) for third and fourth grades; the New Jersey Proficiency of State Standards (NJPASS) for second grade; and the Cognitive Abilities Test for third grade. Over the next week we will also complete the assessment of our Site-Based Objectives that were established for this year. As we enter the final months of school, there is one more important evaluative component, our District assessment for first-grade children, which needs to be administered. The assessment has been developed by first-grade teachers from our District, and provides us with information on the attainment of learning goals that have been established in reading, writing, and mathematics.
Our plan at this time is to administer the language arts components on May 6th, 7th, and 8th; and the Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) on May 13th, 14th, 15th, and 20th. For this component of the assessment, students will work with their classroom teacher on a one-to-one basis for approximately 20 minutes to obtain accurate data on their reading fluency and comprehension. In addition, we will administer the mathematic sections on May 21st and 22nd. According to the letter sent home earlier this week from Mrs. Swarts, our Supervisor of State, Federal, and Elementary Programs, students will be engaged in activities similar to those that they experience within their instructional day. They will be expected to complete problem-solving activities and apply the skills and concepts that they have attained by reading and recording work with pencil and paper.
As one can see the month of May is always an extremely busy month, so we encourage all parents to please read this newsletter thoroughly.
Jeffrey Grysko
Principal
PTA News Flash
"Secrets of a Soccer Mom" performance on May 14th and May 15th cancelled.
Help needed to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week (May 5-9).
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