Hello Middle School families. Depending on when you read this email…..I hope that you have an amazing break or I hope you had an amazing break. I can’t believe we are at the winter break already. Wow time flies when you’re having fun as the Principal at GDRMS….
New Information:
Middle School Concerts, Wow, the concerts were great. It's always so nice to see our students having a good time doing what they enjoy. We hope you enjoyed the shows. We look forward to spring shows.
The Groton Dunstable Education Foundation (GDEF) is a local nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting innovative and inspiring grants to enhance the quality of our students’ education. In the last academic year, GDEF awarded 12 grants across district schools totaling over $16,000 (information about all funded projects can be found here). If you or any loved ones are looking to make a year-end donation that will have an impact on your children's education, please consider donating to GDEF here. Your donations are directly returned to the hands and minds of students in the form of science, arts, technology, math, literacy, social-emotional learning, and civics programming.
Thank you for your support, The GDEF Board of Directors
We are ready to start our yearbook cover contest. Please see the attached flyer.
Middle School PTO Newsletter, file/d/1jn9BjqaH5LzYBcv99__qG_UNt2Us6EYL/view?usp=drive_link
Project Mitten, With all of your help and support we raised $4,804.03 for Project Mitten 2023!! That figure is as of today, 12/22. We were able to assist over 100 children in our community during the December holidays and this will help the Fund continue to work all year long,
Please, on behalf of all of the recipients, offer our thanks and appreciation.
Upcoming Assemblies
January 9 – Dorothy Minear, Spinning as a Revolutionary Act (Grade 5)
January 19 – Jason Purdy, Illusionist
January 30 – Jarrett Korsoczka, NY Times best-selling author/illustrator
Best Buddies,
The link to sign up is bestbuddies.org/join. I don't think the list has changed since the beginning of the year (although Kim was kind enough to catch an error about January when we sent it out earlier), but just in case, we'll be meeting:
January 10, February 14, March 27, April 10, and May 22.
Cheer Clinic, There is a cheer clinic on Wednesday ⅓ 4:40-6:30. It is open to 8th grade students.
School Council meeting, we had our 2nd school council meeting on Monday 12/4. Our next meeting will be Monday January 8th in the South Library. All are welcome to attend.
Health Office Reminders:
Positive Covid test - Students need to stay home and isolate for 5 days. They may return to school on day 6 as long as symptoms are resolved or improved and they must be fever free for greater than 24 hours without the help of medications. Students must wear a mask until day 10 unless they test negative for covid on day 5 or later.
Fever of 100 Degrees F or higher - Students need to be fever-free for 24 hours (without the use of fever-reducing medication such as Tylenol or Motrin) before returning to school.
Vomiting or Diarrhea - Students may return to school 24 hours after the last episode.
Contagious Bacterial Infection (such as strep throat, conjunctivitis, impetigo, etc.) – Students need to be fever free and on antibiotics for a minimum of 24 hours before returning to school.
To order Free Covid tests:
https://www.covid.gov/tools-and-resources/resources/tests
Covid Guidelines for School:
Reminders:
Winter Assistance, if you or your family need any assistance going into the winter months here is an Assistance Request Form that you can fill out for support.
School Council, We held our first school council meeting on Monday 10/23. All members were present. Our next meeting will be 12/4/23 at 2:45 in the South Library. These meetings will also be posted on our Middle School website. On the website you will find our meetings on the calendar and in the Menu-> Documents -> School Council you will find our minutes.
GDRMS Handbook:
Please spend some time with your students getting familiar with our handbook.
Middle School Core Values. Please talk with your students about these words. Use them at home.
Ownership, Own your space, Own your learning, Own your behavior.
Awareness, Be aware of yourself and others, Be aware of your surroundings, and Be aware of your impact.
Kindness, Be kind to yourself, Be kind to others, and Be kind to your surroundings.
Dates to remember:
Teachers update SchoolBrains, 11/17, 12/1, 12/15 and ⅕
Winter Vacation Monday 12/25 - Tuesday 1/2
Sincerely your Groton Dunstable Regional Middle School Principal
Wendy Salvatore