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May 17, 2021

 Good morning-

I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Thank you for your participation in PD on Friday. It was wonderful to see all of the small group conversations happening and I hope you found the time beneficial. 

This week we will administer the Math MCAS test. Thank you to Erin for the incredible amount of work she has done to get this all organized. Please review the updates for this week, some assignments may have changed.

Please keep reminding your students in clubs/activities that they must provide a copy of the vaccination card to nursing or sign up for pool testing in order to meet in person.

I am happy to share with you the official NEASC Notification Letter of accreditation. I am looking forward to getting to some of the work we have to complete in the 21-22 school year as it is a continuation of the great work we were doing pre-COVID. 

For now, I know you join me in counting down the days until graduation for the Class of 2021. Thanks to all of you who responded to the graduation survey. We will not wear our robes this year. I hope to return to that tradition again next year but with many of you helping out before and during the ceremony I think it best that we come dressed for the weather, which hopefully means sun hats!

Reminder we will have a senior class meeting to discuss the end of year on Wednesday, May 19 at 10:10am (beginning of A block). We will get them back to class as quickly as possible. 

The grading window for seniors will be open on Wednesday, May 26 and will close at 3pm on June 1. If you haven't done so already, please let me, Erin, and the counselor know ASAP if you have a student in danger of failing.

I love this rush to end of the year. It's exhausting but rewarding. You all have been so amazing. Keep your positive attitudes and those smiles coming. We've got this. 

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