We hope you all have a wonderful break!
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Important Dates:
Monday, February 19-Friday, February 23:
Winter Break- No School
Wednesday, February 28:
Google Expedition For Grades 7 & 8
Friday, March 2:
Read Across America, Read Across Wilson
7:55 am-8:20 am
Friday, March 9:
Last Day of Trimester 2
Monday, March 12:
First Day of Trimester 3
Wednesday, March 14:
Early Release 11:30 am
Staff Appreciation Luncheon 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Friday, March 16:
Grade 5 ROSP and Grades 6-8 Report Cards for Trimester 2
Posted in iPass
Monday, March 19
:
Wildcat Basketball Game (Students vs. Staff) 3:00 pm
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Photos from Mock Caldecott/Sibert Event
Grade 5 Team Endurance:
5th graders from Team Endurance shared their opinion essays and choices for the Caldecott and Sibert Awards on Monday with Ben-Hem 4th graders. The 5th graders had read and analyzed dozens of books against the award criteria, then crafted opinion essays for their choices. Many thanks to
Ms. Ilse O'Brien
for organizing this wonderful event for the Wilson and Ben-Hem students.
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Chinese New Year Festivities:
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Resources on How to Talk to Your Children About Tragedy:
Please click on the links below for different articles on best to talk to your children about tragedy. Please reach out to us at Wilson if you have any questions or need guidance in this area.
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MCAS schedule:
Click here
for the MCAS schedule this spring. Please make every effort to ensure the students are in school for their scheduled testing days.
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Family Connectivity Survey:
On February 26, a survey will be sent in an email to middle school families from the Panorama Education Team. We want your feedback about your child’s school experiences and your own experiences interacting with your child's school. To ensure that Natick Public Schools continues providing high-quality, rigorous learning experiences to its students, and make sure that they are being prepared for their lives in college and beyond, your feedback on what Natick Public Schools is doing well and what could improve is essential. Please note that the survey is from the Natick Public Schools but may find its way into your spam folder. Thank you in advance for completing this survey and for partnering with us to provide the best education possible for students.
Sincerely,
Andy Zitoli & Teresa Carney
Middle School Principals
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Wilson Staff Appreciation Luncheon:
What's Happening?
On Tuesday March 15, 2017 please help the PTO show our incredible Wilson staff how much we appreciation their efforts during the Staff Appreciation Luncheon.
How You Can Help?
1. Make a main dish, salad ,or a yummy dessert
2. Make a cash donation. We will use the contribution to purchase items for the event such as paper goods, small gifts for the staff and any needed food items. Please send your donation to the office in an envelope labeled Staff Appreciation, make checks out to the Wilson PTO.
3. Volunteer your time. We will need help setting up, serving and cleaning up after the luncheon.
4. Donate a gift basket, gift cards,gift items or even some sports tickets you may have. We will raffle off items to the teachers during the event. They really look forward to this every year!
Schedule:
Set-up: 9-1:30 am
Serving: 11:30 -12:30 pm
Clean-up 12:30 -1:30 pm
Please bring cold items/paper goods/gift baskets by 9:30 am, and hot items ready to serve by 10:30 am on March 15, 2017
Please refer to the below link to sign up to help or donate food or raffle items:
Thank-you for all of your support.
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Support the Natick Special Olympics:
The inclusion t-shirt is the creation of four Wilson sixth-graders: Adam Navisky, Sam Hess, Keller Berry, and Dan Brazier! With Ms. Graf’s guidance, they have developed the slogan “the key to kindness is inclusion.” One hundred percent of the proceeds will be donated to the Natick Special Olympics, a community-building event dedicated to the acceptance of all athletes, regardless of ability.
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**An Important Program Note from SPARK Kindness**
Dear Natick Families,
We are writing to let you know that there is a *NEW* date for our annual Elementary School Parent Workshops: Hot Topics,
April 5
th
at 6:30PM. This program is being rescheduled from February 13 (no program will take place on that date). Please mark your calendars -- we hope to see you then!
Elementary School Parent Workshops: Hot Topics
Thursday, April 5 from 6:30 to 8:30 at Wilson Middle School
For parents and caregivers (preschool and elementary school).
Elementary educators and administrators will conduct workshops sharing some of their personal expertise and tips on hot topics on navigating the elementary years.
(Childcare will be provided.)
Thank you!
The SPARK Kindness Team
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Wilson Gazette:
The Journalism Club has finished the first edition of The Wilson Gazette this year. The Wilson Gazette is the official newspaper of Wilson Middle School. Students who participate in the Journalism Club develop story ideas, conduct interviews and write all of the articles for the paper. Here is the link to the
Wilson Gazette
!
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STRIVERS Running Club for Girls registration starting on February 12:
Click here
for information about the Strivers Program.
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District & School Report Cards:
We are pleased to share annual district and school-based report cards published by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education as required by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The report cards contain information about school and district accountability, student achievement, and other important measures of school performance.
In addition, we provide information about our Title 1 requirements and the "right to know" for parents at the Johnson School.
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Beverages:
Please note that students are not allowed in homeroom or classrooms with coffee, hot chocolate or any other beverages other than water. If they come into school with this type of drink they will be asked to finish it before heading to homeroom, or to dispose of it. Thank you for your help with this.
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Yearbook Information:
The Wilson Middle School Yearbook is currently on sale for $28, until January 15 and then it will be selling for $33. There will be 625 printed. We urge you to buy one as soon as possible.
Here are 5 reasons you should invest in a yearbook:
1. It holds memories throughout someone’s middle school experience.
2. It is inexpensive when you consider it as a source of reflection.
3. It makes a great gift around the holidays or any time of the year.
4. It gives you something to smile about looking through all the pictures.
5. A yearbook can possibly last for 100 years or longer.
Welcome to
eShare
, a free service from Herff Jones that allows students, parents, and community to submit photos for potential use in the yearbook.
Our school code is:
WILSONMS
.
Parents and students can go to
www.hjeshare.com
and enter the school code:
WILSONMS
.
YOU CAN ORDER A YEARBOOK HERE:
Also check out the
eShare
iPhone and Android apps in your respective app stores. These are a great way to contribute photos from mobile devices.
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Middle Years Februry Parent Newsletter:
Please
click here
for this month's Middle Years Parent Newsletter.
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Counselor's Corner Newsletter:
Click
here
for this month's counselor's newsletter from our guidance counselors.
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Reminders:
Please send in a dismissal note with your child if he/she needs to leave school early. This allows us to have your child ready for you and avoids us disrupting class to call him/her down to the office.
Please remind your child to stop in the office to get a tardy pass if he/she arrives to school from 7:50 am or later.
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Wilson Middle School
Kindness Challenge:
Wilson Middle School is participating in the Middle School Kindness Challenge, which brings together education organizations to provide teachers and school staff with research-based activities that will increase our efforts for building a positive school culture. Over the next month, we will intentionally teach and foster kindness in our regular school day. Please reinforce the efforts by talking with your child about what they are learning in relation to kindness.
KINDNESS IS CONTAGIOUS - CATCH IT!
#wilsonkindness
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Wilson Extra-Curricular Activities 2017-2018:
Please click
here
for the listing and descriptions of the extra-curricular activities for this school year. Late buses and activities began the week of September 11.
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School Improvement Plan:
Click here
for the middle school School Improvement Plan presentation.
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Before you post online....
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WILSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
TRAFFIC PATTERN:
P
lease follow the traffic pattern and signs when dropping your child off and picking up. Please do not pull into the front of the school between the hours of 7:00 am-8:00 am and
1:30 pm-3:30 pm. Additionally, you must wait to pick up your child until you pull to the side of the building. Students are not allowed to walk into the parking lot during dismissal because it is too dangerous. Additionally, you cannot cut into the lanes. You must follow the flow of traffic. Please be patient and drive slowly coming in and out of the school parking lot.
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Late Buses:
Bus #23 arrives at approximately 3:10 PM. Bus #15 arrives at
3:20 pm and the last bus Bus #13 arrives at approximately 3:30 pm.
5th & 6th grade students are supervised in a classroom while we wait for the bus and 7th & 8th graders are supervised in the lobby.
Please click below for the late bus runs and stops. Buses begin to arrive to Wilson at 3:00 pm with some of them arriving as late as 3:30 pm.
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