Principal, Ryan McCluskey
Assistant Principal, Jill Lizier
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Please use this link to keep up to date on all that is happening at Memorial School. This calendar, along with other important information can also be found on the Memorial School website (link is above).
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Memorial School now uses PickUp Patrol as a way for parents to communicate absences, tardies, early dismissals, and transportation changes. It automates the dismissal process by allowing parents & guardians to submit plan changes through a convenient app on their smartphone or computer. Specific information about downloading and setting up the app has gone home. For those families who have not yet set up their accounts, new "Welcome" emails were sent home earlier today. Please check your email.
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Lunch Account Balances
The goal of Memorial School’s breakfast and lunch program is to provide healthy meals to children during the school day. In order to serve healthy, high-quality meals to all children, we must make sure we are financially secure. You play a key role in this effort, and are responsible for purchases made by your child in our school cafeteria.
Parents of students who carry a balance over $5.00 will receive an email. These are sent home weekly. We suggest parents check their emails frequently, as It is extremely important that school lunch balances be paid in a timely manner.
Your continued support of our school lunch program is greatly apprecited.
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DIGITAL DIRECTORY/PARENT VOLUNTEER FORM
Every year the Memorial School PTO puts together a digital directory for families to use as a tool to communicate with each other, and to ask if any parents are interested in volunteering for any number of PTO sponsored events. This year the PTO has decided to use Google Forms to collect this information. This form will be sent out a couple of times a year, to allow for any new arrivals to our school to be added or for anyone who needs to update their information. Below you will find a link to the form, please take a few minutes to complete and submit it.
If you already completed this when it was emailed home in September, please do not fill it out again unless you need to update your information.
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Greetings Memorial School Community,
Happy New Year as we welcome in 2020 and our students have come back to school ready to learn.
As we flip the calendar to the new year, it is important to share that we will also shift a part of our focus to the reorganization that will occur in the fall of 2020. This week we had our second Focus Advisory Group meeting to discuss aspects of the transition and also offered building tours (with support from the Memorial PTO) to Bakie students and Kingston families to introduce them to the building. As the school year continues and in conjunction with the Memorial PTO, we will offer additional opportunities to orient Bakie students and parents to our school as well as to bring our Memorial and Bakie students together as we form our new school community and identity.
Additionally, please be aware that the Bakie School principal, Chris Snyder, will be offering
Bakie School building tours on Thursday, January 16th, at 6:00p.m. and 6:30p.m.
that will begin in the school lobby. Additionally, the Bakie Boosters will meet in the Bakie School library at 7:00p.m. and invite Memorial parents to join them.
Lastly, I would like to share a change in our Memorial School staff that your students are already well aware of. I would like to welcome and introduce Cathy Breslin as our new building Responsibility Room paraprofessional. Cathy is replacing Bonnie Gasse, who is still in our building, but has moved to the administrative secretary position. Cathy has worked at Memorial School for many years, most recently as a paraprofessional in the 3rd grade. As a reminder, our Responsibility Room serves as a place for students to process and reflect on expected school behaviors. This is a very important position to help support students as well as maintain a smoothly run school. Welcome Mrs. Breslin!
Thank you,
Ryan McCluskey
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News from the Health Office
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Giving Tree
Our giving tree was a huge success again this year! Thank you to all of our Memorial families who helped to make the holidays magical! A special thank you to our Girl Scout Troop 53120, they were able to provide an entire family with amazing gifts while teaching our youngsters the true meaning of the Holiday Season. I would also like to send a thank you to those at Reds Shoe Barn, Plaistow Chamber of Commerce, Exeter Chamber Children’s Fund, and Unitil for helping us meet the needs of our community. We at Memorial feel very fortunate to be surrounded by such a generous and thoughtful community.
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Outdoor Recess Clothing
The cold weather has arrived, and we want to remind parents to be sure that your children are dressed appropriately for daily outdoor play. Please remind them to wear warm winter coats, hats, mittens and bring winter boots and snow pants.
We also suggest that you send an extra change of clothing (especially socks and pants) to be kept in your child’s cubby for those days when they get wet from playing in the snow and puddles. Remember to send sneakers or shoes to wear in class. Thank you for preparing your child to enjoy outdoor play this winter.
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The End 68 Hours of Hunger program is a local private program whose mission is to help families feed their children over the weekend so that they arrive to school well-nourished and ready to learn. The participating children receive a reusable bag on Friday afternoons with non-perishable and easy to prepare meals ready to take home. This program is completely confidential and the names of participating students are not shared with anyone. No financial disclosures are required to participate in this program.
If you are interested in having your child participate or have any questions about this program please contact nurse Cindy at
ccole@sau17.net
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Preschool Enrollment Open for 2020 - 2021
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APPLICATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED
FOR SANBORN REGIONAL INTEGRATED PRESCHOOL PROGRAM
The Sanborn Regional
Integrated
Preschool Program is currently accepting applications for the 2020- 2021 school year for the three year and four year old preschool programs.
With the District restructure, the Preschool will be located at the D.J.Bakie Elementary School in Kingston, NH.
The three year old program is held Mondays through Thursdays from 8:30 AM to 11:00 AM. Eligible children must be three years old by September 30, 2020 and be residents of Kingston or Newton, New Hampshire.
The four year old program is held Mondays through Thursdays from
12:00-3:00 PM at each school for residents of Kingston and Newton.
Eligible children must be four years old by September 30, 2020. There are limited openings in the four year old program.
Tuition for the three year program is $165 per month and the four year old program is $200 per month. A tuition agreement form must be completed and returned in order to participate in the program. Enrollment is limited, and the deadline for submitting an application is Friday, February 28, 2020.
All applicants must participate in a developmental screening process. Please note that this is not a Child Find. You may call to schedule a Child Check Appointment if you are questioning a possible educational issue. For more information, or to register your child for the lottery, please call Robin Baker at 642-5272, ext. 119 or email at rbaker@sau17.net.
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Happy 2020!
Our menu for January 2020 features French Toast Sticks on the day we return from vacation, followed by Chicken Nuggets, Mozzarella stuffed bread sticks, and Shepherd’s Pie with a biscuit. We will highlight other January offerings in the next newsletter, and they include many of our student's favorites!
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact JoAnne in the kitchen at 382-3326.
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Check Out Our Recap of Kindness Month at Memorial
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Happy 2020! The Memorial PTO has a number of exciting events and updates to share with you going into January.
The first PTO meeting of the New Year was held on Thursday, January 9th. Haven't joined the PTO yet, there is still time! Our next meeting will take place on Thursday, February 13th at 7 pm in the Memorial Library.
We are looking forward to hosting our first Memorial/ Bakie community building event on January 31st. This event is "Make Your Own Mascot". We will be offering mascots representative of each school: Memorial's eagle and Bakie's dragon. Each child will be given a "skin" to stuff (like they do at Build-A-Bear). This is a sign up event with limited availability and time slots, please be on the lookout as flyers were sent home in your child's backpack or
click here
for the flyer.
Many people have been inquiring about their Pura Vida orders, we have been in contact with the company and have been told that it will be another 4 weeks. We greatly apologize for the delay and hope that this hasn't inconvenienced anyone too much.
The Spaghetti Dinner is scheduled for March 26th with the theme "Thanks for the Memories". The raffle baskets are due on February 21st. Please reach out your room parents with questions or to make donations.
The 2019 Scholastic book fair was a success! Not only were we able to fulfill the teacher wish lists to improve both classroom libraries and the school library, we raised enough money to purchase a washer and dryer unit for the school. Many of you may not realize how much Nurse Cindy does for our students, but it had come to the PTO's attention that she was bringing home and laundering clothes and other items for some members within our school community. The purchase of the washer and dryer means that she will be able to help students in a more efficient and accessible way. Thank you to all the families who participated in the book fair and helped make this purchase possible!
We are looking forward to a great start in 2020 and hope to see you all at the various events we have scheduled going forward this year.
Sincerely,
The Memorial PTO
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Box Tops for Education News
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"Sanborn Music Boosters is running a fundraiser through Savers that won't cost you a dime!! As a matter of fact, this fundraiser may actually help you with your Spring Cleaning!!
All you have to do is pack up your gently used clothing and linens as you organize and declutter this winter/spring, put them aside, contact the Music Boosters, and we'll arrange to pick up your donations!
Thank you in advance for your support!!"
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Summer Enrichment at Sanborn
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Click the flyer above to register for the Summer Enrichment Programs
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“Go for the Gold- Read!” at the Gale Library
Let the games begin! The Olympic Winter Games are here at the Gale Library, Newton.
“Go for the Gold- Read!”
the
Winter Reading Programs
will start on Tuesday, Jan. 21 and continue through March 2nd. There are programs and prizes for all ages.
Children
color a snowflake for each 20 minutes they read on a reading log. When they reach their goal, they choose prizes and new books from the treasure box. All readers are entered into the program’s raffles for weekly prizes. We will celebrate the finale with a Bingo for Books night on Mon. March 2.
Teens and Adults
also can join the Winter Read Program! Just register, read, and take a chance in our prize drawings. Teens can win passes to O’Neil Cinemas in Epping!
Come to the Gale Library, find some good books and Go for the Gold- Read!
Join us for your
Girl Scout Information Night
on Monday, Jan 13, at 6 PM. This is a free session to explore the many Girl Scout programs, to enjoy fun activities, to learn about volunteer opportunities, and to register and receive a free Discover Girl Scouts embroidered patch. Skills Today, Success Tomorrow!
After-school
Lego Build
on Wednesday, Jan. 22 at 3:30. Drop in for and relax with an hour of building. We have challenges, kits, or your own ideas to try. Bring a friend and a drink, snack provided.
The Library will be closed on January 20, MLK Day.
On Wednesday
, January 8 at 2:00 p.m.
There will be an
Early Release
Movie
Matinee
at 2 PM showing
The Lion King
which is
rated PG and runs for 118 minutes.
A snack will be provided but bring your own drink.
Celebrate
National Puzzle Day
on Saturday, Jan 25 at the library! There are lots of puzzles for all ages from tots to teens and adults to build at the library or to borrow or swap.
Let’s build!
Join us for a fun hour of building with Legos, CoolFlakes, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, K’next, Gears, Gears, Gears or Snap Circuits. Bring a friend or work alone and build on
Monday, Feb 10 at 6:00 p.m.
Drop in for
Baby Play Date
on Fridays at 10 AM. This is for children up to 2 years old but older siblings are welcome. Play with Balls, Blocks, Parachute, toys, while you meet other caregivers.
Story hour
continues with stories, songs, and crafts about Winter Critters, Mitten Weather, Go for the Gold, Build a Snowman, and all things winter on Tuesdays at 10 AM.
Check out our Facebook page at The Gale Library, Newton, NH for pictures and more information or call 382-4691.
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Newton Residents – Go to the Movies
The Newton Recreation Commission is offering free movie tickets that can be used during the month of February by Newton residents. The tickets are available and valid for any time and day in the month of February at Vision Max Cinema, 201 Elm Street, Salisbury, MA.
Tickets will be provided on January 23 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and January 30 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Newton Town Hall. The tickets are limited to four per family. PROOF of RESIDENCY is required. The tickets will be first come, first served while they last.
Have some fun during the cold month of February, and see the movie of your choice!
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Click the flyer above to sign up for the Valentine's Day babysitting.
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