RJ Grey Weekly PTSO Chatter

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Weekly Chatter

RJ Grey Junior High School

November 21, 2021

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Table of Contents

Calendar of Events
Main Office - New Email Address
Winter Athletic Tryouts
Support Students in the AB Music Programs
Book Club - Book Available
After-School Clubs
Rise to the Challenge
Looking for a Mental Health Provider?

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Wednesday, November 24: Early Release for Thanksgiving at 11:10am

Thursday, November 25 and Friday, November 26: No School for Thanksgiving

Monday, November 29 - Early Release for Professional Learning (1pm)

Main Office - New Email Address

If you need to email the main office, RJ Grey has created a new email address where you can reach them: rjgrey_main_office@abschools.org. You are welcome to use this email which will reach several staff members. As RJ Grey recently experienced changes in staffing, this may be a useful tool to know that your message is getting to multiple people.

Winter Athletic Tryouts

All interested student athletes who wish to tryout for the 7th and 8th Grade Basketball teams and/or Cheerleading Team, must have an updated physical on file with the school nurse (EDoherty@abschools.org) AND register for Tryouts on Family I.D BEFORE tryouts start on Nov. 29th. Please see our Website for links.

RJ Grey Winter Tryouts will start after the Thanksgiving Break (Nov 29th) and each sport will have designated times and dates for their tryouts. Times and dates per sport for tryouts will be coming in a few weeks to our website. Stay tuned.

Support Students in the AB Music Programs

The Acton-Boxborough Friends of Music (ABFOM), is holding a Fall Fund Drive. We’re reaching out to the community to help support students in the amazing music programs offered at AB. All funds raised go directly to benefit students in the band, choral, or orchestra groups. You can contribute online here.

We appreciate your support! Thank you! ABFOM is an independent non-profit (501c3) organization dedicated to the support and promote of the AB scholastic music program.

Book Club - Book Available

Do you remember back when finding toilet paper was a thing? The RJ Grey book club has chosen its next book and it starts in the aisles of a grocery store during the first few months of the pandemic. Hello (from here) is a delightful romance that's a perfect read for romance & realistic fiction fans. Come on by the library to pick up a copy and then come to our next meeting on Thursday, December 2nd.

After-School Clubs

The official RJ Grey Clubs doc is now on the RJ Grey Website. Click here to link to the page. If you have any questions about the clubs, please contact the club advisor.

Rise to the Challenge

Rise to the Challenge is something the Junior High started as a way of recognizing student involvement in community service. We know that many students are already participating in service activities outside of school, and we hope to celebrate those efforts along with encouraging more students to become active in service opportunities. Students who complete 10 hours of service within a school year will be recognized for their efforts. Please visit the Community Service webpage for details on this program. If you have any questions please email Debbie Brookes.

Looking for a Mental Health Provider?

INTERFACE Referral Service is a mental health resource and referral Helpline that helps children, adults and families, in subscribing communities, become connected with mental health and wellness resources. Part of your ABRPTSO Membership Donation goes towards the funding of this service.

INTERFACE Referral Service looks forward to continuing to help residents of Acton & Boxborough find a successful match with an outpatient mental health provider in their area, who is able to see them at a convenient time, takes their insurance or meets their fee requirement, as well as meets their clinical needs.

Please call the William James College INTERFACE Helpline at 617-332-3666 Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM, for resource information and/or provider referrals from a mental health professional. Please also review the very extensive website at interface.williamjames.edu for additional information about the service, as well as resources on mental health and wellness across the lifespan.

The Weekly Chatter is distributed each Sunday. If you have a submission you'd like to include in the Chatter, please email it to chatter@abrptso.org by noon on Friday. The Chatter was created solely for the purpose of communicating school-related events, groups and forums to parents and students.