Reminders & Headlines:

Check your mailbox
Summer information packets were mailed to families on August 10

Review and/or download checklist above
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RSVP for the WELCOME BACK BBQ - Sunday August 28th- 11am-2pm

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First Day of School - Monday August 29
Updates from our
Head of School
Hello Marblehead Community Charter Families,

We are just days away from welcoming back our amazing faculty and staff. Our team will spend all of next week learning together and preparing our classrooms for the first days of school.

In this email, please review the parent checklist, RSVP for the Back-to-School BBQ, read about the Committees you can join, review the parent contract, and make your contribution to our Student Success Fund.

We have nearly 200 (so far) people who will be attending our back-to-school BBQ hosted by the PTO on Sunday August 28 at 11am-2pm. We still need a few more grills and tents for the event. Please RSVP and let us know if you can contribute a grill and/or tent. We hope all students and their families will join us at the BBQ.

For the first day of school, all students are invited to bring their parents to the community meeting. We will gather in our Community Room to welcome everyone to the new school year.

ARRIVAL/DISMISSAL PROCEDURES

Our school is located at 17 Lime Street in Marblehead. Students are expected to be at the school and seated at their table in the Community Room no later than 7:45am for our community meeting. Parents are welcome to join us at the community meeting or join us for lunch. If you will be eating the school lunch, please give us advanced notice that you are joining us.

Students should arrive between 7:15-7:40am. For arrival, please enter the first driveway entrance and circle around all the way to Lime Street in the second driveway. Everyone should pull all the way forward. This means that students may need to walk back from the car to the front entrance of the school. Students should exit cars on the school side of the car. Please do not stop the car at the front entrance of the school. If you can pull all the way forward, it expedites the arrival process. KEY TAKEAWAY: Pull the car all the way forward at arrival.

For dismissal, students should be picked up at 3:20pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Dismissal is at 2:30pm on Wednesdays and Fridays. Once again, cars will form a queue in the driveway loop. It is essential that everyone pull their car as far forward as possible. While some cars may wait along the fence on Lime Street, please do not park beyond the fence, as this causes a gridlock situation whereby other cars cannot get by. We are working on paving a section of the parking lot that will widen the area where cars are in line at dismissal. Once that is complete, if you are at the front of the line, please pull over to the right, so that cars that already have retrieved their passengers can exit around the cars still in the queue.

We will be out there to direct traffic and train everyone on these procedures. We appreciate everyone's help with the above procedures and your patience during the first few days when new families learn the system.

Enjoy the last ten days of summer vacation!

Peter Cohen, Ed.D
Head of School
BACK-TO-SCHOOL BBQ
Hosted by the MCCPS PTO

The BBQ will take place on the field on
Sunday, August 28th from 11 am - 2 pm.
Please bring your own blankets and chairs!

We will have hamburgers and hotdogs, and we hope families will be able to volunteer to bring other dishes such as salads, drinks, and desserts. 

Please RSVP and volunteer for this event through the SignUpGenius below by August 26th.
Please sign up below to help make this event a success!


This event is open to students, families, and faculty/staff of MCCPS.
It is a great opportunity to meet your new teachers before school starts!

If you have any questions, please reach out to Connie DeBoever, president of the PTO, at cfang73@yahoo.com


Upcoming Events

Monday August 22 - New Staff Orientation
Tuesday August 23-Friday August 26 - Professional Development Workshops for Faculty
Sunday August 28 - Back to School Family BBQ hosted by the PTO - 11am-2pm
Monday August 29 - First Day of School
Wednesday August 31 - Popsicles for 4th graders and 4th grade families after school
Friday September 2 - No School - Long Weekend for Labor Day Holiday
Monday September 5 - No School - Labor Day
Wednesday September 14 - Early Release Day for students - noon dismissal. PD for Faculty.
Wednesday September 28 - School Picture Day



Upcoming Meetings
(Meetings will take place in person at the school, as COVID-19 protocols allow or if remote, meetings will take place via Zoom w/ links on our website calendar)


Monday August 22 - Personnel Committee Meeting - 7pm
Tuesday August 23 - Governance Committee Meeting - 7pm
Friday August 26 - Finance Committee Meeting - 8am
Friday August 26 - Academic Excellence Committee Meeting - 2:45pm
Tuesday August 30 - Board of Trustees Meeting - 7pm
Thursday September 8 - Strategic Planning Committee Meeting - 6:30pm


Join the PTO
At Marblehead Community Charter, COMMUNITY is our middle name. Everyone - teachers, parents, students, administrators, and staff need to do their part to support our school.

Please consider joining the PTO and become an ambassador for our school.