Hello Marblehead Community Charter Families,

Today our wonderful chefs were finally able to fully use the newly renovated kitchen and serve an outstanding hot lunch with pasta, marinara sauce made with fresh tomatoes from our garden, and their unbelievably tasty focaccia bread. YUM! Thank you to everyone for your patience as we completed all of the kitchen upgrades and inspections needed to get the new equipment up and running safely. 

As we continue to find ways to effectively communicate information to families, we will be trying out a new feature in the ConstantContact system that we use to send these emails and newsletters. ConstantContact now has a text messaging SMS feature. Please opt-in to this feature by following this link: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/s8KZJCC If enough people opt in, we will discontinue using the Remind text message platform.

Each year, after the first ten days of school have passed, we remind families of the importance of retuning the forms that were included in the summer mailing. It is very important that these forms be completed and returned to the front office as soon as possible and no later than September 21.

Please remember to hand in your summer mailing forms to the front office or send the forms in with your student! If for some reason you have not received these forms, please contact Meg Upton or Emily Miner at the front office.

The forms required to return are as follows:

• Student Health Form
• Student Contact Form
• Student Success Fund
• Student Directory and Press Release Form
• Meal Plan Information

We rely on getting as close to 100% participation in the Student Success Fund as possible in order to be able to fund so much, including our enrichment programs, free fruit at lunch, and to help us keep down the cost of special events and field trips throughout the year. We ask that everyone make their $180 donation to the Student Success Fund by the end of September. This equals less than $1 per school day per student. If you would prefer to spread out the cost over the school year, you can set up a monthly $18 donation from September through June to minimize the impact on your budget. Thank you so much for your support and for making your contribution online today. We will update our progress next week on our website: https://www.marbleheadcharter.org/student-success-fund-3/  See more information on the document pictured below. Click on the document to download the form.

Our Development & Communications Committee is seeking new members. See below for details. Community building events and some additional fundraisers will be planned throughout the year. In the next week we will begin to upgrade some of the school signs thanks to a very generous $2000 donation. We have some additional funding needed to get a new sign for the front facade of the building. See below for details on how you can help. 

Finally, today we started the Clean Up Crew process. Our 8th grade students are in charge of the clean up crew. Each day, five tables are assigned to the clean up crew after lunch. The students at these five tables are in grades 4-7. Each table has a job assigned to them and an 8th grader supervisor to check in and check out with after the job is complete. The whole process takes just a few minutes. We find that when all students take part in the clean up crew process, our community room is kept clean and students develop a sense of ownership in maintaining the facility. 

Please join us for lunch to see this in action. You are also welcome to join us for our community meeting each morning at 7:45am-8:00am. Your child will introduce you and our community will welcome you. 

Have an excellent weekend. We look forward to seeing many of you next Friday, September 23 at 8am for our first Coffee event. Meet the Principal and the Dean of Students.

Peter Cohen, Ed.D

Head of School