ABRPTSO
Weekly Chatter
AB Regional High School
May 2, 2021
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Table of Contents
- Calendar of Events
- Important Message from the High School Administration
- School Lunch Hero Day
- Project Graduation 2021: AMAZING FUNDRAISING
- Parents Supporting Parents Groups
- Entrepreneur Olympics - NEW DATE - MAY 7
- AB Cares to Host Safer Homes, Safer Community Gun Buyback
- Looking for a Mental Health Provider?
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May 3 - Return to Full In-Person Learning
May 3-21 - Advanced Placement Exams
May 7 - School Lunch Hero Day
May 12 - Interim Reports (grades 9-11)
May 18 - PTSO Virtual Meeting
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Important Message from the High School Administration
If you have not had a chance to read the information that was sent to students and families last week regarding our Return to In-Person and Remote plans, please click on the links below.
These documents contain very important information regarding the bell schedule, pooled testing, classroom routines, masks and the Remote Learning Program.
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School Lunch Hero Day - Celebrate on Friday, May 7th
School Lunch Hero Day is a chance to showcase the difference school nutrition professionals make for every child who comes through the cafeteria. School Lunch Hero Day provides you with the perfect opportunity to recognize the hardworking professionals in your school cafeterias.
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Project Graduation 2021: AMAZING FUNDRAISING!
If there’s one thing we’ve gotten good at in the past year, it’s ordering takeout. Our spectacular six-restaurant pizza night raised $775 in just a few hours for Project Graduation. Wow! Thank you to everyone who participated, and thanks again to the restaurants—AP Pizzeria, Bravo Pizza, DiCapri Pizzeria, New London Style Pizza, Sorrento’s Pizza, and Sweet Tomatoes Pizza. And believe it or not, two weeks later our Bamboo night brought in an incredible $900! Thank you, diners and Bamboo Westford! We are amazed and grateful!
Now that we’re getting closer (T-minus one month and counting!) to the main event on June 2, it’s almost time to fill up our volunteer Signup Genius. Look for a link coming soon!
Finally, and you’ll see this every week in our Chatter blurb, our gift card collection is ongoing. We are looking for gift cards in small denominations to give out as game and activity prizes at the Senior Sunset Send-Off, a fun, outdoor substance-free celebration. Click here if you can help out!
Again, thanks for your continued support of our AB seniors! The big night is almost here—we can hardly wait!
Jennifer Mabardy and Jennifer Philion
AB Project Graduation 2021 Co-Chairs
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Parents Supporting Parents Groups
The BRYT (Bridge for Youth in Transition) Network weekly Parents Supporting Parents Groups are open to any parent/caregiver in a school that belongs to the Network, which includes ABRSD. These groups are facilitated by clinicians from the BRYT Family Engagement team.
The meeting schedule for this week is:
Click on the link for the links and other information.
If you have questions about the BRYT Program or the Parents Supporting Parents Groups, please contact Todd Chicko, Counseling Chairperson (tchicko@abschools.org) or Susan Root, STAR Program Clinical Coordinator (sroot@abschools.org).
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Entrepreneur Olympics - NEW DATE - MAY 7
Students are invited to join us for a night of innovation and invention in the Entrepreneur Olympics. First, competitors will identify a crippling problem in their daily lives, like when your phone battery is at 1% but you’re almost done with your latest and greatest Tik Tok video. Then they will invent a solution and pitch it to their peers. Afterwards, each student will “invest” in their favorite inventions. The invention with the most “investments” wins up to $35 in Amazon gift cards.
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AB Cares to host Safer Homes, Safer Community: A Community Gun Buyback program to be held Saturday, May 15th, 2021
AB Cares is partnering with the Acton and Boxborough Police Departments and the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office to host a gun buyback initiative on Saturday, May 15th at the St. Matthew’s Methodist Church located at 435 Central Street in Acton. The event will run from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Click here to read a full press release.
The initiative is funded through the generosity of numerous organizations including Acton-Boxborough United Way, Danny’s Place Youth Services, Minuteman Senior Services, Roche Bros., Idylwilde Farms, UCC Boxborough, Acton-Boxborough Regional School District and the towns of Acton and Boxborough. Many local organizations have also stepped up to support this event as partners, including the Acton and Boxborough Police Departments, the League of Women Voters – Acton Area, the Acton Council on Aging, NAMI Central Middlesex, the Boxborough Well-Being Committee, South Acton Congregational Church and St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church.
While AB Cares has received tremendous support for this initiative, additional funding is still needed to support the event. If you would like to donate, visit abuw.org, or send a check made out to Acton-Boxborough United Way to:
AB Cares
c/o Acton-Boxborough United Way
PO Box 2258
Acton, MA 01720
AB Cares, a community-based collaborative, seeks to prevent suicide across the lifespan and support all who are impacted by suicide. AB Cares aims to support community-wide conversations, awareness, and connections across Acton and Boxborough in order to prevent suicide.
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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.
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The Weekly Chatter is distributed each Sunday. If you have a submission you'd like to include in the Chatter, please email it to ABWEEKLYCHATTER@gmail.com by noon on Friday. The Chatter was created solely for the purpose of communicating school-related events, groups and forums to parents and students.
Acton-Boxborough Regional PTSO Chair
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