Wayland Middle School
Monday Morning Minute
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Important Dates
5/11 Early Release 12:20 (due to voting)
5/12 3:15 Dismissal time (regular length school day)
5/27 Rising 6th Grade parent Zoom
5/31 Memorial Day - No School
6/17 Tentative last day for students
Help us help you!
EARLY DISMISSALS:
- Please send a written note to school with your child with date and time you wish to pick up.
- Instruct your child to bring the note to the office upon arriving to school.
- Your child will be given a blue dismissal pass to give to the teacher whose class they will be leaving.
- At the indicated time, your child can leave class to come up to the office/lobby and wait for you to pull up by the front entrance.
This protocol allows us to avoid calling classrooms and minimize interruptions to teaching. It also helps to foster independence in students by asking them to be responsible for their part in the dismissal routine. Thank you!
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WMS 2020-2021 School Council
Please join us. Meetings are open to everyone!
Wednesday, May 19 @ 5PM via ZOOM
WMS School Council members include:
Michael Kotin - Susan Chisholm - Erin Gibbons - Lisa Goodman - Ruchi Saggar - Amruta Mudambi - Renee Henrich
Every meeting we also have two 8th grade students join.
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Dear Parents/Guardians
If your child routinely experiences springtime allergy symptoms- we are asking you to please give them their allergy medication before they come to school. As allergy symptoms can mimic the symptoms of the Covid virus infection- if your child comes to the health room with these symptoms, we will need to ask you to pick up your child and have them tested for Covid before they can return to school, or alternatively have your child’s physician write us a letter indicating that your child’s symptoms are due to springtime allergies.Your child will have to remain at home until we receive either the test results or the physician’s letter. Our goal is to keep each child in school as many days as possible!
Thank you for your attention to this
Laurie Hojlo, RN
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CRADLES TO CRAYONS DRIVE
LED BY PROJECT 351
May 10th-May 17th
Wayland Middle School
Project 351 is a youth service nonprofit organization that develops a rising generation of "community-first" leaders. Please help us support this state-wide 8th grade effort by donating to an upcoming children's clothing drive. A collection bin will be at the front door of Wayland Middle School starting on May 10th. All donations will go directly to Cradles to Crayons, who will then distribute the clothes to those in need. Accepted items include:
- Clothing and coats (youth sizes 0-20 and adult sizes small & medium)
- New socks and underwear
- Pajamas (can be new or gently used)
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Healthy Relationship Task Force
In April, we sent out information about opportunities to participate in Focus Groups led by members of the Wayland Healthy Relationships Task Force. These Focus Groups are aimed at helping us better understand what prevents students and families from accessing support if they’ve experienced sexual harassment, assault, and/or dating/domestic violence. We hope to learn from you to help us identify the current barriers so that we may help the schools, and Wayland community as a whole, address these barriers so that every and any student who experiences sexual or domestic violence- and those who care about them- can access the support they deserve. We hope to hear as many voices and perspectives as possible, to help us identify next steps and continue to work to do and be better for our students and families.
We also know that this is an incredibly busy time of year, and while many folks may have wanted to participate in the April Focus groups, with the transitions of April Break and returning to full-time in-person learning for the first time in over a year, the timing may have made it impossible to participate. We want to do better on this, too. We wanted to offer a few different ways that you can share your perspectives and experiences so that we may learn from you.
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If you would like to meet with one of the Focus Group leaders- Jessica Teperow from REACH Beyond Domestic Violence and/or Jason Verhoosky from Wayland Youth and Family Services- they are happy to schedule one on one meetings that fit your schedule. You can reach them at Jessica@reachma.org and Jason_verhoosky@waylandps.org
- If you have a group that you’d like to participate in a Focus Group, we can come to a regular scheduled meeting time and run a Focus Group during that time.
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If you are a student and you are a member of a club or team, we’re happy to join your meeting and/or practice
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If you are a faculty or staff member and you have a meeting you’d like us to join
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If you are a parent and you’d like to gather a group of parents that are also interested, we’re happy to meet when it works best for you
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f you feel most comfortable participating completely anonymously, everyone is welcome and encouraged to fill out this survey.
If you have other suggestions and/or feedback on how we can learn from you, please e-mail Jessica and Jason.
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For Parents of Current 6th & 7th Graders - Student Placement Requests
Deadline: Friday, May 14
Considerable thought and effort are given to student scheduling here at WMS. It is a highly complex, intricate, and time-consuming process. Families may make specific placement requests for their middle schooler under the following circumstances:
- If you have concerns about a teacher based on an older sibling's experience, you may request a different teacher for your child. You may not, however, request a specific teacher.
- If your child has had difficulty with a specific student which has negatively impacted your child's ability to learn, you may request that the children be placed in separate clusters.
Please know that we will not be considering requests from families to place students together this year. To be considered in the placement process, all requests must be sent via email to Betsy_gavron@waylandps.org no later than Friday, May 14. Please include your child's first and last name, and grade in September 2021. Although we will work hard to honor your request, we cannot make any guarantees. Thank you.
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Parent Enrichment
Save the Date!
May 12, 10:00 AM: “Coping with the Stress of the Pandemic on Students and Families” with Dossie F. Kahn, Psy.D., Assistant Director, Clinical Supervisor, who has worked with Wayland Youth and Family Services since September 2008. A Zoom link will be sent out to WMS families on May 12.
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PTO Open Positions:
Come Join Us!
- Vice President
- Treasurer
- Parent Enrichment
- School Pictures
- Parent Reps (6th, 7th, 8th)
- Gardening (maintaining entrance garden & planters)
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Artist: Jordynn Lee
Grade: 8
Medium: Watercolor & Ink
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Reminders from Previous Weeks |
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MASK RULES & GUIDELINES
In accordance with MA Department of Public Health and CDC guidelines face coverings must:
- Cover the nose and mouth
- Fit securely and comfortably against the side of the face
- Be secured with ties or ear loops
- Allow for breathing without restriction
- Be able to be laundered without damage or change of shape
- Be made of at least 2 layers of material
- Face coverings may not have an exhalation valve or vent
The following are not allowed: Gaiters, bandanas, scarves, and face masks that have a ventilation valve. They are not considered effective face coverings and will not be allowed.
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The Orange and Black - Our Student Run Newspaper
Be sure to check out our student run newspaper featuring news, stories, poems and other work! The Orange and Black
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Wayland Middle School
Phone: 508.358.3801 Fax: 508.358.3802
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