5/16/16 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Ms. Dancy for helping out on Friday morning when a colleague needed support. We appreciate your willingness to take on students. Thanks!

Shout out to our CASP BRICS students. They have studied and learned about various health careers after school this entire year and produced a final video about Bullying.  Thanks to Geraldy St. Clair and Uchenna Ndulue from the Department of Public Health.

 

LGBTQ Picnic

The Curley K-8 School will be hosting our first LGBTQ Picnic for families, faculty and allies. Please join us, bring your friends, spread the word, open to all BPS. More information to follow. Please contact Leida Arroyo (LARROYO@BOSTONPUBLICSCHOOLS.ORG) or Sue Trotz for more information. Date: Thursday May 19th, Place: Curley Play area, Rain date: Thursday May 26th: Time 6:00 pm. Members of City Year will help with activities for the children. (BRING YOUR OWN PICNIC).

School Climate

Our school climate meeting will take place on Wednesday, May 18th from 3pm-4:15pm. All are welcome!

Curley Shares

Out final Curley Shares for the year will be on Thursday, June 2nd. Thanks to those who share feedback about the change in days.

Finger Printing

Just a reminder to all staff that finger printing must be completed by July 30th. Please see the BTU Reps if you have any questions and here is a website for your reference as well www.identogo.com/fp/massachusetts.aspx

BTU Vote

The staff have voted to convert 6 hours of PD on 1/3/17 to after school hours for SY 2016-2017.

PARCC/MCAS

We are back to MCAS this week! :) Be sure to review the documents below for all grade 5 & 8 test administrators. PARCC is starting back up and we want to remind everyone that teaching should be happening leading up to the test and after the test as well. We understand that some students may need time to decompress but this should not last all day long. Here are some important documents that will be updated daily for PARCC.
PARCC Schedule
Small Groups Grades 3-5
Small Groups Grades 6-8
Mobile Cart Schedule
Make Up List
Logging into the PARCC Test
Starting, Pausing, Resuming and Stopping the Test
MCAS Science Groupings
Science MCAS Rules & Suggestions 

Retention

Please email Katie Grassa if you are considering retention for a student. She will meet with you and map out next steps. This meeting must occur by Friday, May 27th.

SAVE THE DATE!!!!

Reserve the date, Mark your Calendar, Let's Celebrate - End-of-the-year celebration and retirement party

Thursday, June 9, 2016

5:00-10:00 p.m.

Florian Hall
Please pay $45 if you plan on attending by Friday, May 27th. (You can pay Ms. Mundo, Ms. Iatrou, Ms. Kidd, Ms Davis)

Outside Use

Secretaries, counselors, and others need to know where students are for various reasons. With the continuing good weather we need to remind teachers that if they leave their classroom to go outside or to another classroom they need let the front office know and put a sign on your door. Also, if teachers are interested in going outside, they have to wait until all recesses are over at 1:20pm.  If you would like to request field use go to the blog (www.curleyk8.blogspot.com) and under the Helpful Links tab click Book Playing Field.

K-2 Teachers

Teachers should move their students on the Lower School data wall by May 26th. There will be one more final move in June. The EOY BAS window is May 16th - June 16th.  Teachers need to find instructional and hard levels for all students. The EOY Dibels window is May 23rd - June 10th.

Curley Cares

If you know about a staff member who is out on a leave of absence, lost a family member, had a baby or recently got married please contact Candida Mundo. We want to make sure all staff know that we are supportive of them in times of happiness or sadness.

Field Trips

Spring is here and many classes are signed up for field trips in the coming weeks. Please do not forget to give the nurse's office and cafeteria staff 2 weeks notice for any field trips.