September 8, 2016

9/9/16 Daily Bulletin

Shout Out

Shout out to Cassie Mountain and Corey Edmiston volunteered to ride a bus home today to ensure student safety and prompt arrival time due to a shortage of bus monitors!

Shout out to Ms. Iatrou for cleaning up our teachers' lounge fridge and for caring about each other and about our school. Remember to clean out our fridge every Friday.

Shout out to Rose Rodriguez, Sharon Ennis, Cara Hins, Annette Beaudrault, Alisa Fleming, Alissa Ferro and Olivia Peters for supporting us during election day by allowing students to eat in the classroom. Thank you for being team players even on the first day of school!

Shout out to Melanie Bourgeault, Emanuela Varela, Mark Righini, John DePalm, Cathy Drakes, Jesse Cardoso, Adrience Dancy, Michael Bertoni, Anna Youman, Kim Taylor-Knight, Ballet Rox and the French Cultural Council for kicking off the day with Elective Showcase. Everyone was welcoming and excited about sharing their course description. Students were all a buzz about the fabulous options for electives this year! Thank you for your planning, attention to detail and feedback to make this even better for round 2 tomorrow!

Middle School Elective Showcase

Day 2 of the 6-8 grade Elective Showcase will happen tomorrow. We have an updated rotation schedule to further support teachers and simplify the process.


Keep it Clean, Curley!

Check out our 7 new garbage cans outside! (Insert the photo that Rachel sent this AM)
Most classrooms received Keep it Clean posters this morning. If you did not get one, more are on the way and one will be delivered to your room as soon as they arrive.
As you are teaching your classroom routines and the expectation We Care About Our School, please talk to your students about how to Keep it Clean. Using this language, modeling for students and noticing those who are putting their trash in the can or who pick up litter will help bring attention to our new initiative. It takes a Curley village and we thank you for your support!

Staff Social

Come join your colleagues at Costello's on 723 Centre Street from 3-5 tomorrow. Remember it is CASH ONLY!


Positive Press

We made the news today! Thanks to WBUR for coming by and sharing the great work our teachers do each and every day! 

Bus Rooms/Dismissal

Tomorrow morning bus room lists will be in each teacher's mailbox. You can access Bus Rooms and Bus Room assignments please click on the tab that says, K-5 Bus Room Assignments. 

Note from our Nurses

Hi, Hope you all had a great summer. BPS Health services require that all staff must complete two training modules.
1. Blood Bourne Pathogens (slide show and test)
2. Epipen (training module and staff quiz)
This email contains the link for the staff Epipen Training and a short quiz. All staff should click on this link and first complete the "School Staff Training Module" on the left. After you have completed the training module please click on the "School Staff Quiz" link on the right. Once you have completed the quiz please print out your certificate and bring it to the nurse's office. You will be "signed off" once you have the certificate and participate in a brief Epipen demonstration in our office. We ask that all staff have this completed within the first two weeks of school. We have many student's here at the Curley with life threatening allergies. It is important that they are safe in school. 

There is also a link for the Blood Borne Pathogen Slide Show and another for the Blood Borne Pathogen Test. Please view the slide show. Once you have completed the slide show, print out the test, complete it and return it to the nurse's office with your epipen certificate. 

Also, it is very important that the nurses receive a copy of emergency forms as soon as they come in. Often these emergency forms are how we become aware that a student has a certain medical condition that needs attention. All medications and medical forms should be sent to the nurse's office. It is against HIPAA Privacy Policies for medical information to be left in classrooms.  Please feel free to stop by the nurse's office across from the lower school gym if you have any questions or concerns.
Thanks,
April & Marilynn


Blog

This blog will go out each day with information important dates and other necessary information for staff. If you have a staff member you would like to "shout out" or important information to communicate to the whole staff please email Katie Grassa with the exact language that can be used when published.

Climate Check List

The Climate Team has created a helpful checklist to support staff in preparing their classroom space for the first day of school.

Red Jacket Weekend & Family Field Day

City Year will kick off their program year by hosting a day of service at the Curley K-8 School on Saturday, September 17th. If you are interested in signing up for service work please click here to register for the day of service. When prompted, please write "Curley parent"/"Curley staff"/etc  in the "other" space in the City Year Affiliation section so that we can track how many sign ups we have from the school. We just ask that students are accompanied by a parent/guardian or are chaperoned by a Curley staff member.
Join us for a family field day with City Year Boston on Saturday, September 17th from 1-4 PM! Activities will include face painting, games, a food demonstration by Fresh Truck, and more. All ages are welcome to attend, but children under 18 should be accompanied by an adult. Click here to register for the Field Day event.

Summer Reading Challenge

We sent a reminder to students about bringing the appropriate Summer Reading Challenge materials on day one. Please be sure to let Caitlyn Gable and Eileen Cronin know who in your class completed the challenge so we can recognize his or her efforts.

Staff Handbook

The Curley Staff Handbook will be used as part of professional development tomorrow. All teachers are expected to read this handbook and use as a reference for important information throughout this school year. The assessment portion is incomplete due to district and state pending decisions regarding testing. Staff will be notified and the handbook will be updated once the information becomes available to schools.

Google Drive

The SY16-17 Curley K8 Google Drive folder has been shared with all Curley K8 staff via the listserv. You will need access to this tomorrow during professional development.

CASP

Torri Canada, the Director of the Curley Before and After School Program (CASP) would like to share the following information with you. CASP Before and After School begins the first day of school, Thursday, September 8th. Before school begin at 7:00am. A CASP before school application must be on file on the first day of school for a child to attend.  Students attending CASP after school on the first day must have an application on file by noon. For more information, please visit CASP’s webpage here: http://www.curleyk8.com/school-information/after-school-program/.

Friday, September 9th

2nd day of school for Grades 1-8

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