Principal Message:Dear Parents, Guardians and Students, I am excited to share our fall newsletter with you. There is a positive energy in the air and I am eager to continue this wave into the first few months of school. Marching Band and fall athletics have had success this season and CHARGER pride is growing strong! This newsletter contains several live links and videos. You will also find important dates and on-going updates. We have a special treat for you all! A school-year update video has been created highlighting some major events from this year. School Council dates and information are posted within the newsletter. We are looking for interested parties to be part of the council. Additionally, we began our school year concentrating on building healthy relationships throughout our building. Lots of icebreakers and "getting to know" you activities were observed. We have some great individuals in our school and I look forward to sharing some of these stories with you in future newsletters. I also am including an important memo centered on school attendance. Please help us with our goal of maintaining a 95% attendance rate! November parent-teacher conferences are coming up so please be on the look-out for an email to sign up for appointments. Here’s to a productive Fall/Winter! CHARGER STRONG. Sincerely, Michael Dudek [email protected] Twitter: @medudekpl @BMRgoCHARGERS The high school will conduct Parent-Teacher Conferences on the following days: November 13th (4:30pm-7:30pm) and November 14th (2:30-4:30). For your convenience we have created an online appointment schedule. Parent/Guardians will be able to create a schedule of appointments, minimizing long waits to see specific teachers. Parents/Guardians who choose to come to school without appointments may see teachers if a time slot is available. To schedule a conference, select your child's teacher(s) who you would like to schedule a conference with on November 13th and 14th. It is easy to schedule more than one conference for one child, or more than one conference for multiple children. If you have any questions before you start this process, please email Mr. Dudek at [email protected] or call the main office and speak with Linda (508)-876-0117. Please make every effort to schedule appointments online. If you need to schedule over the phone you may do so with Linda. First come, first serve with appointments. Pick your conference(s), then register name and contact info. This creates a registration for each conference and sends you a confirmation email with a link to choose appointment times. On that same page, you will be able to add and change both registrations and appointments. *CONFIRMATION OF ALL TIMES/APPOINTMENTS NEED TO BE MADE FROM A GENERATED EMAIL SENT TO YOU AFTER YOU CHOOSE YOUR TIMES. LINK WILL BE AVAILABLE ON NOVEMBER 4th. District Attendance Policy The High School recognizes that regular and punctual school attendance is essential for success in ensuring that students attend school regularly in Accordance with Massachusetts General Law. Parents or guardians are responsible for ensuring that their children attend school regularly and punctually, and the parents or guardians are responsible for reporting any absence of their child (Ch. 76 §1A ). The school is responsible for inquiring about any unreported absences and notifying the parents or guardians of a student who has 5 or more unexcused absences in a school year (Ch. 76 §1A & 1B). The expectation for all students is to achieve a minimum 95% attendance rate. The calculated percentage includes all absences from school including excused absences (medical, personal, funerals). Yearly Progress (AYP) and an acceptable performance level of each school include yearly attendance rate and chronic absenteeism. Regular school attendance is defined as three (3) excused absences during a quarter. Documented Excused Absences The following absences are considered documented excused and do not count towards the maximum three (3) allowed absences, however documentation must be provided and missed work must be made up: Excused absences include: · College School Visits (Juniors and Seniors are allowed 2) · Medically documented illness or injury (seen by a physician) · Bereavement/family funeral · Major religious observances · Court Date · Severe family circumstances (excused at the discretion of the principal) Absences for those reasons listed above will be noted when proper documentation has been received. This documentation must be submitted no later than 5 school days after the absence. Illness will only be excused with a note from a doctor after being seen. Families who schedule routine appointments (counseling, dental or medical appointments) during the school day will only have excused absences for the time of appointment. Students are expected to return to school if time permits. PLEASE REVIEW FULL POLICY IN STUDENT HANDBOOK What is a school council? A school council is a representative school building-based committee composed of the principal, parents, teachers, and community members and, at the grade 9 to 12 level, students. School councils are a means of promoting the educational benefits of site-based decision making for each and every school in Massachusetts. With teachers, parents and community members working together at its core, the School Council enables the school to be at the center of planning, goal setting and budgeting for school improvements. The expanded participation of the school community in its decision-making helps to provide the school with different and mutually complementary perspectives on its goals and improvements. What do School Councils do? What are their main areas of responsibilities? The primary responsibilities of the school council are to advise and assist the Principal with the School Improvement Plan (SIP) and to help develop any projects arising out of the SIP that the Principal identifies as beneficial to the successful functioning and development of the school. The school council meets each month during the academic year. We are looking for interested students, staff, parents, and community members to serve on our council. Please email Mr. Dudek (principal) if interested ([email protected]). Anticipated Dates (5:30-6:30pm): October 3rd November 7th December 5th January 2nd February 6th March 5th April 2nd May 7th PSAT AND COLLEGE/CAREER/COMMUNITY READY DAY!On October 16th, the school community participated in a number of activities that centered around college/career/community readiness. I would like to thank our counselors for putting on a wonderful day for our students. Here is a summary of the scheduled activities:
Our student council organized a "recognition week" to highlight different aspects of the town wide community and appreciate them in different ways. Each day of the week correlated with a different part of our community. |
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