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A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR PTO - WELCOME TO ELM STREET MIDDLE SCHOOL

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!!!

Dear Parents, Guardians & Friends,

Welcome to the Elm St. Middle School community! We have a growing PTO and welcome any interested adults to join us at our monthly evening meetings. We also welcome any suggestions or involvement opportunities that enthusiastic parents would like to share. The specific dates and times of our meetings will be published at the beginning of the school year.

We encourage you to check this website often to keep up with volunteer opportunities and meeting announcements. We also encourage you to join our email list. We email information concerning parent association meetings, parent opportunities, or general information that concerns the school’s parent community. If you would like to be included on our email distribution list or have any questions about our organization, please email us at:

bs-oneil@comcast.net

We also highly encourage you to sign-up to receive Elm St. School Daily Announcements emailed directly to you. Daily announcements allow you to keep track of sports, clubs and extra-curricular activities at the school. Go to the Nashua School District website at http://www.nashua.edu/district/. On the left menu bar go to:

eNews

School Announcements

Subscribe To School Announcements

Enter your email address and hit “Continue”.

Here you can subscribe to the district eNews as well as request daily announcements from any of the Nashua schools. Select “Elm St.” and then “Update Subscription” to be subscribed.

A. The main entrance to the school is on Elm Street. This is the entrance to use during normal school hours. to get to the Office, enter through the main entrance and go up the stairs and turn left. The office will be on your immediate left.

A. Send a note in with your child. Your child should take that note to the office in the morning to obtain a dismissal note that he/she then will give to the teacher at the time of his/her dismissal. At that time your child is allowed to meet you outside the school. If you do not send in a note, you must go to the office and show a photo id in order to sign your child out.

Q: If my child is absent for several days how do I obtain his school work to be completed at home?

A: Phone the school and ask to speak with the guidance office. Someone there will obtain your child's work from all of his/her teachers and have the bundle of assignments available in the guidance office for you to pick up.

A: All teachers have an email address. The address is their last name, first letter of their first name and then @nashua.edu. So, John Smith can be reached at smithj@nashua.edu. You can also call the school and leave a message for a teacher to return your call. Each student is given an agenda book, some teachers use these as a form of communication where they may write a note to you and you can return a note in the same manner. If you trust your child to deliver a note, you can always communicate by sending a note in with your child. At open house we encourage you to ask each teacher how they prefer to communicate.

Q: How may I work with the teachers when my child seems to have difficulties in class?

A: Contact the teacher directly and ask for a meeting. work out a personal plan that works for you, the teacher and your child.

A: Parental involvement is increasing at Elm St. We encourage you to contact the PTO or teachers directly if you have particular interests. The PTO has a page on the school website with involvement opportunities and contact information. The PTO also hold monthly evening meetings which any and all parents are welcome to attend.

A: In September there will be an Open House where all parents are welcome to come and meet their child's teachers. Parents are given a schedule to adhere to that allows them to move to all their child's classes in a similar manner as their child would. This gives parents the opportunity to meet all the teachers that their child has for that trimester. Open House is an opportunity to meet the teachers, but is not an opportunity to have private conversations about your child in particular.

Q: How is lunch money collected? Are there lunch envelopes like in elementary school?

A: Your child has the same cafeteria account that he/she had in elementary school. Your child can bring money in to be deposited into his/her account or pay cash on a daily basis. Payment envelopes can be obtained from the cafeteria staff.

A: During open house parents can sign up for conference times. Conferences are held in November, just before Thanksgiving break. If you are unable to attend Open House contact your child's homeroom teacher to sign-up for a conference time. Some teaching teams have all teachers at a conference. Other teaching teams break up teachers into two teams for conferences, so you might have a conference with a subset of your child's teachers. You may also request a conference with your child's teachers at any time.

Q: Who is the first point of contact or what is the procedure if an issue I have with my child or teacher does not get resolved by contacting the teacher?

A: Contact the school principal or assistant principal. They can be contacted by either calling the school office or emailing them. The principal and assistant principals are named on the school website. Emailing them is similar to emailing any staff member. Use the person's last name, then first initial and then @nashua.edu.

A: The communication and responsibility for missed homework is handled differently for each teacher and teaching team. discuss this with your child's teachers at Open House in September.

A: Elm St. runs on a trimester system. Therefore there are only three marking periods.

Core classes like Language Arts, Social Studies, Science and Math run for the full school year.

Classes like art, gym, General Music, Tech. ed. and FCS run for only one trimester, as well as Skills and Essential Skills.

A: Theoretically, yes. However, the lockers are quite small. also, some children have difficulty with their new lock. Many children choose to carry everything they need with them throughout the day as well as home every evening.

A: Students do not get a recess. There is no scheduled outdoor time for the students. However, during nice weather some teachers will take their classes outside for various purposes.

Fall Sport sign-ups occur before school starts. Sign-up sheets are available in the school office during office hours.

To participate in any school sport your child must have had a physical in the 5^th grade year and a signed physical form must be turned in along with a parental permission form before a child may try-out. The physical is then good for all three years of middle school.

Other sports sign ups are also in the office and the student must get the required paperwork before the first practice.

The best way to find out about clubs and activities is to subscribe to the school’s daily bulletin emailing. This can be done on the school district website. Clubs and activities are announced to the students over the public-address system in the school, but often times students miss them. You can also go onto the Elm St. website and look at the Daily Bulletin section to see what is happening for the day.

The nurses office is located on the ground floor. Turn right once you go down the main staircase.

At an age where many children are getting braces and orthodontists recommend pain relievers it is valuable to know that you may sign a general permission slip for the nurse to give your child pain relievers such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen at her discretion. Also, if your child has a braces wire that is poking them, the nurse also has tools to trim those as well.