Paw Prints 10/16

Paw Print  10/16/2022 Para esta información en español, haga clic aquí

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Save the Dates: 

• October 19th: Curley Communication Committee Meeting @ 8 pm via zoom
• October 20th: In-person Art Committee meeting at Curley Track @ 8 am
• October 25th: Curley Art Committee via zoom @ 6:30 via zoom 
• October 24th– October 26th: Curley Picture Day (More information below)
• October 27th:  Curley Latinx Community Celebration (More Information bellow) 
• October 31st: Pajama Day at the Curley 

Picture Day: 

Picture Day  is here! We will have picture day for individual students, siblings, and class pictures for: 

• Grades K1-2 individual and class pictures at the K1 CourtYard (weather permitting) located at 40 Pershing Rd. 
• Grades 3-8, siblings, 3-8 class/individual, and make-ups will have their pictures taken at the Upper School entrance located at 493Centre St.  
• Siblings will take their pictures Wednesday, October 26, from 8:30 to 9 am. Picture day forms in English and Spanish will be distributed on Monday, October 17th, and sent home by the Homeroom teacher. Please note that students who order sibling pictures use a different form, and the older siblings must bring the form on the date assigned for sibling pictures. 

Please see Mrs. Vasquez at the Upper School Main Office or Ms. Powers at Lower School if you need an extra form. Pictures dates are as follows:

Monday, October 24: K-2 

Tuesday, October 25: Grades 3-5

Wednesday, October 26: Siblings, make-ups, & grades 6-8

Book/Storage Room Volunteer Sign-up:  

We are looking for parent volunteers to help us organize and clean the three book rooms/storage spaces for our Grade 3-5 teams. This work will include the following: preparing bags of books for students to take home, boxing up books to donate, clearing out old materials, working with teacher teams to figure out how to reorganize their storage spaces, and creating an organized book room for new books/materials. If you are interested in please fill out the following form: here. 

School Parent Council: 

Thank you to everyone who participated in our SPC Elections this past week. Below is our newly elected Parent Council: 

SPC Chairs: Brian, Yesenia, & Meghan                                                                                                                     Co-treasurer: Kathleen Doyle & Rebecca Ginzburg 

Co-secretaries: Victoria & Leah Luftman  

City-wide Parent Council Rep: Michelle  

District English Learner Advisory Committee Rep: Still Open 

Special Education Parent Advisory Council: Nichole & Victoria 

School Site Council Reps: Molly, Rashmi, Gregory, James, Leah,  and Nichole 

We are still looking for a District English Learner Advisory Rep. If you are interested in learning more of this position. Please contact the Family Liaison, Ms. Hernandez, by email yhernandez@bostonpublicschools.org 

Curley Website Update: 

The Website Committee is underway with their work. The committee will start revising content and reformatting the dropdown menu in the coming weeks. We wanted to give everyone a heads-up if you noticed things looked different. We hope to create a staging site (a separate domain that functions as a website but has a different URL) to avoid altering the current website as we tinker, but we haven’t yet figured out if this is possible.  We appreciate your patience as we begin our work!  We’ll update you again in the next Paw Prints! 

Schoolyard Improvement Committee (SIC): 

We will hold a Curley Cleanup on  Sunday, October 16th, from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Complimentary pizza and kickball at noon. All are welcome! Please come join us and get to meet other Curley families! 

Art Committee Meetings: 

Arts Committee supports access to the arts at the Curley K8! Join us in person at the Curley Track at 8 am on Thursday, October 20th, and on zoom on October 25th at 6:30PM. 

Curley Latinx Community: A Celebration in Song, Word, and Dance

The Performing Arts department has announced its first student performance of the season on Thursday, October 27th at 10:40 am. This performance is for elective students, their parents, and specialty teachers. For more information, contact Ms. Alves

The Curley Performing Arts Team is proud to announce the 2023 3rd-5th grade musical:

       Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim

Into the Woods has over 20 parts, including Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Jack, the Wolf, and more. We will begin casting on October 19th at 3:30. The production team will double cast the show, and the performances will be in April 2023. If your child is registered, you will begin to receive a company email each Sunday with updates and casting news. 

Your Production Team, 

Kim Taylor Knight (Director), Emanuela Alves (Music Director), Erin Doherty (Choreographer)

Spotlight:

Sugeily Santos was celebrated with an Outstanding Latinos in Education Award at the State House. This is a huge honor given each year across the state of Massachusetts in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. We are so proud of Sugeily and her work at Curley K-8 to support our staff, students and families! 

 

District Events: 

Boston Special Education Parent Advisory Council [Boston SpEdPAC] 

Has a meeting on October 27th at 7 PM. Please see the flyer for more information here.

The purpose of SpEdPAC is to provide a voice and give support to families of children with special needs. We are a multi-lingual, multi-cultural, council made up exclusively of parent volunteers. We work actively with the Boston Public Schools system to ensure that children get the services and support they need to develop to their full potential. All families are welcome and encouraged to participate. 

The Mind Matters: a workshop series providing educational resources and community support for families with young children to help foster learning at home. See attached flyer for more information. 

After-School Opportunities:

• Tenacity Grades 6-8 – Tenacity’s Ace Academy is an intensive program for students in grades 6-8 that focuses on improving students’ academic, tennis, and fitness skills, while simultaneously nurturing social/emotional development and engaging families. Tenacity has been at the Curley K-8 for over 10 years and is a FREE after-school program Monday-Thursday from 3-6 pm and Fridays from 3-5 pm. We are accepting new students and encourage students to apply. Please reach out to our Site Director, Kimberly Salazar, via email kimberlysalazar@tenacity.org or by phone at 857-350-7175

Contact: If you would like to add any information to the Paw Prints, please fill out the following Google Form by Thursday’s 11 am. If you have any questions, please contact Yamile Hernandez – Family Liaison at yhernandez@bostonpublicschools.org