Principal's Notes 10/4/19

Message of the Month
Respect- Whole Body Listening!

Important Dates

• October 10 - PTG Coffee With the Superintendent
• October 11 - Workshop Day - NO SCHOOL for Students
• October 14 - Columbus Day - NO SCHOOL
• October 15 - Spirit Day "Sports Day"
• October 16 - Picture Retakes
• October 18 - Grade 2 Annual Butterfly Parade, 8:15am
• October 31 - Happy Halloween
• November 1 - 3rd Grade Halloween Walk to the Nursing Home
• November 1 - End of Quarter 1
• November 8 - Report Cards Released (grades 2-4)
• November 11 - Veterans’ Day -  NO SCHOOL
• November 27-29 - Thanksgiving Break

  

Bedford Fire Rescue visits Memorial
Our first and second graders had a chance to explore the Fire Trailer, learn about fire safety, and meet a few firefighters during their visit to Memorial.

Farm to School Day (A note from Food Services)

October is national farm to school month. In order to recognize this event, the Bedford School District Food Service Department is dedicating a special lunch that only features local foods.  Please click HERE for more information.

Used Halloween Costume Collection
Interested in clearing out old Halloween costumes?  The Girl Scouts are gladly accepting donations of gently warn costumes to distribute to others in need.  We have a collection box right inside our front doors in the Memorial School Lobby.  Thank you supporting this cause.

Counselor's Corner
Please click HERE to learn about what's happening in our Guidance Department.

Reminders from the Health Office
Please click HERE for the latest Health Care news 

MEADOW FARMS GIFTS, WRAP AND MORE: More than just wrapping paper, PTG’s GIFTS, WRAP and MORE SALE  offers unique gifts, kitchen items, gourmet snacks and Kingle Candles. The sale is going on now, all orders are due by October 10^th. Students in elementary schools that sell 5 or more items will earn a coupon for a free ice cream at Inside Scoop. Product will ship direct to you and 40% of sales goes back to our schools!

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES- If you are interested in volunteering at Memorial this year please click on the link below to fill out the volunteer form.  If you have students at multiple schools, please fill out a form for each school. Receiving volunteer emails is a great way to get advance notice of upcoming school events!! Click HERE to fill out the Memorial Volunteer Form.

COFFEE AND CONVERSATION with Superintendent Fournier: Hosted by the PTG, Superintendent Mike Fournier invites you to “Coffee and Conversation” on Monday, October 7th, 9:30am at the Town Library. This will be a small, informal gathering to discuss Bedford School District happenings. Questions and comments are encouraged. Please click HERE to RSVP if you wish to attend.

STAY CONNECTED TO PTG: Please visit our PTG WEBSITE, “like” our  FACEBOOK PAGE, check us out on Instagram (bedfordPTG) and Twitter (@Bedfordptg) to see all the exciting things happening at our schools. Thank you for your support!

Reminders

Tripod Survey Information
Between October 7th and October 25th, the district will administer the "Tripod Survey" to students in grades 2 - 12 (grade 1 will participate in the spring). For the elementary schools, this includes "specials" (i.e. art, music, library and physical education) as well as enrichment. This survey asks for the students' perspectives on our teaching practices. All survey responses are anonymous and confidential. The purpose is to use this feedback to help our professional staff continue to improve. This year, parents were able to provide permission for their child to take the survey through InfoSnap registration. If you opted your child out of the survey, please know that we will make other arrangements for him/her during the time that his/her class is taking the survey.

If you would like to view the surveys, please click on the links below.

Early Elementary (grades 1 & 2)

Upper Elementary (grades 3 – 6)

Secondary (grades 7 – 12)

Walk for SJOGREN'S
The Memorial staff has put together a team to walk this Sunday in memory of Karen Caron, a former paraprofessional in our BEEP program, to support  fundraising efforts for Sjogren's research and education.  

Click below for more information.
http://events.sjogrens.org/site/TR?fr_id=1330&pg=entry The team is called Memorial School Walks for Karen.

Destination Imagination - Registration Now Open
Registration is now open for Destination Imagination. New and returning students must complete this google form Registration closes on Friday October 4th, 2019. Destination Imagination is an extra curricular that relies on parent volunteers. There is no guarantee that your child will be placed on a team, but we work very hard to place every child who registers. For more info on this wonderful extracurricular program offered by our district, please check out www.nh-di.org or contact our coordinator, Marie Russell 
at bedfordrocksdi@gmail.com. 

Fire Department’s Open House

If your family is interested in attending the Bedford Fire Department’s Open House on Tuesday, October 8th, please see THIS FLYER for more information.

Box Tops News:

Box Tops Update: If you haven’t already heard, the box tops program is going digital! Over the next few years the clipped box tops are going to be phased out on the product packaging. What this means is that you can still clip and send in box tops to your child’s teacher as well as earn money on the app. It is definitely going to be a transition over to the digital program and the kinks are still being worked out.

Memorial’s Box Tops coordinator has received $80 of clippings and $15.40 on the digital app since the start of the school year. It’s been a slow start and we need all your help to reach our year end goal of $1200. Remember this money goes directly to the school for the teachers and our kids. The fall submission deadline is November 1st.

Visit the App Store on your smart phone and download the Box Tops for Education app and select Memorial as your school of choice. Let your family members know as well and they can also contribute to Memorial’s earning. Scanning your receipts takes seconds once the app is set up. Your receipts must be scanned within two weeks to earn the credit. Box Tops has also created a credit button. When you scan your receipts you can click on the credit button on the bottom of the screen, add a teachers name, and that credit goes to the class earnings. This is all a great deal of information to take in and if you have questions you can also visit www.boxtops4education.com