Hello Middle School families. I hope you are having a lovely weekend.
Grade 8 families, there will be a presentation at the High School for incoming freshmen on March 21st at 6pm. Be on the lookout for more information.
This past week on Wednesday we celebrated National Global "Spread the Word: Inclusion" day. You may not know this but the Spread the Word campaign has been a joint initiative of Best Buddies and Special Olympics and was focused on eradicating the use of the “R” word to describe individuals with Intellectual Disability. More recently, they have shifted their focus to be all about including people with disabilities. Here is a link https://www.spreadtheword.global to learn more.
Grades 6&8 - The 6th and 8th grade students will be taking the Youth Risk Behavior Survey on Wednesday March 20th. If you are the grown up of a 6th or 8th grade student you should have already received an email from me with more information about this survey.
GDEF's Trivia Night for Education is back! Join us March 23, 2024 at the Groton Country Club for a fun night out to support Groton-Dunstable schools with grants that directly benefit our GDRSD students. Advance tickets only. Please check out https://www.gdefinc.org/tnp for more information and to register your trivia team! Doors open at 7pm, trivia starts at 7:30pm...and the fun starts when YOU join us!
The Middle School PTO has started to talk about our end of year activities such as the 8th grade graduation gift ideas and teacher appreciation. In the coming weeks you will see some emails or posts on our Facebook page looking for volunteers to support their efforts. We hope you will consider helping us.
Reminders;
7th and 8th grade Homework Club, we are offering an afterschool homework club for our 7th and 8th grade students. This has been a successful club in the south and wanted to offer to the North. Here is the link to sign up. https://gdrsd.myrec.com/info/activities/program_details.aspx?ProgramID=29910
School Council Our next meeting will be March 18th at 2:45 in the South Library. All are welcome to attend.
Square 1 Art, Our Middle School PTO is running the Square 1 Art fundraiser again this year. Students will be getting their kits next week. Kits should be back to advisory teachers by 2/29. We will have the catalogs back for you to order by March 25th. Order deadline for parents will be April 5th. Orders ship directly to parents and should be in by Mother’s Day.
Bus Concerns, If you have concerns about your child’s experience on the bus the telephone number for Dee Bus is 978-448-3322. Or you can email Ms. Renna at erenna@deebus.com. She is more than happy to answer any questions and provide support.
GDRMS Handbook:
Please spend some time with your students getting familiar with our handbook.
Dates to remember:
Teachers update Gradebook, 2/2,2/16, ⅜ and 3/22
Parent Invite Conferences Friday afternoon March 22
March 14th Student Vs Faculty basketball game
MCAS dates for planning purposes,
ELA April 2nd (Day 2) and April 3rd (Day 1) all Grades
Math May 15th ( Day 2) and May 16th ( Day 1) all Grades
Civics grade 8 May 29 and 30
Science grade 5 and 8 May 20 May 21
Sincerely your Groton Dunstable Regional Middle School Principal
Wendy Salvatore, wsalvatore@gdrsd.org