Hello Middle School families. I hope you had a great weekend. I will be sharing school activities and events with you every week through Live Feeds. If you do not have our App I would suggest that you download it to your phone to stay up to date with Middle School and District happenings.
To those of you that celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Happy New Year.
Open House: Was a huge success. Thank you to all the families who came out.
MSPTO: Thank you to the PTO for working so hard right out of the gate to have the Book Fair up and running as well as our One and Done Fundraiser and the Spirit Wear.
Some updates:
Book fair, gross sales total from our Fall Book Fair 2022 is: $11,635.32 Bravo!!!! The Book Fair online scholastic sales are open until October 2.
Spirit Wear, The Groton Dunstable Regional Middle School’s back-to-school spirit wear sale has been extended through next Friday, September 30th! All you have to do is use the code FALL30-FS1 at checkout to get 30% off all items on the site and free shipping over $60! Visit https://1stplace.sale/41852.
If you are interested in hearing more about our PTO our joining our team please email the PTO at gdrmspto17@gmail.com
Important Information about Bringing Your Own Device: As of September 2022 the Bring Your Own Device protocol is being suspended. As new technologies continue to change the world in which we live, they also provide many positive educational benefits for classroom instruction. GDRMS is a 1-1 chromebook school. We want our families to know that the district has, with great effort and expense, provided equal access to technology for all students. When we are using all of our devices we can be sure we have good Internet speed and connectivity. Part of our ability to achieve this with a small staff is uniform hardware, managed by the tech team. This enables us to widely employ best practices (needed in any large network) as well as the ability to track abuse and violations. Personal devices circumvent some of these sound principles. A student Chromebook owned by GDRSD is essentially sandboxed. Meaning they cannot log into any other domain other than GDRSD. They cannot add any extensions, apps, or add ons that we (or Google) do not seem safe. With outside devices that is not the case, we do not have control over the device, which limits our ability to troubleshoot and get a student up and running quickly. For these reasons we are asking that all of our students use our GDRSD devices. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me. At this time if your child uses their own device we will be asking that they no longer bring their devices and that they use the devices we have for them.
Reminders:
Empty 2 liter Bottles: Our STEM class in the south building is in need of 2 liter bottles to create composters. Thank you in advance for your help.
Do not Publish:
As we are moving into a new school year teachers are asking to post photos of what is happening in the classroom and with the musical I wanted to highlight our regulations around the Do Not Publish procedure. Here is what you need to know. The form should be filled out and returned to the school if you do not want your child’s photo to show up in a newsletter or any other photo opportunities.
Dates to remember:
Parent Conferences 11/16 ½ day afternoon conferences, 11/17 ½ day evening conferences March 17th ½ day parent conferences.
Sincerely your Groton Dunstable Regional Middle School Principal
Wendy Salvatore wsalvatore@gdrsd.org