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Quick Notes
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New Administrators Welcomed Here
Mount Laurel School District welcomes two new administrators this year. Hartford's new Assistant Principal, Mary Anne Vastardis, hails from a wide range of experience in the Montgomery Township Schools, and is a resident of Moorestown. Curriculum Supervisor Kelly Camm previously taught in the Evesham Township Schools and lives in Burlington.
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  Upcoming Dates:
October 1-24 - MAP Testing Window across the district. October 15 - Mount Laurel Public Education Fund 18th Annual Golf Classic at Laurel Creek Country Club.
November 6 - Election Day. Schools Closed.
November 8 & 9 - Teacher Convention. Schools Closed.
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Members of the Board of Trustees present the donation to Superintendent of Schools Dr. Antoinette Rath and Board President Ronald Frey (at right). Trustees are Robert F. Wachter Jr., Doug Bohrer, Debbie Taigwad, Sherman Fray and Gary Overman.
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Public Ed Fund Expands Support
Members of the Board of Trustees of the Mount Laurel Public Education Fund Inc. started-off the school year with a whopping $30,000 donation. Trustees presented the contribution, which will be used for after-school clubs and extracurricular activities, as well as teacher grants, at the September 18 Board of Education meeting.
Since its inception in 1994, the Fund has contributed over $700,000 to the Mount Laurel Schools. Funds are raised through the annual golf tournament organized by the Trustees. The 18th Annual Golf Classic will be held on Monday, October 15 at Laurel Creek Country Club. More information is available here.
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New! Emergency Notification
Via Phone, E-Mail, Text Message
Snow closures, early dismissals, changes in bus schedules, area emergencies ... These are items you want to hear about first. This year, our district is utilizing School Messenger to get the word out quickly and efficiently. This system can call the homes of all 4,200 students within 14 minutes!
However, we can only reach you if we have the right information. Please make sure that you current phone numbers and e-mail addresses are on file with your school office. If you'd like to receive messages by text on your cell phone, you must subscribe from your cell phone.
To do that, simply text the word SUBSCRIBE to 68453. That's it. You can subscribe from as many cell phones as you would like to receive emergency notices from the schools (spouse, babysitter, grandparents, etc.)
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Springville Cultivates New Curriculum
A grant from the New Jersey Agricultural Society will allow students at the Springville Elementary School to learn first-hand where their food comes from this year. The school is a recipient of a "Learning Through Gardening Grant" that will supply raised bed materials, tools, hoses, seeds and growing medium for an outdoor garden. Staff members will be supplied with lesson plans and guidance from agricultural experts in growing seasonal vegetables that will be shared in the school cafeteria.
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Busy Summer For Many In Mount Laurel
Mount Laurel school facilities were certainly well-used this summer. A total of 728 students took part in camps, theater
programs Mad Science, Bricks 4 Kidz classes and sports camps in our buildings. Another 403 students took part in reading, writing and speech reinforcement offered through our Child Study Team Services.
The Mount Laurel Library reports that their bookshelves were jumping this summer, also. The Library's Summer Reading Program marked an all-time high number of 731 registrants, with 12,315 books read!
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