Cabot Contact Info
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Main Office: 559-9400CASP: 964-2749
Gym: 559-9407
Food Service
In-house: 559-9412
Ed Center: 559-9015
Inclusion Facilitator: 559-9409
Nurse: 559-9404
Library: 559-9406
Psych/Social Worker: 559-9405 Call Back/ Safe Arrival: 559-9390
(Call by 8:20 to report tardiness and absences)
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November
Nov 3, 2009 Election Day and Bake Sale
Nov 3, 2009 Child Assault Program at Franklin 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Nov 3, 2009 School Council meeting 5-7 p.m.
Nov 7, 2009 Cabot attic clean up 12:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Nov 11, 2009 Veterans Day, NO SCHOOL
Nov 13, 2009 PTO Ice Cream Social gym 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Nov 17, 2009 Grade 5 Circus
Nov 16, 2009 PTO Food Drive for Newton Food Pantry
Nov 18, 2009 PTO Council Ed Center, room 210 7:30-9 p.m.
Nov 19, 2009 PTO meeting 7 p.m.
Nov. 23, 2009 Autumnfest school assembly 10:30 a.m.
Nov 23, 2009 CASP "Turkey Trot, Family Fest & Divine Desserts" 4-5:45 p.m.
Nov 24, 2009 Affinity Group 12:30 p.m.
Nov 25, 2009 School Closes at NOON
Nov 25, 2009 CASP CLOSED
Nov 26, 2009 Thanksgiving Recess, NO SCHOOL
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Upcoming Events
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PTO Ice Cream Social
Ice cream! Ice cream! We all SCREAM for ice cream!
Enjoy
music, ice cream, and a chance to mingle with Cabot parents, guardians, and students at the second annual PTO Ice Cream Social on
Friday, November 13, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Teachers
and staff are welcome! A cost-defraying donation of $2 per person is suggested.
Helpers for scooping and clean up are needed.
Please
R.s.v.p. to Sally Brickell (brickland6@rcn.com)
or Lori Knowles (loriknowlespto@gmail.com) but COME even if you don't.
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Volunteers Needed
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Attic clean-up project needs volunteers
Saturday, November 7, 12:30 to 3 p.m.
We'll take any time you're
willing to give, even 15 minutes! Our goal is to empty,
organize, and weed!
Calling all muscles! See you there! Questions? Email Kate Ehrhart at painterlane@aol.com. RUBBERMAID TOTES WELCOME! Bring work gloves.
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| Cabot Announcements |
Vote today!
If you would like to read about the educational views and
visions of candidates in the upcoming Newton election, the
education advocacy group, Stand For Children, had presented them on their
website: http://www.stand.org/ma/2009NewtonCandidateSurveyhttp://www.stand.org/ma/2009NewtonCandidateSurvey
The Newton School Committee has an email newsletter containing information
relevant to all parents of NPS students. The latest edition had
information about the superintendent search, the Strategic Plan and an open
community meeting with the Interim Superintendent, Jim Marini. If you would
like to receive this newsletter, please click on the following link to add your
email address to the mailing list:
http://visitor.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001Qo1SzxA2oRTEzu65MIRS3sq2luC8IbGy
And just a friendly reminder...if you are supporting a candidate by
holding signs, handing out flyers and so forth (a great thing to do!),
please make sure that this is not done on school property (on the sidewalk
by the school is fine as this is public property). Thanks!
Gift wrap orders are in!
Please pick up your gift
wrap order in the Music/Art Corridor. Also, if you are missing any items
or need corrections made, please let me know soon as I can only submit one
correction order and plan to send it in the beginning of next week.
Contact Kate Johnson at kate@textreviews.com
School photo retake day is
November 5
If you want your child to
have a picture retaken send your current photo package to school with your
child on November 5, and let the teacher know that your child will be having a
retake. This is also the make-up date for anyone who was absent on Picture
Day; the Cabot office has provided an absentee list to Coffee Pond. Finally, if
your student missed the photos for any other reason, this is the date for you!
Join second grade parents at a potluck
When:
Saturday November 14 7:00 PM
Where:
Sandy Connors' house, 61 Prescott
Street, Newton
Please
mark your calendar for the Second Annual Potluck for parents, guardians and
teachers of Cabot second Graders. Please get a babysitter now and come join
us for an evening of delicious food, drink, and conviviality.
Please
bring a dish or beverage to share (teachers and staff, just bring
yourselves!). Kindly RSVP on the Evite. If you did not receive an
Evite, please let us know.
Looking
forward to seeing you!
Jennifer
Hyde (Lucy/Mrs. Ross) - jenhyde@alum.mit.edu
Mary
Kathryn Fallon (Matthew/ Mr. Lacatell) - marykathf@aol.com
Sandy
Connors (Mia/Mrs. Ross) - sandyconnors@gmail.com
New Green Team this year
Each month we hope to share a green tip or green initative with you. This month we recommend that you
check out www.GreenParentsNetwork.com
and www.ProjectGreenSchools.org for
ways you and your family can reduce your carbon footprint. If
sharing Green and Sustainable ideas excites you, please consider
joining our Green Team. You may contact JodiVito@verizon.net or Leriedewald@gmail.com. Thank you.
Thanks to all who helped on
Wellness Day!
Thank you to all the jump ropers, the hand washers, the gymnasts, and the
meditators. Thanks to all the recyclers, the dancers, the steppers, the
martial artists, and the soccer players. Thank you to the playground
supervisors, the bag stuffers, and the last-minute runner to Shaw's. Thank you also Energy Gymnastics, Roche Brothers, the Newton Police Department,
the American Heart Association, Giroux Brothers Martial Arts, Shaw's
Supermarket, and the Newton Public Schools Food Service Department. To
all who helped to make this year's Wellness Day the best ever -- Thank
You! There is no way we could pull off this great event without all your
hard work and enthusiasm.
With much appreciation,
Betsy DiSciullo, Jen
Borhegyi, and Dana Bennett
Support school safety
As part of our continuing
effort to provide a safe environment for children and adults, the office
reminds the community of our safety practices.
All parents and visitors are
expected to report to the office upon entering and exiting the building (at any
time other than arrival and dismissal). We have posted signs outside requesting
that all visitors report to the office. Regular classroom and library
volunteers are expected to sign in as well.
SIGN IN AND GET A BADGE TO
IDENTIFY YOURSELF TO
STUDENTS AND ADULTS WHO WORK
IN THE BUILDING.
SIGN OUT WHEN YOU LEAVE THE
SCHOOL.
***** DOOR SCHEDULE *****
Morning Procedure
As stated in our Guidelines
for the Safe Arrival and Departure of All Students, children driven to school
must be dropped off in the Blue Zone" on Parkview. No child is to be
dropped off on Bridges Ave. or in the faculty parking lot. All students
and parents must enter the building through the main lobby or the kindergarten
wing doors. After 8:34 a.m., parents and visitors must enter through the
door adjacent to the playground. All other doors will be locked.
Afternoon Procedure
Doors (excluding the faculty
parking lot door) will be unlocked 15 minutes prior to dismissal. Parents in
cars need to pick up their children in the "Blue Zone" on Parkview.
No child is to be picked up behind the school on Bridges or in the faculty
parking lot. All doors will be locked at 3:30 p.m. (1 p.m. on Tuesdays and
early release days) except one main lobby door.
We are a community school.
All parents, guardians and
supportive adults are welcome!
Let's work to keep it safe!
Dog walkers, please exercise caution
If you bring your canine friend with you when you drop off and/or pick up your child, please exercise caution on and near the blacktop and playground. Some students have been frightened by dogs recently, and we want to make sure that everyone is comfortable.
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Newton Public Schools Announcements
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Weigh in on superintendent search!
The superintendent search committee values community opinions. A survey is now available
online, and parents/guardians are asked to give their opinions. You can link to it directly at http://bit.ly/SuptSearchSurvey (be sure to
get the capitalization correct) - or you can link to it through the School
Committee website home page.
The more
opinions we can collect, the better informed the committee can be in this
important process.
If you'd prefer to write a few sentences about what you're looking for in a superintendent, email Laura Holt at lkholt@comcast.net or mail your comments
to Laura Holt, 35 Vineyard Road, Newton, MA, 02459 by Wednesday,
November 4th.
Out-of-District Policy Statement
Out-of-District placements for students who wish to attend a school in Newton other than his/her district school are limited. Such placements are made on a space available basis only. Newton families, as well as members of Units A, B, C, D, E, NESA, Custodians and Boston parents of students in the METCO Program, should call the Elementary Education Office (grades K - 5) at 617-559-6105 or the Deputy Superintendent's Office (grades 6 - 12) at 617-559-6115 for information. Students who receive acceptance for Out-of-District placement must remain in the school selected for the duration of the school year.
Applications for the following school year must be submitted on forms which will be available beginning November 2 in the Elementary Education Office (grades K - 5), Room 218, or the Deputy Superintendent's Office (grades 6 - 12), Room 214, at the Education Center.
If necessary, a lottery will be implemented to determine the order in which placements will be made. Completed applications, signed by the in-district principal, can be submitted no earlier than January 4, 2010 and no later than March 31, 2010. Applications submitted after March 31, 2010 will not be included in the lottery.
Class size in a given grade, in a given year, in a specific school, may preclude any placements including siblings.
Parents will be responsible for transportation.
Tuition Free Enrollment is limited to the per pupil cost of regular education.
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