Nurses Corner
Dear South Row Families,
THANK YOU
I would like to sincerely thank the South Row community for adhering to the school’s covid safety regulations. Because students and staff stayed home when they felt ill or had a known Covid exposure over the break, the school was only mildly affected by the post Thanksgiving spike in cases. All of the pools for pool testing on Wednesday 12/1 were negative thanks to you! Keep up the great work!
Therapy Dogs
Please be sure to read the above messaging regarding our plans to have therapy dogs in the building. If you have health concerns about your student and the dogs, please reach out to me via email or phone. Email - vandevoordts@chelmsford.k12.ma.us Phone - 978-251-5177 option 2.
Vaccination:
I have been receiving some questions regarding vaccination and how it affects test and stay and pooled testing. If your student has received the Covid vaccine or is fully vaccinated, they are welcome to continue to participate in weekly pooled testing. Once they are fully vaccinated they will be exempt from testing and quarantine protocols. This means that if your fully vaccinated student is identified as a close contact inside or outside of school they will NOT be required to quarantine or test (including test and stay) in order to stay in school. If your student becomes symptomatic during the 14 days after exposure, they should stay home from school and seek an outside PCR or Molecular Covid test.
As far as documentation is concerned, you can send it after the first dose or wait until the series is complete.
Please feel free to reach out to me with questions or concerns.
Warmly,
Nurse V.
PTO Corner
Fruit Sale Fundraiser
Our fruit sale through Florida Indian River Groves has been extended through 12/12! We know there are some of you who forgot to order, and we don't want you to miss out.To order online, visit https://www.floridaindianrivergroves.com/order-now/ and use our school ID code, which is 1026389.
Holiday Decorations Map
We have gotten feedback that some kids really missed the Fall Decorations Hunt that we did last year as a Covid-friendly community activity, so we are bringing it back for this holiday season!
If you plan to do any decorating for any sort of year-end holidays, sign up here to be included in the map we will be publishing for anyone who would like to drive around or walk around and enjoy the decorations that people have up. The map will be published in the December 10 Homelink, so sign up by December 9. No names will be published on the map, it will simply be a map with pins marking decorated houses. Families and staff are all welcome to participate. The more, the merrier!
Staff Appreciation Cookie "Swap"
This time of year, the PTO does a cookie swap for the staff where we ask parents to bake items and we lay out a lovely spread in the teachers lounge for the staff to help themselves to throughout the day. We are asking that parents sign up to bake cookies, brownies, or some other treat, and drop them at school during school hours or in the bin at 171 Mill Road after hours. Items can be dropped off on either December 15th or 16th, and we will have the treats out for the staff on the 17th.
Please sign up to bring treats at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044CA4AA22ABFC1-2021
Recess Equipment
One of the things the PTO raises funds for is recess equipment for the school. Balls pop and get lost, chalk gets used up, and indoor recess games lose parts in the normal course of play, so we replenish some of the equipment each year. This year, the recess aides needed a new equipment cart (the old one was missing a wheel!), which took a big piece of our recess budget, so we have collected a wish list from the recess aides and teachers for both outdoor and indoor recess, and put together an Amazon wishlist in case anyone would like to donate a toy or game.
Please see the list at https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/AV0B5P1ZACH7?ref_=wl_share if you would like to help out with recess equipment and games. Thanks in advance for your support!
Bookmark Kits for Classrooms
With the close-packed nature of shopping at our traditional Holiday Shop and the number of parent volunteers it requires coming into the school, this was not the year to resume the shop as we had hoped it would be. However, we wanted to keep a piece of that alive for the students, and have provided kits to each classroom so that the kids can make a thumbprint art bookmark to bring home either as a gift for someone or to use in their own reading. Watch for the bookmarks in the next couple of weeks!
Shipping Notice Error
We know that some of you received shipping notice emails in the last couple of days for old spirit wear orders. There was an update to the back end of our e-commerce site and in the course of that, all old orders were marked shipped which auto-generated an email. You are not getting a duplicate of your old order, and no credit card data gets stored so you are not being charged again. Kindly disregard the emails.
Contact the South Row Administrative Team!
Principal
Mr. Jayson Ramalho, M.Ed.
Assistant Principal
Email: gilbertt@chelmsford.k12.ma.us
Website: https://www.chelmsford.k12.ma.us/Domain/15
Location: 250 Boston Road, Chelmsford, MA, USA
Phone: 978-251-5177
Facebook: facebook.com/SouthRowElementary
Twitter: @CPSSouthRow
Contact the Main Office Staff
- Mrs. Terri Gilbert, Principal: gilbertt@chelmsford.k12.ma.us, 978-251-5177 ext. 4
- Mr. Jayson Ramalho, Assistant Principal: ramalhoj@chelmsford.k12.ma.us, 978-251-5177 ext. 3
- Mrs. Shannon Vandevoordt, School Nurse: vandevoordts@chelmsford.k12.ma.us, 978-251-5177, ext.2
- Mrs. Debbie O'Neill, Secretary: oneilld@chelmsford.k12.ma.us, 978-251-5177, ext. 0
- Mrs. Kim Sepe, School Clerk: sepek@chelmsford.k12.ma.us, 978-251-5177, ext.0
- Absentee Line: 978-251-5177 ext. 1
