
Wakefield Hills Elementary School
Weekly Staff Update: March 28th-April 1st, 2015
I hope that you all enjoyed a wonderful Easter weekend! It was nice to feel as if spring is here. This week is a busy one including our parent-teacher conferences. Please feel free to invite me to any parent-teacher conferences that you would like for me to attend. Have a great week!
Upcoming....
Happening this week...
Monday:
*Happy Monday!
Tuesday:
*IEP Team Meeting Day
*Marvelous Marvin Family Night at WHES: 6:30-7:30pm
*Report Card Distribution
Wednesday:
*1/2 Day
*Parent-Teacher Conferences
Thursday:
*Happy Thursday!
Friday:
*Celebrate Autism Awareness by wearing your "Owl" T-Shirts!
*All Special Education LRE Predictions Due
*RTI Attendance Movie Day Reward!
Saturday:
*Kindergarten Registration: 9:00am-12:00pm
Important events, deadlines, etc...
*Teacher Assistants: I need to complete your annual evaluations by May 1st. I will be observing you during the week of April 11th. If you have a time preference for the week please send it to me and I will do my best to see you during that time. I will schedule a meeting with you to discuss the evaluation during the week of April 25th.
*Attendance Reward: I have decided to reschedule this day. We have a large number of students who have met the attendance expectations (decided by the RTI team) for the trimester 2 reward. Students must have 5 or less unexcused absences, tardies and/or dismissals. Class lists with qualified students will be distributed on Monday. The reward day will be Friday, April 1st. The RTI team will send time details etc. by Wednesday of this week.
*Trimester 2 report card distribution will be on Tuesday, March 29th.
*Half-Day Release: March 30th: Schedule can be found here: https://docs.google.com/a/westwarwickpublicschools.com/document/d/1DJ-uwQ_TUCT29Xglz5HRoVE-S6K-peNhrW-LdsZdE2w/edit?usp=sharing
*Parent-Teacher Conferences: Please submit a list of your conferences to me with parent attendance after you have held all conferences.
*Kindergarten Registration for the 2016-2017 school year begins on April 2nd-8th, 2016.
*Next WHES BLC Meeting will be held on Monday, April 4th from 2:45-3:15pm. The sign-up sheet is here: https://docs.google.com/a/westwarwickpublicschools.com/document/d/1R31diWmtMywBKe72aGjP6_CND5T5hLJBpOzz7BCd9g8/edit?usp=sharing
*The Rhode Island Black Storyteller, Len Cabral will present for an assembly on Monday, April 4th. 9:15am for grades K and 1 (cafeteria), 10:15am for grades 2,3 and 4 (gymnasium).
*Tasty Tuesday celebration for Paulette Rainey-Brown's retirement will be held on Tuesday, April 5th. Please see Jill Lepage to sign her card and make a donation towards a gift.
*Storytellers Share Event at WHES: Tuesday, April 5th 6:30-7:30pm.
*Storytellers Celebration at West Warwick High School: Thursday, April 7th 6:00-7:30pm.
*4th grade Special Education Case Managers will attend a meeting with Mr. Guiot (DMS principal), Mrs. Wahl (DMS Special Ed. Dept. Chair) and myself on Wednesday, April 6th at 10:00am. I will contact you with a specific schedule. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss your LRE predictions for our 4th grade students who will be attending DMS next year.
*Next SIT meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 6th in the WHES Media Center from 2:45-3:45pm.
*Reading Week at WHES will be April 11th-15th! Thank you to our reading interventionist, Mrs. Martini-Proulx and Mrs. Petrarca for your work to plan this great week!
*Reading Protocol Meetings for our next session of reading intervention will be held on Monday, April 11th.
*WWPS School Committee meeting: Tuesday, April 12th at 6:30pm in the Deering Media Center.
*Spring Pictures will be held on Thursday, March 14th.
***Help Wanted***
*School Improvement Team: Please consider joining the SIT team or a SIT subcommittee. This is your school and your input is critical!
Wakefield Hills Elementary School
Email: lbessette@westwarwickpublicschools.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/westwarwickpublicschools.com/whes/home
Location: 505 Wakefield Street, West Warwick, RI, United States
Phone: 401-822-8452
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wakefield-Hills-Elementary-School/223614024389459
Twitter: @wakefieldhills