2 Parsons Street

Northampton, Massachusetts 01060

413-587-1460 (phone) 413-587-1474 (fax)

Dr. Beth N. Choquette, Principal bchoquette@northamtpon-k12.us

Elizabeth Peterson, Administrative Assistant epeterson@northampton-k12.us

Jordan Celino, Secretary jcelino@northampton-k12.us

Nora DeJasu, Head Teacher ndejasu@northampton-k12.us

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Good afternoon. It is hard to believe that this is my final newsletter of the year. It has been a challenging year, but, with the support of all of you and our amazing faculty and staff we made it through. We had our ups and downs, good times and bad, happy times and sad, but in the end we did it together. I am so grateful for all of you and for what you did this year to help us through. The patience, understanding, and care that you have shown all of us at BSS will never be forgotten. Thank you to the PTO for your support and for all of the outside services that supported our families. We truly are grateful and I am blessed to be part of such a wonderful community.

I hope you all have a wonderful summer. Take time to be together. Take time to take care of each other. Be kind, be patient, and most of all have fun! See you in the fall!

All students/families will be expected to return their school-issued chromebooks and chargers at BSS on June 14th. Members of the technology department will be at school to collect the chromebooks similar to last summer when we handed them out. Any students/families that received a chromebook last summer or during this past school year, will need to return them on June 14th.

New Information: If you child is part of the remote classrooms, please return their chromebook after the last day of school on June 18th or 21st at James House on Gothic Street.

Report cards for all K-5th grade students will go home on Friday. Additionally, class placement letters for K-4th graders will go home Friday as well. Please be advised that class placement could change over the summer depending on how many students move in.

Remote students will have their report cards and placement letters mailed to them.

School begins at 8:00 a.m. and dismisses at 2:10 p.m.

Morning Recess and Supervision will begin at 7:45 a.m.

First Bell will be at 7:55 a.m. Late Bell at 8:00 a.m.

The YMCA will be sending out information about before and after school care next year.

We will be holding BASE next year on the off days of the after school intervention support days (for students who qualify based off of benchmark assessments). Most likely BASE and the intervention days will begin in October, but it has not been planned out yet. We will notify you once it is all set.

Congratulations to our fifth graders! We are so proud of you and excited for you and this next chapter of your lives. I'm looking forward to wishing you all the best at JFK. I will miss you so much, this is one of the hardest days of the year for me. I've watched you grow since you first entered our doors. You are all such amazing kids! I am going to miss you so very much.

If there are any fifth graders who have siblings in the younger grades that would like to attend the promotion ceremony, please let me know asap so I can make arrangements for them to attend.

The fifth Grade promotion ceremony will take place on Tuesday, June 15th at 9:30 a.m. with a rain date of June 16th. The ceremony will be brief and will take place in Lampron Park. Because this is a school function, all students, staff, and guests must wear a mask and maintain social distancing.

Please see the attached Vaccine Outreach Letter regarding vaccines.