PES Weekly - Newsletter
February 5th, 2024
PTO Attendance
We have our PTO meeting this week and as of now we have no staff members signed up to attend. You can join in person or virtually. This group of dedicated supporters do a lot for our school, we would love for you to attend and support them.
PES PTO Meeting- 5:30 PM- PES Library - or join us virtually at meet.google.com/cyk-aepr-kyq
100th Day of School
Our 100th Day of school will be Tuesday, February 6th. We encourage everyone to dress up as if you are 100 or as something that represents 100. Here is a link for some fun 100 day of school activities to do with your students:
Super Bowl Potluck
Retention
Hello Team,
I am including our retention process again. Please reach out to me if you have students who you would like to discuss for retention.
Retention in Grade:
Children are typically expected to progress from grade to grade each year having developed the skills and understandings outlined in our school’s curriculum. However, under certain circumstances, retention in grade may be considered as an individualized alternative for children who have not developed the expected skills and understandings at a particular grade. Such children are evaluated on an individual basis to determine whether or not retention is in his/her best interests.
If retention is being considered by the child’s teacher, notification is provided to the child’s parent/guardian by March 1. The process for consideration includes a discussion involving both the child’s parents/guardians and teacher on the benefits and penalties of retention for the individual child.
When considering retention, the following guidelines are followed:
Retention is considered only under unusual extenuating circumstances, such as:
A child is unavailable for instruction due to prolonged illness;
A child has moved frequently and has not acquired needed skills for promotion;
A child may benefit socially, emotionally, and/or academically; especially appropriate to children in the primary grades.
Retention recommendations are made by a team consisting of the child’s parents/guardians, classroom teacher, other invited members of the faculty, and the Principal; the school administrations retains the legal responsibility to assign children to classes within the school.
When retention is recommended, the child’s teacher identifies goals to be achieved through the retention; the child’s subsequent teacher monitors the effectiveness of the retention in terms of the identified goals.
Retention is not used in place of the provision of appropriate educational services, such as special education services or available remedial instruction.
Retention is never used as a punishment.
Professional Development Meeting 2/7
Professional Development for Wednesday 2/7 will be used for CPT/PLC teams to dig into and pinpoint needs for students using our most recent assessment data. We want to send home DRA and NWEA data before the February break. We ask each grade level to come up with a summary of grade level expectations for NWEA, resources for families to use (Zearn, IXL, Reading A-Z) to help support student learning. We will cover more of this in our Team Leader meeting on Tuesday and Team Leaders will bring back more information to your PLC meeting.
1:00- 1:30- PLC meeting
1:30- 3:00- CPT meetings to dig into your data and create communication to families.
CarriedAway Dental
Pittsfield Elementary School
CariedAway™ New Hampshire Concord
Dear Pittsfield Elementary School Staff,
The CariedAway NH cavity prevention and treatment program will visit Pittsfield Elementary School, February 12- 16, 2024, for grades Pre K - 5.
Dental screenings, cavity prevention, and treatment are available for ALL children in grades Pre K – 5, with parent/guardian written informed consent.
The dental appointment will be a 15-20 minute dental visit conducted during the school day.
The dental visit is a dental screening, cavity prevention, and dental treatment which can include tooth brushing, flossing, silver diamine fluoride, dental sealants, temporary fillings, and topical fluoride varnish, as needed.
It is a pleasure working with you. The support of the teachers will be critical to the success of this program and we are grateful for your assistance.
If you have questions please see your school nurse. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Mary
Mary Davis, RDH, CPHDH
CariedAway NH Concord, Clinical Director
Two Delta Drive, Suite 302
Concord, NH
NH Coordinating Public Health Dental Hygienist
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion
College of Dentistry, New York University
Math Summit - FREE PD
Looking for elementary math PD that you can do from anywhere?
Well we have good news , it’s time to register for the 8th Annual Virtual Math Summit presented by Build Math Minds that will take place on February 24 & 25, 2024.
Click here to register https://virtualmathsummit.com/2024/
Join Jim Ewing (the leader in Math for ELLs), Brittany Hege (Mix and Math), Rosalba Serrano (Zenned Math), Christina Tondevold (The Recovering Traditionalist), Latrenda Knighten (NCTM President-elect) and many more for an awesome online elementary math conference.
Watch all these presenters from the comfort of your home AND without having to go and spend any money to attend an in-person conference.
The presentations will be released on February 24 & 25, 2024. If you can’t attend those days, go ahead and register because you can watch the presentations through March 4, 2024 for FREE.
Hope to see you at the Build Math Minds Virtual Summit!
Follow the link to get registered:
Important Information
- This week's PES Newsletter will be written by Jay Tanguay, a reminder that if you have something happening within your learning spaces we would love to highlight it within our newsletter so please send information along for us to include.
- Staff lounge clean up will be completed by the staff in Grade 3.
- THANK YOU for everyone putting into Frontline this week- it was much easier this week with last minute changes. Also thank you everyone for the extra hands on deck with many staff out with illness this week. It is nice to know that staff can stay home to get better knowing that everyone is supporting one another. Your dedication to our school is refreshing and I am so thankful that everyone lends a helping hand.
Important Dates
- Monday, February 5th - PES Tier 2 meeting - 8:15- 9:15
- NO AFTERSCHOOL MEETING
- Tuesday, February 6th - 100th Day of School Celebration
- PES- Building Leadership Team meeting 9:00 - 10:00
- PES Team Leader meeting- 2:45 - 4:00 PM- PES Art Room
- Wednesday, February 7th - Early Release at 12:15 PM -
Data Dives
Paraprofessional Training:
Behavior Management
- Thursday, February 8th - Administration Leadership Team meeting- 9:00 -10:00 - SAU
PES PTO Meeting- 5:30 PM- PES Library - or join us virtually at meet.google.com/cyk-aepr-kyq
School District Deliberative Session - 7:00 PM- PMHS Media Center
●Classroom Strategies
● De-escalation
● Social Emotional Learning
● Tone / Body Language
Valentine's Day Fun
