Miscoe Hill Newsletter

Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early, Jr’s Office will be meeting with all Miscoe Hill students in grades 5-8 to introduce their bullying prevention program. The cyber safety/bullying presentation is based on current research and regulations regarding the following: defining bullying / harassment, and cyberbullying. The presentation is tailored to the developmental level of each student group and will inform participants of current issues children encounter when using the internet and their devices. Students will receive internet safety tips, facts on how social media can affect present and future relationships and opportunities, and information on how to recognize and resolve these situations.

Grade 8 Presentation- Monday, March 21

Grade 6 Presentation- Tuesday, March 22

Grade 5 Presentation- Wednesday, March 23

Grade 7 Presentation- Wednesday, March 30

Please contact your child's school counselor with any questions or concerns.

Happy Spring !

Kathleen Allen, Grades 6 & 8

Victoria Beauregard Grades 5 & 7

Dear Students and Families,

My name is Joseph Fraser, and I am a sophomore at Nipmuc. This year, I am participating in the Blackstone Valley Youth Leadership Academy. In this program, students like myself learn to be leaders. With this comes a community service project, and I have chosen to run a tutoring program in order to benefit the students of Miscoe.

I have chosen this as my project because I know some students may need help but do not like to ask teachers for it. During these tutoring sessions, I plan on having several students (likely five to seven per session) meet me at the Mendon Town Library for an hour or so. In this time, I will help students complete their work and understand concepts. This will help for a more individualized tutoring, rather than having many students at once.

If students would like to participate, please fill this form out. The tutoring will be on a first-come first-serve basis, as I cannot help many students at once. This will likely run for four Saturdays (3/26, 4/2, 4/9, and 4/16) from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM, depending on how many people are interested in participating.

Any questions or concerns, please reach out to me via email (fraserj24@student.mursd.org).

Sincerely,

Joseph Fraser

• Monday, March 21- DA's Anti Bullying 8th Grade Presentation (during school)
• Monday, March 21- 8th Grade Semi- Formal Planning Meeting
• Monday, March 21- SEPAC Meeting
• Tuesday, March 22- DA's Anti Bullying 6th Grade Presentation (during school)
• Wednesday, March 23- DA's Anti Bullying 5th Grade Presentation (during school)
• Monday, March 28- School Committee Meeting
• Wednesday, March 30- Lobby Refresh Meeting
• Thursday, March 31- DA's Anti Bullying 7th Grade Presentation (during school)
• Monday, April 4- PTO Meeting
• Tuesday, April 5- Term 3 Ends
• Wednesday, April 6- We Care Informational Meeting
• Friday, April 8 - Practice Test
• Friday, April 8- Seussical Jr. Performance
• Saturday, April 9- Placement Testing for accepted BVT students
• Saturday, April 9- Seussical Jr. Performance
• Tuesday, April 12 & Wednesday, April 13- ELA MCAS
• Wednesday, April 13- Term 3 Grades Posted in PowerSchool
• Friday, April 15- Good Friday, Early Release
• Monday, April 18- Friday, April 22- April Vacation, No School
• Tuesday, April 26 & Wednesday April 27- Math MCAS
• Monday, May 2- PTO Meeting
• Friday, May 6- PD Day, Early Release
• Monday, May 9 & Tuesday, May 10- Science and Technology MCAS (Grades 5 and 8 only)

Monday, March 21, 2022

6:30 pm Start, 7:00pm Speaker Begins

In-Person at Nipmuc and Virtual via Zoom (https://mursd.zoom.us/j/88253684496?pwd=QVHT3B2bEJDN1dDcE94ZUorcnhJZz09)

Join us for the March MURSD SEPAC meeting, featuring a special guest speaker, Steve Lilly-Weber from the Bureau of Special Education Appeals. Steve will speak about the mediation process when families and the school are in disagreement about special education services for a student. Please come with your general comments and questions around the process of mediation! We will also be reviewing some of the recent programming organized by the district and covering some other topics. For more information or to be added to the SEPAC mailing list, please reach out to mendonuptonsepac@gmail.com.

Steve Lilly-Weber has been meditating with the Bureau of Special Education Appeals since 2004, currently covering the Bureau’s Central Region, which consists mostly of school districts in Worcester County. He also provides facilitation and training services across the state.

His presentation focuses primarily on the nuts and bolts of Mediation, for example, defining characteristics of mediation, when to request, how to request, how to prepare, who participates, role of the mediator, what happens during the mediation. In addition, he will discuss an additional dispute resolution process offered through the Bureau, the Facilitated Team Meeting.

The next meeting will be tonight Monday, March 21st at 7:00 in Miscoe teacher’s room # 224

MISCOE GIRLS WHO CODE CLUB - KICKOFF MEETING is TOMORROW!

Please encourage your daughter to join us for the launch of this new, exciting Club at Miscoe Hill School!

Kickoff Meeting: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Time: 2:45pm-3:45pm (after kickoff, we plan to meet after school 2 Tuesdays per month)

Place: Miscoe Room #223 (8th Grade Wing)

Miscoe Girls Who Code Club: MA40157

Contact: Mrs. Schwartz, M.B.A. mschwartz@mursd.org

We now are collecting textiles for recycling! Please think of us for donations!

2021-2022 Yearbook are for sale now!

Price per book: $35

Ordering End Date: 04/15/2022

Instructions to purchase a year:

Important information - If you are ordering for more than one child, please order for each child separately. Enter the first child’s information and on the next page you will see “add another child” before you checkout.

1. Go to www.coffeepond.com
2. Go to order central and select yearbooks
3. Enter the password Miscoe22 and select: on-line order and continue
4. Enter your child’s name, grade and the book quantity
5. Enter your email under Contact and select add to cart
6. If you have another child to order for, please select order for another child, if not, you can finish checking out

*Please note: The option to select “Mail-in order forms” will be an option up to 1 week before the Online ordering due date

2020-2021 yearbooks can still be purchased for $35. You can also purchase books from past years at discounted prices:

2019-2020 $30

2017-2018 $20

Please email Ms. Tinio at atinio@mursd.org if you are interested.

The Nipmuc Warriors club will be hosting Jim Grants annual golf fundraiser. It will be held at Shinning Rock Golf Course. It is a 18 hole course with all the amenities that are needed for us to be successful. Our goal is to raise $10,000 to help The Warriors' Club to support the needs of the high school, middle school athletes and Hall of Fame committee .
The foursomes are filling up so if you are interested please contact warriorsclub@mursd.org ASAP.
Everyone can help make this a great success. Can you sponsor a hole, donate a raffle item or auction item, donate money, or just buy a raffle ticket.
You don't have to be a golfer to help but you can help be the backbone of our efforts. Join us in some capacity.

Amazon 2023 is currently open for enrollment to current 6th and 7th graders. ***NEW*** With permission from Miss Holloway, current 8th graders may also register for this trip! I know many families have been nervous about traveling due to covid which is why I am extending this rare opportunity. I believe we are already in a much better place health and safety wise and I expect things should be even better (if not normal!) by next year. If you missed out on this year's trip due to covid you have one last chance to sign up and experience the adventure of a lifetime!

Miss Holloway will host an informational meeting on Wednesday, March 16th at 7 PM via Zoom if you would like to learn more. I will have pictures to share of our most recent adventure, feedback from parents and students that have traveled with us, and all of the information for our next Amazon Adventure! Sign up by March 23rd at explorica.com/Holloway-7078 and use code TRAVEL0Y to lock in the current price! Please email lholloway@mursd.org with any questions.