Milton Public Schools' Superintendent Publish Update For May 5

Milton MA

08 May, 2022

12:19 AM

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Press release from the Milton Public Schools: May 5, 2022 To: Parents/Guardians and StaffFrom: James F. Jette Re: Superintendent's Weekly Update Date: May 5, 2022 FROM THE DESK OF THE SUPERINTENDENT Come watch the Kentucky Derby LIVE at Granite Links on Saturday, May 7th at 5pm! Please visit this link to purchase tickets The next School Committee meeting is Wednesday, May 11 , 2022. As always, all information about attending School Committee meetings can be found on the Town of Milton webpage under School Committee. You can watch regular School Committee meetings live on Milton Access TV online, live on Milton Access cable channels (Comcast 22, RCN 15) or watch on-demand in the days following the meeting. IMPORTANT UPCOMING EVENTS May 7 MFE Celebration for Education May 11 School Committee May 11 Getting Ready for Kindergarten May 13 MHS Spring Fling May 14 Varsity Banquet May 16 Town Meeting Begins May 17 MHS Spring Concert May 19 MHS Music Awards Dinner MPS Calendars 21-22 one page School Year Calendar 2022-23 One Page School Year Calendar (Draft) District-Wide Calendar of Events for times and details on current events. MHS Spring Fling: MHS Student Government is excited to be hosting a Spring Fling Dance for all freshmen and sophomores on Friday, May 13th from 6-8 in the MHS Courtyard. Tickets are $10 and available in school. Please see the sign up genius linked here to help out – more volunteers (just 90 minutes of set up) are needed to make this event a success! Parent/Guardian English Class: The class will meet at MHS from 6-7 pm on Tuesday and Thursday between May 17 and June 23. This class is free for MPS parents/guardians. Interested? Email [email protected]. Milton Summer Enrichment: Registration is open and all details on classes and the program can be found at this link. Please email [email protected] with any questions. We are looking forward to a fun and enriching summer! Ready, Set…Kindergarten! Please visit Ready, Set…Kindergarten! to learn about all the Kindergarten events planned that will have you and your child excited and prepared for this new chapter. We are excited to welcome the Class of 2035 to the Milton Public Schools! HEALTH AND SAFETY COVID Updates: MPS has reported 33 new student cases and 6 staff cases to DPH for previous reporting period (April 28- May 4) with the following breakdown per school. Cunningham -3; Collicot -11; Glover- 3; Tucker-9 Pierce-3 and MHS- 4. Local and Norfolk County data can be found here: CDC COVID data tracker and Milton COVID 19 Dashboard. Students in Ms. Lee's Design Studio class learned about hand lettering and calligraphy by designing one of their favorite quotes, words or alphabet. Students developed their knowledge and skills in typography by making decisions on the alignment of their text, letter spacing, leading, and rag besides choosing a font or calligraphy hand to represent the meaning of their words or letters. Other design elements were included like drop caps, color, texture and illustrations for their final pieces. ______ The MHS Internship Program is in full swing and our students are beginning their placements this week. We have seven students at BID-Milton scheduled for rotations throughout the hospital. They will be familiarizing themselves with Radiology, Emergency, Human Resources, Rehab/EHS, Medical Records, Dietary, Pharmacy and Surgical Services. Tuesday evening they participated in a three hour orientation where they were advised of expectations and received their lab coats and badges. Starting this week two of our interns will be working remotely with the Milton Times attending brainstorming meetings, researching and editing procedures and the entire operational overview of running a journalistic paper. One intern is working at the Eustis Estate, assisting in the operation of a historic house museum, including planning and running public programs, installing a special exhibition in the galleries, and working on updates to their interactive tour technology. We also have two interns working within the town's Consolidated Facilities department where they will rotate buildings and see what it takes to keep our many buildings operational and in good condition. Thank you to the many supporters of this exciting program including the Milton Chamber of Commerce, Milton School Committee, MPS administration and staff and the community at large. We will be showcasing our student interns' success at the end of May with a thank you celebration. PIERCE PAGES This year's Pierce science fair was filled with many interesting STEM projects. Congratulations to our students who received an Outstanding designation! Outstanding Experimental Project -Sophie Derwinski, How Does the Brain Process Conflicting Information? Outstanding Design Engineering Project- Madyn Dwyer, Wind Turbines, Outstanding Presentation- Claudia Chambert, Light Pollution in Our Community Honorable Mention- Hope Sergi and Arlene Fernandez, Does Music Help Concentration? ______ Seventh grade FUSE students Camilla Abboud, Maddie King, and Maya Mitchell took the skills they learned on the FUSE challenge Selfie Sticker to create sweatshirts for themselves and a few friends using heat transfer vinyl! It's great to see students extending these challenges on their own! ______ Eighth grade students in Mrs. Magill's Advanced FUSE class recently completed a challenge creating a raft which would be pulled by a Sphero in a pool of water. They needed to design and build this raft using only certain materials which they could not have replaced if they ruined them. Completing this challenge forced them to think differently in order to problem solve. Click HERE to watch the video to see the Spheros and rafts in action! INSIDE OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Members of the Glover Fundraising Student Leadership Team (SLT) have been working together to support a variety of fundraising efforts this year. Most recently, the team partnered with the Gotta Have Sole Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide homeless youth with brand new shoes to help them feel confident and comfortable. The students organized a fundraiser to buy new shoes for children living in shelters. The goal of their work aligns with the widely held belief at Glover that everyone deserves to feel seen, valued, supported and loved. The group learned that it's common for homeless children to have to wear worn-out shoes and/or shoes that don't fit. The Glover community rallied around this group of students to support their important work. They raised over 700 dollars and collected hundreds of pairs of socks. Additionally, all Glover students had the opportunity to make cards with messages of hope that will be delivered with the shoes. Glover's SLTs provide 4th and 5th grade students the opportunity to work alongside their peers in leadership roles around a topic or cause that interests them. There are currently over 10 Student Leadership Teams in place. Way to go Glover Kids! ______ Thank you to all of the Cunningham and Collicot families who participated in the C&C Earth Day clean up last weekend! Wednesday was a terrific day for Walk and Bike to School Day! Thank you to all who participated. MPS concerts have not disappointed this spring and the Collicot K-1 concert this week was no exception. Thank you to Mr. Good and his young singers for a wonderful concert! ART AND MUSIC Congratulations to the 2022-23 Captains and Drum Majors of the Wildcat Marching Band! These hard working students have been integral members of the WMB and were selected based on their outstanding musical, marching and leadership contributions to the ensemble. Our '22-'23 leadership team members are: Cologuard Captains- Angel Leggett and Maeve Garvin; Percussion Captain- Bella Fiske; Drum Majors- Sampreeti Fitton, Sam McLaughlin, Brynne Mershon, and Claudia O'Neill. The Wildcat Marching Band is open to any Milton High School student! Any student entering grades 9-12 who are interested in joining the Wildcat Marching Band should fill out the form found here and reach out to Mrs. Damiani with any questions at [email protected]. Come join us and be a part of our 2022-'23 show "The Sky's the Limit"! FOOD SERVICE To gear up for 'School Lunch Hero' day on May 6, we want to showcase our fabulous kitchen managers at all 6 schools. The kitchen staff certainly deserves our appreciation as they have all worked so hard this year to make sure all of our students are well fed! FAMILY RESOURCES Last week we let families know that the Milton Coalition along with their partners MPS, MPD and BID did not renew their contract with Interface Referral Service. The coalition shared some alternate family support resources including Therapy Matcher, Compass Helpline, Quincy Family Resource Center (including Milton), Aspire Health Alliance and New Directions Counseling Center which we have added to our Family Resource Newsletter. This week the coalition has provided some tips for finding a mental health professional to work with you or your child that we wanted to pass along. This press release was produced by the Milton Public Schools. The views expressed here are the author's own.