Dear CMS Families,

Middle school students in the Attleboro Public Schools engage in learning experiences in special subjects including physical education, art, general music, Science Technology Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM). We are excited to announce that the schedule for all three middle schools will include band and chorus as additional courses for the 2023-2024 school year.

Students can opt into band or chorus for the year by switching out of general music and half of their art or physical education experience. The chart below shows the options that are available to your child should they select band or chorus to be included in their schedule.

Students will take part in an assembly during the week of Jan 30th and be given the opportunity to ask questions and then during the following week, be given a form to fill out with their selection.

Standard Option: Non-Band or Non-Chorus Option

Art – Full Year

Physical Education – Full Year

General Music – Half Year

STEAM – Half Year

Band/Chorus Options:

Option One: Full Year of Physical Education

Band or Chorus - Full Year

Physical Education – Full Year

Art – Half Year

STEAM – Half Year

Option Two: Full Year of Art

Band or Chorus – Full Year

Art – Full Year

Physical Education – Half Year

STEAM – Half Year

Option Three: Full Year of Art and PE- Drop STEAM

Band or Chorus – Full Year

Art – Full Year

Physical Education – Full Year

The PTO is excited to share our new PTBoard site at https://coelhopto.ptboard.com/. Information about events and fundraisers run by the PTO will be posted here. Signing up is not required to view the information on our site but will be necessary to participate in volunteer opportunities.

If you've previously given the PTO your email address, keep an eye out for an invite in your inbox. Otherwise, families can sign up by going directly to the site and choosing "Sign Up" in the upper right (or under the right-hand menu on mobile). Our school code is VJS3VB.

Thank you for your support!

CMS PTO

APS is currently updating the mobile phone numbers on record so that we can send school cancellations and other urgent notices via text message. We ask that you update your contact information in Aspen using the workflow directions listed here: https://5il.co/1ldxt

If you have multiple students, please complete the workflow for each one. Families who wish to have their child(ren) receive text messaging from the district/school, should provide student cell phone number(s) through this workflow as well.

For those wishing to participate in afterschool activities, these clubs will run on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:20 to 3:30. Students will get the opportunity to sign up the day before in the cafeteria.

For those students that need a late bus to get home please make sure that you are aware of the following:

• Late busses only run on Tuesdays and Thursdays
• Only students that are registered and assigned to a bus are eligible for a late bus.
• Late Bus stops are different than regular stops. Students will be notified next week of what stop they are assigned.
• Late bus students are picked up at 4:00 PM

Just so that you are aware, the expectation for updating grades in Aspen is every two weeks.

If you need your Aspen password reset, please follow the directions on this page.

If you are new to APS or can't remember your username as a parent, please email Kendra Alfred @ kalfred@attleboroschools.com and Heather Dennehy @ hdennehy@attleboroschools.com

You can also fill out the ASPEN username/password form and an email will be sent to you

School Website Calendar:

Jan/Feb:

2/17: 1/2 day of school: students will be let out at 11:30 AM

2/20-2/24: Feb. School Break

All APS Community Fliers can be found within the Welcome Center website. To view this week’s fliers, including information from throughout Attleboro please visit the Welcome Center webpage or click here for current fliers.