Melville Message Community Update
September 23rd, 2022
Melville Mission
In partnership with families and community, the mission of Melville Elementary School is to provide all students with a strong academic foundation through diverse and challenging instruction in a safe and nurturing environment enabling them to achieve their greatest potential while developing self-confidence, respect, responsibility, compassion and a love of learning.
This Week's Character Development Quote
Whale Done Students
Community Celebration
We encourage you to have your children wear any Melville spirit gear they may have or wear the color blue!
Melville Family Voice!
Fall Festival Volunteers Needed
Sing up here https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F094CA5AB2CABF85-2022 to help make this the best year ever!
A Great Week at Melville!
Start with Hello
Thank You
Outside Learning
Flu Clinics
2022-2023 School Calendar
Volunteers
SECURLY HOME
Securly Home is an app that allows parents to monitor their child’s Chromebook activity at home and add rules for home use. Please take some time to review the slideshow and recording of the parent meeting that took place on 9/16.
We encourage you to sign up now for Securly Home!
Fundraise for Melville as you Shop!
How to use AmazonSmile on a web browser:
- Visit smile.amazon.com
- Sign in with the same account you use for Amazon.com
- Select your charity Melville Parent Teacher Group
- Start shopping! Remember to checkout at smile.amazon.com to generate donations for your chosen charity.
Tip: Add a bookmark to make it easier to shop at smile.amazon.com.
Our Food Pantry is Always Open!
In keeping with the spirit of giving, our Feinstein Jr. Scholars are excited to start an in-school food pantry that our students and families can donate to and access when needed.
Please help us as we continue to support our community by sending in food items with your child from time to time. Please email
Mrs. Powell: powelld@portsmouthschoolsri.org or
Mrs. Pascoe: pascoen@portsmouthschoolsri.org
if you would like to access our food pantry during the school year.
Community Events
Foreign Language Enrichment for Melville Elementary School
Portsmouth Enrichment is pleased to offer Spanish language classes (Levels 1, 2, and 3) to Melville Elementary students (grades 1-4) BEFORE SCHOOL, VIA DISTANCE LEARNING ONLY.
We are very excited to have Señora Michelle Leonard return to teach beginning Spanish to our Melville and Hathaway students this year! Señora Leonard has been an anchor for the Portsmouth Enrichment Program from the beginning, now entering her 18th year in this position. She teaches the same curriculum to both the Melville and PMS students, thus providing a uniform base for all as they move up to eighth grade Spanish at PMS. The dialect matches both those taught at PMS and PHS.
The Melville Elementary program fee is $180 and includes all materials. Classes will meet once per week, before school (see schedule below), via distance learning. All classes will commence the week of OCTOBER 17, 2022 and will run until April/May 2023. Class size is limited and space is available on a first-come/first-serve basis. Please note: Space is limited to only 10 STUDENTS in Spanish 1 class.
Please submit your registration and payment online by Friday, September 30, 2022.
Spanish Enrichment webpage: www.portsmouthenrichment.org
Please email any questions to melvillespanish@gmail.com.
Thank you!
Important Date
October
5th-Yom Kippur (No School)
10th-Columbus Day (No School)
12th-MPTG Meeting 6:00 PM
14th-Corn Maze at Escobar Farm
19th-Early Release for Students (PD for Staff)
22nd-Fall Festival10AM-2PM
29th-Truck or Treat 10AM-12PM
31st-Schoolwide Character Day
November
1st-School Picture Day
8th-Staff PD Day (No School)
9th-MPTG Meeting 6:00 PM
11th-Veterans’ Day (No School)
23rd - 25th-Thanksgiving Recess (No School)
30th-Ornament Night
December
14th-Early Release for Students (PD for Staff
14th-MPTG Meeting 6:00 PM
23rd - 31st-Holiday Recess (No School)
January
2nd-New Year’s Observance (No School)
11th-Early Release for students (PD for Staff)
11th-MPTG Meeting 6:00 PM
16th-Martin Luther King Day (No School)
February
–In School Book Fair
8th-Early Release for Students (PD for Staff)
8th--MPTG Meeting 6:00 PM
20th - 24th-Winter Recess (No School)
March
8th-MPTG Meeting 6:00 PM
13th-Statewide PD Day-Distance Learning Day
April
7th-Good Friday (No School)
12th--MPTG Meeting 6:00 PM
10th-14th – Spring Recess (No School)
26th-Early Release for Students (PD for Staff)
May
10th--MPTG Meeting 6:00 PM
23rd-Melville Fun Run
26th-Staff PD Day (No School)
29th-Memorial Day (No School)
June
7th-Early Release for Students (PD for Staff)
9th – PHS Graduation (Tentative Date)
14th-MPTG Meeting-Volunteer Appreciation 6:00PM
19th – Juneteenth (No School) 20 or 180th day
Melville Elementary School
Email: lauried@portsmouthschoolsri.org
Website: https://www.portsmouthschoolsri.org/Domain/11
Location: 1351 West Main Road, Portsmouth, RI, USA
Phone: 4016831650
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009159177892
Twitter: @MelvilleSchool