Cameron Family Newsletter
September 9, 2022
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Important Dates
September 22: No Homework Night
September 26: No School (Rosh Hashanah)
September 29: Open House- Details to follow
October 5: No School (Yom Kippur)
October 7: No School (Professional Development)
October 10: No School (Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day)
October 20: Early Release- 11:40 dismissal/ no lunch served
October 27: Early Release- 11:40 dismissal/ no lunch served
Upcoming Vaccine Clinic - Tuesday September 13th
Please join us on Tuesday, September 13th from 4pm - 6:30pm at Harmony Grove Elementary School! This Vaccine Clinic is open to any individual ages 6 months and older.
Moderna vaccine for those under 5 years old
Pfizer vaccine for those that are aged 5 years old (and older)
Newly approved Pfizer booster available for those who have already received their initial doses
Interpreters will be available.
Walk-ins welcome.
Insurance is not needed.
A follow up clinic is scheduled for October 11th from 4 - 6:30pm at Harmony Grove to administer follow up doses for all ages.
Please stay tuned for additional vaccination clinic dates as they are scheduled throughout the Fall!
Important Health Information
Reminder! Please complete our Annual Health Information Form Annual Health Information to let us know your medication preferences AND so our Nurse can administer over the counter medication for your child as needed this year!
Spanish
¡Recordatorio! Por favor, complete nuestro formulario de información de salud anual Annual Health Information SPAN para avisarnos sus preferencias de medicaciones, ¡y si nuestra enfermera puede administrar medicamento fuera de receta para su hijo si lo necesita este año!
Portuguese
Lembrete! Por favor preencha nosso Formulário Anual de Informações de Saúde
Annual Health Information PORT
News from Band!
Mrs. Dupuis' Band/Music Update
P-EBT Cards
If you or someone you know received a Summer P-EBT Card in the mail, please visit the FPS Food Service Website for more information on how to use your card. These cards are being distributed to students who qualified for Free/Reduced Meals OR who attended Barbieri, Brophy, Harmony Grove, McCarthy, Cameron, Fuller, or Thayer Campus during the last school year (2021 - 2022). This is a temporary government assistance program to help families purchase food at any physical or online retail store that accepts SNAP or EBT. You can choose to activate your card or hold on to it in the event that the country needs to activate an emergency food-assistance program in the future.
News from the After School Program
Hello Cameron Families! I would like to take a moment to introduce myself, my name is Keziah Franca and I am the new Out of School Time Coordinator at Cameron Middle School. I am excited to be part of this wonderful school and provide you with clubs and programs that are fun, but also provide life long lessons and skills. We are thrilled to announce that our after school clubs and programs will be starting September 27th! Be on the lookout for registration information in the upcoming weeks. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions. My email is kpessanha@framingham.k12.ma.us and my phone number is 508-782-6148.
Best Regards,
Keziah Franca
Student Drop Off/Pick Up
Students must be dropped off and picked up on Elm Street. Please drop off on the side of Elm Street before the entrance to Cameron. Cars are not allowed to enter the circle between the hours of 7:35 am- 2:50 pm. Outdoor adult supervision begins at 7:55 am. Doors for breakfast open at 7:55 am.
Entering and Exiting Cameron
Grade 6 students should enter and exit door 15
Grade 7 students should enter and exit door 1
Grade 8 students should enter and exit door 2
Lockers
Students will be assigned lockers again this school year. Students should put their coat and cell phone in their locker each morning. Students will be able to carry their bookbags during the school day.
Cell Phones and Airpods
Please remind your child that cell phones and Airpods must be off and in their lockers each day. Please refer to the handbook for our policy.
Family and Student Handbook
Please click on this link to access the Family and Student Handbook
https://www.framingham.k12.ma.us/Page/8918
This document has valuable information about Cameron Middle School.
Universal Free Breakfast and Lunch
IDecide
One area in which we would like to improve this year as a school community is with regard to substance abuse-particularly vaping products. To that end, we have partnered with Mass General Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health to institute a substance use cessation program, which includes a student survey.
Information about the program can be found here.
If you do not wish for your child to participate, you must fill out the opt-out here.
Multilingual Teaching Team
We'd like to welcome and introduce Cameron's new multilingual teaching team. Our teachers hail from Brazil, Spain, and the US, and we are excited to support our growing population of emerging bilingual students.
(From left to right starting in the back row: Mae Waugh Barrios, Language Development Coach; Amelia Andrade, Portuguese Native Language Assistant; Cristina Gomes Souto, 7th grade ESL; Clodoaldo De Souza, TBE Math; Joanita Powell, TBE Social Studies; Bret Lipow, 8th grade ESL; Marta Cuenca Banegas, TBE Science; Martin Conley, Campus Aid)