For students who will attend a four-year college or university in the U.S., May 1st is National Decision Day. This date represents the deadline to submit your acceptance and make a deposit to attend the four-year college or university of your choice. You may only make a deposit to one college, since you can only attend one college. Please notify your school counselor of your choice by changing your "Attending college" on Naviance. The School Counseling office will send a final transcript to only one college or university.

Reminder to students: Please be sure to write a thank you note or email to the faculty and staff who wrote you recommendation letters!

SENIORS: Please update your college decisions on Naviance. Here's how:

1. Go to "Colleges."

2. Click "Colleges I'm Applying To."

3. Update the decision for each college to the right of the college name. You'll see a pencil that will let you "edit." Then look for "results." Click the boxes to tell us whether you were accepted, denied, waitlisted or deferred.

4. If you've decided which college to attend, scroll down past your list of colleges, and update "College that I'm attending."

This keeps our scatterplots accurate for the class of 2023. If you don't do it now, you will have to update Naviance before you are cleared to graduate.

Thank you!

We are thrilled to have best-selling author Jessica Lahey speaking at Milton High School on Thurs. April 7, 7pm. If you can’t make the in-person event, you can now live-stream it from your laptop or phone. Register here and you will receive a link for the presentation.

If you would like to come to the in-person event, but need childcare, the young people of Milton Youth Advocates for Change will be providing childcare at the high school. Click here to find out more and to register. Books will be available in the lobby from The Frugal Bookstore. Frugal Bookstore Inc.

A few colleges in the area are offering days that expose you to the college experience.

BC Splash is a 1-day event held at Boston College each semester where students in grades 7-12 can take fun, engaging classes that are taught and designed by our undergraduate and graduate students!

This semester, our program is back in-person on the BC campus, and we have put together a great day and fantastic lineup of classes over zoom for the students. They can take classes such as The Mathematics of Voting, Little Women 101, Learning to Love Yourself and Life, and many others!

BC Splash will be held on BC's campus on Sunday, April 10th from 10am - 4pm.

Our program costs $10 to attend, but we have extremely generous financial aid for any students for whom this is an issue. We do not want students to not come because of cost.

Students can register at our website, bcsplash.learningu.org

Splash at Harvard College will take place virtually SATURDAY, APRIL 23 10AM - 12:15PM ET and SUNDAY, APRIL 24 1PM - 3:15PM ET. Splash is a meaningful learning and fellowship opportunity for all high school students, regardless of their goals and backgrounds. Students will be able to better picture themselves as college students through attending our free virtual tours, engaging in Harvard student experiences, and exploring the post-secondary environment with their peers.

We want to emphasize that there is no application process. It is open to all high school students regardless of GPA, etc. There is no registration fee and the event is entirely free for students.

Interested students should fill out our interest survey in this Google Form, or via tiny.cc/SPLASH2022. It is important that students fill out this short form, as we will communicate with them more registration and event details.

MHS volunteer opportunity: Brookwood Community Farm is getting the season started with some cleanup! 2-4 people are needed Saturday, April 2 from 9-11 am to move 30 wooden pallets and do other chores to get the farm ready for planting. All interested students should send an email to president@brookwoodcommunityfarm.org and get a confirmation email in return. More needs will be posted in the coming weeks including working at the Seedling Sale May 7 & 8. Please bring your volunteer sheets to be signed on the day of your volunteering. Thank you for volunteering at Brookwood Community Farm

Pierce Debate Coach Colin Faherty shares this opportunity for 4th-10th grade students. This summer, Lumos Debate is offering courses in public speaking and debate in Milton. Students in grades four through ten can enroll in fun and educational programs with experienced counselors. Give your child the opportunity to meet new friends, develop critical thinking skills, and practice their public speaking in a fun, low-pressure learning environment!

Lumos teaches debate through fun games and activities that students love. And the instructors are friendly, warm, and great at making public speaking exciting! Choose your dates and register now at LumosDebate.com.

The Milton School Committee invites all to participate in the Open Public Hearing to discuss all matters relating to the proposed 2022-2023 Fiscal Budget.

• Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 6:30pm
• Via Zoom;Passcode: 168556; Webinar ID: 811 8269 8756

If you are unable to participate, please feel free to email comments/questions to the Milton School Committee at schoolcommittee@miltonps.org.

Our Milton High Library is open by 7am every morning so students can access all the amazing resources the library has to offer! Librarian J Troy is always on hand to help guide students in the right direction!

Throughout the school year, members of our MPS community celebrate and observe various religious holidays. We adjust homework expectations as needed as you can see in the document linked here. If there is a religious holiday that we have missed, please email Superintendent James Jette.

For Family Technology Support click HERE

Chromebook Troubleshooting

Is your family having internet issues or need assistance to access the internet in your home? Please go here for more information.

As discussed at a recent School Committee meeting, the Milton Public Schools has updated our school incident reporting forms so people can specify incidents on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion and more. The Milton High School incident form can be found here and each school has a form linked on the front of their school’s website and they are also linked on the front of the MPS website, the MPS Education Equity page and MPS Anti-Bullying page.

This Resource Guide contains contact information to link families and youth to mental health, substance use and trauma hotlines as well as to emergency and outpatient therapy, family and group support programs, substance use disorder treatment, culturally competent care, and social services.

Tax season has begun and Noreen Kearney Dolan, Fund Coordinator for the Milton Residents Fund, asked that we share this resource with MPS families. MyFreeTaxes, a product supported by United Way, helps people file their taxes for free while getting the assistance they need. The site will point you to either an in-person VITA site in a local community or will provide you with access to the website to file your taxes for free – with no income limits. Volunteer help is a phone call away.

MPS knows that families may sometimes need resources for their children and family beyond the classroom. In addition to the Family Resource Newsletter please visit Milton Public School Resource Guide. If you need additional assistance please don’t hesitate to reach out to Marti O’Keefe McKenna, MPS Family Outreach Liaison at 617-980-7343 or by email at mmckenna@miltonps.org. All calls and emails are confidential.