• Please return devices that were borrowed by students for summer learning.
• Student information forms will be sent home the first week of school. Please return by September 14th.
  
• A digital copy of the Parent-Student Handbook will be distributed electronically. A hard copy of the signature page will be sent home- please sign and return the last page no later than September 17th.
• Please date notes that are sent to school with students. If you are writing a note about dismissal, please write the full name of the person picking up your child.
• Clearly mark water bottles, lunch boxes, etc. with student's name.
• District Policy requires all parents and school volunteers to maintain a current BCI check and to RENEW all BCI checks yearly prior to volunteering in classrooms/school or field trip activities. Please contact the school office if you are in need of a form.

• Parents are reminded that students may arrive between 8:35-8:45 AM.
• If you are dropping off or picking up, it is best to park in the lot adjacent to the gazebo. Please avoid parking where "NO PARKING" signs are posted. Failure to do so often results in difficulty with arrival and departure for our buses.
• Institute Lane will be open for ONE WAY traffic from 8-9am daily, if you are dropping your child off near the cafeteria, you will continue up the hill and out onto Danielson Pike.
• KINDERGARTEN & Grade 1 will enter through the cafeteria each morning
• Grade 2 will enter through the front/office doors and down the gr. 3/4/5 hallway
• Grades 3, 4, & 5 will use their exterior classroom doors each morning.
• There will be signs to support this new routine of entering the building using multiple entrances.
• Students arriving after 8:45am must be escorted to the front door by an adult to be buzzed in by the office. For safety, please do not have your child walk in alone.
• Students will be marked tardy if they arrive after 8:45am.
• DROP OFF- Please pull up to the side of the walkway closest to the cafeteria. Have your child exit on the passenger side for safety reasons. If your child needs assistance getting out of the car, please park in the lower lot near the gazebo and walk your child up the walkway. This will ensure traffic moves smoothly for busses and cars. Thank you for your understanding.
• For additional information about bussing, please click here.

Breakfast and lunch are free for all students this year. Typically the cost is $2.60 and reduced is $0.40. Milk is also available to purchase for $.50.

Families are still encouraged to complete the 2021-2022 meals application. Meal status provides assistance with federal programming and funding. Free and reduced lunch application forms are located on the school website (linked below) and will be sent home with students on the first day of school. We strongly encourage all families to fill out a form. All forms are confidential. Please direct any questions to the Superintendent's Office, 647-4100.

Choose Love for Schools™ is a no cost, next-generation social and emotional learning (SEL) and character education program for Pre-K through 12th grades, designed to teach students, educators and staff how to choose love in any circumstance thereby creating a safer, more connected school culture.

Choose Love For Schools incorporates neuroscience and positive psychology to teach mindfulness, character, and emotional intelligence. These essential life skills and tools make students better learners, more desirable employees and happier, healthier, human beings.

Scituate Schools have adopted this SEL curriculum Prek-12! More information to come about how to incorporate this learning in your home.

Source: https://chooselovemovement.org/schools/

A key component of the program is the Independent Reading Level Assessment (IRLA), which is a tool that works with every student, at any reading level. The IRLA delivers specific and actionable data that tells the teacher where a student is, why, and the sequence of skills/behaviors she needs to learn next to accelerate her reading growth.

Parents, be on the look out for information about how to support this curriculum at home!

Parents, please note, Eureka provides a series of free Parent Tip Sheets at the topic level that include suggested strategies and models, key vocabulary, and tips for how you can support learning at home. Be on the look out for the tip sheets at the beginning of each module!

Beginning in October, students will have a 40-minute STEAM enrichment block weekly focused on various activities related to science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics. This block of time is in addition to art, music, physical education, and library. A special thanks to Ms. Shannon Donovan, our district STEAM coordinator, Ms.Lowery, Ms. Dennis, and Mr. Labossiere, Ms. Davis, and Mrs. Ethier for supporting this important initiative!

North Scituate School teachers will begin fall benchmark assessments after the first two weeks of school. Staff members will then meet to analyze the data and create instructional groupings designed to provide targeted skill instruction to students with similar strengths and needs. The results of these assessments will be communicated to parents. Please do not hesitate to contact your child's teacher if you have any questions or concerns.

A tiny item that makes a BIG difference for others is the aluminum pop tab! Last year our school collected and donated more than 2 recycling bins full of aluminum pop tabs to Ronald McDonald House in Providence. Ronald McDonald House uses the proceeds from the recyclable aluminum to help fund their “home away from home” for families with children in Hasbro Children’s Hospital.

Students are great collectors! Please help them find opportunities to round up lots of pop tabs…and to spread the word to family and friends that we are collecting them here at school.

Your child may leave pop tabs at the office, pass them to his or her teacher, or deliver them to Room 6 (Mrs. O’Grady’s class) at any time. Thanks for helping North Scituate Elementary School help others.

• 09/07: First Day of School!
• 09/14: School Committee Meeting
• 9/09: Open House/Back to School Night 6:00-7:00pm (A-J), 7:00-8:00pm (K-Z)
• 09/15: PTO Meeting