CMS Weekly Update: Welcome Back
August 2022 Edition
Welcome Back!
August 19, 2022
Dear Coelho Parents and Families:
The Coelho Middle School faculty is excited for the start of another wonderful school year. We have done a lot of work over the past year, and this summer to ensure that we provide your child with the most highly engaging education possible.
The new school year does bring some changes to the Coelho Middle School, including some team and staff changes, including the hiring of new staff members to the school community. One of the changes to the Coelho Middle School is the addition of a second assistant principal to the Coelho Middle School. We are happy to announce that Mrs. Lindsay Antunes has been appointed to the position. Lindsay Antunes has been a special education teacher in the district for the last 10 years and prior to this taught, at BICO Collaborative, along with servicing as the Varsity Field Hockey Coach for the past 8 years. Over the past 8 weeks during the summer, Mrs. Antunes, Mr. Yangambi, and I have worked very closely together to ensure that this school year will be an enjoyable and enriching experience for the students, staff, parents, and the community.
As I have stated so many times before, I truly believe that we all have a responsibility in establishing a nurturing environment, while providing every student with the very best, well-rounded, and rigorous education possible. This can only be done with the establishment of a wonderful partnership between school, community, and home. As part of this ongoing communication, I ask that you reference over the next few weeks and throughout the school year the NEW Coelho Website, the Coelho Middle School Facebook page, Aspen, and your emails for any updates on news and events that are going on at the Coelho Middle School.
Thank you and see you soon,
Andrew Boles
Principal
New Staff to CMS
Erin Tremor: Special Education Team Chair
Lindsay Antunes: Assistant Principal Grade 5 and 7
Heather Dennehy: Secretary
Doreen Barako: Grade 7/8 Social Studies
Kaitlyn Moreau: Grade 6 ELA and Social Studies
Leah Stevenson: Art
Nicole Simkins: Coach
Lindsey Basbino: Special Education
Elena Jones: STEAM Teacher
Access your Child's Homeroom Assignement
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
1st Day of School: Things to know!!!!!!!
Listed below are some of the details that you should be aware of before your child enters school on August 29th, 2022
- Drop off for students that are considered “walkers” 7:30 A.M. For students being dropped off, parents/guardians can enter the school at the second entrance, drive around the back of the building and drop the students off near the cafeteria @ Door “I”. Note: If a parent is wishing to come into the school and speak with a faculty member, you must park and enter at Door “A”, which is the main entrance of the building.
- Students eating breakfast may enter the building @ 7:30 A.M.
- Students may enter the building @ 7:40 A.M.
- All students should be seated in their homeroom by 7:50 A.M.
- Any student who is not in homeroom @ 7:50 A.M will be marked tardy. Students that are tardy must enter at door “A”.
- If a student is tardy and arrives after 8:15 A.M., the student must be accompanied by the parent/guardian. If the child is coming from a doctor’s appointment, for the tardy to be excused, a note from the doctor must be presented when the student checks in.
- The school day ends @ 2:20 P.M. Students that are staying after school need to make arrangements with the parent/guardian for pick up.
- Parents/guardians need to call in their child’s absence from school and follow up with a note.
- Students should also bring in their own combination lock and need to give the combination to their homeroom teacher.
- The lunch program will be free again this year, but we are asking all parents still to fill out a free/reduced lunch form, as this helps with federal grant funding.
- All students will receive a packet of forms to be filled out. Please make sure that you take the time to review and complete the necessary paperwork and return these forms to your child’s homeroom teacher as soon as possible.
- ALL parents/guardians and guests of the Coelho Middle School must enter at the main entrance at Door “A” and check in with the main office.
- On the first day of school, all grade 6th, 7th, and 8th students will report directly to their homerooms, which can be found on ASPEN. All fifth-grade students will report to the auditorium to meet the teachers and the administration.
Forms that need to be returned to school......
Forms that need to be passed back to the homeroom teachers
- Medical Forms
- Free/Reduced lunch forms: This is important, even though the lunch program is free this year, the amount of accurate applications that we have, helps with federal funding that we receive from the government, which helps educate the students. Please make sure you fill this out, even if you think you won't qualify. Here is the link for the application. https://www.attleboroschools.com/page/food-services
- 7th Grade updated immunization records: Brought in or faxed to the school nurse.
These are to be completed on the ASPEN Portal:
- Update Student Emergency Forms
- Handbook sign-off