Johnson Jaguars

Dear Johnson Families,

A special note of thanks to Julie Georgules from our Jonson PTO Cultural Arts Committee for scheduling last Friday’s performance by the “Natick Community Drum Circle.” It was another successful performance! Our students had a lot of fun trying out some of the different percussion instruments. And there were lots of great dance moves along with high energy engagement. Checkout the photos below!

On Tuesday, Vin Tingley and Kenny Phillips from the Rotary Club of Natick visited our third grade classrooms. Each Johnson third grader received the wonderful gift of a dictionary. We thank the Rotary Club of Natick for providing for their generous funding and for maintaining this special tradition (See photo below).

Our third and fourth grade students, “The JES Peacemakers” will be performing in Downtown Natick next Friday morning, December 23rd. Details with specific times to follow. We hope you will be able to join us!

Best regards,

John

• Thursday, December 22nd - Town of Natick Flu Clinic 4:00-6:30pm
• Friday, December 23rd - Peacemakers Community Tour
• Monday, December 26th - Monday, January 2nd - NO SCHOOL/December Break
• Thursday, December 29th - Town of Natick Flu Clinic 4:00-6:30pm
• Thursday, January 5th - Town of Natick Flu Clinic 4:00-6:30pm
• Monday, January 16th - NO SCHOOL - Martin Luther King Day
• Wednesday, January 25th - Release Day - 12:15pm Dismissal

1 - The cold winter weather is HERE! Please make sure your children are dressed appropriately for these cold days. In addition, remind your children to check the lost and found if they have left something behind.

2 - NPS Dress Code Policy Updates (Please click the link below):

Updated Dress Code Policy Link

3 - Breakfast and Lunch is free to all students this school year. Even though meals are free to students all year, we ask that you do fill out an application because you may qualify families for additional supports.

Complete your Free and Reduced Meal application today.

4 - REMINDER FOR PARENTS WHO WANT TO VOLUNTEER - Volunteer--CORI Checks

If you want to volunteer in schools, you must have a CORI check conducted and you must go into the building with identification (drivers license or passport) to do this. Click here for description of what a CORI check is and does. Without a CORI check, you cannot volunteer in the school. Here is the form to fill out for a CORI.

5 - FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

We have a range of financial supports available in the Natick Public Schools. This includes assistance with school fees, such as the bus and picture day, scholarships for programs such as the Book Fair and connections to community resources that may be helpful. If you are interested in these programs, please contact Laura Loftus, our school counselors, to have a private conversation. Her email is lloftus@natickps.org.

HELP WANTED FOR JOHNSON'S YEARBOOK

The Johnson 2022-23 yearbook is going to be a community-wide effort again. We need folks to collect content and we need a committee to pull it all together.

Will you take pictures or help organize them? Super! Do you want to work with Coffee Pond’s design software to actually assemble the yearbook? Awesome! Drop an email to annehunsicker@gmail.com so we can assemble the world’s greatest yearbook team.

If you’ve already got some photos you’d like to submit, please send them to annehunsicker@gmail.com with “Yearbook – name of event” in the subject line.

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Thank you to Keri Clark, Memorial School PTO President and the Memorial School PTO for including the Johnson Community with their upcoming events. Please take a look and feel free to attend any of these Memorial PTO sponsored events.

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• Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
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