June 8,2020

The District Rules Regarding End of Year Celebrations

If you are inviting students to parade through the school parking area or other space, you must:

• Keep all school staff at least 6 feet apart at all times;
• Require all students/families to remain in their vehicles;
• Require all participants to wear appropriate face coverings;
• Obey all relevant traffic/parking rules and signage;
• If you are distributing anything to the student/family (diploma, certificate), you must:
• Wear gloves;
• Place the item on a table or other hard surface that is at least 6 feet wide;
• Have the student/family vehicle stop at the other side of the table/surface to retrieve the item; and 
• At no time during the exchange should there be less than 6 feet between people.
• Students/families should not be allowed to get out of their vehicle to take pictures, hug teachers, or otherwise come within 6 feet of school staff/others. No exceptions are allowed.   

Our End of the Year Celebration

Grade one was planning to conduct their own parade around Dorchester. Dropping off Celebration packages with the following components:

First Grade Package Components

• a book or two
• some bubbles
• a certificate (saying they are amazing or something like that)
• a treat
• a note from their teacher

I would like to do something similar with all of our grade levels at our School. 

I would love it if our students and families could drive by and connect with our entire school community one more time. 

I am thinking June 22nd would be the perfect day to do this. 

Is there a group of people that would like to logistically plan this super fun event to close out the craziest school year ever?!

Third Grade Moving on Ceremony

On behalf of the third-grade team I would like to invite you to make a 15-second video congratulating the students that are leaving us. Rose is going to compile all the videos into one amazing montage. Please text or email your video to Rose 1-617-512-4363. Rfrank@bostonpublicschools.org. The moving on ceremony is 6/18 so please get her your videos by 6/12. 

Summer School

Summer school planning at the district level is still a bit messy. Tomorrow I will be talking through where the district is and my current thoughts with the leadership team. We will spend some time as a full staff talking about summer school on Wednesday. Be prepared for some sort of ask (I am not even sure what it will be) coming either tomorrow afternoon or Wednesday.