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Community Notes

September 3, 2021

Upcoming Events:

Monday, September 6^th : School Closed: Labor Day Holiday
Tuesday, September 7^th: School Closed: Day of Low Attendance (Rosh Hashanah)

A sweet new year to you all!

Thursday, September 16^th: School Closed: Day of Low Attendance (Yom Kippur)
Friday, September 24^th: Back to School Social, Playground, 5:00-7:00pm

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Our North Star

“When children and teachers feel engaged, safe, and supported we have room to grow and learn through collaboration and risk-taking with our peers.”

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Thank Yous!

Our team:

Jurgen and Mark and Raphael
Jaliz
Maria
Kirtan
Teachers and Staff

Staff Appreciation Luncheon - Katie and Robin and everyone who contributed. We were amazed and full!

Our new PTO Leadership

PTO president - Kathleen Meehan
VP - Kathryn Murphy
Clerk/Secretary - Zoe Stoesser
Treasurer -- Chris Weeks

And YOU! For making sure your children are here and open to try new things!

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Welcome New Staff

Maria Kalaitzidis joins us in the front office. She served the Lawrence School for many years as the Building Paraprofessional/Office Aide and now joins us, replacing Debbie Fay.
We welcome Lindsay Anderson to the team as our new Librarian!
Special Educator Lucy Verhave will go on leave soon. Kyssandra Perkowski joins us in the 7-8 Learning Center through the end of December.
Alex Borns-Weil, long time Heath Literacy Specialist, returns from a year at the RLA as one of our 4th Grade teachers.
Emily Redburn, a veteran 1st grade teacher, will take a leave of absence this upcoming year. I am excited to announce that we have a new addition to the 1st grade team to cover Ms. Redburn's absence: Jasmine Tierney. Ms. Tierney has been at Heath for a few years now as a Special Educator.
Amy Truschel will stay on at Heath as our new 2nd grade teacher after such a successful year last year on our Kindergarten team.
Jamey Rondeau joins us as our new 3rd and 4th grade Learning Center Teacher!
Audrianna Kamya-Young, Grace San, and Adam Stein join our paraprofessional team
Rachel Luebbert joins us as our new BCBA while Christina Maddox is out on leave
Our new Northeastern Cooperative student is the awesome Viviane King-Adas!
7 and 8 Math. Until we secure our new math teacher, the wonderful Mies Boet, our math specialist, will be helming the 7th and 8th grade math classes. Ms. Boet taught these classes last year as well and her expertise served us beautifully then as it does now.
Margot Fox starts the year on leave; Kristen Murray will helm the Kindergarten crew for us!
Carolyn Tracey, LMHC joins us as our new School Adjustment Counselor!
Shelby Sullivan will serve the year as one of our school Psychologists - welcome!

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Community Engagement

For Adults:

Open Houses
Coffees
One Heath

For Kids:

Rainbow Club and GSA
Model UN
Math Leagues - looking for parent volunteers!

Find upcoming events on our school calendar on the website (see red arrow) or read the Community Notes!

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Health and Safety

Back to School Policies
DESE Regulations (as of 8.13.21)
Guidance on Music Education Classrooms (as of 7.19.21)
Allergies:

With the increasing number of students with life threatening allergies in our district, it is vital that we are current with the updated guidelines regarding the consumption of food in our classrooms.

Nuts and peanuts will only be permitted in the cafeteria; this means that students will not be able to consume any food in the classroom or hallway that contains any nut product even if you do not have any students in your class with a nut allergy. This is a district wide policy.

Food should not be part of ANY celebration. We realize some families may be very disappointed with this change.