Device and material drop off schedule
Report Cards schedule
8th Grade Celebration:
Our Middle school teachers and UA teachers have been hard at work creating a digital ceremony to celebrate the completion of 8th grade for our students. We have recorded individual videos from the teachers and Anne Larivee has done a tremendous job stitching those videos together to create a digital recreation of our traditional 8th Grade Celebration. We have also collected photos and images of the 8th grader's school experience over the years, and Anne has put that together into another digital story. Both of these Videos will be posted on our facebook page on Friday June 12th. We hope that you and your family can enjoy those videos and use them as a means to finalize and commemorate your child's completion of 8th grade!
End of Year Parade / Motorcade:
On Friday, June 12th from 1 to 3 pm our berkshire staff will be traveling as a motorcade/parade throughout Berkshire. We will be stopping at every 8th grader's home to drop off their certificate of completion of 8th grade as well as any awards they have earned. We are also intending to say goodbye one last time to all of our students, so we encourage all families to come outside and wave hello / goodbye to our staff. We miss you all, and are excited at the chance to see all of our students one last time before the summer starts. The parade route will be shared to families and posted on our social media before June 12th so you can get a sense of when we are likely going to be coming by your home.
Chromebook and academic material return:
The Agency of Education has given us permission to receive materials back from the homes. The directions for returning materials is as follows:
- Please put all materials in a plastic bag (books, math tools, dice, school work, etc.)
- Put the child's chromebook and power cord/charger into the plastic bag
- Label the bag(s) with that students name
Drop off the bag(s) during the school's designated drop off window. The drop off window for returning student materials is June 11th and June 12th from 3 to 7pm. We are hoping these windows allow families enough flexibility to get these resources back to the school. Many resources, tools, and books as well as the chromebooks were sent home, and it will cost the school (and the town) a great deal of money to replace missing items, so I urge you to do your best in returning these materials.
Report Cards:
Our plan is to have report cards sent home by Friday, June 19th. These report cards may look somewhat different from previous report cards but that is a reflection of the unique times we are in. However, I believe our school and our SU have done a tremendous job in identifying ways to communicate student learning and progress in a manner that is compassionate to the challenging circumstances students and families faced by going to emergency remote learning like we have this spring. I can assure you that our SU and our school are hard at work learning how to do this better, as well as planning how to address any academic concerns that arose due to these challenging circumstances.
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