Hello JGW Community,

MCAS starts next week. We know our scholars and teachers have worked all year to learn the standards to be prepared for the assessment. Below are some helpful hints and the dates of ALL the MCAS assessments.

MCAS tip to help you prepare your child for the assessment:

• Make sure that your child is well rested.
• Make sure their chromebook is charged.
• Talk about the test in a positive way.
• See that your child arrives at school on time and is relaxed.
• Encourage your child to do the best work possible and to have a positive attitude.
• Encourage your child to listen/ read carefully to all test-taking directions and to ask questions if any directions are unclear.

MCAS Dates

5th and 6th grade ELA- Monday 4/3 and Tuesday 4/4

7th and 8th grade ELA- Wednesday 4/5 and Thursday 4/6

5th and 6th grade Math- Monday 5/1 and Tuesday 5/2

7th and 8th grade Math- Wednesday 5/3 and Thursday 5/4

5th and 8th grade Science Monday 5/8 and Tuesday 5/9

Important Dates:

• Friday, April 7th- No School: Good Friday
• Wednesday, April 12th- School Site Council 5pm and PTO 6pm
• April 10th-14th- Spirit Week- Flier
• April 14th- Pep Rally
• April 17th- 21st- April Vacation
• Friday, April 28th- Progress Reports for 3rd Trimester
• Thursday, May 4th- Trivia Night: 6pm-8pm

Morning Open Gym next week: Next week is MCAS WEEK and exercise is a great way to get ready!  Open Gym Basketball will be available for grades 5 and 6 on Monday and Tuesday mornings. Grades 7 and 8 will have the gym on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Please make sure you come to Open Gym on your MCAS mornings only! Get some rest over the weekend, charge your chromebooks and believe in your own abilities- you’ve got this POETS!

Tardy to School: Our goal at JGW is to maximize the time we have with every student, every day! For students who struggle to be on time to school, we will be having attendance meetings during their lunch period.  If a student is late 3 or more days in a 5-day school week, a parent notification will be sent home and they (the scholar) will be required to attend a lunch meeting. Ongoing tardiness may require further administrative intervention. Thank you for your support in ensuring all our scholars arrive on time and ready to learn. As a reminder, our school day begins at 8:30am.

JGW Newspaper: Would you like to join the school newspaper! The club will be held after school every Monday starting this coming Monday April 3rd. The club will be starting at 3pm and ending 3:45pm. You can write about sports, drama club, discovery club, and more! The club will meet in room 10 and Ms. Hogan will lead the group.

JGW DRAMA Club: The JGW Drama Club is raffling off tickets for a calendar fundraiser in the month of April!! WHAV reported in their community spotlight this morning that the drama club is selling raffle tickets and offering daily winning prizes including gift cards to be used at local restaurants and local and national retailers, music lessons, lottery tickets and Matilda swag such as a tote bag, mug, poster and clothing. Visit JGWDrama.com or see Mr. G for more info!

Have a great weekend!!

Matt Condon

Principal

JGW

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