ALCOTT NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Join us for the 2023 Alcott Parent Social on May 6th at 6:30pm, hosted by Erika & Rich Santoro! Food will be from the Bon Me Food Truck! The night will be a great opportunity to reconnect with friends and meet new Alcott families. Tickets are $20 per person. BYOB. The night will also feature a raffle for TWO tickets to the SEASON OPENER of the PATRIOTS will be sold over the next 2 weeks. Additional details to be announced. Purchase Social Tickets here!
See you May 6th, 6:30-10PM. Address will be provided in your ticket purchase confirmation.
For anyone who can support the night, we have a few sign-up opportunities
TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK: Teacher Appreciation Week is coming up! The PTG and Staff Appreciation Team work hard to make sure our teachers and staff feel loved all year round, but we want to make sure they feel extra special next week, Monday, May 8 to Friday, May 12. Help us kick off their week with a bright welcome to school on Monday morning. Drop by Alcott on Sunday, May 7 to decorate the sidewalk with drawings and messages for teachers and staff to see when they arrive on Monday. Chalk will be available, or bring your own favorite colors from home. Keep the smiles coming for your teacher through the week! While most classrooms opt for a year-end teacher gift from the class, there are small and free/low-cost things you can do to highlight this week! Words of thanks from parents and kids are some of the favorite things teachers receive, so don't hesitate to send a card or drawing to school with your child.
To close out the week, on Friday the PTG will offer a grab-and-go breakfast with coffee and treats for teachers to pick up something tasty to start their day. Your contributions help make these great things possible--thank you!
Let's show our Alcott teachers how much we appreciate them next week--and every week!
Our favorite Administrators are Theresa Bertolami and Kristin Corliss who were celebrated on April 26, 2023, Administrators Appreciation Day 2023). The next time you email about an early pick up or a forgotten trumpet, feel free to give them a HOOT of appreciation as well. )
Please Donate to the Annual Appeal: The Alcott PTG has launched its annual appeal campaign which will run until May 6th. Your contributions are what make our school so special. Every year, the Alcott PTG spends about $7,000 in community support for families in financial need (this pays for back to school supplies including backpacks, funding of school pictures and book fair purchasing). Did you know that 100% of the enrichment programs offered to every grade at Alcott are funded through the Alcott PTG ($1,000 pays for one grade to experience an enrichment program). The Alcott PTG also pays for staff appreciation gestures, underwriting all of our free family events (e.g. multicultural night), and Metco Family Friends events. Please consider making a donation today to support Alcott. Every dollar counts. Your Alcott community, staff and students thank you. Click here to donate.
FIELD DAY VOLUNTEERS: Our Alcott all-school Field Day is scheduled for Wednesday, May 31, 2023 from 9:00-12:00 on the Alcott school fields. This event is always a fun filled day and needs a lot of parent volunteers to make it a huge success. No experience necessary. Please contact Mr. G to volunteer at tgaudreau@concordps.org by Friday, May 27th. A current CORI form is needed to volunteer. Thank you for all of your support and thank you to Mr. G for planning and running this amazing event for our children annually.
5th GRADE DUES: Every year the 5th Grade Committee collects “5th grade dues” from parents to support the 5th graders' special year-end activities. We ask for your dues contribution of $40 this year and sincerely thank you for your generosity. In addition to the dues mentioned, you can also contribute to 5th grade activities directly by buying “support shares” of three activities: the Annual outing, the Moving Up ceremony, and the 5th grade-made yearbook.
METCO FAMILY FRIENDS PICNIC: MFF invites you to join them in Boston on May 20th, 2023 for a PICNIC in Almont Park in Mattapan. This event is open to all and is a great way to bring our Boston and Concord Communities together!!!
The Alcott Raffle - Get your raffle tickets! As part of the parent social, there are TWO TICKETS up for grabs to the SEASON OPENER of the PATRIOTS. Raffle tickets will be available for purchase at the Parent Social on Saturday May 6. You can also buy them at school this week: Monday (at pick up) / Wednesday (at morning drop off) / Friday (at pick up). Prices are $2 per ticket or get 15 for $20. Cash only.
SEPAC teacher appreciation award posting - Please join us in celebrating our wonderful teachers at the SEPAC Teacher Appreciation Awards! May 4th at 4:30 at the Willard School auditorium. In our 6th year, the SEPAC Appreciation Awards offer families the opportunity to reflect on the school year and to recognize staff members in our districts who have gone above and beyond in their efforts to support our students.
Alcott Chess Club: Welcome back from vacation break. Yes, it's time for the Alcott Chess Tournament to start, but the actual games won't begin until next Thursday, so there is still time to enroll. This tournament is for all Alcott students. Fun for everyone; everybody wins! Enroll today and treat your children to the memory of a lifetime: the Alcott Chess Tournament. See the attached flyer for details, Direct questions to Ken Belt at alcottchess@hotmail.com.
The PTG is inviting all Teachers, Parents and Guardians to our OPEN SPRING MEETING on Tuesday evening, May 9th at 7pm on zoom (Meeting ID: 820 3209 6551, Passcode: 332842). Our Open Spring meeting annually is where we vote on next year’s slate and next year’s proposed budget - all Alcott community members are welcome. Next year, we are preparing to move to vote the following PTG Board Members into each of the proposed Offices: President: Melissa Karczewski; Vice President: Elizabeth Gibbs; Treasurer: Jessica Reed; Clerk: Michelle Hage; Communications Chair: Stacia Stornetta; Enrichment Chair: Sarah Flynn; Events Chair: Matt Lech; Fundraising Chair: Allison Flynn; METCO Co-Chairs: Liv Woods and Meghan Clinard; School Community Chair: Michelle Hage. As always, our Executive Board Members are those who have served on Committees or as Chairs in the past, and our Chairs are those who have experience volunteering with the PTG. If you are interested in a Board position in the future, please reach out to the OWL website and let us know of your interests and we can get you involved as soon as possible!
Note that no organized dismissal plans are in place. Click here to see photos and updates for future Bike to School events! Bike, Walk, and Roll to School Day is a Safe Routes to School (SRTS) event sponsored by the Concord Police Department and Concord Public Schools.
Here are the last few METCO MFF (METCO Friends & Families) Event's for 2022/2023 School Year. For more information or if your child is interested in becoming a friend, please email liv.woods@gmail.com
Saturday May 20th: MFF Spring Picnic Location: Almont Park in Mattapan Time: 1:00PM-4:00PM. Please see more details here.
Wednesday June 7th: Playdate with Buddies and Ice Cream Social (MFF only)
Alcott Parents and Guardian: Kindergarten Open House is May 10!: There will be an open house for incoming K students on the afternoon of May 10th. More information (including the time for each session) will be sent directly to families. If you have an incoming kindergarten student, please make sure that you register them through the parent portal in Aspen so that we can communicate with you about the transition to kindergarten!
Field Day Volunteers Needed: Our Alcott all-school Field Day is scheduled for Wednesday, May 31, 2023 from 9:00-12:00 on the Alcott school fields. This event is always a fun filled day and needs a lot of parent volunteers to make it a huge success. No experience necessary. Please contact me to volunteer at tgaudreau@concordps.org by Friday, May 27th. A current CORI form is needed to volunteer. Thank you for all of your support. Tim Gaudreau, Alcott PE Teacher
MCAS continues through the middle of May. Specific test dates are as follows:
May 4 and 5 - Grade 3 Math
May 9 and 11 - Grade 5 Math
May 15 and 16 - Grade 4 Math
May 18 and 19 - Grade 5 STE
Alcott Twitter - Follow Alcott on its new Twitter account!
Update on the Middle School Project. The full schedule is here.
Calendar and important dates
***Every Wednesday is now a half-day***
May 4 - SEPAC teacher appreciation award posting
May 6 - Alcott Parent Social
May 6-12 - Teacher Appreciation Week with Chalk Art Decoration May 6/7
May 9 - PTG Open Meeting
May 10 - Kindergarten Open House
May 19 - Alcott Spirit Day - Summer Fun Day
May 20 - MFF Spring Picnic
May 31 - Alcott Field Day
June 2 - Ice Cream Social
June 7 - METCO Playdate with Buddies and Ice Cream Social
June 12 - 5th Grade Moving Up Ceremony
June 14 - Half Day LAST DAY and Clap Out
CPS/CCRSD 22-23 School Calendar can be found here
IN THE COMMUNITY
IMSCC Summer music lessons are enrolling now! Enrollment is open for the summer session of one-on-one music lessons with IMSCC. For the summer semester, families can choose which weeks they would like to sign up for - students can register to take lessons during any or all of the 10 weeks of the session, June 20 through August 25. Lessons take place at CCHS and the Carlisle school. To start the enrollment process, new and returning students please fill out a lesson inquiry form. We will follow up by asking an instructor to contact you to arrange lesson times. More information at http://www.concordcarlisleace.org/instrumental-music-school. If you have questions please email Debbie Levine.
Patriots Field Hockey Clinics offer players fun and intensive field hockey programs for children entering Grades 3-9. Our clinics are appropriate for players of all levels and allow for maximum enjoyment, improvement and understanding of the game for every camper. Registration is open for our 2023 Summer Camp on our website. 2023 Summer Field Hockey Camp, Concord Carlisle High School , June 19th-23rd, 9am-2pm.
The Patriots Youth Football Fundamentals Clinic is run by CCHS head football coach and teacher Josh Reed, his coaching staff, and high school player volunteers. It is a non-padded, non-contact clinic focused on the instruction of the basic skills, fundamentals, and strategies of football. Players interested in Flag Football and/or Tackle Football will gain tremendous confidence by acquiring and building skills in a positive, supportive environment. Learning, improving, and having FUN are the primary goals of the Clinic! For any questions about the clinic format or expectations for the week, please contact Coach Reed at jreed@concordcarlisle.org or (207) 337-1393.
WHERE: CCHS MEMORIAL FIELD
WHEN: JULY 10th - 12th (Mon, Tues, Wed)
GRADES: Grades 3 - 5 = 8:45am - 11:45am; Grades 6 - 8 = 12:30pm - 3:30pm
COST: $150 per participant, including a t-shirt and CC Football drawstring bag
REGISTRATION: Click Here to Register
ThinkGive, a local non-profit, is celebrating its 10 year anniversary with ThinkGive GROWS at Nashoba Brooks Sureau Barn on Friday May 12th, 7:00–10:00 pm. It will be a fun evening celebrating a decade of bringing kindness and inclusion into classrooms, and raising funds to bring social and emotional learning (SEL) to more under-resourced youth. Buy your tickets today!
COAR Discussion, Mon May 8, 2023, 7-8:30pm: COAR (Communities Organizing Against Racism) offers a bi-monthly learning and discussion group open to all. Come join us Monday, May 8th at 7pm on Zoom, to learn about racial disparities in Advanced Placement courses, and what can be done to address this. Check out www.coaraction.org to learn more, or email coaraction@gmail.com to join the conversation!
A Family Revealed: From Slavery to Hope with Wallis Wickham Raemer and Reggie Harris | Tuesday, May 9, 7:00pm – 8:30pm | Nashoba Brooks School, 200 Strawberry Hill Road, Concord, MA | Free In an evening of engaging music and audience conversation, two descendants of a Confederate enslaver, one Black and one white, share their story and discuss what it was like to discover each other’s deeply held feelings, pain, and hope. Presenting are folk singer and social activist Reggie Harris and longtime educator Wallis Wickham Raemer. To underscore their messages and experience, Harris, a prominent interpreter of the use of music in historical movements for social change, sings his stirring, original songs accompanied by guitar. This event is free, advanced registration is required at http://bit.ly/DMSpeakerSeries. Please note this event is live and in-person. It will not be recorded and there will be no virtual component. The event will include ASL interpretation.
Please visit this space for updates on sports, music and theater registration dates, seminars, and more events throughout town.
PTG online volunteer information and sign-up: Please visit our website to discover all the ways both working and non-working parents and guardians are needed to support our wonderful staff, students, and families. Have something to offer that you don’t see listed there? There’s a place for you to submit that info as well! We hope to hear from you!