Science Technology Gilsum STEAM Academy News Engineering Arts Principal’s View Math By Adrienne Noel Volume 7, Issue 8 October 18, 2019 Be Kind, Be Safe, Work Hard and of course, Have Fun! Upcoming Dates: Book Fair! Oct. 21 Who would have predicted a day off due to a weather event in the through Oct. 24. middle of October? Although, we have had snow on Halloween...I’m Please visit during sure you all remember that! This heavy wind storm sure did surprise our Open House! us! I suppose this is a good time to have tested our systems. You should have received a phone call from our Superintendent, Lisa Witte, Wed., Oct. 23, to notify you of both the delay and cancellation. If you did not, please Open House, 5:30- call the school to check on your phone numbers that we have on file. 6:30pm Also, cancellations and delays are announced on the following: Fri., Oct 25 WMUR N.H. Channel 9 Pumpkin Carving, 1-2:30pm Radio: WKNE-FM (103.7), WKBK-AM (1290), WZBK-AM (1220), WOQL-FM (97.9), WINQ-FM (98.7) Fri., Oct. 25, Phone: SAU #93 – 352-6955 selection 4 Cheshire Smiles visit Website: www.mrsd.org Mon., Oct. 28, Lion’s Club Vision Facebook: https://facebook.com/GilsumMRSD/ Screening
Thurs., Oct. 31, Tonight! Halloween Celebration GSA Dance-A-Thon Mon., Nov. 4, GSA Friday, October 18, 2019 PTCA mtg, 5:30pm Fri., Nov. 8, 5:30-7:30pm at GSA Veteran’s Day Program Pumpkin Delivery Help Needed Mon., Nov. 11, No 85 pumpkins need to be delivered to the Keene Pumpkin Festival on the School, Veterans’ morning of Sunday, Oct. 27th prior to the start of the festival. We Day will be carving on the Friday before. Wed., Nov. 20, Please call the school if you can help! Grades K-2 to Coloni- Like us on our Gilsum STEAM Academy Facebook Page al Theatre to see (https://facebook.com/GilsumMRSD/) Monster Who Ate My Peas Gilsum STEAM Academy Mission Thurs., Nov. 21, GSA Gilsum STEAM Academy is a community of learners from the MRSD towns of Gilsum, Roxbury, Troy, Swanzey, Richmond and Fitzwilliam. Through the collaboration Community Dinner between staff, families and the greater community, we are committed to providing a Mark your calendars. safe, caring and academically challenging environment to prepare our students to More info to come! become active and responsible citizens in our ever changing world. As a learning community, we engage students in enriching opportunities within and beyond the walls Nov. 27-29, No of the school to best nurture each student’s abilities, talents and skills. School, Thanksgiving Break New 6 Day Calendar for Elementary Schools Whenever there is an emergency day off of school, we revise our 6 day schedule. The 6 day schedule is designed so that we do not miss any of the classes such as Art, Music, PE, Li- brary and MakerSpace. So, when there’s a day off, we pick up where we left off, never need- ing to skip a day on the 6 day schedule. I’ve attached the revised schedule for you on the email with this newsletter. The schedule can also be found on the MRSD.org website.
Emergency Drills At GSA, we take safety seriously. There are many steps that we take to assure that we employ all the needed measures for safety at school and we are very fortunate to have other agencies that work with us to monitor and assess these measures. Each year, schools are required to submit an Emergency Operation Plan to the state. This comprehensive plan outlines all procedures and safety precautions planned for our school. This plan is shared with law enforcement and emergency personnel in our area and work together to be sure the plan is effective. This plan includes procedures for all the emergency drills that we do with the students. Our school has a Safety Committee and we work with both the Cheshire County Sheriff’s Department and NH State Police from Troop C as well as the Fire and Emergency personnel in Gilsum. The 2018 NH School Safety Preparedness Task Force Report has prompted continued involvement with these agencies. Our work integrating a Social and Emotional Learning initia- tive such as Choose Love was also mentioned in the report. I hope you have been getting the notices that we distribute each time we have a drill at school. This month, we’ll have our monthly fire drill along with a lockdown and an Earthquake drill as we participate in the Great Northeast Shake Out held each October. This all fit very well with our attention to Fire Safety, too. Please talk to your children about safety in your home. I’ve attached the October 2019 Safety Educator with tips for safety at home. Halloween
The staff has scheduled the afternoon of Thursday, October 31st for Halloween fun! They will be posting a donation list of items needed during Open House. They will need apples, sun- butter, paper plates, mini marshmallows, candy corn, pumpkin candy corn, plastic 8oz cups and plastic knives .
Here’s the plan for the afternoon...
1-1:20 Change into costumes
1:20-1:25 Parade
1:25-2:25 Halloween Stations (2 half hour sessions) Students will fill out an interest survey and will be assigned to their top 2 choices. Choices include: Halloween BINGO, Halloween Learn to Draw, Ghost Cup and Candy Corn Stacking (needs to hold a pumpkin)
2:30-3:00- Halloween snack– Apple Teeth
Please remember to send your child’s costume in a bag with them in the morning. Costumes should not have any blood, gore or reference to violence. Join us if you can!