Dates to Remember
FoC School Store Week (See schedule below) October 17-21
Parent Teacher Conferences, Early Release, 11:15 October 25 & November 1
Holiday, No School November 11
From the Principal
Last Thursday, 5th graders led us in our October All School Meeting. Fifth graders performed a skit about “Hallway Expectations,” our kindergarteners performed Nursery Rhymes, and we read a story about fall and leaf collecting! It was a highlight of the week and it’s wonderful to be together as a community.
As you may be aware, staffing issues have been challenging during the past couple of years. In an effort to resolve some of these challenges, we traded three unfilled Special Education TA positions for a full time professional Special Education Teacher. This allows us to add a teacher, and redistribute and reduce caseloads, increasing the amount of time teachers have available to support our students. I’m excited about this shift for practical and philosophical reasons and look forward to thinking about the opportunities that this shift will bring. We welcome Heather Rich as our new full-time Special Education Teacher. You may know her, as she has worked in our school wearing different hats, most recently as a Literacy TA. She is wonderful! Christina DeCourcy has shifted into our full-time Literacy TA position.
We are looking for a couple of volunteers to support our library. We are still looking for a Library Tech Assistant (should you know anyone), and in the meantime it would be helpful to have a couple of parents sorting library books, reshelving books and maintaining order within the space. Please let me know if you are interested.
On October 31, the K-2 children will participate in our annual Cutler School Halloween Parade along the driveway at 9AM. Please note this is purely optional and if you have any questions or concerns please contact me. You are invited, with your cameras of course, to line the “parade route” and cheer us on! We stress the wonderful world of “childhood pretend.” No costumes representing violence or weapons of any kind are allowed. Please send your child/ren to school dressed in as much of his/her/their costume as is comfortably possible. Please send a change of clothing as all costumes will come off immediately following the parade. Please label EVERYTHING! This is a weather dependent event and if it is raining, the event will be canceled.
Review of Materials
Please log into your Aspen Parent Portal (where you go for report cards) to review your data! Once in, under “Start a new Returning Student Registration,” Click "Initiate", then NEXT to follow through the tabs. Instructions for completing the form are included on the first page.
If you have more than one student in the district, you will need to complete the forms for each student.
If you need help getting into Aspen, you can email aspenhelp@hwschools.net.
Thanks for helping us ensure all our information is correct.
Lunch Menus:
From Lynne Nardella, Health Office News
As above, please review your child's health record in Aspen (see above)!
Teal Pumpkin Season Returns!
CVS Pharmacy® is partnering with FARE to help support the food allergy community and will have Teal Pumpkin Project-approved, non-food trinkets at approximately 4,000 locations and on CVS.com. And, as always, Teal Pumpkin Project resources and downloadables for all your Halloween needs are available on our Teal Pumpkin Project headquarters. Happy hauntings!
From The Community House
Ski Bradford: Get ready! Registration is open for 4th and 5th graders this season. Registration opened Oct. 11 and is on a first-come, first-served basis.
**Due to the continued labor shortage, we have been unsuccessful in our attempts to
secure enough transportation to restore this program to its pre-covid size. We are disappointed we will be unable to offer this program to the middle school this year. We
will continue our attempts to bring back this program, in its entirety, when we can secure enough transportation. Thank you for your understanding and patience.**
School store is back for the 2022-2023 school year!
School store occurs for a week at a time throughout the school year.
Store opens at 8:15 in the cafeteria and operates until the bell. There is a $3 max spending limit and small bills are appreciated!
Erasers, keychains, pencils, pens, notebooks, folders, and more are available for sale!
Monday 10/17- K & 1
Tuesday 10/18 -2 & 3
Wednesday 10/19- 4
Thursday 10/20-5
Friday 10/21- make ups
Upcoming Friends of Cutler Zoom
There will be a Friends of Cutler zoom meeting tonight, October 17th, at 7:30PM. All are welcome to attend to find out more about the Friends of Cutler, the great events we have planned for the year, and the work that is being done behind the scenes in support of the students, staff, and school grounds! An update will also be provided on the long awaited playground installation!
Zoom info:
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Meeting ID: 950 484 7012
Passcode: 540184
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