As our end-of-year field trips and celebrations approach, please make sure your child remembers that we still have 2-months of school to go. Please continue to support the school and ensure that your child is on time each day. As always, please reinforce healthy habits to best prepare your child for every day of school.
As our end-of-year field trips and celebrations approach, please make sure your child remembers that we still have 2-months of school to go. Please continue to support the school and ensure that your child is on time each day. As always, please reinforce healthy habits to best prepare your child for every day of school.
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As our end-of-year field trips and celebrations approach, please make sure your child remembers that we still have 2-months of school to go. Please continue to support the school and ensure that your child is on time each day. As always, please reinforce healthy habits to best prepare your child for every day of school.
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110 Allen Road April May 2009 Billerica, MA 01821 VOL 1 ISSUE 5 PHONE: 978.528.8650 FAX: 978.528.8659 www.billerica.k12.ma.us/locke Newsletter Tracy D. Sands MCAS…. Tony Garas Principal As always, please reinforce Assistant Principal As our end-of-year field trips and healthy habits to best prepare tgaras@billerica.k12.ma.us celebrations approach, please your child for MCAS beginning make sure your child remembers May 11 and for every day of Inside this Issue Dates that we still have 2-months of school. Please remind your child May 7 Walk to Concord school to go! May 11 MCAS 6th Grade to: Breakfast Math I As usual, students get spring 1. Eat breakfast every day. Calendar May 12 MCAS 6th Grade Math II fever this time of year, and eighth graders get “high school Cranky Teenagers May 13 MCAS 7th Grade Math I fever” after choosing courses and Definite Dozen May 14 MCAS 7th Grade attending orientation. MCAS Math II May 15 MCAS 6th/7th Make- We all work very hard to be Parent Advisory Up 2. Make healthy eating May 18 MCAS 8th Grade patient with students during this choices. Council Math I time of year. Please continue to support the school and ensure PTO Meeting May 19 MCAS 8th Grade Math II that your child is on time each Puberty May 20 MCAS 7th Grade Soc day and only misses school when it is absolutely necessary. School Council Studies May 21 MCAS 8th Grade Students’ Needs Science In addition, please encourage 3. Get adequate rest. May 22 MCAS Make-Ups Suggestions your child to complete homework after a quick snack in the afternoon before the “texting party” or other screen time takes over. 4. Stay hydrated.
What does my middle school student need?
Schools that: Locke Middle School • Provide an environment to help • Understand and remember what it is like to be an School Council them feel safe adolescent • Incorporate developmentally Me etings 2 nd Thursday at 7:00 p m appropriate practices Contact Position Email Address • Promote proactive contributions Tracy Sands Co-Chair tsands@billerica.k12.ma.us to society Principal • Develop social and emotional as Cindy Snedeker Co-Chair snedpc@hotmail.com well as intrapersonal and 8th Grade Parent interpersonal intelligence Mickey Ouellette Community mickoue@aol.com Member Brienne Casey Faculty Member bcasey@billerica.k12.ma.us 6th Science Teachers & Administrators Tony Garas Faculty Member tgaras@billerica.k12.ma.us who: Asst. Principal • Listen Josie McCafferty Faculty Member jmccafferty@billerica.k12.ma.u • Respect students and their Health Teacher s opinions Kevin Sharkey Faculty Member ksharkey@billerica.k12.ma.us • Care about students as Guidance people and are interested Victoria DiPierro Parent Member dipierro1@comcast.net Parents who: in their lives • Listen Karen Frawley Parent Member frawley5@comcast.net • Understand and remember • Model respect what it is like to be an • Make themselves available to Karen Gregory Parent Member karendowcette@aim.com adolescent their children • Are mentors and role Gina Maniscalco Parent Member ginman5@comcast.net models, not just 1 instructors Did you know...
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One day? Council One Week? www.bpacsp.org Sue Hopkins, Chairperson suehop@comcast.net Email Denise DePierro, Vice Chairperson ddepierro07@gmail.com Priscilla Aufiero, Secretary paufiero1@aol.com thelockeparents@comcas Michelle DeParasis, Treasurer cunhel@comcast.net t.net Gina Maniscalco, Public Relations ginman5@comcast.net Carol Rose, Webmaster carol-rose@comcast.net Donna Gadbois, Contact Person dmgadbois@comcast.net
WHY IS MY TEENAGER CRANKY AND LETHARGIC?
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Success Adolescents aged 13 to 22 need 9 to 10 hours of sleep each night. The To stay (at Tennessee) you have hormonal changes conspire against them especially when they are sleep to be: deprived. When puberty hits, the body's production of sleep-inducing melatonin • Responsible is delayed, making an early bedtime biologically impossible for most teens. At • Respectable • Loyal the same time, the report notes, external forces such as after-school sports and • Honest jobs and early school start times put the squeeze on a full night's sleep. To Perform (at Tennessee) you have to: Brown University (2005). Adolescents who are cranky, lethargic, and forgetful may have chronic • Work Hard sleep deprivation. Retrieved April 10, • Play Smart 2009, from Brown University web site: http://www.news-medical.net/?id=10712. • Put the Team Before Yourself • Have a Winning Attitude To Be Successful (at Tennessee) School Cafeteria you have to: Breakfast Served Daily • Be Coachable • Accept Your Role PTO MEETING 2ND THURSDAY -- 5:30 PM • Handle Success and Failure Sign Up to Receive Updates Now During Homeroom! LOCKE LIBRARY and Newsletters by Email: $1.25 lockenews@billerica.k12.ma. thelockeparents@comcast.net Students may check in to homeroom and take a pass to the cafeteria. us Please send student name and grade with your message. Tracy D. Sands 2009 2