MR. MATTHEW FUSCO~ PRINCIPAL

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February 12, 2012

Hi Everyone,

I hope that all of you had a nice weekend.  I was pretty happy that there was no snow this weekend.  
This winter is a Principal's dream.  Last year is something that I do not want to repeat again.  I think I 
aged 10 years during last winter. And I got a new pair of cross country skis for Christmas that I 
haven't used yet and I am still happy.

One more week before the vacation but it should be a lot of fun.  Of course there is Valentine's day.  
You should all be getting lists of the students in your child's classroom.  Make sure that you have 
your child make one for every student in the class.  It is up to the classroom teacher as to wether 
there is food etc.  Any candy that is given out will be sent home with your child for parents to peruse 
and make sure they are o.k. for consumption according to your beliefs on the sugary sweets.  Feel 
free to send in any extra blank Valentines day cards with your child in case someone forgets theirs!

On Wednesday, the students that completed President's Day projects will be displaying and 
performing their projects at our school meeting.  These students will get special seating at the 
meeting and they will be part of a slideshow as well.  If your child is doing a presentation at the 
meeting, you will be receiving or may have already received a letter from Ms. Demers.  We are going 
to be seeing how many presentations there are and we may be adjusting the start time of the school 
meeting so that we can fit them all in.

On Friday, the students that completed the assignment get to come to a special luncheon with me at 
1:15PM.  We have had close to 80 students turn in their assignments.  The lunch looks like it should 
be really tasty and there may even be a "surprise" guest for the kids. We never expected such a great 
response to this idea but we couldn't be happier or more proud.  I would like to thank Mrs. Demers 
for her work on this.  It was her idea and she has really run with it.

Over the last month, I have been keeping track of the amount of paper that we are using as a school 
especially in the notices that we send home from Great Oak.  I was shocked by the amount that is 
wasted and added to our recycling or worse, our landfills.  It seems so pointless especially when Mrs. 
Rideout and I have figured that there are very few families that do not have email (under 15). From 
this point on, we are going to start sending home as many weekly notices as we can through email 
rather than paper. On Wednesday night, I am going to do a connected message by phone to families 
along with an email.  Any families that do not get the email should call the office to either adjust the 
address or request that we send them notices by paper.  This is being done successfully at the Smith 
school.  So from this point forward, please check those emails on Thursdays!  Your feedback to me 
will be very important.  Therefore, I am eager for any of your thoughts once this gets going. The 
classroom teachers are also going to be making greater efforts to send their notices through email as 
well.

Students in grades 3,4,and 5 will be getting a notice (sent through email) about a robotics program 
that is being offered after school by one of our parents, Chris Prince.  He is doing this program 
through the 4h club.  There is only space for 10 students but we are hoping to expand it in the 
future.

Tomorrow starts the first day of Great Oak offering breakfast to all of it's students.  The times are 
from 7:55-8:10AM.  Students will go to the cafeteria to get their breakfast and they will eat it at a 
designated table downstairs.  Speak with your child as to wether you want them to get breakfast or 
not, it is going to be done through the Meal Magic system so I don't want anyone to get any surprise 
bills because their child was getting breakfast and you didn't know about it.

Also, I have updated the MCAS improvement plan and our efforts thus far in completing it.  Please 
click on the link to the left to view.

Happy Valentines Day!

Mr. Fusco

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MR. MATTHEW FUSCO~ PRINCIPAL

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