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08/29/11 School begins for Staff
08/30/11 School begins for Students
8/30/11 1/2 Kindergarten Students Begin
Notice will be sent home in Aug.
8/31/11 1/2 Kindergarten Students Begin
Notice will be sent home in Aug.
9/2/11-9/5/11 Labor Day Break
9/6/11 All Students Return
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Principal
Tammy Morgan
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Message from the Principal
As we embark on the 2011-2012 school year, I am very proud to be the principal of Plum Cove Elementary School. Plum Cove is fortunate to have such a dedicated, hardworking staff as well as a very active and supportive parent community. I have high expectations for our school, and I hope we can work together to exceed those expectations and make this a fantastic school year for our students!
Plum Cove houses approximately 225 students from the most northerly part of the city, along the eastern shore of the Ipswich Bay and the Annisquam River.
Our curriculum is challenging, yet appropriate for each student's ability. We believe that all students can achieve excellence through effective teaching that is driven by clarity of purpose, student engagement, and results. Plum Cove has a sharp focus on mathematics and literacy, differentiated instruction, and data-driven instructional decision-making.
Our math curriculum is designed to engage students in making sense of mathematical ideas and teach them that they can be mathematical thinkers. Our math program, Investigations in Number, Data, and Space, support students in making sense of mathematics, focusing on computational fluency, emphasizing reasoning about mathematical ideas, and engaging a range of learners in understanding mathematics.
Our comprehensive literacy instruction respects and addresses the needs of all learners, views teachers as informed decision-makers, is flexible and is research-based. A comprehensive literacy approach to instruction provides students with daily opportunities to engage in various reading and writing activities to help them communicate more effectively. In a comprehensive literacy framework, students participate in read aloud, shared reading, guided reading, independent reading and systematic word study. In addition, they engage in modeled writing, shared writing, interactive writing, guided writing, and independent writing within a process-writing model. All of our district elementary schools are using or just implementing a new reading program called, Reading Street.
Our science program includes a hands-on, activity-based program that enables teachers to blend science into literacy, math and other curricular areas. In each grade, our program incorporates spiraling lessons in life, physical, technology and earth science. Excitement for learning, observation, and discovery are fostered through this approach.
In addition to these core subjects, students will also receive Physical Education instruction 60 minutes per week (2-30 minute sessions) with additional Health classes for Grades K-5; Music instruction 60 minutes per week (2-30 minute sessions) and Art instruction 40 minutes per week with additional art initiatives integrated throughout the curriculum.
All of us here at the Plum Cove Community believe that our students have the capability and character to learn and grow into wonderful young adults. We are happy to be working with you to cultivate a learning experience for the children that challenge them to be thoughtful, inquisitive, and ambitious students.
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SAVE YOUR BOX TOPS FOR PLUM COVE
Box Tops For Education
Help Plum Cove raise money by just utilizing the link above when shopping online at hundreds of retailers. It is quick, easy, and free! Save your Box Tops - Plum Cove School receives 10 cents for every General Mills boxtop collected! This money is "earmarked" by the PTC to provide playground equipment such as soccer nets, jump ropes, balls, sidewalk chalk, etc. Please send these boxtops in with your child to their classroom teacher. If you need a form to attach your boxtops, please click Forms located on the left to download the form. Thank you!!
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Understanding Growth on the MCAS
Student Growth Percentile
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Help Our School Year- Round!
http://www.meadowfarms.com
Our school can continue to earn money year round, through the Medaowfarms Fundraiser!
Just visit www.meadowfarms.com and click on the Participant Registration link. Type in the Username 1900290 and the password 744T2JK and place an order any time of the year.
The items are shipped directly to you and Plum Cove Elementary School receives the credit!
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Savings Makes Cents
Savings Makes Cents ends 6/9/11 - Keep Saving through the Summer!
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Parents Place - Getting Ready for Kindergarten: What families can do
Massachusetts Parent Information & Resource Center (PIRC)
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