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BULLETIN
4.24.12

Congratulations to the entire community for successfully making it through ELA MCAS testing time. Amazingly, Math MCAS is coming very soon as well so we are all getting ready for that. MCAS does bring its stresses, but it is also important to see it as a great opportunity to show how much all our students have learned. It is a time when we can start to see what all of our hard work has lead to. While we dont get results usually until the end of the summer, we can see the attitude and effort that students bring to testing time and often that is a strong clue of how students are going to do. I am condent good results will follow! Thank you so much to all of you who lled out a survey. We had over 55% of our families respond, which if you know about response rates is a very impressive number! While we are still working on nalizing the ndings, the preliminary results look very promising. 99% of respondents said this is a good school for their child, with 78% denitely agreeing to that statement. Over 90% of parents also said that the school was welcoming, inclusive, safe and emotionally supportive. We are excited by these initial results! We also see in the results that while there is general satisfaction with the academic program, we could be more academically challenging. This is something we are working on, on a daily basis and an area in which I think we are making headway. Finally, there is desire for some sort of extension of the school. We have more work to do in this regard to more clearly understand what is desired and what is possible. We will keep you posted on this as we work on this through the School Site Council. Lastly, I want to give a HUGE thanks to all the parents who helped to organize and volunteer at Discovery Day! The day was a huge success and great to see students interacting with so many wonderful activities. A special thanks to Ben Wetherill, Nancy Lo and Alice Smythe for their work to make it happen!

APRIL/MAY 2012
What SSC & Parent Council Meetings Spring Yard Cleanup Birthday Book Assembly (April)! 3rd & 5th Grade Math MCAS Planting Day Before and After School Breakfast SSC & Parent Council Meetings 4th Grade Math MCAS 5th Grade Science MCAS Open House & Art Show Walk for the Arts (Jamaica Pond) Class Picture Day ! Memorial Day Birthday Book Assembly (May, June, July) When Time 4/25/12 SSC 5:00; PC 6:30 4/28/12 10:00 1:00 4/30/12 2:30 5/9 and 5/10 5/10/12 10:00 & 1:30 5/11/12 8:00 (PROMPTLY) 5/15/12 SSC 5:00; PC 6:30 5/15 & 5/16 5/15 & 5/16 5/16 6:00 5/19 2:00 4:00 5/22 (raindate 9:45 5/23) 5/28/12 NO SCHOOL 5/31/12 2:00

LOTS GOING ON!

One of the amazing things about the Manning is the number of things happening in such a small school. Just this month we had students going to the ballet, spend a week in Vermont, become authors at a writing center, visit the historic Pierce House and compete in a city-wide math competition. We also thrived during MCAS, had a wonderful Discovery Day and got lots of surveys back. It takes a strong community to make all this happen great teachers, wonderful parents and enthusiastic children. Thank you for all you do and here is to a busy spring!

I am excited to let you know that we were able to make a substantial technology order so that ALL our rooms will have reasonable computers to be able to use both Lexia and First in Math, two of our important educational

TECHNOLOGY UPGRADE

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MANNING T-SHIRTS AND BAGS

The brand new, hot-off-the-presses tshirts are here and the look great. If you have not yet bought yours, for you and your family, Ms. Cheryl has order forms and the inventory is here at school so you can pick it up right away. Show your Manning pride! T-Shirts - $8.00 Mugs - $8.00 Cool Backpacks $12.00