Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Thankful!
Friday, November 18, 2022
Brought to you by Mrs. DiFonso
This week's blog is brought to you by Mrs. DiFonso, our Assistant Principal.
We wanted to let you know that there was an injury on the playground today and an ambulance was called. In case your student comes home telling you about it, we want you to know that everyone is okay! We are very appreciative of our new nurse, Karina Sanchez, and the Princeton First Responders!
Project 351
This week at TPS we were excited to announce the Thomas Prince Project 351 Ambassador, Pemberley Mongeau! Every middle school across the state selects one eighth grader to represent their middle school in this impressive organization that promotes leadership and values such as kindness, compassion, humility and gratitude. As a Project 351 Ambassador, we all here at TPS feel that Pem demonstrates these values and the potential to be an amazing leader. We are confident she will do amazing things in her role! Congratulations Pem! Your TPS community is SO proud of you!
Putting the “P” back in PBIS
At this week’s staff meeting, the teachers met to discuss PBIS and how we plan to reimplement it here at TPS. You may be asking yourself, “What is PBIS?” PBIS stands for Positive Behavior Intervention System. While portions of PBIS have been a part of the daily routine here at TPS, our focus is to now bring back the Positive. A committee of teachers met and reorganized the TPS behavior matrix, using pillars of character and behavioral expectations that we expect to see in all areas of the school day (bus, cafeteria, hallway, bathroom, classroom, etc.). Our first focus this year is going to be classroom expectations and how students are demonstrating positive behaviors in the areas of the following pillars of character: trustworthy, respectful, responsible, caring, fair, good citizen. When a student demonstrates a positive behavior in one of these areas, they will receive a Tommy Ticket! Tommy Tickets are like TPS’ version of cash. Students can choose to save up their Tommy Tickets to participate in a school-wide activity, a whole class reward, or use them to purchase items or experiences in the “Prince Plaza”, our soon to be PBIS School Store. Your student will be coming home and hopefully telling you all about how we are celebrating the positives at school and how they are earning Tommy Tickets!
MIDDLE SCHOOL BOYS' BASKETBALL UPDATE
Great news! TPS will be able to have it's very own middle school boys' basketball team this year! Here's the catch...we need a coach! Are you intersted in coaching our middle school boys' basketball team!?! If so, please contact BethAnne DiFonso at bethanne_difonso@wrsd.net for details. We can't have a team with no coach!
New - Elementary Lego League, Early Childhood Disability Services, Parks and Rec Ski Club
The Week Ahead:
- Monday (11/21)
- Vision and Hearing Rescreening
- Tuesday (11/22)
- TPS Middle School STEAM parade
- Wednesday (11/23)
- No School
- Thursday (11/24)
- Thanksgiving
- Friday (11/25)
- No School
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Short week, long weekend
Even though we were only in school for 3 days there is still learning to celebrate. The 6th grade has completed a unit on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Below is their sharing of the unit.
A note from Mrs. Finkler in the art room:
Hello Families,
Friday, November 4, 2022
November!
Keepin' Up with the Warriors! We have created a TPS Instagram account to share what is happening in the classroom and at Thomas Prince! Follow us: @tpswarriors ! You can also follow me at @mrsdifonso on Twitter or Ace at @ace_thompson on Twitter! We will eventually be creating a Facebook page to share the wonderful learning our students are doing, but for now, enjoy our #WeAreTPS posts on Insta!
The PTA corner:With Veteran's Day coming up soon, we would like to celebrate all of the veteran service members that have connections to the TPS community. If you have a photo that you would like included on the bulletin board, please print one out and send it to school. Please note that photos will not be able to be returned and plan accordingly. Send in a COPY.
The week ahead:
- Monday (11/7)
- Kindergarten conferences
- Tuesday (11/8)
- No School - Election Day
- Wednesday (11/9)
- SEPAC Meeting
- 1st grade conferences
- Thursday (11/10)
- 2nd grade conferences
- Friday (11/11)
- No School - Veteran's Day
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