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I'm excited to share, I learned an awful lot about ancient Egypt this week. I remember studying this time period when I was in middle school but my resources consisted of a few books and the encyclopedia (I'm aging myself). Leveraging the internet and additional resources, our current 6th graders curated an impressive "Museum" this week. Students from all different grades were allowed to come down and learn about this civilization. I was impressed by the students' depth of knowledge as well as the care and craftsmanship they showed in their creations. When I saw them starting work on this, I never anticipated the outcomes they were able to generate. It was truly a great culminating learning experience. I imagine, even the elementary students came home with some wisdom to share.  Also, special this week, we were lucky enough to have the District Attorney's office come down to visit us and present on Bullying and Cyberbullying. The presentation was originally sc...

A few words from our PTA:  We are hoping to form two spring committees and need your help! Please consider volunteering for a committee. You can participate as much or as little as your schedule allows. The two committees will be: 1) Teacher appreciation week: Help us plan what we will do for our TPS staff! We have a coffee truck (same as last year) already. This committee will brainstorm ideas and help execute them to make it a special week for our amazing teachers and staff! 2) Spring corporate fundraising: This committee will call, email, and/or mail local businesses to solicit corporate donations, which as a PTA, we did not do this year. We usually do this during the Fun Run event but given it was so close to the outset of the 2022-23 SY and our board was new, we didn't have the opportunity to garner corporate donations. We want to get a jump on the Fall Booster event and get on this now. Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated!  Please complete  this for...

Once again, I want to recognize all the PTA does for us at TPS and give you updates on a few of their items. First off, due to nearly a literal ton of snow, our presentation on Executive Functioning by Peg Dawson was postponed. We now plan on having it on Friday, April 28th and the evening presentation venue has changed to right here at TPS. The PTA has also been working with our Student Council to plan a Spirit Week next week. It should break up what can be a monotonous month of March (who doesn't love an alliteration)!  We wouldn't be able to do some of the great things we can here at TPS without such a supportive community. In this vein, Mrs. Santello is reaching out for support with our Spring courtyard clean-up:  Dear Thomas Prince Families and Friends, Spring is almost here and we have some community pitch-in volunteer opportunities coming up!  Saturday, April 8 is our Bangrazi Courtyard Spring Cleanup and Set-up Date! (Open hours 9-3)  Come help us assemble an...

I wanted to remind everyone that we have Executive functioning guru, Peg Dawson, presenting at the Chocksett auditorium ( 40 Boutelle Rd,)  on Tuesday at 6:00.  This is a wonderful topic that has an impact on students (and adults) of all ages. I'm hoping you can make it!  A note from our Strings teacher Mrs. Haynes: "Lilly Haynes and Lucia Cranson recently participated in the Central District Junior Festival Auditions. They worked hard and prepared difficult music on their instruments and, on February 4, they played a live solo audition for a judge. Based on their scores at the audition, they were both accepted into the Junior Festival Orchestra! They will represent Thomas Prince School at the Festival on April 29th and play music with strings students from all over Central Massachusetts. Big congratulations to these two for their hard work and for putting TPS strings on the map!" We're so proud of them for all their efforts!  "The Wachusett Special Ed Parent Cou...

Last month had a tremendous literacy focus. Besides the challenge, we had the book fair and our author visit. I hope it inspired our young readers.  A new month brings us to a new reading challenge!  February saw increased participation in our challege and we're hoping for even more this month.  You can find the challenge here and recommendations here .  A message from our Project 351 representative Pem: "Hello parents and students of TPS! Our school will be working alongside Project 351 to help raise a clothing drive with Cradles-To-Crayons! Cradles-To-Crayons is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to helping children's clothing insecurity! We will be setting up a donation box in the front lobby of TPS to collect any clothing donations! Any clothes donated would be preferably gently used or not used at all! Thank you all again for your continued support!" This drive will begin on 3/20.   Students' abilities to organize their work was an issue before the...