This event is free for members of the Academy Hill community.

Reminder: Morning health screenings are required for ALL students prior to their arrival each day. Students will not be permitted to enter the school until their health screening has been submitted.

Please click HERE to log in to the Academy Hill Health Portal. If you have questions, please contact Miss Kelli.

LaughCrafters: Connections (Youth Improv) 

When: February 15th - 19th (Kindergarten - 5th grade), 10:00 - 11:00 (via Zoom)

Who we are: Taught by professional improvisation performers/instructors from Phantom Sheep Productions, Western MA’s longest running comedy troupe of writers, actors, and directors with over 20 years experience providing original entertainment and Arts education for schools, libraries, theaters, theme parks, and more. We have successfully adapted their improv program of shows and workshops to an online format over the past 7 months. (www.phantomsheep.com)

The deadline to sign up is Wednesday, February 10!

In this period of uncertainty it is more important than ever for us to reach our fundraising target. Your gifts help to ensure that we are able to meet the needs of our teachers and students during this challenging time.

Mrs. Earls is thrilled to share Thursday evening bedtime stories, and plans to continue the tradition indefinitely. Please look for a Zoom link in your parent email. If you did not receive a link but would like to join, please send a note to Mrs. Earls. Each week, Mrs. Earls or a special guest will read a new bedtime story.

Next Selection (Thursday, February 11 at 7:00p): Ada and the Number-Crunching Machine, by Zoe Tucker, illustrated by Rachel Katstaller.

The story: Augusta Ada Byron, better known as Ada Lovelace, is an inquisitive child. Like her clever mother, she loves solving problems—big problems, little problems, and tricky, complicated problems. Ada invents crazy contraptions and reads all the books in the library of her father, the poet Lord Byron; but most of all she loves to solve mathematical problems. Together with her teacher, the mathematician Charles Babbage, Ada invents the world’s first computer program. Her achievements made her a pioneer for women in the sciences.

Bedtime Stories with Mrs. Earls and Friends

Deadline to sign up for Feb Break LaughCrafters

Webtalk with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

Teacher Professional Development Day: No Classes

Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences (Zoom)

We wish you good luck as you await decisions from your post-secondary schools of choice, or as you contemplate gap years. Please know we remain here to support you! We look forward to receiving news of your acceptances as you make your final decisions. We'd love to feature your class plans in our Summer 2021 edition of the Alumni Newsletter, as we've done for your fellow alumni in recent years.

Please send updates to academy@academyhill.org.

All parents are encouraged to join us! To to get involved with Parent Association activities, please send a note to PA President, E'beth Wells today!