Wayland Middle School
Monday Morning Minute
Mark Your Calendar
All Grades:
4/5 - Q3 Ends
4/12 - Q3 Report Cards
4/15 - 4/19 April Vacation

6th Grade:
4/1, 4/2 - ELA MCAS

7th Grade:
4/4, 4/5 - ELA MCAS
4/12 - 2nd Cape Cod Payment Due
5/22 to 5/24 - Cape Cod Trip
6/11 - Cape Cod Night (7-8:30 pm)

8th Grade:
4/8 to 4/11 - DC Trip
5/16 - DC Night (7-8:30 pm)
Announcements
REMINDER to 8th Grade Parents - DC Trip Medication Drop Off
THIS Friday, April 5th, 7:45 am to 2:20 pm

All medication - prescription and over the counter (OTC ) - should be dropped off at the designated tables set up in the front lobby from 7:45 AM to 2:20 PM, Friday, April 5th.

  • All medications must be in the original pharmacy labeled container with student’s name, dosage, route, and frequency of administration (include Asthma inhalers, Epi-Pens, and all regular or occasionally taken medication)
  • Provide only the medication doses needed for the duration of the trip
  • Over the counter medication: If sending any OTC medication, please send in travel size bottles.
  • Please be sure to have your child’s name clearly marked on all of their medications.
  • Please drop these off in a clear Ziploc bag. It is helpful to include instructions as well for staff. 
7th Grade Cape Cod Trip & Observation of Ramadan

If your child will be observing Ramadan, which falls during the Cape Cod trip this year, please reach out to your child's House Leader. For the Carson Cluster, contact Ms. Reed , for Rachel Cluster contact Ms. Chisholm .
For Parents of Current 6th & 7th Graders
Student Placement Requests for 2019-2020 School Year
Deadline: Wednesday, May 1   
 
Considerable thought and effort are given to student scheduling here at WMS. It is a highly complex, intricate, and time-consuming process. Parents may make specific placement requests only under the following circumstances:
 
  • If you have concerns about a teacher based on an older sibling's experience, you may request a different teacher for your child. You may not, however,request a specific teacher.
  • If your child has had difficulty with a specific student which has negatively impacted your child's ability to learn, you may request that the children be placed in separate clusters.
  • Please know that we cannot consider requests from parents to place students together.

Requests must be sent via email to  betsy_gavron@wayland.k12.ma.us  no later than  Wednesday, May 1st . Please include your child's first and last name, and grade they will be in as of September 2019. Although we will work hard to honor your request, we cannot make any guarantees.
Town Meeting Club - Article for Spring Town Meeting

Congratulations to three of our WMS seventh-grade Town Meeting Club members, Kyra Spooner, Joss O'Heron and Eliana Barenboym. Kyra, Joss and Eliana wrote and successfully submitted an article for this Spring's Town Meeting. The article will ask voters to task the Selectmen with creating a temporary Committee to organize a music festival in March of 2020. This free festival will invite Waylanders of all ages and musical tastes to organize, perform, or to just come and enjoy music. If the festival is a success, it will become a Wayland tradition. Bringing an article to Town Meeting is not an easy thing. It requires an understanding of town government, and along with all of the formalities, rules and deadlines. The team also presented to several town Committees. These students have done a great job! Please support them and their festival at Town Meeting this Spring.
Lost & Found
Deadline: Friday, April 12 at 2:30 pm

Please have your child check for missing items in our Lost & Found, or come and take a look for yourself! Unclaimed items will be donated to charity (to the Wayland Schools' PTO Green Team Textile Recycling Project) as is our custom prior to each of the school breaks.
PTO News
Contact:   WaylandMiddleSchoolPTO@gmail.com
WE NEED HELP NEXT SCHOOL YEAR!
Volunteer for a Board or Committee role
There are a numerous ways to get involved with varying degrees of time involvement; many roles are flexible. Volunteering is a wonderful way to get to know other parents, the school, teachers and administrators. Click here to read descriptions of volunteer roles.

Email WaylandMiddleSchoolPTO@gmail.com if interested or with any questions.
All-District Bus Driver & Crossing Guard Appreciation Event
Donate by Friday, April 5

The PTO is hosting an appreciation event for our district bus drivers and crossing guards on April 10th. Bus drivers not only take our kids to/from school, but also to field trips and activities. Our crossing guards help our walking/biking kids get to school safely.

We ask parents to donate $5 via check made payable to Wayland PTO or send a $5 gift card. Families can also write thank you cards. Donations/cards should be sent to the PTO Mailbox in the front office or mailed to Debbie Bressler-Sideropoulos, 19 Harrison St, Wayland, MA 01778 by April 5th. Questions may be directed to dsid30@yahoo.com .
Middle & More Coffees: Parent Seminars

Media, Popular Culture and our Teens
Tuesday, April 9 is CANCELLED!

Your Middle School Kid's Gonna Be Okay: How Parents Can Facilitate Their Child's Executive Function Development
Michael Delman, CEO of Beyond BookSmart
Thursday, May 16, 9:00 am

Conflict Resolution with Middle School Children
Dr. Lindsay Steinsieck, PSYD, and Shannon M ackey, MSW,
of the Human Relations Service
Tuesday, June 4, 9:00 am  
Attention 8th Grade Parents!
Washington D.C. Breakfast
April 12, 2019
The PTO will welcome back the 8th grade students and teachers from the Washington D.C. trip with a light breakfast. If you can send in supplies or help out, please click this SignUp link . Many thanks, 8th grade parent reps, Colleen Morneweck, Keri Schouten & Peg Burgess.
PTO Thanks...
Parent Enrichment Team of Emily Gordon and Rama Ravi for organizing our parent coffee on the English and Social Studies curriculum.
Artist of the Week
Artist: Patricia Pak
Grade: 8
Medium: Paper
Reminders
MCAS Dates
Please mark your calendars. If at all possible, we ask you to avoid scheduling appointments for your child on his or her testing dates. Thank you!
6th Grade:
Math : May 6 & 7
7th Grade:
Math : May 9 & 10
8th Grade:
ELA : April 25 & 26
Math : April 29 & 30
STE : May 2 & 3
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Wayland Middle School
Phone: 508.358.3801 Fax: 508.358.3802
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