Join us TONIGHT, Tuesday, December 10th at 6:30 PM, in the MHS Auditorium for the MHS Winter Concert!
MHS French teachers and students celebrated the week of the Francophonie early in November. Teachers created projects with their students. Each French class was part of a project related to the French-speaking world and their projects are exhibited in the MHS library.
Our students did a great job and you can read the details of the projects here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LF67dm_A2LVTY1WNTL4BUcRdTLSpPogJ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111909143798207549360&rtpof=true&sd=true
Congratulations to Scott Longo, Jackson Wagner, and John Dickens, three of our MHS seniors, who recently signed to play athletics at the college level!
Scott will play baseball at Northeastern, Jackson will swim at Lafayette and John will play tennis at Lafayette. We are proud of these talented student-athletes and look forward to hearing about their successes (on and off the field/pool/court!) in the years to come.
Congratulations to our MHS students who have earned High Honors or Honors during the first quarter of the school year. We are proud of their hard work and academic success! The full list of students on the Honor Roll can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zydbl2bDPOsI21gvtJrVUdUhk8kbyh2R/view?usp=sharing
Next up for MPS concerts?
The MHS Winter Concert on Tuesday, December 10th at 6:30 PM in the MHS Auditorium!
The MHS French Club is holding a movie event for French speaking 3rd-5th graders.
Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFlSVA30QpM9l34FXrs0devmY4kLqukVyhUv9GqomxQ8tv-A/viewform
Give a listen to Collicot student Declan Conneely, who is a featured reader on the MPL's Dial-a-Story service during the month of December!
As a reminder, Dial-a-Story is a Milton Public Library service where folks can call 617-915-1915 anytime and listen to librarians read stories, tell jokes, and the like. The content changes monthly, and for a while now they've been including guest readers who read a picture book in the Dial 6 slot.
Declan is reading Hibernation Station by Michelle Meadows, and December stories are posted now (they'll be live all month long). Be sure to call and hear Declan read!
MPS Early Dismissal Times
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Cunningham preschoolers enjoyed their first UNITY Project lesson last week. They read The Skin You Live In written by Michael Tyler and illustrated by David Lee Csicsko. The preschoolers learned that all people's bodies, hair, and skin color, and way of dress are different. All people communicate differently, learn differently, eat different foods, feel different feelings and come from different-looking families. Everyone is different and everyone is unique. The lesson was parent-led, and the preschoolers really enjoyed reading the book then drawing a picture of themselves!
The UNITY Project is a 2024 parent collaboration across Milton's PTOs to revitalize and streamline the previous Reading About Diversity/RAD (2010) and Meet the Artist/MTA (2015) programs. It combines both curricula and expands the program to Preschool through 5th grades with additional books and artists. The UNITY Project invites parents and guardians into the classroom to teach a quick lesson (approximately 45 minutes) with just a little bit of prep work. Take a look at the UNITY Project website (https://sites.google.com/miltonps.org/unityproject/about) for more info about the provided lessons, materials, and how to volunteer at your child's school.
MPS Holiday Gift Drive
MPS has partnered with My Brother’s Keeper and the Milton Residents Fund to host a gift drive to ensure all Milton Families in need have a wonderful holiday season. The gift drive needs donations of all types of items.
Examples include Legos, dolls representing a diverse array of skin tones/cultures, superhero action figures, arts and craft kits, science/STEM kits, board games, video games, books, a football or basketball, outdoor active toys, or anything with Boston sports teams. No food or violent games, please. $25 Target gift cards are also welcome! Please bring new, unwrapped item(s) to a collection box in the lobby of the elementary schools from December 2-6.
We are once again partnering with local toy shops and encourage you to check out the great toy selections at The Toy Chest in East Milton or The Toy Box in Hanover.
Thank you for helping us make the holiday season a little brighter for our neighbors!
It's concert season at MPS! Join us for the MHS Extra Curricular Ensembles Concert on Tuesday, December 3rd at 6:30 PM in the MHS Auditorium.
A message from the Milton School Committee
Over the past several years, the Milton School Committee has explored how we can make our district calendar inclusive and more representative of our diverse community. We revised our calendar policy in 2022 to ensure that students celebrating holidays not acknowledged with an official day off would receive necessary accommodations. We are in the process of reviewing our calendar and need your input. We are gathering community input through a survey, a series of open conversations taking place in schools and the November 20 School Committee meeting. We hope all will share their thoughts in one of those ways.
The survey can be found here: https://forms.gle/RmLtV4T6xaFx3k658
The zoom link to speak at the November 20 SC meeting is here: https://miltonps-org.zoom.us/j/99038500535#success
Once Upon a Mattress is almost here! ! A hilarious take on “The Princess and the Pea,” Once Upon A Mattress sets an unapologetic free spirit loose in a repressed kingdom, reveling in Winnifred's ability to charm and transform with willpower, honesty, and a little bit of help from her friends.
Don't miss out on seeing our talented MHS Theatre students during four (sure to be sell out) shows on Thursday, November 21st 7pm; Saturday, November 23rd at 2pm and 7pm and Sunday, November 24th at 2pm.
Buy your tickets now at this link! https://miltonhstheatre.ludus.com/index.php?show_id=200467890
A message from the Milton School Committee:
Over the past several years, the Milton School Committee has explored how we can make our district calendar inclusive and more representative of our diverse community. We revised our calendar policy in 2022 to ensure that students celebrating holidays not acknowledged with an official day off would receive necessary accommodations. We are in the process of reviewing our calendar and need your input. We are gathering community input through a survey, a series of open conversations taking place in schools and the November 20 School Committee meeting. We hope all will share their thoughts in one of those ways.
The survey can be found here: https://forms.gle/RmLtV4T6xaFx3k658
The zoom link to speak at the November 20 SC meeting is here: https://miltonps-org.zoom.us/j/99038500535#success
Our MHS students have been on the move with recent field trips to Harvard, MIT, the Museum of Scientific Instruments, an HBCU College Fair, Hancock Hill and NYC for a Broadway Show!
These trips simply would not happen without the creativity and dedication of the MHS staff. These trips take work - planning, driving, securing funding, giving time up out of school - and our MHS staff figures it out and makes it happen!
It's time to shop for our schools!
All info at www.fruitcentermarketplace.com/schools, or scan the QR code to shop for your school.
Earlier in October, our elementary schools hosted almost 100 of their former students for community service during the MHS SAT day. Students helped out in classrooms, read stories to kids, played at recess, and so much more! Thanks to all of our 9th grade volunteers and to our schools for welcoming them!
The Monster Dash is here! Join the fun on Sunday, October 27 at Cunningham Park!
https://www.racewire.com/register.php?id=14297
Shoutout to our Collicot 5th Graders who raised an additional $233.82 at their Social last week, to add to Collicot’s Glow Gold contribution!
As Milton Glows Gold wraps up, we'll be excited to share the total raised from Jumping Jacks, generous sponsors and so many thoughtful kids who held lemonade stands, cookie sales and events like the Collicot Social.
We had a beautiful day for Walk and Wheel to School Day last week. It was wonderful to see so many families walking, biking and scootering to school!
