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Panther Pride Times Newsletter: March 28, 2025

Posted Date: 3/28/25 (8:00 PM)
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Potter Road Weekly Newsletter

March 28, 2025
Library

Framingham Public Library

Recently students in Mrs. Hovey and Mrs. Schmidt's dual language kindergarten classrooms met up at the Framingham Public Library on a Saturday. Students and families received a tour of the library, learned about the programming that is available to children, teens, and adults, and listened to a read aloud. Additionally, students viewed the beautiful Potter Road artwork displayed in the library as part of the Framingham Youth Visual Arts Show.

The Framingham Public Library is a tremendous resource for students and families. Not only can families take out books, but they can also borrow video games and board games. The main branch of the library also hosts a Spark lab where students can create, build, and apply their problem solving skills.

We encourage all families to check out all that the library has to offer by clicking on the link below, as well as viewing the attached April newsletter that outlines children events for the month of April.

Framingham Public Library
 

Potter Road Specialists Having Fun with Character Day

Character Day
 

April Dates

April 9th
*Bus Evacuation Drills
*Discovery Hour (in school choice based activities for all students)
April 10th
*Early Release Professional Development Day. Dismissal at 12:55/Lunch served
April 11th
*PTO Family Movie Night 6:30 p.m.
April 18th
*No school in observance of Good Friday
April 21st-28th
*School vacation week
 

Family Math and Science Night: Thank you to all who attended!

cups
fun
fun
 

Student Placement 2025-2026 School Year

The Potter Road School will begin the student placement process for the 2025-2026 school year in the coming weeks. This process is for students in grades K-4. Our goal is to create balanced classrooms across each grade level by working through an asset based lens. When working through the placement process, teachers take into consideration each child's learning profile, strengths as a learner, areas of need, learning style, and other peers that the student has relationships with.  

Caregiver feedback is an important part of the process. We invite caregivers to share information about their child that they feel will be beneficial to the placement process.

When sharing feedback, we ask that caregivers adhere to the following:
  • Caregivers should provide information about their child ONLY.
  • The names of other students should not be used.
  • Requests for specific teachers should not be made.  
We thank you in advance for sharing important information about your child.  All feedback needs to be submitted by Friday, April 11th.  Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions. Thank you.
2025-2026 Caregiver Feedback
 
Testing

MCAS Testing Has Begun!

As shared in prior newsletters, MCAS testing began for all students in grades 3-5 on Wednesday, March 26th. Our fourth graders did a wonderful job this past week on their ELA MCAS.

It is very important that students arrive to school by 9:05, as testing will promptly begin at 9:20 a.m. We want to ensure that all students have a good breakfast in order to feel relaxed, focused, and ready for the testing session. We also kindly ask that students not be dismissed in the middle of a testing session, as the student will need to stop testing and cannot go back later to finish the session.

Below, caregivers can find the testing schedule by grade level:
ELA
Grade 3 ELA
Friday, April 4, 2025-Session I
Monday, April 7, 2025-Session II

Grade 5 ELA
Monday, March 31, 2025-Session I
Wednesday, April 2, 2025-Session II

Math
Grade 3 Mathematics
Friday, May 9, 2025-Session I
Monday, May 12, 2025-Session II

Grade 4 Mathematics
Wednesday, April 30, 2025-Session I
Friday, May 2, 2025-Session II

Grade 5 Mathematics
Monday, May 5, 2025-Session I
Wednesday, May 7, 2025-Session II

Science & Technology
Grade 5 STE
Wednesday, May 14, 2025-Session I
Friday, May 16, 2025-Session II
 
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