Principal News

  May 19, 2023   Dear Families, I’d like to thank all the PTA members and families who came out to support our movie nights! Thank you to all the families who donated supplies, food, or raffle items which greatly contributed to the movie enjoyment!  Our staff and students are so excited to go on their signature field trip which your admission and concessions...
  Dear Families, HEADS Up is hosting a “Meet and Greet” this Saturday, April 29th from 10am-11:30am  at The Fields Center: 881 N. King Street, Northampton (on the Hatfield line).  Learn about who we are and what we do!  Family-friendly with snacks and a $25 give-away for The Mill River Tavern.  Please visit our Facebook page for more info: https://www.facebook...
Dear Families, We are closed for spring break from April 17th through April 21st.  The Hatfield fishing derby is April 15 from 10:00-2:00 at Day Pond (behind Smith Academy). We successfully completed the ELA/Reading portion of MCAS this week!   On April 24 at Town Hall the School Committee will hold an FY 24 budget hearing meeting starting at 7:00...
  Dear Families, Preschool and our PTA are hosting Encanto this evening!  Doors open at 5:30 for a 6:00 start.  Our last day of school with the calendar change (Jan 1st off) and three snow days brings us to June 22nd.  This is a half day of school with an 11:55 end of day for students. I share Social Emotional Learning (SEL) lessons weekly with...
  Dear Families, The fourth grade team as well as our PTA will be showing Jumanji this evening!  Doors open at 5:30 with a 6:00 pm start! A huge shout out to fifth grader Casey Dillard who won a World Geography bee and has qualified for the national competition in Washington DC in June!! Congratulations and good luck!! A huge thank you to all the donations to...
Dear Families, A friendly reminder that there is no school tomorrow, March 24 for a teacher in-service.  We will still  be having a movie night however.  Come join the 3rd grade who will be showing Wall-E.  Doors open at 5:30 for a 6:00 start. A huge ‘Thank you!’ to our PTA for paying the Tanglewood Marionettes to come perform The Dragon King for our school...
Dear Families, Second term report cards for grades 1-6 are going home in backpacks today.  Please keep the report card and sign and return the envelope. Thank you to all students and staff who chose to participate in some or all of our spirit week dress ups! We are continuing with our Food Drive to support the Northampton Survival Center.  We are collecting...
  Dear Families, A sincere thank you to all the families who took the time to complete the School Council Survey!  Your feedback is greatly appreciated, and we will begin to implement as many of your suggestions as possible. We have created cafeteria procedures and expectations which were shared at our February All School Meeting.  The following are now posters...
  Dear Families, We need your help!  School council has created this SURVEY for each family to complete.  This survey will be live until Friday, February 27th.  Your feedback will help us with planning for next school year. To date only 22 responses have been recorded.  There are only 9 questions and should take less than 10 minutes to complete. I’d...
  Dear Families, We need your help!  School council has created this SURVEY for each family to complete.  This survey will be live until Friday, February 17th.  Your feedback will help us with planning for next school year. Be on the lookout for a letter from your child’s K-6th grade teacher about the first lesson from our Bullying Prevention Program which...

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