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Hi Students and Families,

Thank you for your patience as we work through the final moving parts of opening days 23/24. Construction teams have worked around the clock to get our spaces at Moxley and WMS ready for learning. We appreciate all their hard work and are excited to start using these impressive learning areas. School starts on September 5th with an 8:30a.m. assembly for students in grades 9 and 10 in the middle school auditorium. Students in grades 11 and 12 will start their day at 12:00p.m. in the middle school auditorium. To be very clear, each student will have half a day on September 5th, either 8:30-11:30 or 12:00-3:05.

This s'more includes a lot of information about the beginning of school and living in our multi-building campus. Please take some time to sit and review what you can. Please also know that no matter what information your student arrives with, we will make them an expert on our campus and its intricacies in no time.

We have a new addition to our administrative team that is a familiar face. We are extremely proud to announce that Ms. Adrienne Eaton will be serving as our interim Assistant Principal over student services. Ms. Eaton currently serves as a lead guidance counselor, AP coordinator, PSAT coordinator, overseer of MCAS, and member of various leadership teams in our school, district, and statewide. Ms. Eaton has served the Watertown community for over 14 years and has extensive experience in the realm of student services and counseling. Ms. Eaton will be working doubly hard completing both jobs until a replacement is found for her counseling role.

Thank you to everyone who joined us last Thursday for our Moxley Family Discussion! For those who were not able to make it or if you would like to review the materials we went over, please review the links below.

Moxley Handbook Addendum

Moxley Presentation Slides

Moxley Presentation Recording

Campus Maps

Moxley Q&A

8:30-11:30 Grades 9 & 10 Orientation

12:00-3:05 Grades 11 & 12 Orientation

Orientation will include:

• Assembly
• School Pictures (see below)
• Teacher-led campus tour

See the following documents for orientation schedules and groups. It is very important that your student check these schedules so they know where to go!

• Schedule
• Orientation Groups

If your student has signed up to use the school bus this year, you should have received an email from our central office business staff with information about busing. If you have questions, please reach out directly to wps_busing@watertown.k12.ma.us

Students will be assigned a bus number and buses will have their numbers clearly visible.

Watertown High School will be located at 27 Westminster Avenue, Watertown, MA.

• There is NO student parking on-site, and as a reminder, The City of Watertown has a 2-hour parking ordinance, citywide.
• Students may be dropped off on Westminster Ave. going Northbound, only (Main to Bemis). Please do not block the street or block our school buses from dropping off.
• Students, teachers, and staff must exit the WMS Garden Level by 3:30p.m. until further notice to allow the construction teams to put the final touches on the garden level.

Senior portraits have been scheduled for the following dates. Note that the WHS scheduling link has not gone live yet and will be sent as soon as it is ready.

Thursday, September 7

Friday, September 8

Wednesday, October 4

Thursday, October 5

Location: Watertown Middle School Auditorium

Sitting time slots: 4:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Student class schedules will be LIVE tomorrow at 10a.m. As recent new staff members get added to our PowerSchool system, the system may default to "Mr. Brewer" as your student's teacher for a few classes in the building. Fear not, names will be updated shortly. We will print every schedule before orientation so students can have a physical copy.

For more details on schedules and an updated counselor caseload chart, please see the Guidance s'more here.

Watertown High School will not be a weekend SAT test center this year.

However, to ensure that our students have an opportunity to take the test in a familiar testing environment, we will be offering the SAT during the school day on Wednesday, October 11 to any senior who is interested. The paper-and-pencil test is the same format as a weekend test administration. The fee for this exam is $60. A reduced fee of $8 is available to eligible students. Students must register using this form (and their WPS email address) no later than Monday, September 11. Please reach out to your school counselor or Mrs. Linda Tracy with any questions.

As we enter the new year and welcome new families, we would like to share with you a document that outlines who to contact for help across various departments and needs.