Sanford Family Newsletter

October 3, 2025

Good People,

Fall Spirit Week was a blast! Students showed off their school pride with fun themed dress-up days and lots of smiles throughout the week. From cozy pajama day to everyone wears pink to jersey day, everyone brought their best spirit and creativity. It was great to see our school come together to celebrate the season and make lasting memories. Thanks to everyone who participated and helped make it such a fun and festive week!

In Partnership,

Naida Grussing-Neitzel, Ed.S.

Principal

Maria Sanford Middle School

Fall Conferences are on October 14 and 15, 2025! We invite all caregivers to meet with their students' teachers.

October 14, 2025 from 4:00-8:00pm will be open house style with most teachers in the gymnasium and some teachers in the first floor hallway. You don't need to do anything but show up!

October 15, 2025 from 8:00am-4:00pm will be focused conferences in which caregivers will sign up for a time slot to meet with teachers to problem solve and partner to support our students. Caregivers will choose virtual or in-person for the targeted conferences when they sign up on the my conference time website: https://www.myconferencetime.com/mpssanford/

We will be using the Language Line for Conference translation - which means that the teacher will call a translator over the phone during your conference.

What’s included in an email summary?

Missing work—Work not turned in when the summary was sent.
Upcoming work—Work that’s due today and tomorrow (for daily emails) or that’s due in the upcoming week (for weekly emails).
Class activity—Announcements, assignments, and questions recently posted by teachers.

When do guardians get summaries?

Guardians can get emails daily or weekly and can unsubscribe at any time.

Guardians won’t get an email summary if:

There's no activity to report for the given time period.
All their student’s teachers turned off notifications for their classes.
They accepted the invitation but chose not to get any summaries.
They aren't connected to any student in Classroom.

If you would like an google classroom email summary, please email your students' advisory teacher and they will send you a link.

We have a lost and found with many water bottles, sweatshirts and other miscellaneous items in the gym lobby. These items will be donated after conferences at MEA break, then again at Thanksgiving break and at every break.

We have a few upcoming volunteer opportunities! See below:

Sunday, October 12, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm is a fall Grounds Clean-Up! There was such a great turnout for our back to school grounds clean-up, and we're keeping that momentum going! The focus of this event will be to clear buckthorn and weed the school courtyard. Meet in the courtyard on 36th Street, between 41st and 42nd Avenues South. Please bring gardening gloves and tools if you have them. Light snacks will be provided. Students and adults are welcome! This is a great way for Roosevelt students to earn service hours!

Do you have an interest in filling a volunteer need at Sanford this year?

Current volunteer opportunities include:

1) Office Support: Teachers send requests each week and tasks are done on Wednesdays from 10:30-12:30. Examples include alphabetizing, cutting, laminating, etc.

2) Media Center: Check books out to students between the hours of 11:00-3:00, Monday-Friday. Sign up for a few shifts a week, once a week, or monthly.

Contact Daniella Mendez, mendezdanaiella@yahoo.com or Steph Johnson, sg.johnson@gmail.com to get signed up.

Our next meeting is October 21st from 6:00p-7:30p in the media center at Sanford. Enter through the main entrance - Door 12. All are welcome!

To contact us or to sign up for our email communications, please send an email to: sanfordmspta@gmail.com.

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