Fisher Family Update

Good Afternoon Fisher Families,

Families now have access to their child's Elementary Standard Based Report Cards and Special Education Progress Report (if applicable) in the Aspen Family Portal

The Term I report card communicates student progress toward meeting end-of-the-year learning standards. The slight, but important, change we made several years ago to the descriptors of the Academic Performance Levels is the phrase “at this time”. The purpose of including this phrase is to share with families where their students are academically, at this time of the year.

Teachers assess student performance against these learning standards, which are specific and observable grade-level skills. Our report cards reflect the learning standards as outlined in the current Massachusetts State Frameworks. Teachers assess by measuring individual student performance against the identified concrete learning standards, rather than in relation to the performance of other students.

Please check out the Parent/Guardian Guide by CLICKING HERE

Have a great weekend,

Brian

February

5 - Battle of the Books (students only)

7 - Early Release, Dismissal at 12:25

17-21 February Vacation

24 - Classes resume

March

11 - Parent/Teacher Conferences 5-7pm

13 - Parent/Teacher Conferences 5-7pm

14 - Early Release, Dismissal at 12:25/Parent/Teacher Conferences 1-3pm

19 - PAC Meeting 7pm

28 - Early Release, Dismissal at 12:25

Click the banner above to view announcements from the community that were traditionally sent home as a hard copy or "notice". In this "backpack" you will find information regarding community events, youth sports sign ups and much more. This link will be updated and included in all Fisher Family Update newsletters. The Virtual Backpack can also be found on the Walpole Public Schools District Website

Some new additions to the backpack are:

• Active Bystander Training
• Adults/Teens 13+ Pop Up Art Felted Fox
• Middle School Winter Bingo

Congrats to all the students who participated in the Spelling Bee today. The finalists were Alex, Arjun, Anna, Annabelle, Ellie and Kedar. Congrats to Kedar for winning the Fisher contest. He will continue on to regional meets and potentially beyond! Way to go!

Congrats to Fisher students Ellie, Callie, Patrick, Lydia and Ellie for winning the Dedham Savings Holiday Card contest!

All Fisher students (K-5) will be participating in a special team building activity in March. We kindly request donations of unopened, regular size boxes of cereal. We need approximately 500 boxes since we are looking for enough to line our halls to make a "domino formation". After our team building activity, the cereal boxes will be dontated to the Walpole Food Pantry. Thank you!

If there is snow on the ground, please remember to send your students to school with snow pants, boots, hats and mittens (don't forget to label them) for recess. They will be unable to play in the snow without them.

Updated School Store Schedule

After reading the story How to Catch a Snowman by Adam Wallace & Andy Elkerton, students took the time to design and build a trap to catch a snowman of their own. Here are some of their wonderful designs!

Ms Kelley’s grade 1, Ms Hughes’ grade 4, and Mrs. Barend’s grade 3 worked together to celebrate

Lunar New Year celebration in Kindergarten!

Celebrating Lunar New Year in Miss Nichols class!

Miss Romano's class had a great day learning all about the Lunar New Year & how our classmates celebrate!

We are fundraising for Fisher School's 5th grade end of year celebration, graduation, and events and I wanted to share a fun opportunity to support our efforts and possibly win some money!

I've created a Fundraiser Squares game for the Superbowl on Sunday, Feb 9, 2025.

Cost to play is $20 per square. After picking your square(s) please venmo me @Jeni-Labbe or email me at jeni.labbe@gmail.com if you'd like to arrange another payment method.

Prize payouts are:

Prize payouts are:

1st Quarter: $200

2nd Quarter: $200

3rd Quarter: $200

4th Quarter: $400

You can claim one or more squares by Saturday, Feb 8, 2025; game numbers will be revealed when all are done claiming squares.

Walpole Scholarship Foundation's Trivia Night is happening on Saturday, February 1st at the German Club in Walpole. Tickets are available online at https://tinyurl.com/wsftrivia25. Buy a table of 8 or come as an individual! Support this great local foundation that has awarded over $4.5 million dollars in scholarships to Walpole students!

Absences: If your student is going to be absent or tardy, please call the absence line and let us know in advance. You may call this line at anytime and leave a message. The telephone number is 508-660-7234 and then press 1

Dismissals: Please send a hand written note with your student in the morning or fill out this form with at least 2 hours advance notice.

Afterschool dismissal changes: If your student is changing their typical way of leaving Fisher at 3:25pm, please send a note into school with the plan that morning.

We understand that there are unavoidable last minute changes, however, please be mindful that we must call the classroom and upset time on leaning with each change.

Please feel free to email the front office: fisher-secretaries@walpole.k12.ma.us

School Day Begins at 8:55am

Dismissal is at 3:25pm

Early Release Days - Dismissal is at 12:25pm

Click HERE to view our arrival and dismissal procedures