Superintendent's Weekly Updates

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• District Updates
• Extended Learning Updates
• Athletic Department Updates
• Berkowitz School Updates
• Kelly School Updates
• Hooks School Updates
• Sokolowski School Updates
• Morrie Seigal Clark Ave. Middle School Updates
• Browne Middle School Updates
• Wright Science & Technology Updates
• Chelsea High School Updates
• Chelsea Opportunity Academy Updates
• Messages from Community Partners

Students at the Complex learned about bus and crosswalk safety.

The Boston Landmarks Orchestra will be returning to the Chelsea High School Auditorium on Thurs., Oct. 9 at 5:30 pm with a program to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month. The program will feature saxophonist Edmar Colon as well as select members of the CHS Orchestra. Tickets are available here for free, but similar to their performance for Three Kings Day earlier this year, the concert is expected to sell out, so please act early!

The Boston Landmarks Orchestra is under the direction of Mr. Christopher Wilkins. The CHS Orchestra is under the direction of Ms. Ali You.

Intramurals are starting up. Boys and Girls in grades 7 & 8 from all three middleschool will be competing in the Fall season, which is underway. Students from the WSTA 7th and 8th grade boys and girls teams are getting to know each other and their coaches ( Coach Bailey and Coach Grey here ) as part of an open gym ran on Thursday afternoon in the Williams Gym.

Fall Sports are here! Below are next week's upcoming games.

For more information email: atheletics@chelseaschools.com

Congratulations to our Athletes of the Week: Vero Delgado (Cheer), Alisson Segovia Castello (volleyball), Carlos Perez (cross country), Jose Joj (boys soccer), Leeandro Castro (football), Kimberly Fuentes Chavez (girls soccer)

Join Chelsea Athletics on Saturday, November 22, 2025, at Chelsea Memorial Stadium for a morning of fun and fitness while supporting a great cause. Choose between a 5K run ($30) or a 3K run/walk ($25), and don’t miss the free 400m kids’ run for children 10 and under (starting at 9:30 a.m.). Proceeds benefit the J. Barry Dwyer Memorial Scholarship and the Chelsea High School track, field, and cross-country programs. Register by November 6 to receive a T-shirt!

The NED Show Assembly visited the Berkowitz School today and Berky made a special appearance. The engaging & interactive show promotes positive attitudes, academic achievement and better behavior by transforming the way students face challenges.

Kelly School Scientists Test How Air Can Move Objects

Each Friday, we will be celebrating hispanic heritage with a spirit day. Today, we invited students and staff to come to school wearing the colors that represent the flag of a Latin American country!

Students in 311 and 312 are becoming Apple Experts. As part of their Read to Grow class, they inspected an apple. They wrote sentences about what they see, smell, touch/feel, taste and even hear when they bite into an apple

Third graders are busy writing continuations after they finished reading Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel by Nikki Grimes.

This week in Music: We are doing a two week unit on “music bells!” In music class! Ms. will be teaching 3rd and 4th Grade “La Cucaracha!”, because it is Hispanic Heritage Month.

This week, Sokolowski took part in the bus drill and the crosswalk safety event, where students learned important safety precautions. Awesome job, Sharks!” 🦈

The library at CAMS hosted a Summer Reading Social last Friday for students who turned in their tracker for reading four books or patronizing the public library this summer. We had fun in the sun doing crafts and playing a ‘guess the first line’ game. Thanks to Ms Garcia, Mr Letellier, Ms Winsor, and Ms Jackie for helping Ms Redding host. Keep reading all year long!

Great things are happening in our classrooms! At the Morris H. Seigal Clark Avenue Middle School, students are practicing how to write clear and engaging concluding statements as they develop their writing skills!

Thank you to all the families who joined us at Open House! We loved seeing so many of you connect with our teachers and staff. What a wonderful way to kick off the year and build strong family engagement together!

Our 5th Grade Community Project focused on building community focused around common interests and what unites us. Also, in SRA class, students wrote letters to parents which brought tears to the eyes of many parents. Grade 5 at BMS is off to a strong start.

This week at the Wright we welcomed our families for Open House! Students and families attended to meet teachers and learn about all that WSTA has to offer this school year!

Students in 7th grade ELA at the WSTA created a personal "River of Life" to tell the ups and downs of their journey to 7th grade.

Mr. Sanchez's middle school technology classes learned about robots and how to program them this week! They used the skills they learned in coding to make their robots run through obstacle courses and "walk" in a creative and fun pattern. Students loved their "robot pets" and were able to bring their computer science skills into the real world as well!

Families are invited to join us at Chelsea High School on Thursday, September 25, 2025, anytime from 5–7 p.m. for Family Night! Come meet your student’s teachers and staff, explore exciting programs, clubs, and sports, and learn about opportunities that make CHS a great place to learn and grow.

AVID12 (Senior) Students had the opportunity to meet with instructors from Digital Read, which is an internship program for students ages 16-25. This program offers high school students to get college-level credits, in four career pathways: Greentech, Ace (Architecture) Construction and Engineering, Biotech, and Computer Science. The students had an amazing day. Many of them signed up for the program.

Lessons and learning continued strong at COA. Co-teachers Sela Kenen and Giulia Basile led an English lesson for multilingual learners about values where students learned new vocabulary, practiced pronunciation, and analyzed examples to identify which value was demonstrated. In science, students engaged with hands-on STEM lessons about LED lights and how they function.

25th Annual Chelsea Kiwanis Track & Field Day
Get ready for a day of fun, fitness, and community spirit! Students in grades K–12 are invited to join the 25th Annual Chelsea Kiwanis Track & Field Day at the Burke School Complex.

📅 Saturday, September 20, 2025
⏰ Registration at 9:00 AM | Games begin at 10:00 AM
📍 Burke School Complex, 300 Crescent Ave, Chelsea

Activities include sprint races, sack races, 3-legged races, a hula hoop contest, water balloons, food, drinks, medals, raffles, and more!

🌦 Rain or shine: outdoors with good weather, indoors in the gym if it rains.
✅ Free to participate — register online at https://k01893.site.kiwanis.org/annual-track-field-day/ or at the event.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER AND FOR MORE INFORMATION

Chelsea Pride Football & Cheer is hosting their annual mini golf fundraiser on October 11th at Carter Park.