Early Steps Updates ~ Summer 2024

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Dear Early Steps Community:

A little friendly reminder that tomorrow, Wednesday, January 8th is an Early Release Day. Students are dismissed at 11:45. Please plan accordingly.

The Early Steps registration process for the 2025 - 2026 school year is on our webpage noting upcoming opportunities to learn more about it. On Tuesday, January 14th, we will have an Early Steps Information Night on Zoom. You will learn all that you need about the process at these Zoom meetings and I will message regularly in this newsletter.

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January 14 -Early Steps PreK & Preschool Virtual Information Night:

• Pre Kindergarten (PreK) + Extended Day Information 6:00 - 6:30 ~ Click this Link to Join Zoom Meeting (Student turns 4 by August 31, 2025)

• *Preschool 6:30 - 7:00 ~ Click this Link to Join Zoom Meeting (Student turns 3 by August 31, 2025); *Some students are identified with needs during the school year as they turn 3.

Save the Date: the Kindergarten Information Night is run through the elementary schools, and will be in-person on Wednesday, March 5th from 6:30 - 7:30 PM. More details to follow in upcoming newsletters.

Keep each other well,

Dr. Theresa McGuinness

Principal

theresa.mcguinness@watertown.k12.ma.us

Every Child...Every Classroom...Every Day

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WPS 2024 - 2025 School Year Calendar

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Watertown, MA 02472

Here is the Early Steps Mid-Year Updates presentation from the January 6, 2025 School Committee Meeting. We will present and explain details at the January 14th Early Steps PreK & Preschool Virtual Information Night.

Wednesday, January 22 is the Early Steps In-Person Visiting Day @1 Concord St. Watertown ~ 2:45 - 3:45 PM (for parents/guardians of prospective students entering Preschool or PreK in the fall of 2025).

Reserve Now for the 25th Annual Watertown Unity Breakfast! Get your ticket at https://watertownunitybreakfast.eventbrite.com

World in Watertown is thrilled to invite you to the 25th annual Watertown Unity Breakfast on January 20, 2025 from 8:30-11am!

• This year will be in-person at the Hellenic Cultural Center, 25 Bigelow Ave, Watertown.
• A hot breakfast from Wicked Bagel will be served at 8:30 am followed by music, roundtable conversations, student essays, and the presentation of the Unity Award.
• Every year, the community in Watertown, Massachusetts, comes together on Martin Luther King Day to honor his life and civil right legacy by recommitting to foundational principles of racial, social and economic justice.
• All ages are welcome to attend the event! The suggested donation for adult attendees is $10-$25. Youth 18 and under and those experiencing financial difficulty are welcome to attend for free.
• Childcare is available for children 2-10 years of age. Please register for childcare as an "add-on." Children are also welcome to attend the main program.
• ASL interpretation and CART will be available, sponsored by the Watertown Disability Commission. To request additional accommodations, email worldinwatertowncity@gmail.com.

The Watertown Unity Breakfast is run by World in Watertown and sponsors this year include the Watertown Community Foundation, Watertown Savings Bank, and Point32Health Foundation. Special thanks to the Taxiarchae/Archangels Greek Orthodox Church for the use of their community space and to Wicked Bagel for providing breakfast. We are excited to be gathering together and celebrating our community. You can get more information and watch videos of previous year’s at unitybreakfast.org.

• January 8th Early Release PD ~ 11:45 AM Dismissal

• January 14 -Early Steps PreK & Preschool Virtual Information Night

  • Pre Kindergarten (PreK) + Plus Extended Day Information 6:00 - 6:30 ~ Link to Join Zoom Meeting

  • Preschool 6:30 - 7:00 ~ Link to Join Zoom Meeting

• January 20 - No School MLK, Jr. Day

• January 20 - Watertown Unity Breakfast -In person;Hellenic Cultural Center 8:30-10:30 AM

• January 22 - Early Steps VISITING Day (for prospective parents/caretakers) 2:45 - 3:45 PM

• January 26- Send Mid-Year Student Reports Home

• March 5 - Kindergarten Information Night 6:30 - 7:30 PM @elementary schools

• Principal Updates 1 - August 12, 2024
  
• Principal Updates 2 - August 29, 2024
• Principal Updates 3 - September 15, 2024

• Principal Updates 4 - September 27, 2024

• Principal Updates 5 - October 9, 2024

• Principal Updates 6 - October 21, 2024

• Principal Updates 7 - November 1, 2024

• Principal Updates 8 - November 15, 2024

• Principal Updates 9 - December 12, 2024

• Principal Updates 10 - December 20, 2024