Melville Message Community Update

In partnership with families and community, the mission of Melville Elementary School is to provide all students with a strong academic foundation through diverse and challenging instruction in a safe and nurturing environment enabling them to achieve their greatest potential while developing self-confidence, respect, responsibility, compassion and a love of learning.

Melville Families,

Thank you for making it a great week! We are so grateful for your continued support, care, and commitment to our students and school community.

We had some excellent informative performances for our students:

This week, students in Kindergarten through Grade 2 our students attended an Energy Safety Hilarious Production by the National Children’s Theater.

Also this week, we give a special thank you to Captain Jones from the Portsmouth Fire Department for presenting to students in Grades K–4 on fire safety.

On Thursday morning, we enjoyed our yearly tradition of welcoming the Portsmouth High School marching band to perform in our parking lot. This is always such a special event, but this year was extra meaningful as our front office team members, Mrs. Courville and Mrs. O’Brien, watched their children perform as seniors one last time. These two ladies are the heart of our school and take such incredible care of our community. It was truly special to see their children perform!

Fall Festival – Tomorrow!🍂🎃

Tomorrow is our annual Fall Festival, and I hope to see all of you and your wonderful children there! We will be open from 2:00 PM, but please arrive before 5:00 PM to ensure you have plenty of time to play games and have fun!

Schoolwide Character Day – Friday, October 30

Please mark your calendars for our schoolwide Character Day on Friday, October 30! We hope you’ll join the fun!

Danielle Laurie
Principal, Melville Elementary School

Join us on tomorrow, October 24, from 2:00–5:00 PM for an afternoon of games, raffles, delicious food, fall fun, and more! Admission is FREE!

NEW THIS YEAR! We're excited to welcome Charter Books, a Melville family-owned bookstore in Newport, for a special book sale! A portion of the Proceeds will go back to the MPTG!

All festival proceeds go directly back to MPTG to support field trips, after-school activities, enrichment opportunities, and so much more for our Melville students!

We can't wait to celebrate with our Melville families!

Since this event does not take place during school hours and all children are with families, you do not need to be VIS approved to support the Fall Festival by volunteering.

Please click HERE to volunteer!

Need assistance with food and gifts for the holidays?

Please fill out THIS FORM and return to school in an envelope to Nicole Pascoe by October 26.

For any questions, please call or email Nicole at 683-1650 ext. 5034 or PascoeN@PortsmouthSchoolsRI.org

This week in the library first grade learned about characters and their feelings, and read Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds.

Sign Up Link Below!

Please join the fun!

Thanks to a generous grant from PPEF, I am leading a Kindness Club at Melville School. Kindness Club offers experiential learning, with opportunities to use our superpowers of kindness to do good in the community. Meetings are once a month during recess. 70 students in grades 3 and 4 joined. Signups are now closed. Our first project is to create two kindness shells: one for a cancer patient and one to hide in the community. The shells have uplifting messages on the back. This group of shells for cancer patients was made by members in Mrs. Klimek’s grade 3 and Mrs. Ruggieri’s grade 4.

October

24 -Fall Festival 2PM-5PM-Melville School

28 - One-Hour Early Release

30 - Schoolwide Character Day

November

3 - No School: Election Day

11 - No School: Veterans Day

12 - Fall Conferences

25-27 - No School: Thanksgiving Recess

December

9- Report Cards go home and Family Portal is Open

12 - Merry Melville 9AM-12PM

21-22 Winter Spirit Week

22 - Whaledone Recognition Announcements

23-31: No School: Holiday Recess

January

1 - No School: Holiday Recess

13 - One-Hour Early Release

18 - No School: MLK Jr. Day

19 -MPTG Meeting and Whale of an Evening planning

22 - Winter BINGO with the MPTG, 4:30PM-6PM

25-29 Reading Spirit Week & Book Fair

February

9 - MPTG and Whale of an Evening planning Virtual Planning

15-19 - No School: Winter Recess

26 - Cozy Night with a Book MPTG Event 4:30-6:00

March

9 - MPTG and Whale of an Evening planning Virtual Planning

10 - One-Hour Early Release

19 -Whale of an Evening

22-26 Wellness Week

25- Report Cards go home and Family Portal is Open

26 - No School: Good Friday

April

14 - One-Hour Early Release

15 - Purple Up on the Playground

19-23 - No School: Spring Recess

27 - Bus Driver Appreciation

May

3-7 Staff Appreciation

11 - MPTG Meeting

20-Fun Run Rain date the 21st

31 - No School: Memorial Day

June

1 - Grade 4 Handprints

2 - Graduates Walk the Halls

4 - PHS Graduation

8 - MPTG and Family Appreciation

9 - Field Day (rain date the 10th)

17-Report Cards go home and Family Portal is Open

17 - LAST Day of school (180th day)

18 - Snow Make-up Day (if needed)

21 - No School: Juneteenth (Observed)

22-23 Snow Make-up Day (if needed)

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Location: 1351 West Main Road, Portsmouth, RI, USA
Phone: 4016831650
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