Students and Families,
Welcome back from February Break! We hope that you had a restful week with friends and family and we are excited to have you back this morning. March is a busy month with lots of different happenings at school. Please check back each week for updates on all of things taking place this month.
Thank you,
The Parkside Staff
Progress reports for third quarter will be sent home and uploaded to Aspen on Friday. If you have any questions about your child's grades please contact that teacher directly.
It's not too late to apply for free/reduced school meals this school year using MySchoolApps. The application is quick, secure and available in multiple languages. You can get your application started today at https://www.myschoolapps.com/
Showing up to school everyday is critical for all students' well being, engagement and learning. We want to ensure that as many of our students as possible are attending school everyday. Last week, all families received emails that included their student's attendance status this year.
Last year, 69% of Parkside students attended school for 90% of all school days (less than 18 absences). This year our goal is for 71.3% of students to attend school 90% or more of all school days. This goal is important because reducing the number of students who are chronically absent will help improve outcomes and lead to more academic success for these students. This year, 50 of our students have perfect attendance and another 487 students missed ten days or less. This means that 68.9% of students attended 90% or more which puts us behind on meeting our goal.
If your child has missed 11 or more days during this year, for any reason, they are on track to be chronically absent. Any student attending less than 90% of all school days is considered chronically absent. Chronic absenteeism is missing so much school for any reason that a student is academically at risk. Missing school and class time is detrimental to a student's own learning and can often be a distraction from the learning of others. If you are worried about your child's school attendance please talk with one of your child's teachers, their school counselor, our social worker or an administrator.
Assistant Principal (Grades 6 and 7): Salvador Becerra sbeccera@mansd.org, Phone Ext: 3304 Assistant Principal (Grades 5 and 8): Nicole Chartier nchartier@mansd.org, Phone Ext: 3305 Assistant Principal for Special Services: Jennifer Harrises jharrises@mansd.org, Phone Ext: 3356 Principal: Scott Szuksta sszuksta@mansd.org, Phone Ext: 3350
Email: Parkside@mansd.org
Website: parkside.mansd.org
Location: 75 Parkside Avenue, Manchester, NH, USA
Phone: 603-624-6356
Facebook: facebook.com/TheMiddleSchoolatParkside
Twitter: @ParksideKnights