Trick or Treat For Unicef

Trick or Treat for UNICEF
The Proctor School will continue a long standing tradition by participating in Trick or Treat for UNICEF.  During the school assembly this week, we shared the vision and mission of UNICEF and described how the money which is collected can help others around the world.  Below are two videos which were springboards for our discussion.  Please watch for the collection boxes and additional information about the collection to come home in your child's backpack.  Thank you in advance for supporting this event.  

Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF - About UNICEF

  

UNICEF Change for Good: Save a child with the power of 5

Card Board Challenge

Each year, our fifth grade students participate in the Global Cardboard Challenge. Inspired by the short film, ‘Caine’s Arcade,’ the Global Cardboard Challenge is an annual event presented by the Imagination Foundation that celebrates child creativity and the role communities can play in fostering it (www.cardboardchallenge.com).  At the Proctor School All School Assembly, our fourth and sixth grade students had the opportunity to play the AMAZING cardboard arcade games that our fifth grade students made.  To watch the video that inspired the Cardboard Challenge link on the link below.  

Caine's Arcade 2

   

Superintendent Search Committee Parent/Community Focus Group

Tri-Town School Union

Superintendent Search Committee

Parent/Community Focus Group

All Boxford, Topsfield, and Middleton parents and interested community members are invited to attend a focus group to answer questions related to the search for the next Tri-Town School Union Superintendent, which will inform the process for the search committee.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Cole School Cafeteria

7:00pm
26 Middleton Road, Boxford, MA 01921

As you make plans to attend the session, it is asked that you be prepared to discuss the following questions:

* What are the strengths of the Tri-Town School Union Districts 
(Topsfield, Middleton and Boxford)?

* What are the challenges and issues that the Districts face now and in 

* What are the characteristics you think are necessary for the next 
Superintendent in the Tri-Town?

Global Read Aloud

Global Read Aloud

Our students and teachers are participating in the Global Read Aloud.  This program was created by Pernille Ripp with the idea of using one book to connect the world.  The program has been in existence for five years with 200,000 students connected. Our teachers will be reading aloud, Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt to our students.  Classrooms will be using a variety of tech tools to connect our children and classrooms to children across the United States and around the world.  The book is the platform for the conversations, a digital book club, but much more is learned during the connection.  

This week at our All School Assembly, we introduced the students to the themes in the book and listened to the author read a few pages.

Thank you to Mrs. Klipfel for bringing this amazing program to our school.  You can check out Mrs. Klipfel's or Mrs. O'Leary's blog to learn more about Proctor's participation in the program or you can click on the links below.

Mrs. Klipfel's Blog Post About the Global Read Aloud 

Global Read Aloud Link

Google for Education

Google For Education

(This information will also be shared in a backpack letter and in the weekly electronic newsletter.)

We are excited to announce the implementation of Google for Education beginning this year at Proctor School.  Google for Education provides many digital tools to enhance the way we use technology and share information within and beyond our school community. Our main objective is to have a place where students can share work, communicate with teachers and save/retrieve projects using laptops, tablets and other devices.

Google for Education, a suite of free, cloud-based productivity tools allows us to collaborate and communicate more effectively through the use of technology.  It also offers a range of new learning opportunities for both teachers and students.  Further information about Google for Education can be found at:www.google.com/edu/.

Students, like staff, at Proctor School will receive a Google for Education account that will allow access to our Google-hosted domain. This is a “closed account” where students will only have access to what the teachers provide for them.  At this time, they will not have the ability to email.  If that changes, we will communicate with you in advance.  In order to do this, Proctor School requires parents and students to sign our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), which you and your child signed and returned during the first days of school.  A copy of our AUP can be found on our school’s website:  http://www.tritownschoolunion.com/proctor and by choosing the Quick Link entitled “2015-2016 School Handbook”.  From there, you can refer to Appendix A: Topsfield Schools Student Acceptable Use Agreement-Technology page 50-52.

Google for Education student accounts created by the school district will be managed based upon the classroom requirements and parental consent.

In school, teacher supervision and content filters are used to help prevent access to inappropriate content and to ensure proper educational use of the application.  Google does not request any personal information from students and the District does not provide personal student data to Google.  Student accounts can be accessed by domain administrators at any time.  Information about the privacy policy and protections of Google for Education can be found at: www.google.com/edu/trust/

As with all Internet access, the district utilizes a content filter.  While at school, staff will monitor students’ use of Google for Education productivity suite; either by direct observation or by automated systems, which identify prohibited use. At all times, whether at school or home, students are responsible for their adherence to the Proctor School Acceptable Use Policy.

If you still feel it would be best for your child not to utilize these tools, the Proctor School Technology Department will make sure that your student does not have access and will then be issued an alternative.

Please feel free to contact us with questions or concerns.