West Bridgewater Public Schools

Message from WB Athletic Boosters - The Next ATHLETIC BOOSTERS MEETING will be on Wednesday February, 8th @ 7 PM. PLEASE JOIN US in the WBMSHS - LIBRARY Come join the discussion- all parents/guardians are welcome! Questions? Email us @ wbboostersclub@gmail.com GO WILDCATS!

The following message was sent to all WB Families and voice message sent to RLM Families: Good afternoon Rose L MacDonald Families, We wanted to you know that we did have some issues over the weekend at the school with loss of power and tree damage that took down some wires. The power has been restored to the building. Unfortunately, the phone lines and internet will not be fixed until tomorrow morning. We want to thank our maintenance and custodial staff and all who helped over the weekend to get the school ready for Monday. If you need to contact the school please call 508-894-1242. This number is for the RLM main office. If for any reason you cannot get through you can call the Spring Street School at 508-894-1230. We hope that we will be fully operational and back to normal later in the morning. All schools in the district will be open at the regularly scheduled time tomorrow. Thank you and have a great night. Mark Bodwell Superintendent West Bridgewater Public Schools

Notice to WB Families (this was also sent to all WB Families via email last night) - As you are aware we are going to be experiencing some very cold temperatures over the next few days. The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Chill Warning from February 3rd 10 am through February 4th 10 am. Students should be dressed appropriately for the weather. The schools are open today. If parents/guardians of walkers have concerns about their child walking home today (February 3rd) please contact your child's school this morning. We will work with the family and Lucini Bus Company to arrange transportation if possible. As always the safety of our students and staff is our top priority.

Here is a link to the WB Wildcat PRIDE district newsletter. There is lots of important information in the newsletter and lots of great pictures of our students. I hope you can find some time to check it out. https://www.smore.com/8stw0

The West Bridgewater Schools are actively looking for substitute teachers. If you are interested please fill out the google form. https://www.wbridgewaterschools.org/o/ms-middle-senior-hs/article/940959

All phone lines at the schools are fully operational.

WB District Phone Lines - We wanted to let you know that we are having issues with our network and starting around 11 am our network will be down. This will affect the phone lines in the schools. Schools will remain open during this time. If you need to call the schools please call the following numbers: Spring Street School 508-894-1232 Rose L MacDonald School 508-894-1242 Howard School 508-894-1253 MSHS 508-897-0537 Thank you for your patience and understanding. We will send out another message when we are fully operational.

Zumba Fundraiser - Check out the WB Athletic Boosters fundraiser. Start the year off with a healthy mindset, support the student-athletes and have fun while doing it!

Here is the latest WB District Newsletter "Wildcat PRIDE". We hope you can find some time to check it out as there is lots of great information about things going on in the district and lots of pictures of our students. Happy Friday! https://www.smore.com/96z85

From SRO Pope - Online presentation "Keeping Kids Safe and Secure Online: A Project Safe Childhood Presentation for Parents" brought to you in collaboration by the US Attorneys Office and Homeland Security Investigations - Wednesday, January 18th at 6:30pm Check out the flyer

School Choice applications are now being accepted for the 23-24 school year. All Applications must be electronically submitted by 12:00 noon on February 28, 2023. Check out this link for more information https://www.wbridgewaterschools.org/page/school-choice-program

Reminder - The next Superintendent Coffee Hour meeting with Mr. Bodwell will be on Friday, January 13th at 9:15 at the Middle/Senior High School. An email was sent to all WB families with a tentative draft agenda. MSHS Counselors will be the guests at this months meeting.

WB ATHLETIC BOOSTERS MEETING on Wednesday, January 11th @ 7 PM in the WBMSHS - LIBRARY Come join the discussion- all parents/guardians are welcome! Questions? Email us @ wbboostersclub@gmail.com GO WILDCATS!!

Information from Inclusion Matters on future webinar - Mark your calendars for our January webinar on executive functioning; learn more about it https://www.facebook.com/events/702144134803160 As always, our webinars are free and open to the public; we hope to see you there!

WB District Newsletter Wildcat PRIDE. Here is a link to the latest newsletter https://www.smore.com/su57x We hope you all are having a wonderful break and are looking forward to welcoming our students and staff back next week.

MSBA Announcement (This information was also sent to all WB families last week via email) It is with great pleasure that on behalf of the West Bridgewater Schools we announce that the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) Board of Directors has voted to invite the Rose L. MacDonald School into the MSBA's Eligibility Period. The school district and the town will begin following the MSBA process and work to review our district's greatest needs and look at all possible educational options for school consolidations. We are looking forward to our partnership with the MSBA and to working collaboratively to do what is best for our students, staff, and community. West Bridgewater was one of 10 school districts in the state selected. Thank you to the West Bridgewater School Committee and the West Bridgewater Board of Selectmen for their support. As a district, we are committed to an open and transparent process and will continue to update all stakeholders through emails, newsletters, and scheduled meetings such as School Committee meetings, Superintendent Coffee Hours as well as scheduled informational meetings. Here is the press release from the MSBA https://www.wbridgewaterschools.org/article/947260

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW After gathering information from MEMA, National Grid and local safety staff and due to timing of the height of the predicted storm tomorrow morning with a forecast of high winds and heavy rains which could cause power outages, downed trees and power lines out of an abundance of caution I am canceling school tomorrow Friday, December 23rd. As always the safety of our students and staff is our top priority. Have a great night

WB Inclusion Matters - West Bridgewater's SEPAC - Check out the attachment for the upcoming free webinar on January 23rd 7-8:30pm on "Strategies to Grow Our Kids Executive Functioning". Save the date!

Dream Snow - Preschool - It was once again my pleasure to read the book Dream Snow by Eric Carle to our preschool students. It is always so much fun reading to the students and thank you to the staff for inviting me in and for "making it snow".

WB Polar Express - Here are a few more pictures of our K friends after reading them the story. Great job by all the educators who work with them everyday. The students all did such a wonderful job and enjoyed being at the MSHS for the event!