🍽️ Summer Meal Service is ongoing! For details on locations, meal times, and menus, visit ewsd.org/childnutrition. 🍎🍔🍉🍕🥕🥯
The Essex Westford School District is seeking full-time Mainstream Instructional Assistants in grades K-8, beginning in the 24/25 school year.
In this role, you get to assist and supervise students instructionally, behaviorally, and physically in the general mainstream program. You'll have the chance to work with a special educator and gain valuable experience supporting students with emotional challenges and mental health diagnoses. To apply 👉 https://bit.ly/3LH3TqJ
Before EES preschoolers headed into summer break, they enjoyed Water Day on the playground! Not only is water play fun, but it is incredibly beneficial; offering cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development opportunities.
Today is the summer solstice, signaling the official start of summer.🌴🌺🏖️🌞🍉🕶️🌊
The EWSD Librarians look back on the 2023-2024 school year! Discover their favorite books, student top picks, circulation stats, and the community they served.
In April, EHS Athletic Leadership Council students from EHS visited Summit St. School and EES to share their love of reading! It was exciting and nostalgic for some high school students to return to their first classrooms in the EWSD, as they read their favorite books to the younger students.
The EWSD Board will next meet on Tue., May 21 starting at 6:30 p.m. in the EHS Library. The Media Factory will also broadcast the entire meeting on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/BTVMediaFactory/
Agenda items for the meeting include:
* Approve Audit Engagement Letter
* 3rd Quarter Financial Reporting
* Negotiations (3 elected members)
To learn more about the EWSD Board, please visit: http://www.ewsd.org/page/schoolboard
Gretchen Bates joined the Essex Westford School District Board, after being elected on April 9, 2024. Get to know the newest member a little better in this quick Q&A: https://bit.ly/4aXt4Aw
The ADL Rock Band Showcase will be held on Tuesday, May 14 beginning at 7 p.m. at the Double E Performance Center. Get ready to rock at an all-star performance of the more than two dozen 6-8th grade participants in the ADL Rock Band. Tickets are $8 for adults, and free for students 17 and under. All proceeds support ADL band programs.
EHS Theater students invite you to join a character tea party on Saturday, May 18 at 10 a.m. in the Essex High School Cafeteria. Come enjoy tea and treats with the cast of Anastasia! Tickets are $8.
The EWSD FY25 Budget (Article 1) Passed: 2,404 (yes) - 1,925 (no).
Thank you to all the Essex Westford School District community members who came out to vote!
Christine Gaynor-Patterson joined the Essex Westford School District Board, after being elected on April 9, 2024. Get to know the newest member a little better in this quick Q&A: https://bit.ly/3Qq6OHb
The EWSD Board will next meet for a Virtual Community Engagement on Mon., May 6, starting at 6 p.m. Community members who wish to participate can join the meeting using this link: https://meet.google.com/htp-puxg-wrr
You can view EWSD budget presentations, watch Board meetings, view FAQs, and more by visiting: www.ewsd.org/budget
The EWSD Special Education Parent Advisory Council (SEPAC) is inviting families for a free night out to meet other families, learn about available resources, and establish connections in a safe and inclusive environment. This event will be held on Monday, May 13 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the ADL Cafeteria. There will be dinner, music, onsite childcare, lawn games, activities, and community resources and connections. Kindly RSVP to this event: https://bit.ly/4aXPEJk
All students, parents, and members of the EWSD and Essex Community are invited to join the EHS/CTE Multicultural Potluck Festival on Friday, May 10 from 5-8 p.m. in the EHS gymnasium. You are welcome to bring a dish inspired by your culture or host an activity to share with the school community. There will be food, prizes, and fun activities for all! To RSVP, sign up for a dish, or volunteer: https://bit.ly/4ajoH2k 🍽️
EES second grade now has a Kindness Club! The Kindness Club focuses on cultivating kindness by bringing awareness to different acts of kindness that students display on an interactive hallway bulletin board! 💙😊
Check out the awesome collaboration between the EWSD Child Nutrition team and local businesses, bringing fresh, delicious food to our students' trays! From 185 gallons of maple syrup to over 7,000 pounds of beef, 4,000 pounds of chicken, 14,000 pounds of Cabot yogurt, and an abundance of fruits and veggies – it's a tasty partnership we're grateful for! Huge thanks to Tucker Maple Sugarhouse, Laplatte River Angus Farm, Misty Knoll Farms, Cabot Creamery, and Chapin Orchard! 🥞🍏🥕🍗🥛
EES second graders enjoyed cardio drumming!
Last night the EWSD Board adopted a revised budget which the community will vote on May 7.
Read an update from EWSD Board Chair Robert Carpenter that includes an update on the $4.5 million reduction, a recording of the meeting along with the slides presented, and next steps in the process: https://bit.ly/042424EWSDBoardUpdate
The EWSD Curriculum and Instruction team hosted a viewing of the film, "The Right to Read", which shares the stories of an NAACP activist, a teacher, and two American families fighting to provide our youngest generation with the foundational indicator of lifelong success: the ability to read. Before and after the film, the Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Jackie Ramsay-Tolman, discussed ongoing literacy work within the EWSD, drawing from a recent literacy audit to identify areas for improvement and existing strengths. A panel of teachers and interventionists answered questions about their work and the aspects of ongoing literacy efforts that excite them. Attendees received resource bags containing grade-level books, literacy materials, and articles or activities to promote reading at home.
