Today first graders were visited by Ranger Bri, from the Franklin Falls Dam, as part of their "Read with a Ranger" program. The students learned about animal life cycles with her!
FMS Chorus Premier Concert!
A huge shout-out to Eustacia Chasson for her work with the FMS chorus students in their premiere performance! Energetic and entertaining-students sang winter favorites and self selected contemporary hits. Well Done!
"Lunch with a Hero" began today at PSS! Members of the Franklin Police Department served and had lunch with the kids at PSS! Thank you to the Franklin PD for supporting this initiative. The goal is to have this become a monthly event.
Students from Mrs. Preuss's class wing with Mr. Hazelton during morning announcements at PSS!
Dear Franklin Families,
I hope your new year is off to a great start! As part of our ongoing commitment to shaping well-rounded, compassionate, and future-ready students, I wanted to invite you to our community forum on Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 6:00 in the Franklin Middle School cafeteria.
At this event, we will be sharing an update on our Portrait of a Graduate, a framework that highlights the key skills and values we aim to instill in our students. As we flip the calendar to 2025, we will be launching our focus on humanity component of the portrait and the practices of empathy, kindness, and social responsibility.
During this event, you will have the opportunity to learn about:
The Portrait of a Graduate framework and its impact on students and school programming so far.
Why the district is emphasizing the commitment to humanity this coming year.
Practical ways you can support these values at home and in the community including an invitation to join the Portrait of a Graduate Advisory.
Thank you for your continued support in helping our students grow into well rounded and thoughtful individuals
Sincerely,
Dan LeGallo
Superintendent
This week, third graders from Mrs. Farmer's class performed two readers' theaters for other classes! Readers' theater helps students practice their reading, improve fluency, and have fun at the same time!
PSS was visited by students from the Holderness School today. Our visitors dropped off a donation of winter clothing for PSS students to use while playing in the snow.
Please consider a donation to Donor's Choose to help us as we continue to purchase items for our three amazing makerspaces!
https://www.donorschoose.org/project/makerspaces-in-nh-schools/8941593/?utm_source=dc&utm_medium=directlink&utm_campaign=project&utm_term=teacher_9835159&rf=directlink-dc-2024-12-project-teacher_9835159&challengeid=22439605
Good Morning – This is a message from the Superintendent's office at S.A.U. 18. There will be a 2 hour delay today in Franklin. This means school arrival and start times will be 2 hours later than usual, and the bus arrival times will be two hours later than usual. Again, there will be a two hour delay today for the Franklin School District.
The Franklin Elks Club is generously donating holiday food baskets for 40 different Franklin families. If your family could benefit from this, please complete the attached form. ONLY the first 40 responses will be fulfilled. Holiday Food Baskets link below:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdAlw5b8aKmt8WWXUvpHfzDUARFvN2ASgMs0osaJ4HTHWtrAg/viewform
During the last few weeks at Paul Smith Elementary students have been working on learning about school citizenship and being a part of taking ownership of caring for our school. Our amazing custodian, Mr. Dave, observed that several students were really becoming leaders in helping and encouraging others to take care of the school. Today, four of those leaders were randomly selected to 'pie' four PSS staff members. Thank you to Mr. Dave, Ms. St Cyr, Mrs. Kent and Mr. Lewis for helping to celebrate the hard work of students at PSS.
Hailey, and Mr. and Mrs. Cole represented Paul Smith Elementary at the SAU 18 School Board meeting. The trio conducted a presentation highlighting the learning students are experiencing with our Sphero robots. Topics such as STEM and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) were covered.
Congratulations to the Franklin Middle School Robotics Team for qualifying for the state competition on December 7, 2024! A big shout out to Tanner Laro, Ben Bacon, Mason Vandell, Kyle Hickey-Pfaefflin, Mason Cass and Elliot Therrien and & Coaches- Lilly Bacon and Laurie Cass!
Join us for a magical holiday shopping experience. Our Franklin PTSO is hosting a craft fair on 11/30 from 10-3pm at FMS. Come celebrate the holidays and support our local businesses. Come and check out our amazing vendors, artisans, and crafters. We also have photos with Santa from 12-3pm to benefit our local food pantries.
For the next 7 days, donations will be doubled up to $50 if you add the promo code LIFTOFF at checkout! Please consider donating at https://www.donorschoose.org/project/makerspaces-in-franklin-nh-schools/8941593/?utm_source=dc&utm_medium=directlink&utm_campaign=tpc_complete&utm_term=teacher_9835159&rf=directlink-dc-2024-11-tpc_complete-teacher_9835159&challengeid=22439605
Today's visiting author, Megan Moneypenny, is offering a discount on a hardcover copy of the beautiful book she shared with us today. The deadline for ordering this book is Tuesday, so act fast. You may send cash or a check (payable to Paul Smith School) in with your child on Tuesday. Please be sure to send in a complete order form as well.
We had an amazing celebration of BOOKS at Paul Smith this week.
ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED TWENTY ONE BOOKS were delivered to the students.
1, 121 books!!
🎉🎉🎉🎉
Happy Reading Paul Smith Students!!
We will be doing a test snow call tonight at 5:00 PM. If you do not receive this please reach out to your school secretary to let them know so we can get this corrected. Thank you.
Red Ribbon Week in Mrs. DeGraff's Fourth Grade Class!
Today, we caught a couple of fifth graders voluntarily taking their lunch with Mr. Harrison so they could continue working on their projects.
Three students were working on a bridge challenge. One student explained, "We get $12,500 fake dollars to build a bridge that holds the most hot wheels cars. We have to use our resources."
Another student continued on a map project she was excited to work on. FMS fifth graders are definitely committed to learning!
