Peter Woodbury School News

  During this time of year we are increasingly aware of how fortunate we are to have good friends, loving families, a place to call home, and food to eat. Unfortunately, we know that so many in our community are not as fortunate, and we feel that there is something we can do to help. Since we know that food banks are always in need of food, Peter Woodbury is holding a food drive for the New Hampshire Food Bank, as well as the Bedford Community Food Pantry. This year, we will continue to partner with the Bedford Community Food Pantry in providing food for their School Lunch+ program.  This provides backpacks on Fridays with food for students over the weekend.  ( Bedford Community Food Pantry- School Lunch+ )  Students can start bringing in canned goods, dry goods, and any other non- perishable food items the Monday after Thanksgiving (November 30). Contributions are not required and we are aware that there are so many different ways, events, issues, and causes to donate to and one f

 Click HERE for directions explaining how you can access your child's report card. 

 

Registration is now open for Destination Imagination.  New and returning students must complete  this google form.  Registration closes on Friday October 16th, 2020. Destination Imagination is an extracurricular program that requires parent volunteers.  There is no guarantee that your child will be placed on a team,    but we work very hard to place every child who registers.   NEW INFO  K-6 teams may not use school facilities for meetings. Teams who wish to come together outside of the schools must adhere to same safety precautions as in school, with regards to masks and social distancing. Most teams will meet virtually this year.  For more info on this wonderful extracurricular program offered by our district, please check out  www.nh-di.org  or contact our coordinator, Marie Russell at  bedfordrocksdi@gmail.com . 

  We are excited to welcome Ms. D’Ambrosio to the district. She will be housed at PWS but is a district Social Worker. Ms. D’Ambrosio is coming with a helping hand, Anna the service dog. When the pair are off the clock they enjoy hiking, craft projects with their family, and reading. While all that is fun their favorite pastime is relaxing in a hammock. They’re both excited to start working with everyone and to meet the great children and families that make up the Bedford Schools community.

Peter Woodbury will be having school picture day on Wednesday, 9/23 & Thursday, 9/24. Your child will come home with an order envelope sometime this week . You can also pre-order using the link & code in the flyer below.  FOR FULLY REMOTE STUDENTS ONLY:  If your family chose the remote option for learning HERE is a Sign Up Genius for you to use to sign up for a time slot. Signing up for a time slot will allow your child to come to school to have his/her photo taken by the photographer outside in our butterfly garden. 

  Are you picking your child up after school? Since this is a new process we will be taking it slower than usual and will start parent pick up at 2:10pm for the first couple of weeks. Parents will no longer enter the building to pick their child(ren) up. Instead, everyone will have their child(ren) delivered to their car in a pick up line. You can find the traffic flow map here . Also, please remember to have a large, clearly labeled sign posted in the passenger side window of your car. The sign should have the name(s) of the child(ren) you are picking up as well as their grade level. Thank you all for being patient with us as we perfect the process over the next week.

July 28, 2020 Dear Bedford Families, The Bedford School District has developed a Hybrid plan that supports the health and safety of our students, while providing in-person learning. We strongly urge students and parents to opt for the hybrid model; however, we also understand each family has their own set of circumstances, which may preclude them from participating in this model.  To help you better understand the options available, please read the following explanations: Hybrid Instruction Remote Instruction If you are choosing the remote only option, please fill out the form below no later than Friday, July 31. You do not need to fill out the form if your child is participating in the district’s Hybrid model as your child will automatically be placed into the Hybrid model. The form below should be filled out for EACH STUDENT in a household who is electing to learn through the Remote instruction model.  In order for our schools to develop plans for staffing and sched

We'd like to welcome Marc Robitaille to the PWS family. Starting July 1, 2020 Mr. Robitaille will be the Assistant Principal at Peter Woodbury. He's coming to us from Exeter and in addition to be an educator he is an avid golfer (when he's not searching for the ball in the woods). He's getting married in November and has a dog named Bo. We look forward to having him with us. 

Drop off and pick up off items will happen June 8th-11th, 2020. Click HERE for all the details. 

The Peter Woodbury staff would like to welcome Mrs. Ellis to our team as a special education teacher! Mrs. Ellis has always known she wanted to be a teacher. She used to force her brother and sister into playing school and complete worksheets or games she created. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her son, going on bike rides, hiking, swimming and traveling. We are excited for her to start with us!

Please join Peter Woodbury School in welcoming Julia Thissell to our faculty as a third grade teacher. Ms. Thissell is a recent graduate of Saint Anselm's College where her women's basketball team was the East Region Champions for 2019! She also enjoys traveling as is evident with the fact that she has been to 31 out of the 50 states and spent time last summer traveling Europe with her mom. We are very excited to have her as part of our school family!

Welcome, Typically around this time, we would be holding Orientation Sessions for all our incoming Kindergarten and 1st grade students. However, social distancing has put a wrench in all of our plans and lives. In order to meet the need that we know you all have and to provide an opportunity for you to learn about our school, our programs, and to give you an opportunity to ask your questions, we will be holding virtual orientations.  If you have an incoming Kindergartener, we invite you to a virtual orientation on June 2 at 9:00. If you have an incoming First grader, we invite you to a virtual orientation on June 3 at 9:00 If you are unable to attend these sessions, they will be recorded and sent out to you that day. We will then be available for a follow up Q & A each evening at 6:00 PM. If you plan on attending one of these sessions please click the link to the appropriate sign up sheet and a link to the meeting will be sent to you closer to the day. Thank y

While we would all rather be together during this time, we understand why we can't be and are making the best of it for ourselves and our students. This is another amazing project put together by our art teacher, Mrs. Piantedosi. Using the Earth to make art .

The staff at PWS are missing the students and the families we see on a daily basis. This VIDEO is our way of reaching out and letting you all know we are thinking of you.

Mrs. Ferenc would like to share important updates to our Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser.  Click here for the information. 

As we continue to progress with the newness of remote learning, it is helpful to stay in contact and keep communication open. Google Meet allows educators and students to meet live with a whole-class, in small groups, and in one-to-one meetings. Please find the  Google Meet Expectations  in the link. We strive to provide the best possible education and support for our students, while maintaining the privacy within each home. We are respectfully requesting that, if possible, when your child meets in small groups or one-to-one with an educator, that those meetings take place in a public part of your home. We thank you for your consideration as we continue to support students in productive learning environments.

SPRING CLEANING? PLEASE DONATE ALL YOUR OLD PAIRED SHOES/BOOTS FOR OUR ANNUAL DI FUNDRAISER., NO CLEATS OR FLIP FLOPS. PLEASE WRITE SHOE FUNDRAISER WITH SHARPIE ON BAG, OR ON A TAG OR PIECE OF TAPE ON BAG!   ALL CLOTHING CAN BE DONATED TOO - NO NEED TO MARK!!!! DON’T OVERFILL BAGS AS SLOT CANNOT TAKE A STUFFED BAG. BINS IN ALL SCHOOL PARKING LOTS. PLEASE LET OUR COORDINATOR KNOW BY EMAIL IF YOU EVER FIND ONE THAT IS FULL!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!   bedfordrocksdi@gmail.com  

Dear Parents, Our school is taking a proactive approach to planning for the potential of remote learning due to COVID-19. If you have students in both McKelvie and Peter Woodbury Schools you may receive this e-mail more than once. Would you please take the time to complete the survey for any of your students in grades first through sixth grade. We want to ensure we're equipped to temporarily switch to remote learning if we are instructed to close.  Please complete one survey form for EACH CHILD that attends grades 1-6 in the Bedford School District by Sunday, March 15. https://forms.gle/Bb1LaxdmyAC9aUoF9

Mrs. Ewing, our school nurse, found an age appropriate comic for students about the new coronavirus. While we are not talking about this with our classes as a whole at school you may find yourself presented with some difficult questions at home from your children. Please use this resource as you see fit for your family.  Click on the image for the link to the comic

Mrs. Ferenc's annual partnership with the American Heart Association has begun. Click here for some important information.    Remember how much fun the Kids Heart Challenge was last year? And all the good it does for our students, both physically and emotionally? Well, we’re doing it again! More than 50% of kids in this country do not get the physical activity they need, and nearly 1 in 5 kids is obese. Together, we can change that. You did such a great job raising money to help save lives, we hope you’ll join us again this year. The Kids Heart Challenge will kick off soon — and you can get a jump on it by registering online and sending emails now. Here’s all you do: 1. Go to  www.heart.org/ kidsheartchallenge . 2. Search for our school and select it. 3. Choose Option 1– Yes! You participated last year. Once you’ve registered, download the FREE mobile app for  iPhone  or  Android  by searching for Kids Heart Challenge. See your Heart Heroes come to life, tak

Mr. Mitchell shared before vacation that he was selected for the Principal position at Griffin Memorial School in Litchfield. We will miss him very much, but wish him well on this next step in his career. Mrs. Daley has begun the process of finding an assistant principal for PWS. If you would like to provide input, please use this link ( bit.ly/APPWS ). The timeline for the search process is shown in this graphic.

Did you know that we have an all school meeting every month at Peter Woodbury School? This is a time when every student and staff member in the building comes together in the multipurpose room. The meeting has a different theme and is coordinated by a different grade level each month. It's a great way to build our PWS community. February's all school meeting was held today and hosted by our 1st & 3rd grade, with the theme of Healthy & Safe choices. Part of today's meeting was spent on sharing 5210 from the Mayo Clinic. 5210 talks about steps to being healthy. You can watch the video shared with students right here . If you are interested in getting a glimpse into a PWS all school meeting you can watch pieces of it here . 

IMPORTANT - Family Fun Night is being postponed to February 20th. Due to the forecasted weather and the need to let our partners (donations & supplies) know well in advanced of any changes, we've decided to cancel this Thursday's Family Fun Night. It will instead be held on February 20th.

Ticket Orders PWS Family Fun Night 2020 Peter Woodbury School invites you to our annual Family Fun Night on Thursday, February 6th (with a snow day of Thursday, February 20th). Our theme this year will be Taking Care of Mind, Body, and Each Other . Games and activities, for all ages, will be offered throughout the school for students and families to engage in and have fun. As always, each classroom will donate a unique theme basket to raffle off that night. Our popular teacher raffle will be there too! Advanced sale of these raffle tickets are discounted and sold as three blocks for $10.00. The night of the event we will sell the tickets for $5.00 a block. The Book Walk will be held in the Multipurpose Room ($1 per ticket). The Book Walk is set up on the idea of musical chairs. Kids will walk around in a circle and try to be on a circle when the music stops. We are also selling 50/50 tickets. Fifty percent of the money raised through this raffle will go directly back to the wi

On Monday, February 3, 2020 registration packets will be available for parents to pick up at your appropriate school during school hours at the Peter Woodbury, Memorial and Riddle Brook Schools. *Please do not download any of the forms until February 3rd as changes will be made prior to then.* Return your completed forms along with your child’s birth certificate, two (2) proofs of residency, a current copy of your child’s physical and immunizations to the appropriate elementary school by Thursday, March 5, 2020.  A child must attain his/her fifth (5th) birthday on or before September 30, 2020 to be eligible for kindergarten. A child must attain his/her sixth (6th) birthday on or before September 30, 2020 to be eligible for first grade. New Hampshire law requires all new students to present an up-to-date record of immunizations upon admission to school.  In addition, record of a physical exam, done no more than one year prior to entrance, is required. Kindergarten and First Gra