Parkman PTO

May 18, 2020

Good morning Parkman Families,

Starting today, 5/18, specialists will be posting their assignments daily. These assignments will appear in both a student's general and assignment tabs. These posts will be scheduled to release to students the morning of (ex. Art assignments will be posted for all Parkman students on Tuesday). The specials schedule has been changed so that the whole school has the same special each day. This will cause less clutter in the assignment feed and allow families with multiple children (at Parkman) to participate in the special together. Please see the schedule below.

All Parkman classrooms will have specials on the same day.

Monday - PE

Tuesday - Art

Wednesday - Music

Thursday - STEAM

Friday - PE

Thank you for your patience and support as we work through this challenging time together.

Have a great day and be well.

Principal Roman

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May 11, 2020

Dear Parkman Families,

Due to the unprecedented emergency school closure, the elementary administrative team has been working with the Academic Office to come up with a plan for a modified report card for Marking Period 3. As you are aware, we began this period of distance learning with paper packets and have recently been transitioning to online learning through the Microsoft Teams platform.  In order to be mindful of equity, as well as the varying degrees of access, we feel it would be inappropriate to use the regular standards-based report cards for Marking Period 3. 

Instead, we will use a modified progress report as a narrative report card. The Skills for Learning section will be revised to reflect those skills practiced during the distance learning period. The report card will also be modified to include specials, instead of just content area subjects. We feel the narrative nature of this report card will allow teachers to better communicate the progress your student has made during this distance learning period.  For the 2019-2020 school year, there will not be retention of any students who were not previously being considered before March 12, 2020. 

There have been many questions regarding packet collection. Packet collection will be done at each building from 9:00 am Tuesday, May 12, 2020 through noon Monday, May 18, 2020. Boxes will be placed outside each building labeled by grade level. Please make sure your student’s name and the name of the teacher are written on all packets, including any notebooks pages that were used in this process. Please make every effort to drop off your student’s packet during these four days. Staff will not be there to facilitate this process. It is important to note that buildings are still not open, so there is no way of dropping off packets after May 18, 2020.   Each building will also put out a separate box for the collection school library books.

We will get the packets to the teachers, who will then review them to inform instruction.  These packets will also be forwarded to your child’s teacher this Fall to help understand your child and his/her academic needs.

Thank you for your support and understanding as our community works through this unprecedented challenge.

Irene Roman

Principal, Edgar H. Parkman School

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April 29, 2020

Good afternoon Parkman Families,

You can access the Parkman Newsletter online by clicking here. 

You can also download the Newsletter by clicking here ---> Parkman Newsletter 042920.pdf 

Be well!

-Principal Roman

Pre-K to Grade 5 Principals reached out to #enfieldpto​ to help them share this link with our EPS Families. We have posted this here (https://enfieldpto.com) and on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/enfieldpto/) 

* EPS will also post this link on the Enfield Public Schools website (http://www.enfieldschools.org/).

The contents are not “requirements” to be completed by Students for credit(s) but it contains supplemental-learning suggestions for Students who may need them in the coming weeks. More to come. Please reach out to your Schools, Admins, Teachers, Tutors or fellow Parents with questions.

https://enfieldct-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/rsills_enfieldschools_org/Ele7twVbFmNEjKy7NARiy6cBDc7WtoB26SG7Lw7njoLnVg?e=R3Hl6C