Welcome to our incoming 6th grade students!   One dose of Tdap and one dose of meningococcal-containing vaccine are to be administered by your child’s primary care provider for every child born on or after January 1, 1997.  These vaccines should be given no earlier than his/her 10th birthday, and documentation of these immunizations are to be sent into the nurse’s office prior to the start of the 2012-2013 school year.

All incoming 6th graders and 8th graders are to have a Universal Child Health Record completed by their physician.  If your child is planning on participating in a fall sport (cross-country, girls’/boys’ soccer), an Athletic Participation Physical is to be completed (available at the Athletics page).

If you have any questions or concerns prior to the year’s end, please do not hesitate in letting me know.  I can be reached at 732-723-2230 or kshkolar@spotswood.k12.nj.us.

I wish you and your children a wonderful, healthy and safe, fun-filled summer.

Katherine Shkolar RN

Greetings from Memorial!

We’re winding down the year now that the NJ ASK testing is complete and have several up and coming events and activities. Please double check the calendar if you have any questions about what’s up here at Memorial.

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6th Grade: Krista VanWageninge & Amanda Mausser
7th Grade: Elizabeth Fisher & Dino Zalokostas
8th Grade: Rahman Khaliq & Amber Padilla

6th Grade: Rich Karczewski & Brandon Tabori
7th Grade: Abigail Busch & Danielle Wittig
8th Grade: Jake Skochen & Andie Genthe

Supply Kits for 2012-13:

Student Council will be selling school supply kits for next school year.  It will contain all the supplies your child’s grade level teachers request.  Please look for the flyer from SchoolKidz (A Staples based company) to go home mid-May.  If you order a kit, it will be delivered to your child’s homeroom on the first day of school in September.

Spirit Day Winners:

6th grade – Mrs. Cella’s homeroom
7th grade – Mrs. Joseph’s homeroom
8th grade – Ms. Bromberg’s homeroom
 
May Spirit Days:

May 4th – Cinco de Mayo – wear green, white and red and show your appreciation for Mexico
May 11th – Decade wars    6th – 90’s, 7th – 70’s, 8th – 80’s
May 18th – Denim day
May 24th – Patriotic day (red, white and blue)
 
- Please continue to collect Labels for education and Box Tops.  
- The school store is open each morning during advisory in room 2. The last day the store will be open this year will be June 8th. 

It’s not too late to order a yearbook. You can order online at www.jostensyearbooks.com or send $37 with a completed order form (checks payable to Memorial Middle School) with your child. Payments should be brought to Mrs. Cifelli in room 12.

Dear Parent/Guardian,

As a new member of the Spotswood School District I have become aware of limited space to cars and buses around the school and our traffic patterns at the end of the school day. I would like to ask for your assistance in providing a safer environment for our students and staff. We are looking out for the welfare of our students and want to avoid injuries from occurring.

Buses

• Please do not pass any of the buses in front of Memorial.
  (This is to alleviate any potential mishaps for students to be injured when parent/guardian are looking for their child and also a possibility that a student can dart out at any given moment.)
• We have asked students to cross the street only at the cross walk rather than in between buses.
  (I will be asking the bus drivers to pull up in front of the crosswalk for greater student visibility.)

Parking

• Please do not park along the yellow curb.
• Please do not park in the back of school parking lot
  (In the event that any emergency vehicle needs to access our building we need to keep that area clear.)

Student Pick-up

• If a student is normally picked up in the back of the building, please park on the main road and await your child.
• If an individual is not on the emergency contact list, such as a sibling from the high school, it is essential that we have permission to release your child to their care. (We are very cautious about students accepting rides at the end of the school day. Please send in written documentation with name of the driver and relationship to your child.)

Inclement weather days

• If your child normally walks to school and we have inclement weather, please supply your child with an umbrella and/or appropriate attire so that they are prepared to walk home. (This will also help avoid congestion around buses and alleviate the traffic jams at the end of the day.)

We take great pride in assuring the safety of our students, thank-you for your attention to this matter.

Click here to download a “Dates to Remember” document which highlights upcoming events in the Spotswood School District.

At the March 20th Board of Education Meeting, the Spotswood Board of Education approved modifying the 2011/2012 school year calendar giving back unused snow days.  Schools will be closed on:

Monday, April 16, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Click here for a revised version of the 2011/12 calendar.

This year's School Teacher of the Year Recipients for the Spotswood School District are as follows:

Spotswood High School
Leslie Malec, Marketing

Memorial Middle School
Jo-Ann Moyer, Special Education

Appleby School
Nancy Torchiano, Grade 5*

Schoenly School
Daniel Layton, Kindergarten

*District Teacher of the Year

Congratulations to these exemplary members of our teaching staff on a job very well done!

At its meeting on January 17, 2012, the Spotswood Board of Education approved the district calendar for the 2012/13 school year.

Parents/Guardians,

In order to establish a school environment that promotes a safe learning atmosphere all district schools will participate in monthly security and fire drills throughout the school year.

In the event that you see large groups of students walking, they will be participating in the mandatory state drill.

Each drill makes our students safer and better prepared in the event of a real emergency. 

Yours in Education,

Michael A. Mastroserio