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Good Evening, this is Ms. Gately, Principal of Dedham Middle School calling with a few reminders. Please join us on Tuesday, May 3 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Dedham Middle School for the District-Wide Art Show. Our students and staff have worked very hard all year preparing for this. Refreshments will be served. Also, for grade 8 students a brochure from the Dedham Youth Commission was sent home with students today. The Youth Commission is sponsoring a program for incoming grade 9 students to Dedham High School. It is a wonderful opportunity FREE OF CHARGE but is limited to the first 25 students who sign up. Please refer to the brochure for further information. Finally third term report cards were due back signed on April 25. We still have several which have not been returned. Thank you and have a wonderful evening.

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Good evening Greenlodge parents. This is Principal Kathy Kiewlicz calling to remind you that there will be a PTO meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, April 28 here at Greenlodge at 7:00 PM in our library. At this meeting nominations will be held for the PTO board. Please consider volunteering to serve on this very important board and help to support the education of our children. The PTO parking space will also be raffled off, and homework passes will be given to each parent who attends. We hope to see you there. Thank you.

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Good evening, this is Clare Sullivan, Principal of the Avery School. I am calling to inform all Avery parents, that due to the number of students participating in Avery's Got Talent on Friday night, the show will begin at 6:00 p.m. instead of the advertised 6:30. We are sorry for the inconvenience and hope you will be able to join us for a night of song, dance, magic and jokes. On Tuesday, May 3 please join students and families from across the district for the Annual All-Dedham Public Schools Art Show at Dedham Middle School from 6 to 8 p.m. Enjoy artistic works created by students from our youngest in pre-school to our oldest in high school. Light refreshments will be served and entertainment will be provided by the Dedham Middle School Show Band. Admission is free. We hope you will be able to join us for this wonderful event.

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Good evening parents, this is principal Holli Armstrong calling with a few important annoucements. First, the district wide PTO meeting which was scheduled for Thursday, April 28 has been cancelled. The next Oakdale PTO meeting will be Friday, May 13 at 8:45am in the Oakdale School gymnasium. An election for officers for the 2011-2012 school year will be held at that meeting. Also, Fundraising orders will be coming in on Thursday, April 28. We will be sending orders home with your child. If your order is to big for your child to transport, please contact Laura Parks at (781-326-3403) to make arrangements for pick up. Finally, It is with great pride that we invite you to attend the Annual All-Dedham Public Schools Art Show at Dedham Middle School on Wednesday, May 3 from 6 to 8 p.m. Exemplay art works created by students from all of our schools will be displayed. Light refreshments will be served, and entertainment will be provided by the Dedham Middle School Show Band. Admission is free. This is a most extraordinary evening showcasing the creative talents of Dedham students. We hope to see you there. Thank you and have a nice evening.

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Good Afternoon, this is Doris Claypool, Principal of Riverdale School. I have two announcements. First, tomorrow, April 28, I will be meeting with parents and students at to kick of Spring Walk to School Day. We will meet at the corner of Kiely Road and Pine Street at 8:10 a.m. We will then proceed to Riverdale School. If you can meet us along the way, please do so. I will meet everyone on April 29, May 2 and May 3 at this same location. On May 4 we will complete our week and meet at St. Suzanna's Church. Officer Ron Pucci will assist us with this walk. I hope many more parents and children will join us. Second, this is royal week at Riverdale School. The children via the student council each morning are learning about the history of royalty in England, the reasons the U.S. does not have royalty, royal manners, and celebrating the best royal outfit. On Friday, the children are welcomed to wear gold, purple, hats with feathers or veils, tiaras, rings, gold vests or any attire that represents royalty. The Daily Transcript will be here here Friday for our celebration. Thank you and have a great evening.

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Hello again. This is Don Langenhorst, Technology Director for your Dedham Public Schools. This is my final attempt to get a preference form returned from your son or daughter regarding taking the computer requirement he or she is signed up for next year - either online or face-to-face. Forms were sent home before vacation. Multiple reminder phone calls have been made. Students have been called multiple times and extra forms distributed. The form is also available on the Dedham High website. Please ask your son or daughter for the form and remind them to return this form to the main office tomorrow morning first thing. Thank you for your assistance.

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Good evening. This is Don Langenhorst, Technology Director for your Dedham Schools. You are invited to an informational session and discussion about the proposed pilot 1-1 netbook initiative for the students in the class of 2001 or incoming freshman to Dedham High school. A flyer was send home before vacation. This session will be Wednesday either at 8 a.m. or 7 p.m. at the Distance Learning Lab at Dedham Middle School. You can access information about the pilot proposal, as it currently exists, via the high school or middle school websites. Please join us.

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Good evening parents, this is principal Holli Armstrong calling with an important announcement. In an effort to help make dismissal from our After School Enrichment courses safer, all of the students will be dismissed in the courtyard. Each instructor will deliver the students to the courtyard where they will either be picked up or walk home. Please make sure you are prompt when picking your child up from their enrichment course. As a reminder dismissal is at 4:00. Thank you very much for your cooperation regarding this. Thank you and have a nice evening.

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Good Evening. This is Ms. Gately, Principal of Dedham Middle School. First off, I'd like to congratulate all of the grade 5 students for being such an attentive audience at our play today! We very much enjoyed having them join us. Also, I wanted to remind our incoming grade 6 families that the deadline for supply orders is April 20. Any orders returned to the elementary school as of Friday, April 15 will be forwarded to the middle school. If you would like to place an order but do not send it into school don't forget you can do it online up until April 20 OR you may drop your order off at the middle school on April 19 or 20 between the hours of 8:00 am and 3:00 pm. Thank you and best wishes for a wonderful April vacation!

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This is Don Langenhorst again - Technology Director for your Dedham Public Schools. Early last week a letter and form was sent home with your son or daughter regarding scheduled preferences for their Computer Business Applications course next year. The question is, "Would you prefer to take the course online or face-to-face?" I have not received that form back from your son or daughter. Returning this form tomorrow to the main office would be very helpful to us. The information and a copy of the form are available on Dedham High's website.

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Good evening, this is Clare Sullivan, Principal of the Avery School. I am calling to remind parents of a few items. Payments for the spring pictures are due. Please send in your payment or return the pictures by Friday. Tomorrow will be the final day of the book fair. It will be open during lunch and recess, after school and before the P.T.O. meeting. The grade 5 parent meeting and PTO meeting are both tomorrow night. The grade 5 parent meeting will start at 6:00 p.m. The P.T.O. meeting will follow at 7:00. We hope you will be able to join us.

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Hello. This is Don Langenhorst Technology Director for your Dedham Schools. I'm calling to remind your son or daughter to return a form indicating his or her and your preference of how they will take the Computer Business Applications course next year. The choice is in the traditional face-to-face mode or in an online mode. A letter was send home with your son or daughter with details about this. This letter and the form are also on the high school website if you need another copy. I am currently summarizing research conducted this year, looking at differences of the two modes for this class. No significant differences in grades have been shown. There are differences reported by students and teachers. Perhaps the biggest differences have been in gains related to organization and responsibility reported by online students. The choice is yours. I'd highly recommend the online class for next year's seniors. One of my daughter's will be a junior in high school next year and I would recommend the online mode of instruction for her as well. Either way you decide, we need the form returned as soon as possible. Returning the form will mean I won't have to send you another message and we can move forward with our scheduling process! http://www.dedham.k12.ma.us/dhs/online/.

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Good evening ECEC families. The kindergarten class has been invited to the Middle School Performance of Guys and Dolls Jr. The play will be performed by the Middle School students on Thursday, April 14 at 9:00 am. The children will enjoy the opportunity to see this scaled down musical performance. This is the Jr. version of the musical and all of the questionable material has been omitted. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at the school tomorrow. All permission slips must be returned tomorrow. If your child attends the afternoon kindergarten prorgam, you may bring your child to the performance, please let your child's teacher know tomorrow if you plan to do so. Thank you and have a wonderful evening.

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Good Evening. This is Ms. Gately calling from the middle school to let you know that Cookie Dough Orders are coming in on Monday, April 11, 2011. Large orders should be picked up at the school anytime between 1:00pm and 4:00pm. Smaller orders will be sent home with your child and should be refrigerated or frozen once home. Also, the town-wide PTO meeting originally scheduled for April 28 has been cancelled.

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Good evening. This is Joanne McCormick, Director of Guidance. I am calling with an important announcement about college scholarship money and to remind you that all seniors should have already completed their 40 hours of community service. First, for the free money. Guidance held an assembly and distributed the DHS scholarship application. SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS MUST BE RETURNED BY APRIL 15!!!!!! Please see the guidance weekly bulletin or the HS student link on blackboard for info. on this and other scholarships. Copies of the application are available in the guidance office. Second, please remember all seniors must complete 40 hours of community service to attend the prom and graduation. Please contact your child's counselor with questions.
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Good evening members of the class of 2012. This is Joanne McCormick, Director of Guidance, with a special invitation for you and your parents. This Sunday, April 10, we will have a representative from an Ivy League School available at the Dedham Community House from 11:30 am to 12:30. He will be answering questions related to what students should or would want to know as they apply to selective colleges. He will not be representing a specific institution, but will be talking in general terms. He is willing to answer any questions about the college search process, the interview, and tips for touring - since many of you may be doing that over spring break. I hope you are able to join us for this great opportunity.

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This is Mrs.. Kelly ,the school nurse. I would like to remind 6th grade parents that the 6th grade students are required by law to have the following immunizations prior to the start of 7th grade, they must have a Tdap booster, 2 MMR's, 2 varicella vaccines or physician documentation of chicken pox. The documentation should be sent to the school nurse by June10. If your child is due for a physical during July or August please send the documentation or drop it off in the main office. All documentation must be given prior to the start of the first day of school otherwise students will be unable to start school. If you have any questions please feel free to call me at 781-320-8924

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Good evening. This is Joanne McCormick, Director of Guidance. I am calling with an important announcement about college scholarship money and to remind you that all seniors should have already completed their 40 hours of community service. First, for the free money. Guidance held an assembly and distributed the DHS scholarship application. SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS MUST BE RETURNED BY APRIL 15th!!!!!! Please see the guidance weekly bulletin or the HS student link on blackboard for info. on this and other scholarships. Copies of the application are available in the guidance office. Second, please remember all seniors must complete 40 hours of community service to attend the prom and graduation. Please contact your child's counselor with questions.
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Good evening members of the class of 2012. This is Joanne McCormick, Director of Guidance, with a special invitation for you and your parents. This Sunday, April 10, we will have a representative from an Ivy League School available at the Dedham Community House from 11:30 am to 12:30. He will be answering questions related to what students should or would want to know as they apply to selective colleges. He will not be representing a specific institution, but will be talking in general terms. He is willing to answer any questions about the college search process, the interview, and tips for touring - since many of you may be doing that over spring break. I hope you are able to join us for this great opportunity.

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Good evening ECEC families, this is Principal Jessica Hammond calling to remind you that tomorrow is Red Sox Day at the ECEC, the children can show their spirit by dressing in red, white and blue. I am also calling to remind preschool parents that due to preschool screening for incoming preschool students, there is no preschool on Thursday, April 14th as indicated on the blue calendar mailed over the summer. It is also not too late to sign up for the Mobil Dentist on May 11. If your child visited the mobile dentist in the fall, they may still visit in May. Thank you and have a wonderful evening!

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Hello Greenlodge families, this is Principal Kathy Kiewlicz calling to invite all parents to join us this evening from 6:30-8:00PM for our Literacy Curriculum Night. We will share valuable information about how we teach literacy at our school. There will be door prizes given and each parent attending will receive a homework pass for their child. Parents are welcome to visit our Book Fair in the library from 5:30-6:15 prior to the presentation. The Book Fair will continue through Wednesday, April 13. Each child will visit the Book Fair during their regularly scheduled library time. And finally, don't forget that tomorrow is Red Sox Day in observance of Opening Day. Don't forget to wear your Red Sox gear or red shirts. Students may pay $1.00 to wear a hat in school all day. All money collected will be donated to the Jimmy Fund. Thank you, and hope to see you here.

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Good Evening. This is Ms. Gately, Principal at Dedham Middle School with a couple of reminders for our students and parents. Recently, there has been an increased presence of energy drinks, such as Monster Energy Drinks on the campus of the middle school. We have noticed increased behavior issues with those students consuming these beverages. Both Dr. Fraczek and I are asking that students do not bring these drinks to school and if they are brought they will be confiscated. Also, we have been informed by our elementary principals that there have been many middle school students going to Avery, Riverdale, Oakdale and Greenlodge immediately after dismissal at the middle school and before the elementary schools have been dismissed. If a middle school student needs to be present to pick up a sibling or relative, we'd appreciate you informing the respective elementary school. Thank you very much for your assistance and feel free to contact me or Dr. Fraczek with any questions.

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Good afternoon, this is Clare Sullivan, Principal of the Avery School. I am calling to remind parents that the orders for spring pictures are due back tomorrow. If you are not purchasing the pictures, then the pictures must be returned tomorrow as well.
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Good afternoon ECEC families. This is Principal Jessica Hammond calling to remind you that the spring pictures will be taken on Monday, April 4 and Tuesday, April 5 this week. Thank you and enjoy the remainder of your Sunday.

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Good afternoon Parents, This is Supt. June Doe with an important message about a police report received late on Friday afternoon after student dismissal. The report is about an attempted robbery of a male high school student in Brookdale Cemetary by an unknown male. The police are investigating this incident however in the interest of caution we would advise our students to avoid walking through Brookdale Cemetary during the period of the police investigation. Please discuss this request with your student. We appreciate your cooperation.

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Good Evening. This is Ms. Gately Principal of Dedham Middle School calling our grade 7 parents about a couple of issues that have been brought our attention. Nurse Kelly has reported an increased amount of grade 7 boys visiting her office after wearing away at skin on their wrists and hands using a pencil eraser. This does constitute a health concern as infection can set in when left untreated. We would appreciate it if parents could ask their students about this. Additionally we have been made aware of students frequenting area businesses on Route 1 in the afternoon following dismissal from the middle school in small groups and students are crossing back and forth this very busy roadway. We are, above all else, most concerned about the safety of these students. If you have any questions about these or other issues, feel free to contact me or Dr. Fraczek at the middle school.

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