Dear Parents/Guardians:

Please pick up your child’s medication, supplies and equipment by the close of school on Monday, June 17, 2019.

Students who have been prescribed inhalers and epi-pens are permitted to carry these life-saving medications home. Please instruct your child to see me on Monday.

Any medication left behind in the health office will be discarded per MA DPH regulations.

Please note: all prescribed medication doctor’s orders must be renewed each school year. All health forms can be found on the school website under health services so you can prepare for the 2019-2020 school year.

Wishing you all a happy, healthy summer!

Best regards,

Rita O’Neill, RN BSN NCSN

Dear Parent/Guardians:

In the interest of your child’s safety and wellbeing, I wish to highlight a few important health office requirements, mandates, and requests for the 2020-2021 school year.

Grade 7 Entry Requirements: A physician physical exam dated within 1 year of entry to grade 7 with documented 12 year old immunizations (TDAP and Varicella #2). Please submit to the health office at the start of the school year.

Health Screenings: Hearing- Grade 7

Vision- Grades 5 and 7

Height and Weight – All Grades – done in gym class during the first week of school

Postural Screening- All Grades- requires viewing your child’s bare back

*If you do not wish your child to be screened, please provide a signed note stating so at the start of each school year. Please do not assume notification will carry over from the previous school year.

When your child has a physical exam, please request a copy of the form that specifically states what screenings your child has had and if they passed or failed. If this documentation is on file in the health office, these screenings do not need to be repeated at school. The general statement…. “the exam is normal unless otherwise stated” is not specific enough documentation.

Absenteeism: If your child is absent from school due to illness or injury and was evaluated by a doctor, always obtain a doctor’s note to have on file in the health office. This documentation is required should academic accommodation become necessary.

Mid-day Medications: Due to the high volume of medications given during school hours, any medication needed mid-day for a student will be given at 12 noon. Please inform your child’s prescriber when obtaining medication orders.

Student Health Information Cards: Imagine your child is ill, injured, or unresponsive…… and you are in the shower or in a meeting or at the doctor’s and cannot be reached for a period of time. Please consider that possibility when filling out this critical form. In the event your child requires transport to the hospital, this information is crucial for safe medical intervention.

Resuming Gym/Sports after Injury: For any injury that required physician evaluation and subsequent exclusion from gym and/or sports, a doctor’s clearance note is required to resume gym and/or sports. For minor, short term injuries, a parent note is required to excuse your child from gym and again, to resume gym.

Thank you for providing appropriate communications regarding the status of your child’s health.

Sincerely,

Rita ONeill RN BSN NCSN

Phone: 987-388-0515

Fax: 987-388-1626

Email: oneillr@amesburyma.gov

Applicant name: First Middle Last Will be attending:_____________________________________________________________________ (Name of School) (Address of School) for the 2019-20 academic year. I/We authorize the release of my/our child’s:

1. Current transcript 2. Previous years’ transcripts 3. Aptitude and Achievement testing 4. Attendance and disciplinary records

Signature of parent(s)/guardian(s) Date Signature of parent(s)/guardian(s) Date

Amesbury Middle School Main Street ∙ Amesbury, MA 01913 ∙ 978-388-0515 ∙ Fax: 978-388-1626

Kathy Randall Assistant Principal

Elizabeth Martignetti Assistant Principal

Michael Curry Principal

Amesbury Soccer Association Fall 2019 Travel Soccer

Register at

www.amesburysoccer.com Boys and Girls teams forming for these age groups:

3rd/4th grade (born on or after 1/1/2011) 5th/6th grade (born on or after 1/1/2009) 7th/8th grade (born on or after 1/1/2007).

Fall travel games are played on Saturdays with each team playing 8 games in a season. 4 games are in Amesbury, 4 games are in another town in Essex County. Practices are held twice per week about 1.5 hours long, and practice days are dependent on the coach’s availability.

How to Register Register Online through the ASA website at http://www.amesburysoccer.com/fall-travel For questions, please contact ASA Travel Director Mike Testa travel@amesburysoccer.com All players interested in travel soccer need to attend a skills evaluation on June 11 and June 12 at Woodsom Farm. 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm : players currently in grades 4 & 5 - boys and girls 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm : players currently in grades 6 & 7 - boys and girls Sign up for evaluations online at www.amesburysoccer.com

Register Now for ASA Summer Soccer

Registration is now open for 2019 ASA Summer Soccer. The ASA Summer Soccer program is a co-recreational summer program for players from Kindergarten through U16.

Register at www.amesburysoccer.com

Learn more at www.amesburysoccer.com/summer-soccer

Dates and Format ASA Summer Soccer is an informal soccer program focused on playing games and fun.

5 Weeknight Games: Day of Week to be determined for each age group; 5:30 & 6:30 PM

• Weeks of July 8, July 15, July 22, July 29, August 5

How to Register Visit www.amesburysoccer.com OR Register at the Fields

• Fee is only $30

• No uniform required – just show up with soccer shoes and shinguards

• We offer confidential financial aid; to request financial aid please send an email to communications@amesburysoccer.com

Amesbury Soccer Association (ASA) is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to providing a fun, safe and healthy environment for boys and girls to enjoy in-town recreational and competitive travel soccer. In 2019 we continue on a journey to bring quality soccer fields to our city and we are looking for help in two big ways - donations and volunteers. For more information: http://www.amesburyfieldsforkids.org/.

The ASA Summer Soccer program is not sponsored by any school and is available to all players from area towns.

AA++ AAwwaarrddss

Want to say “Thank you” to a special staff member? Has someone made a difference in your child’s life? Would you like to give a gift that “keeps on giving”?

The recipient will receive a card with the donor’s name. The recipient’s name will be given to his/her school’s principal. A notification with all the recipient/s names on it will be placed

on the website and Facebook. All the money from the A+ Award Campaign will go right back

to the Amesbury Public Schools!

So far this year, AEFI has given back over $500,000 to our teachers from generous donations just like this!! You can pay on line at www.aefionline.com; or send the form with a check made out to “AEFI” to P.O Box 245 or to your child’s school.

Why not donate to the

Amesbury Educational Foundation, Inc.’s

A+ Awards Year-end Campaign

Amesbury Educational Foundation, Inc. (AEFI)

Enhancing and Broadening Community Support for Public Education 2019 A+ AWARD

Yes, I would like to recognize the following teacher (s), administrator(s) or support staff for his/her outstanding work on behalf of the children in the Amesbury Public Schools: ______________________________________________________________________________ Teacher or Staff Person’s Name School ______________________________________________________________________________ Teacher or Staff Person’s Name School ______________________________________________________________________________ Teacher or Staff Person’s Name School ______________________________________________________________________________ Teacher or Staff Person’s Name School

Each teacher/administrator/staff member will receive a card from AEFI noting the donor’s name but Not the amount of the donation.

Your Name(s) __________________________________________________________ Address ________________________________________________________________ City ______________________________ State _____________ Zip ______________ Phone _____________________________ e-mail _______________________________

I / we would prefer to remain anonymous _______

Please make checks payable to the Amesbury Educational Foundation, Inc. (AEFI). All contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Thank you for your continued support. Please mail contributions to:

Amesbury Educational Foundation, Inc.

P.O. Box 245 Amesbury, MA 01913 Or you may contribute on our website: www.aefionline.com

Kids Day in the parkThursday June 27th 10am-1pm

Amesbury Town Park FREE Admission!

Teddy Bear parade, face painting, food vendors and prizes!

Meet the Park Program Counselors, CITs, staff, and play games all across the park.

Visit our vendors and receive more information for all of your favorite

programs! Karen K. & The Jitterbugs will perform

thanks to the Massachusetts & Amesbury Cultural Council Grant

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! LEARN TO SKATE PROGRAM

Coming SATURDAYS this fall @ the Graf Rink!

(Newburyport, MA)

September through December, Every Saturday @ 10am

For more information about this program or our Mite Instructional Hockey

Programs, please visit AYHL.ORG or for more details.

Prizes

Chipotle Buy one get one free

Space Monkey Amigurumi

Alien Amigurumi

Basket of Universe Food

Mars Bars, Star Burst, Orbitz Gum, Milky Way, Moon Pies,

Pez, Eclipse Gum, Galaxy Bar, Chocolate Stars, Nerds, and more!!!!

What will be in the mystery basket

Mystery Grand Prize

Amesbury Public Library

7th –12th Grade

Teen Summer Reading Program

This year teens will be reading for Carriagetown

Robotics. It is a collaboration between Amesbury High School

and Sparhawk High School. Their FIRST Robotics team is

housed at Sparhawk Upper School, and the team meets after

school in their Innovation lab.

When you come to a library program, do random acts of kind-

ness, or read you will be helping the

Carriagetown Robotics Team.

Ways to earn raffle tickets:

Come to programs

Read a book (Reading a book from the AMS & AHS Summer

Reading List counts)

Write a review

Read a magazine

Do a random Act of Kindness

Prizes are located in the glass case in the Teen Lounge in the

lower level of the library.

To register for the Teen Summer Reading Program please go

to https://amesburylibrary.beanstack.org

Design a Bookmark Contest (Earn a raffle ticket)

Pick up your form at the library and create a bookmark using

the theme “How would you tell your story to the universe?”

You may use pens, markers, and colored pencils. Return your

form with your design by August 10. All designs will be

judged by staff. The winning bookmarks will be reproduced

and printed to be given out to library patrons.

Programs

3:00 Programs

June 12th Writing with author Molly Booth

June 18, July 2, 9 & 30 D & D

June 19, July 3, 24, August 7 LGBTQ Drop In

June 26 Milky Way Eating Contest

July 10 Tie Dye Universe T-shirt making

July 16 Make a Lava Lamp

July 23 Make Solar Smores

July 31 Make a Night Sky Painting

August 6 Make a Marble Planet Pendant

Programs @ 5:30

June 10, July 8 & August 12 Teen Advisory Board

June 3 & 17, July 1, 15 & 29, August 5 Chess Drop-In