{"id":3595,"date":"2025-03-01T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:02:47","slug":"updates-march-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/2025\/03\/01\/updates-march-1-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates – March 1, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dear Sprague\/PAWS,<\/b><\/p>\n
Welcome back! <\/span>It was great to see everyone.<\/b><\/p>\n Congratulations to our third grade students as they hosted the all-school meeting held on Wednesday. <\/span> The third graders not only had the important job of introducing the \u201cA – Acceptance\u201d in HEART, but each also performed a beautiful rendition of This Little Heart of Mine<\/em> to support and provide an example of acceptance. Bravo!<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Sprague School was randomly selected to participate in NAEP, National Assessment of Educational Progress<\/em>, testing for nine year old students (3rd and 4th graders). With the NAEP administrators, a<\/b>pproximately 40 of our nine year old students completed either a reading or math assessment on Friday. Each student worked hard, put their best effort forward, and did their absolute best. This is all we ever ask for. Well-done, 3rd and 4th graders!<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Welcome to March!<\/b><\/p>\n Walk\/Roll-to-School Day<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n Thursday, March 6th<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n 8:15 am to 8:30 am<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Please make sure to check in at the front entrance and receive your well-earned footie!<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Sprague Student Council is hosting a Spirit Day on March 6th<\/u> in support of Walk\/Roll-to-School Day<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Please wear Sprague gear\/colors (red and black) – Thursday, March 6th<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n Wellesley STEAM Night<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n Monday, March 10th<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Hunnewell Elementary School<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n STEAM Family Night March2025_UPDATED.pdf<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n Sprague Blood Drive<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE is sponsored by Wellesley Educators Association and Wellesley Fitness\/Health Department<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Sprague Elementary School Gym<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Wednesday, March 19th, 2025<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n 12:00 pm-5:00 pm<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n To schedule an appointment, please visit www.redcrossblood.org<\/a> and enter sponsor code:Sprague<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Or Click HERE<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n Parent\/Teacher Conferences<\/b><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n Wednesday, March 26th<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Tuesday, April 1st<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Wednesday, April 2nd<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n We always look forward to open and active communication <\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n MCAS Dates<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n Grades 3 -5 participate in two sessions of both ELA and math<\/u> while grade 5 also completes two sessions of science assessments<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n In April 2025\u2026.<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n Third grade students<\/span><\/u> = ELA Reading Comprehension on Thursday, April 10, 2025 and Friday, April 11, 2025<\/u><\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Fourth grade students<\/u><\/span> = ELA Reading Comprehension on Monday, April 7, 2025 and Tuesday, April 8, 2025<\/em><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n In May 2025\u2026.<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n Third grade students<\/span><\/u><\/b> = Mathematics on Monday, May 12, 2025 and Tuesday, May 13, 2025<\/u><\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Fourth grade students<\/u><\/span><\/b> = Mathematics on Thursday, May 8, 2025 and Friday, May 9, 2025<\/em><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Fifth grade students<\/span><\/u> <\/b> = Mathematics on Monday, May 5, 2025 and Tuesday, May 6, 2025<\/u><\/em> and Science and Technology\/Engineering on Thursday, May 15, 2025 and Friday, May 16, 2025<\/em><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n Dates<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n March 19th Blood Drive at Sprague 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n March 26th Parent\/Teacher Conferences<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n March 31st Eid al-Fitr – No School<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n April 1st (Tuesday) Parent\/Teacher Conferences <\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n April 2nd Parent\/Teacher Conferences<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n April 3rd MCAS – Grade 5 ELA<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n April 4th MCAS – Grade 5 ELA<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n April 7th MCAS – Grade 4 ELA<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n April 8th MCAS – Grade 4 ELA<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n April 10th MCAS – Grade 3 ELA<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n April 11th MCAS – Grade 3 ELA<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n April 18th Good Friday – No School<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n April 21st – 25th April Vacation<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n Gratefully,<\/b><\/p>\n Leigh<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Sprague\/PAWS, Welcome back! It was great to see everyone. Congratulations to our third grade students as they hosted the all-school meeting held on Wednesday. The third graders not only had the important job of introducing the \u201cA – Acceptance\u201d in… Continue reading Updates – March 1, 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","","tg-column-two"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-07-31 23:59:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4234,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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