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Here is the weekly newsletter. It contains updates about COVID pool testing (it's delayed another week), flu vaccine clinics, and dates for Mid-Trimester progress reports and Music/STEM class switches. Thank you as always for your time.

We return to Hybrid mode after the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. Mondays, Tuesday, Thursdays, and Friday will be the same as the Hybrid schedule in use before, but we are adjusting the Wednesday schedule which is outlined below.

From the feedback I've received, the students seem to be doing the best they can with fully remote learning. The attendance has been generally good, and teachers feel they are making progress with kids despite the distance. We have one more week like this at least, so I hope we can all continue our efforts next week as well. I know this is very hard on everybody and I want to let everyone know how thankful we are for student and family effort and support. The staff of WMS will continue to try to make the best of this situation, and we hope to be back in person as soon as possible.

I have this week's newsletter for you, with important information about the remote schedules attached above and explained in more detail in the newsletter. There is also some information on the required flu vaccine, a Neighbors in Dialogue meeting, and something fun from Ms. Harney.

I have lots of new information in the weekly newsletter, inlcuding information on students going fully remote after the Holiday break and new Chromebooks for WMS and AVA 5th graders.

Our parent conferences are next week. At this point, you should have received a sign-up genius appointment requests from all your child's teachers. You may have also received google meet invitations for your scheduled time, and, if you haven't, you will shortly. Please note that you must use your student's attleborops.net accounts to access the google meets. Please call our office if you are having any difficulty. Mr. Heal and I will also be available to talk at any point during the conferences, so just email me if you'd like to talk about anything. Term 1 Report Cards will be posted in Aspen prior to the conferences under the "Published Reports" section of your Aspen page. There will be no paper report cards.

By now, you should have received a notice from the teacher content area teams to sign up for conferences. I've included the specialist sign-ups again in case you missed it Wednesday.

Our can drive ends Friday morning. We don't have many cans to help out the Hebron Food Pantry at the moment, so please help out by sending cans in tomorrow and Friday if you can. They can be dropped off right in the main foyer.