From the Principal, 2024-2025
GreenwoodPTO
From the Principal: 12/1/24

Principal Back provides information about Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, the upcoming All School Meeting, WPS Community Zoom Call, and more!

From the Principal: 12/1/24
From the Principal, 2024-2025
GreenwoodPTO
From the Principal: 11/24/24

Principal Back provides information about Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, the upcoming All School Meeting, WPS Community Zoom Call, and more!

From the Principal: 11/24/24
From the Principal, 2024-2025
GreenwoodPTO
From the Principal: 11/17/24

Principal Back provides information about Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, the upcoming All School Meeting, WPS Community Zoom Call, and more!

From the Principal: 11/17/24
From the Principal, 2024-2025
GreenwoodPTO
From the Principal: 11/11/24

Principal Back provides information about Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, the upcoming All School Meeting, WPS Community Zoom Call, and more!

From the Principal: 11/11/24
From the Principal, 2024-2025
GreenwoodPTO
From the Principal: 11/3/24

Principal Back provides information about the parent/teacher conferences in December, shares details about an upcoming Community Forum on The Science Behind Later School Start times, and much more! 

From the Principal: 11/3/24
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AuthorFest 2022 -- Author Spotlight: Rajani LaRocca

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AuthorFest is thrilled to welcome Rajani LaRocca, who will be visiting Greenwood’s 3rd and 4th grade students on Wednesday, March 23rd!

Rajani LaRocca was born in India, raised in Kentucky, and now lives in the Boston area with her wonderful family and impossibly cute dog. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, she spends her time writing novels and picture books, practicing medicine, and baking too many sweet treats. She is also the cohost of the STEM Women in KidLit Podcast. Rajani believes “that promoting diversity in children’s literature leads to empathy, and empathy makes the world a better place.”

Her middle grade novel in verse, Red, White, and Whole (Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins, 2021), has received multiple starred reviews and is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, a Spring 2021 Indie Next Top Ten Title, a BookPage Best Middle Grade of 2021, a Washington Post  Best of 2021, a NYPL best of 2021, a SLJ Best Book of 2021, A Mighty Girl Best of 2021, a 2022 NCTE Notable Verse Novel, a Project LIT Book Club Selection, a Nerdy Book Club Award Winner, a Cybils Award Finalist, and a Notable Books for a Global Society Award Winner. It is the winner of the 2021 New England Book Award, the 2022 Walter Dean Myers Award, and a 2022 John Newbery Honor. Her middle grade debut, Midsummer’s Mayhem (Yellow Jacket/Little Bee Books, 2019), was an Indies Introduce selection, an Indie Next pick, a Kirkus Best Middle Grade Book of 2019, and a 2020 Massachusetts Book Award Honor title. Her third middle grade novel, Much Ado About Baseball (Yellow Jacket/Little Bee Books, 2021) was featured on the TODAY Show and is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection with a Kirkus starred review. Her debut picture book, Seven Golden Rings: A Tale of Music and Math (Lee & Low), received multiple starred reviews and is the winner of the 2021 Mathical Book Prize for grades 3-5 and a Massachusetts Book Award Honor title. She is also the author of the picture books Bracelets For Brothers (Charlesbridge), Where Three Oceans Meet (Abrams), The Secret Code Inside You (Little Bee Books), I’ll Go and Come Back (Candlewick, 2022), Masala Chai, Fast and Slow (Candlewick, 2023), Your One and Only Heart (Dial, 2023), Summer Is For Cousins (Abrams, 2023), and more. 

Learn more about Rajani and her books at www.RajaniLaRocca.com.  

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From the Principal: 3/7/22

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From the Principal: 3/7/22

Principal Back reshares last week’s WPS communication regarding face masks now being optional; provides dates and information about upcoming Parent-Teacher Conferences and MCAS Testing; highlights the PTO’s Cultural Arts programming from Wee the People happening this month; and shares a resource for talking with kids about the news.

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From the Principal: 2/28/22

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From the Principal: 2/28/22

Principal Back reminds families about the at-home COVID testing and the WPS Mask Update; shares a PE update from Mr. Hennessey and a request for board games from Mrs. Holland; announces upcoming “Chat with a Counselor” zooms and WMHS Theater auditions for students in grades 2-6; and shares a WMHS fundraiser to support.

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From the Principal: 2/14/22

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From the Principal: 2/14/22

Principal Back reminds families about this Wednesday’s early release day and next week’s February break; reiterates information about the At-Home COVID tests; shares an important reminder about the front driveway use during morning arrival; and lets families know to watch for the March school lunch survey.

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From the Principal: 1/31/22

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From the Principal: 1/31/22

Principal Back provides information about the forthcoming elementary report cards; shares the Wakefield Academy February Vacation Camp announcement; and passes along an opportunity to attend the Discovery Museum Speaker Series.

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From the Principal: 1/24/22

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From the Principal: 1/24/22

Principal Back reminds families that this Wednesday 1/26 is an early release day; shares other important reminders about dressing for the weather and calling the Greenwood Safety Line to report an absence; and lets us know to be on the lookout for the next school lunch survey.

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From the Principal: 1/18/22

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From the Principal: 1/18/22

Principal Back reiterates district information about updated WPS COVID-19 Guidance and Kindergarten registration for next year; and shares the resources that Greenwood School Psychologist Jenny Beardslee spoke about at last week’s PTO meeting.

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From the Principal: 1/10/22

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From the Principal: 1/10/22

Principal Back shares the updated WPS COVID-19 Guidance; .asks families to look for the next school lunch survey this week; reminds us that there is no school next Monday in observance of MLK Day; and provides information about Kindergarten registration for next year.

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From the Principal: 1/3/22

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From the Principal: 1/3/22

Principal Back welcomes families and students back from break, and reiterates the updated COVID-19 protocols that were emailed out from the district; reminds families that it is not too late to sign up for the Test & Stay Program; and shares important updates about Wakefield Academy’s January enrollment and enrichment programming.