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May 11th
ANNUAL MEETING & CELEBRATION
ANNUAL MEETING & CELEBRATION
Thursday, May 24th at 6pm
Please join us for an evening to celebrate GUS and a full schedule of student-centered events this year! We are planning an engaging program that includes a delicious dinner and invites you to experience the fun and learning that goes [...]
May 11th
GUS 7th Grader Participates in the Walk for HAWC
GUS seventh grader, Jack Norton, participated in the 20th Annual Walk for HAWC last Sunday. HAWC, which stands for “Healing Abuse Working for Change,” is a non-profit organization and the oldest and the most comprehensive domestic violence agency on the Massachusetts’ North Shore. HAWC sponsors this annual fund-raising walk through Salem.
This is Jack’s second year [...]
May 4th
Bingo Night Raises $800!
The Parents’ Association’s second family bingo night was a great success! It was a full house for Braemar as students and their families competed to win a game of bingo and, of course, candy! The ever popular Bruce Emerson returned as the event DJ and official bingo caller. We are very [...]
May 4th
Spring Book Fair
Spring Book Fair
Thursday, May 10 and Friday, May 11
8:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.
Great summer reading!
Current best sellers for adults
Mother’s Day gifts
New series installments
K–8 Teacher wish lists: requested contributions for classroom libraries
“You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be—
I had a mother who read to me.”
–Strickland [...]
May 3rd
Smith College Glee Club Visits GUS
After a busy week which included ERB’s and a great dance assembly, students in grades 3-8 relaxed Friday afternoon, April 20 at an assembly with “Groove” a cappella. A singing group from Smith College, the members hail from across the country and major in a wide variety of subjects. All are members of the Smith [...]
April 26th
2012 Will McDonough Writing Contest
Congratulations to Catherine Murphy who received honorable mention in the 2012 Will McDonough Writing Contest.
http://sportsmuseum.org/education/will-mcdonough-writing-contest.aspx
April 26th
April 12th
Kindergarten Self-Portraits
When kindergartners begin art class in the fall, they create self-portraits of their faces as a way of introducing who they are. In the winter, we return to self-portraits, this time creating a picture “from head to toe.” Before drawing, we look at artists’ imagery of children from different eras and [...]
April 5th
Nevisian Elementary School Principal Visits Glen Urquhart School
The smallest nation in the Western Hemisphere consists of the Caribbean islands of St. Kitts and Nevis. Marion Lescott, principal of the Jocelyn Liburd Primary School in the Gingerland section of Nevis will visit Glen Urquhart with her husband in April.
A cultural exchange began when kindergarten teacher Sandra Thoms visited Nevis fifteen years ago while [...]
