 School Improvement Plan 2008-2009
Important Information Concerning Inclement Weather
Please check your phone messages!
Parents and guardians know that Connect Ed messages will be left on both your home and cell telephones when school is delayed or cancelled Messages will also be left on phones during the school day if students are to be dismissed early due to poor weather conditions. It is important to check your phone messages during the day, should there be any reports of poor weather conditions in the area. Thank you. |
Our Children, Our School, Our Future
Vision Statement:
The vision of Fall Brook School is to prepare all students who enter our learning community with the skills, experiences, and knowledge to advance to the next level of their education. The students will demonstrate proficiency within a data-driven, standards-based curriculum.
Fall Brook School will:
● meet or exceed state standards in all subject areas
● measure students’ proficiency through MCAS, standardized
assessments, and classroom formative assessments
● focus on high quality, standards-based, differentiated
instruction in all subject areas
● assess students’ progress continually utilizing a collection of
quarterly data in Mathematics and Language Arts in order to
inform instruction
Mission Statement:
Fall Brook School, through its partnership with families and community, is committed to challenging each child to develop his or her unique potential.
Each child shall be provided with a safe, welcoming and innovative environment that fosters educational, social, emotional, and physical development.
The Fall Brook community shall strive to make the school a place where every individual experiences a sense of belonging, and the feeling of being valued and treated fairly.
Program Highlights:
● Climbing Unit in Physical Education
● Parent Teacher Organization
● Fall Brook PTO Scholarship
● Thomas Pecorelli Scholarship
● Before and After School Child Care Program
● Title One Reading Teacher
● One Special Education Reading Teacher
● English as a Second Language Program (ESL)
● EIC “Using the Environment as a Context for Learning” in conjunction with the Massachusetts Frameworks, to teach curriculum
Building Highlights:
● The Fall Brook School is an elementary school in the southern district that houses grades K-5
● Facility built in 1966
● Facility size 70,032 square feet
● 33 classrooms, gym, library, art, music, administrative and health offices and a cafeteria with a stage
● Five portable classrooms were added to the main building in the 1980’s and are now used as administrative and teacher resource rooms.
● Building is gas heated
● Staff: 52 teachers, 4 custodians, 2, secretaries, 26 instruction tutors and/or aides
● Internet Access
● 1 Computer Lab
IMPORTANCE OF ATTENDANCE
Student school attendance each day is critical to student learning. Students who participate consistently in the learning process and more successful learners.
Absence from school should only be due to an illness, family emergencies or medical appointment. Please return children to school after the appointment.
Daily Instructional Time:
ELA – 90 minutes
Math – 70 minutes
Writers’ Workshop – 30-50 minutes
Science Social Studies 45 minutes.
X2 system to monitor attendance
Attendance letters/calls |
