{"id":3623,"date":"2025-03-15T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/?p=3623"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:02:47","slug":"updates-march-15-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/2025\/03\/15\/updates-march-15-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates – March 15, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dear Sprague\/PAWS,<\/b><\/p>\n
Please enjoy your well-deserved weekend!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sprague Blood Drive<\/b><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE – Sponsored by Wellesley Educators Association and Wellesley Fitness and 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 January Standards-Based Report Cards (SBRCs)<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n The first SBRC of 2024-2025 was available via the PowerSchool Parent Portal back on January 31st<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Many January SBRCs remain unopened\/not viewed by families<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n As spring conferences arrive, we respectfully ask that the SBRCs are opened and reviewed allowing for an active conversation with teachers<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Important information about accessing the SBRC:<\/u><\/b><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Grades PreK-5 Standards Based Report Cards are available in the PowerSchool Parent Portal under the \u201cStudent Reports” tab. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Parents will login to PowerSchool using the same Username and Password they used in September<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Go to the Portal at https:\/\/wellesley.powerschool.com<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Click on Forgot Username or Password?<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Fill in your Parent Username and Parent Email Address and click Enter<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Parent\/Teacher Conferences<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n Wednesday, March 26th<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Tuesday<\/u>, April 1st – <\/b><\/span>Dismissal at 12:00 pm<\/u><\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Wednesday, April 2nd<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n No School<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n In honor of the Eid al-Fitr holiday<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Monday, March 31st – No School<\/em><\/u><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n End-of-Year Dates<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n Wow – where does the time go?!<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n All dates subject to change<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Parent.End-of-Year Dates – Spring 2025.pdf<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n MCAS Dates<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n Grades 3 -5 <\/span>participate in two sessions of both ELA and math while grade 5 also completes two sessions of science assessments<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n In April 2025\u2026.<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Third grade students<\/span> = MCAS ELA Reading Comprehension assessments – Thursday, April 10, 2025 and Friday, April 11, 2025<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Fourth grade students<\/span> = MCAS ELA Reading Comprehension assessments – Monday, April 7, 2025 and Tuesday, April 8, 2025<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Fifth grade students<\/span> = MCAS ELA Reading Comprehension assessments – Thursday, April 3, 2025 and Friday, April 4, 2025<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n In May 2025\u2026.<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Third grade students<\/span><\/b> = MCAS Mathematics assessments – Monday, May 12, 2025 and Tuesday, May 13, 2025<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Fourth grade students<\/span><\/b> = MCAS Mathematics assessments – Thursday, May 8, 2025 and Friday, May 9, 2025<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Fifth grade students<\/span><\/b> = MCAS Mathematics assessments – Monday, May 5, 2025 and Tuesday, May 6, 2025 <\/em>and<\/u> Science and Technology\/Engineering assessments-Thursday, May 15, 2025 and Friday, May 16, 2025<\/em><\/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<\/u><\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n April 1st (Tuesday) Parent\/Teacher Conferences – <\/em>dismissal at 12:00 pm<\/u><\/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-25tth April Vacation<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Gratefully,<\/b><\/p>\n Leigh<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Sprague\/PAWS, Please enjoy your well-deserved weekend! Sprague Blood Drive AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE – Sponsored by Wellesley Educators Association and Wellesley Fitness and Health Department Sprague Elementary School Gym Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 12:00 pm-5:00 pm To… Continue reading Updates – March 15, 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-3623","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\/3623","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=3623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4239,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions\/4239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/sprague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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