Wayland Public Schools Directory Information Notice
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a Federal law, requires that Wayland Public Schools, with certain exceptions, obtain your written consent prior to the disclosure of personally identifiable information from your child’s education records. However, Wayland Public Schools may disclose appropriately designated “directory information” without written consent, unless you have advised the District to the contrary in accordance with District procedures. The primary purpose of directory information is to allow Wayland Public Schools to include this type of information from your child’s education records in certain school publications. Examples include:
A playbill, showing your student’s role in a drama production; The annual yearbook; Awards or other recognition lists; Graduation programs; and Sports activity sheets, such as for wrestling, showing weight and height of team members.
Directory information, which is information that is generally not considered harmful or an invasion of privacy if released, can also be disclosed to outside organizations without a parent’s prior written consent. Outside organizations include, but are not limited to school support organizations (PTOs, Boston Parent Council, CAPA, WPSF, Boosters) and companies that manufacture class rings or publish yearbooks. In addition, two federal laws require local educational agencies (LEAs) receiving assistance under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to provide military recruiters, upon request, with the following information – names, addresses and telephone listings – unless parents have advised the LEA that they do not want their student’s information disclosed without their prior written consent.
If you do not want Wayland Public Schools to disclose directory information from your child’s education records without your prior written consent, you must notify the District by completing the FY18 WPS Directory Information and Publishing OPT/OUT form. Wayland Public Schools has designated the following information as directory information:
Student name Address Telephone School eMail Photograph Date and place of Birth Major field of study Dates of attendance Year of Graduation Participation in activities and sports Weight and height Degrees, honors, and awards received Recent school attended Student ID or unique user/student identifier Post HS Plans
1These laws are: Section 9528 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C. § 7908) and 10 U.S.C. § 503(c).
Session 1 Ends on a High Note
What a wonderful way to wrap up four weeks of summer activities at Pegasus. On Friday parents joined us for a performance of the play, "Honk," by our Performing Arts specialty area. Young ballerinas, a hopeful swan, and a watchful theatre manager took the stage for a very sweet and humorous rendition of the story about a swan hoping to dance its way onto the stage of the Paris Opera House.
Congratulations to Specialist Linda Frank and the staff and all the actors.
Our dance instructor, Michelle Conti, showcased three groups of dancers from preschool through Counselors-in-Training.
Finally, Matt McCullough, a Leader-in-Training, debuted his 10-minute slide show of Session I highlights. Matt was rightfully proud of his final product, which captured all the great moments of the past four weeks. We appreciate his love of technology. Commented Matt later: "The best part of today was seeing the audience's reaction and watching the kids' faces while they were seeing the slideshow. For me, that was the most rewarding part of doing this."
We are all looking forward to Session 2 as we welcome some new faces and continue the good times with Session I participants.
Finally, the WPKN (Wayland Pegasus Kids News) specialty area produced a TV show about Session 1. It will be broadcast on Wayland's cable channels - Channel 37 on Verizon and Channel 9 on Comcast. It includes the play and slideshow.
Our four-week Session 1 comes to a close this Friday. More than 115 children enjoyed four weeks of summer fun with theme days like Backwards Day and Crazy Hat Day and Friday specials. Last Friday's Snow Day featured sledding, winter carnival activities, and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, thanks to the generosity of the Natick store.
We were inundated with media coverage with our cold-weather activity on a hot summer day. Boston newspapers and TV stations came to Wayland to cover our event and we are very grateful for all the great attention.
Two of our WPKN specialty area students were interviewed by Channel 7's reporter Nancy Chen, and they both conveyed the excitement of sledding in the summer to viewers throughout New England.
Today - Wednesday, July 18, K-1 children visited the Science Discovery Museum while Grades 2-5 toured Fenway Park.
Pegasus Zooms into Week 2
Pegasus began swinging into high gear in Week 2. The Specialty Area groups are thriving. In Studio Art, children explored candlemaking and designed multidimensional collages. In Performing Arts, children are practicing lines, learning dancing, and singing songs. The play is based on a book entitled "Honk." Pegasus Dance elective instructor Michelle Conti has been recruited to choreograph one of the play's three dances. Many Performing Arts participants leave the morning specialty area so energized about performing that they head right to Dance for elective, making for a morning immersed in the arts.
In Fun & Fitness, there's been fast-paced fun outdoors as this athletic crew keeps up a good pace every morning. WPKN has been busy capturing it all on videotape for the Pegasus TV Show. They've already interviewed the new Pegasus administrative assistant Julie Potter and captured the spirit and fun of Tuesday's Crazy Hat Day with a parade down the hall and a video segment of the craziest hats they could find.
To cap the week, we had a cookout and outdoor games, face painting, and water play. Kids of all ages and staff enjoyed running through the sprinkler.
Stay tuned for next Friday's special event. The forecast calls for snow at Pegasus so dig out those hats and gloves.
We're off! Pegasus is up and running and we started with smiles all around, the most colorful tye-dye tee shirts, and all kinds of creative activities.
On Tuesday, 13 fifth and sixth graders visited the New England Pirates Museum and on Wednesday they indulged an interest in either Studio Art or TV Production. TV participants went to the new state-of-the-art studio at Wayland High School for a production session.
Grades 1 - 5 traveled to Danvers to an indoor water park at Coco Key on Wednesday. Friday is a special celebration of the 2012 Summer Olympics, and, of course, Liberty Pizza for Lunch Day.
Preschool and Kindergarten children are thriving in the hands-on water and sand play outdoors and all kinds of art, crafts, games, and stories when they are inside.
Monday's cloudy weather ruled out swimming at the Wayland Community Pool's outdoor facility. But a trip to Trombetta's in Marlboro for miniature golf and ice cream was fun for all!
January 2012
Happy Hollow BASE students made beautiful notes for patient meal trays at Emerson Hospital in Concord. Here's the text from a letter just received from the director of Community Services at the hospital:
"Thank you so much for the lovely get-well notes made by the students at Happy Hollow for the patients' meal trays. I'm sure that these cards were greatly appreciated. They must have added a pleasant touch. How kind of the students to think of others and how they could bring a smile to the faces to the patients here."
Thank you, Happy Hollow BASE students, for living your school's motto: Kindness Matters.
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At Wayland School Community Programs, we are always looking for new ideas for Community Education classes. Recently we debuted several new classes for both adults and children. For example, this fall we offered:
Knitting for Beginners, Grades 3 - 5 at Claypit Hill School
Passport to Paris and Beyond, Grades 6, 7, and 8 at Wayland Middle School
VBA Excel, Adults, at Loker School
If you have an idea for a class or would like to teach one, please contact WSCP Director Brian Jones at 508-655-6404 or [email protected].
Welcome to our new website interface! We were all excited and a little nervous about going live, but realized that it was time to cut the strings from the old website so we could concentrate on updating content on this one new website! Our new site is an online CMS - Content Management System, which means anyone who is given permission can edit pages by logging in online into our SharpSchool site. Thank you for your patience as we update content. Comments and suggestions are welcome!
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