Good Afternoon Meadowside Families,
We hope everyone enjoyed the Thanksgiving Weekend. There is so much to be thankful for this year -- and all of us at Meadowside are especially thankful for the amazing students and supportive parents we work alongside each and every day!
Just a couple quick reminders for the weeks ahead:
Fundraiser for the fifth grade committee ends Wednesday this week: The fifth grade committee is raising money to help fund their end of elementary school celebrations. Check out the catalog here and use student code NGE4499. All orders must be placed by this Wednesday November 30th.
Lifetouch has scheduled Picture Retakes for Tuesday December 13th. Look out for more information coming home this week.
PTA News: Winter Festival December 6: We are super excited to bring back the Winter Festival on Friday, December 9th from 6-8pm. Cake walk, raffle baskets, crafts, treats, and pictures with Santa. For more information about the family event, click here. For more information on the cake walk click here, to donate a treat for the cake walk click here. For more information on the raffle baskets click here, to donate to the raffle click here. These events don’t run themselves, volunteers are needed, even just 30 minutes of help is appreciated. Sign up here.
Milford’s People Empowering People (PEP) program has been developed to enable you to make our community a better place to live – for you and your family members. Click here for more information about the program.
Please read on for some important information from our Milford Food Services:
Back in August, the Milford Foodservice department confirmed it would continue to provide breakfast and lunch at no charge this school year, thanks to limited federal funding we received through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) and the subsequent allocation to the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE). At that time, we reported we would provide free meals to students until the funding source was depleted. We also stated that we would provide all of our families with a 30-day notice of when we anticipated the funds would be depleted. As of today, we are confirming the Milford Foodservice department will continue to offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge through December 2022. We do, however, expect the Free Meal program will end at the end of December and meals will once again need to be purchased starting in January 2023.
To prepare for this change in our Foodservice program we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the online payment portal we use here in Milford, called Titan. This service gives families the opportunity to create an account for the entire family that is convenient and easy-to-use. Click HERE to learn more about Titan. Families that previously completed a Free/Reduced-Price Meals application and were approved for the program will still be able to receive free/reduced price meals. If you did not complete a Free/Reduced Price Application this year but believe your family would qualify, we strongly urge you to complete the form that is linked below now so your child’s meal service will not be interrupted. You can access the forms here or stop by the main office to pick one up.
We will continue to provide updates – with a specific end date for the program – as we get closer. In the meantime, we are grateful for the funding we have received to date from our state and federal sources and are thankful for our Milford Foodservice Team and their impeccable service throughout this program. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact your school’s cafeteria manager.
Important Dates:
- Wednesday, December 7th: 6:30 Fifth Grade Winter Concert
- Wednesday, December 7th: 1:25 Early Dismissal for faculty professional learning
- Friday, December 9th: PTA Sponsored Winter Festival 6pm
- Tuesday, December 13th: Lifetouch Photo Retake Day
- Wednesday, December 14th: PTA Sponsored Holiday Shop (Grades K, 1 and 2)
- Friday, December 16th: PTA Sponsored Holiday Shop (Grades 3, 4 and 5)
- Friday, December 16th: Trimester Report Card released in PowerSchool
- Thursday, December 22nd School Spirit Day: Pajama Day
- Winter Break 12/23/2022-01/02/20233