UPCOMING EVENTS….

>Dragon Dreams is Published!

Dragon Dreams, the Franklin School’s 3rd annual whole-school arts magazine, is now available in a full-color PDF file format. This magazine includes more than 100 entries of poetry, artwork, short stories, collage and photography from students in kindergarten through 5th grade. All grades are represented! Next year Dragon Dreams will go green and become a website-only publication, with two colorful issues, tentative publication dates of December 2008 and May 2009. If you are a kindergartner through 4th grader, consider contributing your original creative work to this school-wide publication next year. Deadlines are November 1, February 1, and April 1. Contact Franklin parent This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it at 978-682-1583 for more information.

Franklin School Spring 2008 Franklin Flyer

Download the Spring 2008 edition of the Franklin Flyer here! All back issues of the student-written Franklin Flyer newspaper are now available online. Our staff of third through fifth grade reporters works hard to write and take photographs for each issue. Enjoy!

Announcing the 2008-2009 PTO Executive Board

We are pleased to announce the new PTO Executive Board for the coming school year: Taking on the positions of Co-Presidents are Colleen Dias, Gerry-Lynn Darcy and Kathleen Yonchak. Wendy Kahn and Jenn Scarpa will be returning to the PTO Board in a new role as Co-Vice Presidents. Denise Balaguer will be remaining in the position of PTO Secretary, and joining current PTO Treasurer, Jen Killilea will be Dena Paris who will be taking the position of Assistant Treasurer. We would like to thank all the board members, volunteers, and staff who dedicated their time and efforts over the past two years and allowed us to accomplish so much for our school.

Clean Out Your Bookshelves!

A special request is going out to all Franklin families regarding the Trading Trolley. We are in need of all levels of books to restock the shelves (chapter books, picture books, science books, research books, etc.). Please donate your old books!!! Clean out those bookshelves and bring the books into school for someone else to enjoy!

IBM Matching Grants Program

The IBM Matching Grants Program allows IBM employees and retirees to request the donation of PC equipment to K-12 schools, while contributing to the donation. The IBM donated computers must be used to improve the quality of education in math, science, reading/language skills and computer literacy. One IBM donor can submit an order form, or a group of IBM donors can submit an order form jointly. An IBM donor, or group of IBM donors, is required to donate 20% of the suggested retail price of a particular prepackaged computer, and IBM will contribute the balance. Hence, the M57 ThinkCentre costs $198.00 ($991.00 retail), and a Thinkpad (T61) costs only $310.00 ($1,552 retail). If there are IBM employees and retirees who would like to participate in the IBM Matching Grants Program for Franklin, kindly send Pam Lathrop an email
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