Greetings from Chad Leith

Dear members of the Morse School community,

It was wonderful to see so many of our family members at Wednesday evening’s Open House. Fostering positive relationships among parents/caregivers and between teachers and families is essential to our goal of creating a school culture where all children feel a sense of belonging. For those who were unable to participate in Wednesday’s event, please consider joining us for the Morse Marathon, which will take place next Friday Morning between 9:00-10:30 at Magazine Beach Park (right over the Memorial Drive footbridge from the Morse School).

Here are three ways that you can participate in next Friday’s Morse Marathon:

• Volunteer to help out! We need parent volunteers to help set up, to supervise different parts of the Marathon route, to hand out water, and to help clean up after the event. If you are interested and available, please reach out directly to parent organizer Mary Walsh ([email protected]).
• Run with your child! All parents and caregivers are invited to come and enjoy this school-wide community event. Run, skip, or walk with your child - and participate in our post-marathon line-dancing!
• Sponsor your student runner! The Morse Marathon is also a fundraiser that helps to pay for field trips and other enrichment activities that enhance your children’s learning. We have moved the marathon to the fall and there will be no spring marathon. So now is your chance to make a contribution. Pledge sheets are available in the Morse Main Lobby and online donations can be made through the Friends of Morse website!

• Greg Flattich will be starting this Monday as an ESL teacher, working at the Morse and Cambridgeport schools. This will be Mr. Flattich’s 10th year working as an ESL Teacher in Massachusetts. Prior to teaching in Massachusetts, Greg spent eight years teaching ESL in Korea and Japan. Mr. Flattich earned his Bachelor’s degree from Bridgewater State College, and his Master’s from RMIT in Melbourne, Australia.
• Brett Armstrong will be joining us each friday as part of an effort to bring Adaptive Physical Education to elementary and middle schools in Cambridge. Before starting in CPS, Mr. Armstrong spent seven years teaching students on the autism spectrum at the Boston Higashi School, and another four years teaching P.E. in the Whitman-Hanson school district. He will work alongside our P.E. teacher Phil Fousek to help children in our structured academics program develop the prerequisite skills they need to more fully participate in a large class setting with their peers.
• Geoffrey Fox will be joining the 5th grade team as a part-time instructional aide. Mr. Fox grew up in Connecticut and earned his Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Vermont. He is currently a graduate student at Lesley University, working towards his Masters of Education degree in Elementary Education.

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