We need you to help us celebrate the end of Parker’s 8th year. On Thursday, June 19, (the last day of school) we have planned a day of special events. Starting with gateway celebrations at 9:00 a.m. we will then have yearbook signing, a talent show, dunk tank, cotton candy machine and a Bar-B-Q.

Parents are welcome to come for the Big End Celebration

Dismissal is at NOON!

A,B .............................................Dessert - easy to serve finger food only

C,D ..............................................10 Hamburgers/Veggie burgers

(pre-formed burgers)

E,F,G,H ......................................Hot dogs (1 package each)

I,J,K,L .........................................Hot dog rolls (1 package each)

M,N ..............................................Hamburger buns (1 package each)

O,P ……..................................….Chips, Pickles

Q,R ……………………………...Drinks (juices are great too!)

S,T …............................................Drinks (juices are great too!)

U,V,W,Y ......................................Cups, Napkins

P.A.R.K.E.R. Award

A big thank you to the family of Kyle Jacques for the extremely generous donation of computer discs, pencils & folders and to the Nollet family for their generous donation of slash folders to Student Services. All materials not used by the end of the year will be saved for the onset of the new school year in September.

A big thank you also goes to the family of Kelley and Kristine Long for many boxes of transparencies of various types which will be very useful, to the family of Evan Hayward for the beautiful vase of flowers to brighten up the office and to the family of Paul Wachur for donating five 501 Spanish verb books.

A big thank you to the families of Alex and Ben Dube, Claire and Paul Raudonat and Gale Stafford for their donations of tissues for the nurse’s offices. Donations – even this late in the school year – are always welcomed and much appreciated!

A THANK YOU

TO THE WHOLE

PARKER COMMUNITY!

TO THE GRADUATES AND THEIR FAMILIES FOR ALLOWING US TO SHARE YOUR DAY…

TO THE TEACHERS WHO WORKED SO HARD TO REACH THIS DAY…

TO THE JUNIOR PARENTS WHO COOKED, CONTRIBUTED AND VOLUNTEERED THEIR TIME…

TO THE PARKER COMMUNITY WHO CONTRIBUTED FLOWERS AND TIME…

TO OUR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS WHO DRIED CHAIRS, USHERED AND SERVED AT THE RECEPTION…

TO DAVE AND JAMES WHO DID THE HARD WORK WITH GOOD SPIRITS…

TO MARCH AND THE STAGE CREW…

TO PAT AND HER TEAM FOR HELPING US THROUGHOUT OUR PLANNING PROCESS AND RESPONDING IMMEDIATELY TO ANY QUESTION OR PROBLEM…

… A SINCERE THANK YOU FROM THE GRADUATION COMMITTEE! WE COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU!

Yearbook Yearbook Yearbook

Softcover Yearbooks $25

Division One Yearbooks $10

With all the year-end projects and Gateways occurring, students have been running through our supply of one inch binders and sheet protectors. If you can help in our restocking, it would be greatly appreciated.

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PARKER VOLUNTEER HOURS

Please include the hours you have donated during the month of ________________, your help is invaluable.

Thank you very much.

Parent’s Name: _____________________________________________ Month: ___________________

(Please print)

Child’s Name: _____________________________________________ Advisor: __________________

(Please print)

Activity: __________________________________________________ Hours: ____________________

Tell your kids to get out the bug spray, sunscreen and bathing suits! We are taking our year end trip to Bare Hill Harvard Pond on Wednesday, June 18!

Please note the permission slip on back page of these Friday Announcements for important details about swimming and activities at the beach! Any questions can be directed to Alan Laubenstein!

Massachusetts State Automobile Charitable Foundation

Division I MST

Winding down the year is truly a joy when there are plant pots to paint and spinner games to play. Each class and every student is using this time in our last few classes to complete our plant unit, to polish our portfolios and to learn some more about probablility. (No new COWs are due.)

Congratulations Gatewayers! Bridge Fest 2003 continues. The bridge testing ceremony will be Monday, June 16. The winners will receive fabulous prizes!

Be sure to hand in all Cookie Factories, Year End Projects and completed portfolios to avoid the Big Bummer!

In addition to working on revising assessments, finishing up incomplete work, and on putting together year-end portfolios, students have been creating cultures, and have been reading myths from other cultures this week. Year end portfolios are due on Monday, June 16. Any students who are missing work on the last day of school, and / or who have not handed in a complete year end portfolio will be sent to "The Big Bummer," a work-intensive alternative to "The Big End," Parker's school wide day of fun. There is no in-class work time scheduled for next week, so students should finish any work at home this weekend.

This week marked the passage of many fine students from Division II to Division III A/H. To all our hard workers we give hearty congratulations! Our remaining students this week had the opportunity and requirement to finish off all revisions for the year. They also attended many of the gateways and asked wonderful questions of their peers. As we move into the final days next week, students have the last requirements of completing a reflection letter, filling out a year-end evaluation, and appropriately storing their portfolios. That’s all!

Alan’s Wellness Classes

In Alan's classes, students chose physical activities for these last few days of school. This has included capture the flag, four square, rope swing, softball, soccer and dodge-ball. We finished our unit on Sexuality this week with a game of Jeopardy with sexuality related questions. Next week, students will complete an end of year course/teacher evaluation for Wellness.

Deborah’s Wellness Classes

What a wonderful year! We wound down our Sexuality unit with Jeopardy. Students enjoyed working together in small groups outwitting each other about male and female anatomy, childbirth, STI's and contraception. With the interruption of gateways, our physical activity days have been spent in 4-square play offs! THERE ARE A NUMBER OF STUDENTS MISSING WORK, THEY WILL ATTEND THE BIG BUMMER AND JEOPARDIZE THEIR SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF WELLNESS IF THEY DO NOT COMPLETE THIS WORK BY MONDAY.

Katie’s Wellness Classes

This week in Katie's Wellness classes the majority of the students wrapped up the sexuality education unit by playing a rowdy, but educational, game of Jeopardy. Block 1.1 culminated the Sexuality unit by discussing disease prevention. Due to time constraints they will not be able to play Jeopardy next week. Next week students will complete their health-portfolio cover sheets laying out their assessments in all Health projects. They will also complete a short evaluation of the Sexuality Education unit as well as an overall Wellness curriculum evaluation. On Tuesday students will have the choice to determine what group activity games they would like to participate in.

Ian’s Wellness Classes

Ian's Wellness classes enjoyed our last few days together with a few nature walks as well as some of our favorite group games.

Please remember to turn your uniforms in to your coach as soon as your season is over!

Any parents who have children that routinely take medication at the school nurse’s office or have any medication stored in the school nurse’s office will need to pick up that medication prior to the end of school. You can do this a few days ahead of time and leave only enough medication to complete this final semester. All medications left after the last day of school will be destroyed. Your child will be given a reminder before school ends to give to you about this requirement. If your child is on a medication during the school year that they will not be taking during the summer months, you may call Mary Ann and authorize her to throw away any remaining medication. Remember that your child will need to be seen by their physician and a new authorization form for medication administration will be needed for your child to resume this medication, if ordered, for the next school year. Parents, please be sure to schedule these appointments for June or July so that you are not caught in the last minute rush at your doctor’s office and unable to get an appointment until after school begins. Any questions or concerns, please contact Mary Ann.

The last Café Wednesday of the year is coming! Wednesday, June 18 at 7:00 p.m. marks our fourth and final Café Wednesday extravaganza. Come and see students and teachers from every domain and division raise the roof while munching on the finest of donated goodies, your only price of admission. What a bargain! What a show!

Date: Wednesday, June 16

Time: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. (PLEASE COME IN AND PICK UP YOUR STUDENTS)

Place: Auditorium

Admission: A plate of cookies or a bottle of soda or juice

Please . . . if you don’t join us for Café Wednesday,

make sure you are here by 9:00 p.m. for pick-up!

Please look around your bedrooms and study areas -- all books that you are done with, please return them NOW -- especially SENIORS! You will be billed for all books not returned! Thank you!

Laurie Nehring, Librarian

As we approach the end of the school year, I really want to thank all the people who gave us help and support in our efforts to bring a food service program to Parker. I especially want to thank all those parents who gave their time and energy in the kitchen as volunteers - I really enjoyed working with you all! And many thanks to Jarrett Man, former Parker student and superior "Kitchen Aide" for helping in the kitchen the last few weeks of this year!

Next week, being a short week and the end of the school year, we will be offering lunch on Monday and Tuesday only:

We will also be offering the regular items, until we run out of them.

Thanks for a great year!

To Division 2 and Division 1 students who had Martha and Laura last year...

The grand unraveling of the African-American class quilts is coming! If you would like to keep your quilt square, you will be able to come and snip it off the quilts on the Big End day. I will lay the quilts out on the grass (weather permitting) so you can come to snip off your personal masterpieces! Please be sure to look for the class quilts that day. In case of rain, I will keep you apprised of where to go to collect your square. They served us well during the NEASC inspection and another public event! Thank you for your patience in keeping them together as a whole quilt. Martha

SUMMER FOOD DRIVE - LAST CALL!

Deb and Anthony's advisories are sponsoring a food drive to benefit Loaves and Fishes over the summer

(when supplies are lowest and demand is highest).

Please bring in the following items, which are

most requested in the summer months.

(Each advisory has been assigned one target item,

but any donations are happily accepted.)

Canned Meat (tuna, chicken, chili, spam, etc.)

Grape Jelly

Macaroni and Cheese

Granulated Sugar

Spaghetti Sauce

Paper Products (paper towels, napkins, toilet paper, etc.)

Mustard and Ketchup

Anthony's advisory will pick up donations

from advisories

this coming Monday, June 16.

Thanks for your support!

FOUND: One silver pen, one pair of brown rimmed glasses, several umbrellas and a roll of film from the Graduation. Please come to the office if you think one of these might belong to you.

Also, a Sony portable CD player

LOST: YU-GI-O cards. If found please turn in to the office or Dan Noel’s advisory. Reward offered.

Permission Slip for BARE HILL HARVARD POND

All Division I Field Trip

I, (PRINT NAME), _________________________________________

allow my child, (PRINT NAME), _____________________________________________

to attend the Division I Field trip to Bare Hill Harvard Pond on Wednesday, June 18, 2003.

SIGNED: ___________________________________DATE: _________________