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  (1.) South PTO meets tonight at 7pm in the Media Center. Agenda is attached. See you there! (2.) Report cards will be sent home tomorrow. Please sign and return one copy after the break. (3.) If any student in grades 5, 6, or 7 is  not  expecting to return to South in September, please let your Guidance Counselor or the Main Office know. With Course Selection Sheets being returned, we are starting to plan for classes and schedules next year, so we want to plan accordingly. Guidance will also help with the transfer of materials to your new school. If you are returning to South but have moved or changed addresses, please let the Main Office know so our records will be up-to-date. (4.) Please check Lost & Found before leaving for April Break tomorrow! Unclaimed items will be donated to charity or discarded. (5.) Gently used eclipse glasses can be delivered to homeroom (or the Main Office)  by Friday  to be donated for use in the global south (whose partial eclipse is on 10/2/24, des

  Students will all be receiving a pair of solar eclipse glasses at the end of the day, thanks to your South PTO. We will share information about the solar eclipse with students, as well as safety information. See more information below, and  feel free to watch this introductory video  to better understand what's going on! From the K-12 Director of Science: A solar eclipse will occur today, Monday, April 8th, and Massachusetts is in the path of the eclipse. Although Braintree will not view 100% coverage to see totality, it will have about 92% coverage at peak.  The eclipse will begin to be visible around 2:15pm, peak around 3:30pm, and end around 4:40pm.  This is exciting but it is also important to make sure everyone is  safely  viewing the eclipse if they choose to do so. Specific solar eclipse glasses must be worn to protect one’s vision throughout the duration of the eclipse.  Thanks to additional funding from several school PTOs, the science department purchased solar eclipse

There will be no Homework Lab today or afterschool help, due to our April Staff Meeting. Play rehearsal will go on as scheduled, and we return to the regular afterschool schedule tomorrow. April's PTO meeting will be held on Thursday, 4/11, starting at 7pm in the South Media Center. (Please note: this is a change from the previously posted date.) Agenda will be sent next week. The April Calendar raffle is underway! Students can continue to sell tickets and submit them along with payment to the Main Office or your homeroom teacher. The sooner you get tickets into the raffle, the more chances you'll have to win! MCAS testing starts this week and continues for the next 2 months. See full schedule: 8th grade parents who missed the Informational Night at Braintree High a few weeks ago: the slideshow is linked here. Term 3 ends this Friday, 4/5 . Make sure all work is up to date and let your teachers know if anything doesn't appear to line up in Aspen. Report cards will be sent h