If your child will be absent or tardy for any reason, please complete this form. You do not need to call the Attendance Hotline. The Symptom Checker part of the form is confidential and used only by the nurses to track illnesses.

To give permission for your student to receive Tylenol and/or Ibuprofen, please fill out this form: Permission for Tylenol/Ibuprofen

Please see this welcome letter from the School Health Office for information regarding COVID-19 protocols, medication forms, and other helpful information.

If you have any questions, please be in touch - has-nurse@lexingtonma.org 

Sheila Slowe and Carol Kean, School Nurses 

Keep an eye out this week for a cover contest form which should be arriving in your child’s folder! 

All Hastings students are invited to make a black pen drawing of something they love about our school. Two drawings will be selected as the directory cover (front and back). 

All Hastings PTO Members receive a printed copy of the Hastings Directory and all families have access to the directory online.

Contest entries should be turned in to classroom teachers by Wednesday, October 4. 

Family Friends is a program that builds closer relationships between the families of METCO students from Boston and families living in Lexington.  

The program consists of four group events on weekends where families can get to know one another.  In addition, Lexington families commit to host 2.5 hour playdates on four designated Friday afternoons over the course of the school year.  These playdates provide students from Lexington and Boston social time together that they don’t usually get in the classroom.  This less structured play time allows the kids to connect and have fun.   

For the individual playdates, Lexington families pick up both their child and their family friend at 12:30 pm at Hastings.  There is enough time for lunch and playing either at home or around town.  Lexington families return their family friend to Hastings by 3:00 pm for the bus home to Boston.

YOUR COMMITMENT 

Four Group Events:

Oct 7, 2023

Feb tbd, 2024

March tbd, 2024

June 8, 2024 

Friday Playdates (12.30-3pm):

Nov, 3, 2023

Dec 1, 2023

April 5, 2024

May 10, 2024

For more information on this program, please contact Liz Sullivan at familyfriends@hastings-pto.org.

You can log your interest here and if we have a match you will be contacted.

Date: Thursday, September 21

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

Location: Hastings School Classrooms

Mark your calendars as Curriculum Night is coming! The intent of the evening is for staff to review curriculum, as well as classroom expectations. If you have an individual question regarding your child’s progress, classroom teachers will be scheduling parent teacher conferences.

Date: Thursday, September 26

(During school hours)

Mark your calendars as school picture day is coming!  We will be looking for volunteers to help guide the children to where they need to go and help keep the lines moving.  Watch this space for a sign up! 

We still have several 5th grade activities that need volunteers so please sign up! 5th Grade Activities are run both FOR and BY 5th graders with help from their parents. Please help get the 5th Grade Activities off to a strong start by volunteering for a coordinator role. Volunteers are needed for:

• Harvest Festival Team (formerly Halloween party) 
• Fundraising Coordinator
• Conference Babysitting Coordinator
• Year Book Candid Photos Coordinator
• Sign Up Genius Editor
• Treasurer

Each coordinator will be able to speak with people who have filled these roles before and there are notes on how to complete each event. 

If you would like to help but not sure what to select, or have new ideas, please email Maria and Ritu at fifthgrade@hastings-pto.org.

There are a few classes that are still looking for Room Parents.  Please consider volunteering to be a room parent. It is a wonderful way to get to know other parents and your child’s teacher, as well as make a valuable contribution to the Hastings Community. 

Room Parents still needed in 3rd + 4th Grade; McLaughlin, Pelkey and Washington. 

Questions? Contact Room Parent Chairs, Jess and Rachel at roomparents@hastings-pto.org

Sign up here!

Lunchtime volunteers needed! Help reduce the amount of trash Hastings sends to the trash incinerator and get to see your student during lunch! 

Volunteers guide students in sorting waste into trash, compost, and recycling. You can volunteer on any schedule that works for you: monthly, twice a month, weekly, or every day!  Each shift is an hour and a half: 

1st shift: 

11.05- 11.30     1st grade

11.30-12.05     4th grade

12.05-12.30     3rd grade

2nd shift

12.30- 12.55 Kindergarten

1.00 - 1.30 2nd grade

1.30 -2.00 5th grade

Composting is easy, we will teach you how! For more on industrial composting: https://hastings-pto.org/greenteam

Questions? Contact Megan at greenteam@hastings-pto.org 

Sign up here!

There are some classes that still need library volunteers.  Come help out in the Hastings Library! Volunteer's main tasks will be to check books in and out and shelve books. Mrs Rich, our Librarian, relies on volunteers to keep the library running!  You will receive training. 

Classes that need volunteers; Syed, Pelkey, Washington, Agne and O'Neil.

Questions? Contact Anne at library@hastings-pto.org 

Sign up here! Please note that you are signing up to express interest.  Anne will be in touch to confirm once the schedules have been created.