Patrick C. Daly, Superintendent

Hello North Reading Families and Educators,  Please see the updated version of the 2020-21 School Year Calendar . Included in this calendar are the updated start and end times for each school’s day as well as other updates to the school year recently approved by the North Reading School Committee.  In addition, the district Google Calendar is located on the main page of every school and the district website. This calendar will additionally communicate the days in which the cohorts will be attending in person. This calendar can also be downloaded to your computer or smartphone’s calendar.  Please note that, as previously mentioned, the Wednesday cohort days will follow a pattern that allows for a balance of attendance in person for both cohort A (17) and B (16). This will often be achieved in alternating weeks but there are some exceptions in order to account for holidays, etc. This calendar will be a helpful tool in addition to other school-based communications about thi...

  Dear North Reading Parents and Families, As scheduled, parents will be receivng emails today with information regarding the cohort assignment for their child(ren) in the hybrid model that will be in when school reopens on September 17th (Cohorts B and C in person, cohorts A and D remote for that first Thursday and Friday). Please note that we are running all of the assignments from a central database and so it may take the rest of the afternoon for all of the emails to be sent for all the schools. Thank you to our parents, families, and community for being supportive and understanding of the changes that need to occur across the district in order to bring everyone back for as many days and hours as we are proposing in North Reading and still meet the safety guidelines in place for a safe reopening. As I have mentioned, we are also in the process of negotiating with our unions and associations in order to meet all requirements of collective bargaining under the law. Our teams have...

  Good evening North Reading Parents and Families, Thank you to all of the members of our reopening group and our incredible educators and administrators whose hard work made this comprehensive document possible. Please see the information on our  Reopening website  containing all of the information for you to review, including our final reopening plan, videos, links to resources, and more. After reviewing the information please take the  August 11th survey  to further help us in the planning process. The  Frequently Asked Questions  document as well as the executive summary (attached) will provide you with an overview Cohort C students will be notified this week and all other students will be informed of their cohorts by the end of the week or early next week.  There will be a forum for for families with students entering Pre-K and K that will announced soon to answer specific questions for those families. Thank you for your patience and sup...

Dear North Reading Public Schools Community, This morning  in a 5-0 vote the North Reading School Committee  accepted the final reopening plan for the North Reading Public Schools, incorporating any recommendations form the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education ( DESE ), with the understanding that the situation is fluid and changes to the plan may be necessary. As soon as all feedback is received from  DESE  on our previously submitted proposal by Monday evening  I will be sending the final version of our reopening plan to the North Reading School Community on Tuesday, August 11th , as planned. In addition to the plan I will also be sharing a link to the reopening website that will contain the plans, videos from the forums, presentations, answers to frequently asked questions, and links to a variety of resources. We will also be hosting forums specifically for the families of incoming Kindergarten students as well as families of students receivi...

Good evening, Please click on this link for a  recording of our Monday evening at 5pm parent and family forum. There is an additional forum Tuesday morning at 10am (link below). Be sure to join 5 minutes early to ensure that you are in the session when it begins. Note: We will also hold an future meeting to specifically address the Kindergarten program. Please click to view the Tuesday morning session: Please also see these updated FAQs from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.