Patrick C. Daly, Superintendent

  Dear parents, guardians, and families, I’m writing today with a few important updates and reminders. Safety Precautions In recent weeks I've continued to communicate about the positive cases in our schools. We have not seen any increases or changes in transmission due to having more students in school at a distance of three feet, which is great news. However, there are still many positive cases identified and it's so important, as more adults become vaccinated and the state moves into Phase IV, that we continue to follow all safety precautions for our children including mask wearing, social distancing, and hand washing . This continues to be integral to our mission to remain in person in our schools. Please continue to complete our Daily Health Screener in order to provide additional information to our school nurses about COVID-related concerns. FAQs about Travel  On March 22, 2021 the Massachusetts Travel Order was updated to a Travel Advisory. However, the Department of E...

  Dear parents, guardians, and families, I’m writing today with a few important updates and to share some good news about pooled testing. Safety Precautions As more adults become vaccinated and the state moves into Phase IV it is important that we continue to follow all safety precautions for our children including mask wearing, social distancing, and hand washing . This is so important in all aspects of their lives but integral to our mission to remain in person in our schools. Please continue to complete our Daily Health Screener in order to provide additional information to our school nurses about COVID-related concerns.   FAQs about Travel  On March 22, 2021 the Massachusetts Travel Order was updated to a Travel Advisory. However, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has confirmed that schools can continue to follow and enforce the advisory in order to maintain the safest possible environment for learning. Many parents have expressed their concerns ab...

The School Start Times Committee, which has been actively exploring the research-based advantages for high school students starting school no early than 8:30 a.m., shared an  update at a forum on April 6, 2021 .   This group, made up of representatives of parents from all grade spans, a North Reading School Committee member, administrators, and a teacher representative have spent many hours since 2018 discussing schedules, impacts to afterschool programs, considerations for childcare etc. and will address many of these concerns at the forum. The group has a  website that also contains helpful information  as well as the history of our exploration of this concept for our schools. In addition we are also collecting any feedback from our staff, parents, and guardians about the three models discussed in the presentation and will use this information to help inform our recommendation to the school committee. Please  complete this brief survey  as soon as possibl...