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Parents/guardians and families joined in this red,white and blue celebration to make it a particularly Report of the commemorative event. A small group of second grade Quashnet School students visited the Mashpee Senior Center and performed there as well.These activities were organized by second grade teacher,Kathy Penney,the second grade Principal: Patricia DeBoer; team and our music teacher, Lindsey Sherman. The Assistant Principal: MaryKate O'Brien pompoms and flags waved in celebration with 150 second grade students on stage. Parents/guardians, Our mission at the Quashnet School, in grandparents and the general community joined in the partnership with parents,families,and our community, Flag Day celebration. As the children sang, it was a is to educate, support, and celebrate all students. We moving experience for all who attended. This was a started the 2012-2013 school year with an enrollment wonderful "send off" for our second graders as they of 562 students and ended the year with 559 students. moved on to the Quashnet School. Grades three and four each had seven homerooms,and grades 5 and 6 each had six homerooms. We would like to acknowledge our retiring Kindergarten Teacher, Jey Smith, for her dedication The 2012-2013 Quashnet School Council and devotion to the students of Mashpee. We wish her members were: Principal Patricia DeBoer, Teachers well-deserved rest and relaxation and extend our well Dianne Louf and Diana Littleton, Parents Kellie wishes for a lifetime of joy and happiness. We hope Alliegro, Elizabeth Vieira, and Daniel O'Neill, and she will look back with pride and satisfaction and look Community Member Jack Phelan. The 2012-2013 forward to all the things she has yet to enjoy! Quashnet School PTO officers were President Colleen Austin, Vice-President Caroline Thompson, and KENNETH C.COOMBS SCHOOL Treasurer Renee Geiszler. The secretary position was RECIPIENTS—GOOD MANNERS unfilled. 2012-2013 The Massachusetts curriculum frameworks, including the national common core standards in TEACHER FIRST PLACE SECOND PLACE English/Language Arts and Mathematics,together with KINDERGARTEN research-based best practice guide our instruction. We Robbins Barrett Jackson Caperton Marks focus on each student's academic growth. One Smith Charles Lyons Hannah Rogers measure of academic growth is the annual MCAS Souza Evan Kelley Lindsey Lu assessment for which our students are well prepared. Swift Bridget Raymond Laney Alves Our goal is for every student to score in the proficient Wilkinson Bryce Clark Mairead McManaman or advanced performance category on this assessment. Williams Braden Sharp Madalyn Harrington The percentage of students scoring in the proficient and GRADE ONE advanced performance categories on the 2013 MCAS are as follows: In English/Language Arts: Grade 6— Daly Alexander Murray Piper Milde 62%; Grade 5-61%; Grade 4-56%; and Grade Greene Caitlin Signs Nathan Legere 3-56%; and in Mathematics: Grade 6-51%; Grade MacNally Connor Russell Ethan Costa 5-55%;Grade 4-56%;Grade 3-71%; and Grade 5 Rafferty Marcus Clark Stephanie Dillis Science/Technology-54%. In terms of total Tessicini Ella Bartolomei Cooper Rozum percentage of students at each grade level who passed Wilber Andrew Kelley Andrew Weiner the 2013 MCAS we report the following: In GRADE TWO English/Language Arts: Grade 6-89%; Grade 5— 91%; Grade 4-88%, and Grade 3-93%; and in Cogswell Rhiannon Raymond Nolan Young Mathematics: Grade 6-86%; Grade 5-85%; Grade Connor Jillian Burdge Neil Howard Crimmins Casey Tenore Sean Ware 4-90%; and Grade 3-91%. Our passing rate in Cullum Jamie Hughes Piper Hughes Grade 5 Science/Technology was 86%. When we Penney Braden Fraser Daisy O'Reilly study the same students over time, we note that progress is being made;however,much work still needs Russell Gabriela Santos Autumn Bailey to be done. Souza Kaya Gray Ryan Flaherty 120