Dear Bloomfield Public Schools family:
About 50 fifth and sixth grade students from our SOAR Gifted & Talented program will participate with about 50 students from Brazil, Oct. 26, in in a virtual international collaboration to promote global and culture aware.
The students will identify a project that will educate each other about their country’s cultures. This initiative is sponsored by Renzulli Learning and involves Carmen Arace Intermediate School students and those from the Colégio Mãe de Deus school, in Londrina, Brazil.
On that same day, in partnership with the United Way, Bloomfield Public Schools will host Read for Record at Laurel Elementary School. The purpose is to promote early literacy to children Pre-K to grade 2. Volunteer readers will then join students in classrooms to read the book, “With Lots of Love” by Jenny Torres Sanchez Rocio. These books were donated by the United Way.
Christopher Prescott, former program director for the Capital Region Education Council, has been hired to be the district’s new School to Career Specialist. He started last week.
Mr. Prescott lived in Bloomfield in his elementary and middle-school years. He is a former middle school student of BHS Principal Jesse White. A dedicated youth advocate and mentor, Mr. Prescott is also a former overseas professional basketball player who once served as assistant athletic director at Northwest Catholic High School in West Hartford.
In his new job, he will be counseling middle and high school students in developing success plans that guide them from middle school to senior year in high school and beyond. He also will organize career-development forums.
We are continuing to remind families and members of our community about the district’s re-designed website and launch of our new mobile App. A brief instructional video on how to download the app via the QR code is available on our website: www.bloomfieldschools.org/ and social media platforms – X (formerly Twitter) ( https://twitter.com/BloomfieldPS) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/bloomfieldpsfb). The QR code is also available on those platforms.
Dr. James Thompson, Jr.
Superintendent, Bloomfield Public Schools