Making Headlines: December Exam Schedule

The December cumulative exam schedule is now posted.  You can find it on the Parents’ Page of the MX website. Please do not make travel arrangements that interfere with the exam schedule.  For students that are unable to depart on Friday due to the exam schedule, please know that the dorms are open until Saturday to accommodate later departures for students with difficult travel logistics.

Calendar Notes

• November 1: Special academic schedule – games in the afternoon
• November 2: SATs (Class I)
• November 5: Class IV Choices, 7-8pm; New members of Class II Mindfulness, 7:30-8:15pm
• November 6: Class I Leadership meeting, 7:30-8:30pm
• November 8: Affinity Group meetings, 6:30-7:30pm
• November 9: Special academic schedule – St. George’s games (home)
• November 10: Practice SATs (Class II), 9am, Barron Room
• November 12: Spectrum Dialogues, 6:30-7:30pm, RCC
• November 13: Class I Leadership meeting, 7:30-8:30pm
• November 15: Fall Play – She Kills Monsters, 8pm
• November 16: Fall Play – She Kills Monsters, 8pm

Announcements & Reminders

• Fall Sports Photos Are Posted!

  ORDERING PERIOD:  This fall’s ordering deadline is Thursday, November 14, 2019
  
  ORDER DELIVERY: All Middlesex orders are processed together. Please expect delivery approximately three weeks after the ordering deadline.
  
  PHOTO PACKAGES:
  Select your athlete’s INDIVIDUAL IMAGE. (Orders cannot be processed without the individual image being selected)
  Select Order Prints/Products
  Select the Package you wish to order
  In the drop down menu, select the Team Print Size and Customization options (The Official team image is included in most packages)
   Add to Cart
   If you wish to order the fun team photo, senior groups or captains photos, go to the Add-On section after ordering a package.
  
  *PLESE NOTE: Package contents cannot be changed.
  
  PHOTO ACCESS INFO:
  
  Website:    www.NortheastProPhoto.com
  Select:       EVENTS/GALLERIES
  Select:       Choose your athlete's team - All Middlesex folders begin with "mss"
  Password:  B63
  
  PLEASE NOTE: Individual images of athletes are available as a part of a package.
  
  If you have any question, please contact Janet Carmichael Ciummei at janet@northeastprophoto.com  

• Financial aid applications for returning families are due December 15 through SSS.  We require 2018 & 2017 tax documentation with your application.  Please contact Erika Mills, Director of Financial aid, with any questions: emills@mxschool.edu.  

• Athletic Trainers’ Corner: Fall season is coming to an end, the days are getting short and cold, but your children are dreaming of ice, snow, bouncing balls, glass walls and rolling on the mats. As this winter season approaches there are a few things for you as parents to review.
  
  For more information, please read our document on Concussions and Equipment.

• Study break baskets are back! Send your child some treats during exams in December. Every purchased basket helps support the Girls’s Crew trip in the spring. The baskets include homemade goodies, snacks and other items. Fill in the Google form! https://forms.gle/kGxBGqjoB2mfuJqu9

• From the Director of Mindfulness Programs, Doug Worthen: Dear Parents, 

  The 10% Happier organization has kindly offered the Middlesex community free year-long subscriptions to their mindfulness app. The redemption code for Middlesex parents is MX-PARENTS and the instructions to sign up for the app are below. The 10% Happier book and podcast are also highly recommended! 

  Very best, 

  Doug 

  -Open https://redeem.tenpercent.com

  -If you are a new user, register an account using an email and password you will use to log in to the app

  -If you already have a registered account, select "Already have an account? Sign In" below and enter your email and password

  -Enter the redemption code MX-PARENTS and select redeem (note: codes are case sensitive)

  -Download the iPhone app or Android app (if you haven't already!) and sign in with the same username 

   

• From the Director of Global Studies, Rob Munro:

  It was great to see many of you this past weekend. As off-campus trip rosters begin to solidify, I wanted to remind everyone that registration for all off campus trips is due by Tuesday, December 3rd--the day students return from Thanksgiving Break. Below is the link to registration and the list of trips being offered followed by the faculty leader. Within the next couple of weeks we will be looking at the logistics of which trips will have enough students to run--and we want to offer them all! If your child is particularly interested in a specific trip, I would encourage you to sign up sooner rather than later so we can ensure it will run. 

  Trip Registration link: https://mxtravel.campintouch.com/ui/forms/application/camper/App

  Trips offered: 

  January: 

  Girls' Hockey--Emma Rasmussen

  Skiing--Jecca Hutcheson

   

  March: 

  Model Congress--Ben Kulas

  Civil Rights trip to US south

  Baseball--John Morrisey

  Boys' Crew--Mike Harrington

  Girls' Crew--Darby McNally

  Golf--Chip Vigne

  Boys' Lacrosse--Doug Worthen

  Theater London--Tom Kane
   

  June: 

  Rwanda--Patty Shepard + Patrick Pothel

  Costa Rica--Annie Kelly + Taylor Leen
   

  If you have any questions throughout this process, please don't hesitate to let me or the trip leader know. 

  Warm regards, 

  Rob Munro

  Director of Global Studies

  rmunro@mxschool.edu

• Middlesex is excited to be hosting Mass Heartbeat on Friday, November 8th from 9am-1pm. MHB will be providing onsite ECG Screenings for any student who wants to participate. It will only cost $35 and participation is strongly recommended. 

  WHAT IS MASS HEARTBEAT? MHB performs ECG screenings directly to students at their school. The screenings are then read by experienced cardiologists and results are returned to the students and their parents within 5 business days.

  WHY SHOULD YOU PARTICIPATE?

  A simple heart screening can help detect problems before they become major medical issues or even worse, before they become fatal. Statistics show that sudden cardiac death is the leading cause of death during exercise.

  Hope to see everyone there! Register here: https://www.familyid.com/mass-heartbeat/middlesex-school

• From the Director of Multicultural & Community Development, Pascale Musto: The period between Halloween and winter break is always busy for community service projects at Middlesex School.  Besides the regular programs, there will a few additional service opportunities running during these weeks:  Toys-for-Tots, holiday card writing to an active duty marine unit led by an MX Alumnus and Heading Home.  Please consider returning to campus with an unwrapped toy or mailing one to Middlesex School c/o community service prior to December 2nd.  On campus, there will be plenty of clearly marked Toy-for-Tots boxes in which anyone can leave a toy.  You can get involved and support the Heading Home by clicking here to access the family’s Amazon gift registry and select items to outfit their new home.  The items will be shipped to Middlesex and then assembled at the home on November 3^rd.  Thank you in advance to all the Middlesex families who have and will support these worthy causes!
   
  To access the Amazon gift registry please click on the Heading home link here.

From the MPA

• Freshmen & Sophomore Parents — Save the Date!  Potluck lunch on Saturday, November 9th from 12:00pm - 1:30pm (Freshmen in StuFac and Sophomores in Barron Room).  It’s a great way to meet other parents and celebrate the season before the St. George’s games begin!

  If you are local, please bring a dish.  If you are traveling, please just bring yourselves.

  Freshmen parents meet in the Stu-Fac of Ware Hall.
  Sophomore parents meet in the Barron Room of Ware Hall.

  Freshman Potluck Please RSVP here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084FA9A62DAB9-freshman 

  Sophomore Potluck Please RSVP here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050d4facab4-middlesex 

• Our second MPA meeting of the year will be on Saturday, November 23 from 10:00 am-11:30 am in the Barron Room, Ware Hall. For those unable to attend in person, the meeting can be joined live from the following services:

  Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://meetings.ringcentral.com/j/9783692550
  Or iPhone one-tap :
      US: +1(773)2319226,,9783692550#
  Or Telephone:
      Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
      US: +1(773)2319226
      Meeting ID: 978 369 2550
      International numbers available: https://meetings.ringcentral.com/teleconference

  The meeting will feature Dr. Gene Beresin who is the executive director of The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at MGH in Boston. This center is "dedicated to promoting and supporting the mental, emotional, and behavioral well-being of young people." He is an experienced clinician and educator with over 35 years working with youth, where he has "focused on prevention, early intervention and treatment of teens and young adults." He has been a keynote speaker at local and international conferences, and he will address questions pertaining to stress, anxiety and depression among adolescents. 

   

The Right to Health

In lieu of the annual “All-School Read” assignment, Middlesex students have been asked this year to think about the “ethics of opportunity” – to consider the kinds of advantages that some people enjoy while others lack access to those benefits