Mark Your Calendars

• March 30: Good Friday (No School)
• June 21: Last Day of School (ARMS has had five snow days in 2017-2018 counting March 13th. The last day of school is currently June 21.)

View ARPS 2017-18 Calendar

Next PGO Meeting – Calling all 7th Grade Parents

Our next PGO meeting will be Tuesday, April 3, at noon at The Works in downtown Amherst. 

Our focus for this meeting will be the 8th grade end-of-the-year social and picnic (which 7th grade parents traditionally take the lead on) and plans for next year. If you are a 7th grade parent (or an 8th grade parent with a rising 7th grader) and think you might be able to help out next year, please join us. Most of the current PGO leadership is headed to the high school next year, and we really need some new faces for next year. If you would like to get involved, but can’t make the meeting, please contact us at armspgo@gmail.com.

Community Choice Grant Awarded

This week, the ARPS PGO was awarded a Community Choice Grant of $1,413.00 from Florence Bank. The money will be used to support PGO initiatives within our member schools. Thank you to all who voted for us.

Congrats to the almost 60 nonprofits in our community who also received grants through this annual program. Since the Community Choice Grants program started 16 years ago, Florence Bank has given away more than $1 million to community non-profits.

The Amherst Regional Public Schools Parent Guardian Organization (ARPS PGO) is a Registered 501(c)(3) Massachusetts Charity encompassing the individual PGOs of the Amherst Regional High and Middle Schools, Crocker Farm and Wildwood Elementary.

Yearbook Cover Contest, due April 13

YOU have the opportunity to create the ARMS 2017-2018 Yearbook cover!

RULES:

• Cover MUST say Amherst Regional Middle School or ARMS and 2017-2018. 
• It HAS to have your name written on the back.
• The dimensions of the paper are 8.5 by 11 (regular paper size).

Due Friday, April 13th

TURN IN ENTRIES TO MAIN OFFICE OR TO Ms. Grant (C7a)

1st place will be the front cover. 2nd place will be the back cover.
First And Second Place Winners Get a FREE Yearbook!


Photos Wanted for Yearbook
The yearbook club is requesting photos of any student activities for both grades to be entered into this years book. If you have any photos of field trips, concerts, sports or other school events that you would like to share for possible use in the ’17-’18 ARMS Yearbook, please forward to grantl@arps.org with a note of what the activity is and what grade the student/students are in. Attachments must be jpeg. Thank you.

Amherst Town Election (and Food Drive), March 27

TOWN ELECTION
Amherst's biggest election in many years is this Tuesday. You will have the opportunity to choose whether Amherst will continue with it's current form of government or choose a new one. Whichever you support, be sure to VOTE THIS TUESDAY! Polls are open from 7am to 8pm. For more information (including sample ballots and polling place), visit: https://www.amherstma.gov/81/Voter-Information

ELECTION DAY FOOD DRIVE IN AMHERST
7am to 7pm at your polling place
Food Drive Barrels will be located at polling places for your donations of canned goods and personal care items.

Most Wanted Items in the Food Pantry: https://amherstsurvival.org/mostwanted/

Not a school sponsored event

Local Vocal Chord Bowl, acapella benefit concert, April 7

10th Local Vocal Chord Bowl happens at ARHS and features adult, college, and high school acapella groups. It’s a joyous intergenerational celebration of making music, and it’s a FUNDRAISER for music and arts programs at ARHS and at Northampton High School. In the last three years, the event has raised over $12,000 for the schools.

For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/165554340760490/ 

Hope to see you there!
Geoff Friedman, Andrea Dustin, Todd Fruth, and the ARHS Chorale and ARHS Hurricane Singers


Not a school sponsored event

Mark Your Calendars

• March 30: Good Friday (No School)
• June 21: Last Day of School. ARMS has had five snow days in 2017-2018 counting March 13th. The last day of school is currently June 21.

View ARPS 2017-18 Calendar