Magnet School Focus Group, January 17, 2012 | Rochester School Department Blog

Elementary Parents and Pre-School Parents
Are you interested in providing your child with a unique and innovative school experience?

If your answer is yes, then please join us for the:

Maple Street Magnet School

Parent/Community Focus Group

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

6:00 p.m.

Central Office Downstairs Board Room

We look forward to sharing this exciting elementary school proposal with you!

Maple Street Magnet School will provide:

A 200 day school year.
Students in Kindergarten to Grade 5. Grade 4 students in August 2012 and adding Grade 5 students in August 2013.
A personal Learning plan to accelerate all student’s learning.
French language instruction starting at Kindergarten.
A core instructional program focused on reading, mathematics, science, social studies and writing.
An project based academic/arts instruction on a daily basis.

Five terms based on an overriding theme of the school. Each term will have a theme based on the school year theme. The integrated activities and content activities will be based on the themes.
Kindergarten will follow the regular school schedule 8:30 to 3 p.m.

One thought on “Magnet School Focus Group, January 17, 2012”

I would be highly interested in learning more about the proposed Magnet School program for Rochester. I am from an area which incorporated the Magnet curriculum as well as the Talented and Gifted (TAG) program and have seen how both programs envelop the children which enriched their academic experiences. In addition, I feel that such a program would foster an environment which would enable these students to begin a solid academic pathway to future academic and career success. An elongated school-day for these youngsters (especially Kindergarten) is not that much of a stretch. Our children need the best in order to be the best for the future.

Thonya Keyes on January 12, 2012 at 5:23 pm said:

I would be highly interested in learning more about the proposed Magnet School program for Rochester. I am from an area which incorporated the Magnet curriculum as well as the Talented and Gifted (TAG) program and have seen how both programs envelop the children which enriched their academic experiences. In addition, I feel that such a program would foster an environment which would enable these students to begin a solid academic pathway to future academic and career success. An elongated school-day for these youngsters (especially Kindergarten) is not that much of a stretch. Our children need the best in order to be the best for the future.