August 20, 2025
Dear Blake Families,
I hope that everyone is doing well and that you are all enjoying our last full week of summer! I am sharing a link with all of the Blake families to the 'Opening Letter' for the 2025-2026 school year, along with reminders regarding student/family inventories, chromebook responsible use agreements, and student schedules. The link below is formatted with the hope and intent to be more 'consumable' and tabbed by sections/pages (links on the left of the doc) - some of this information has already been shared, but we wanted to keep updates together ‘in one place’ for families.
Opening Letter and Info for Blake Families, August 2025 (8/20/25)
** If you are viewing this link on your phone, you can...
- Click on the three dots in the upper right hand corner, then click on Document tabs to see the tabs.
- Click /scroll through the tabs at the bottom of your screen.
Student and Family Inventories
In an effort to help foster relationships with students and establish open lines of communication with families, we are asking all students and families to please fill out the respective Google Forms below about each student's interests and approaches to learning...
(This link will be sent to students and they can only access this link via their Medfield email accounts.)
Our hope is that the responses will help our team support students and families throughout the year.
** If you would like this inventory translated into a different language, please let me know (nvaughn@email.medfield.net).
Chromebook Responsible Use Agreements
We are asking all students and families to please fill out the respective Responsible Use Agreements (Google Forms) below…
Responsible Use Agreement for Borrowed Chromebooks 2025-2026 - Student Form
** These guidelines will be reviewed with students during our opening days
** This link will be sent to students and they can only access this link via their Medfield email accounts.
** If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact Cam Deutsch (cdeutsch@email.medfield.net).
Student Schedules
Please note that Blake student schedules will continue to be revised and finalized up until the first day of school. Should your child access their Blake schedule prior to the first day of school, please remind them that we are continuing to balance out classes until the day before school starts, and we check and double check that everyone has what they need. Therefore, everything can and likely will change up until the first day of school. Students will receive a paper schedule on the first day of school at Blake -- this will be their finalized schedule for 25-26. We do not want students to be disappointed because they think a mid-August version of their schedule is their actual schedule. Thank you for understanding and reinforcing this with your children if it comes up as a topic.
On another note, if your student has the incorrect music ensemble choice in their schedule (band, orchestra, chorus, or none), please reach out to Kelly Campbell at kcampbell@email.medfield.net. Please note that middle school students will encounter a variety of students in their classes throughout the day and week, and we are not entertaining changes for social reasons.
** Important Information about the Saturn App
You may already be aware of the app "Saturn," but for those who are not, it is an app that allows students to upload schedules to share/compare schedules with classmates. Though it is always the purview of families to decide on what apps/tools go on personal devices, we want to make you aware of the safety and privacy concerns associated with this app in advance of the schedules being published. Here are two articles written about the app:
Is Saturn Safe? A Saturn App Review for Parents
As I have shared in the past and will continue to with students, staff, and families...
Please know that I am always happy and eager to process, listen, discuss, and share. My door is always open - and I encourage everyone to do the same with one another.
I look forward to the work that lies ahead for all of us and wish everyone a safe, enjoyable, and memorable final stretch of summer.
Take care.
Nat