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Upcoming Events
Tue, Jan 6 – Brackett Rainbow Alliance – Grades 2-5 (2:35-3:20 p.m., Room 318)
Fri, Jan 9 – Spirit Day: Backwards Day
Fri, Jan 9 – Math Morning – Grades 3-5 (7:20 a.m.)
Mon, Jan 12 – Family Math Night – Grades K-1
Tue, Jan 13 – Brackett Rainbow Alliance – Grades 2-5 (2:35-3:20 p.m., Room 318)
Fri, Jan 16 – Math Morning – Grades 3-5 (7:20 a.m.)
Mon, Jan 19 – NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Day
Tue, Jan 20– Brackett Rainbow Alliance – Grades 2-5 (2:35-3:20 p.m., Room 318)
Fri, Jan 23 – Math Morning – Grades 3-5 (7:20 a.m.)
K-1 Family Math Night – Monday, Jan 12
Kindergarteners and first graders and their parents/guardians are invited to a free, hands-on evening of mathematical exploration!
Enjoy dozens of engaging, logic-based puzzles, games, and activities designed to be fun for everyone, no matter their math background.
No sign-up is required—just come and enjoy between 6:00-7:30 p.m. in the Brackett Cafeteria!
Click “read more” for appetizer brainteasers!
Spirit Day: Backwards Day – Fri, Jan 9
The first Spirit Day of 2026 is happening on Friday, January 9 with Backwards Day!
Show your Brackett spirit by being backwards! Wear your clothes backwards, write your name backwards — use your creativity to think of all things backwards!
Thanks to the the Brackett 5th Grade Student Council for coming up with this awesome theme!
Pick Up @ Pickup: Thurs, Dec. 18
Help Clean up Trash in a Flash!
Join the Brackett PTO Green Team on Thursday, December 18 at 2:30 p.m. school pickup and help pick up trash on the Brackett schoolground.
The Green Team will provide grabbers, gloves, and bags — you just bring your Pick-up Pep.
We’ll be playing music and having a blast — let’s see how much we can clean up in just 10 minutes!
Spirit Day – Students Dress Like Teachers/Teachers Dress Like Students: Fri, Dec 12
Brackett students: Show your Brackett Spirit on Friday, December 12 by dressing like a teacher! Brackett teachers will show their spirit too by dressing like a student.
Thank you to the Brackett Student Council for choosing this fun theme!
Interested in a Brackett LEGO Expo?
Calling all LEGO Enthusiasts!
The Brackett PTO is considering having a one-night LEGO exhibition in the spring. We are trying to gauge interest in the Brackett Community in participating in this new event.
What is a LEGO exhibition? A LEGO exhibition is an opportunity for Brackett students to display their custom LEGO builds, to participate in LEGO building (both individual & collaborative), and play LEGO-based games.
Interested? Click “read more” to learn more and answer our poll!
Author Visit Preorder: Jerry Pallotta
Jerry Pallotta, author of the popular “Who Would Win” series is coming to Brackett for an author’s visit assembly on Tuesday, February 10!
Students have the opportunity to order books signed by Jerry; an order form will be sent home with students on their library class day during the week of December 1-5.
Orders must be placed in advance and are due by Friday, January 16.
Helping Hands Hub
Water Management Volunteer Needed!
We have a new garden at Brackett, and we need a way to keep it watered!
The Green Team and students will be working this winter on designing a rain harvesting system and we need your help!
Are you a science teacher, in water management or engineering? Come work with the green team and Brackett students to help bring rain harvesting to our campus!
Interested? Email green@brackettpto.org.
PTO in Action
Learn more about recent PTO initatives
Green Team: Pollinator Garden
Our Green Team secured an AEF grant to engage students in a new pollinator garden! Gillian Wright-Cassone leads the process of turning the area between the street and the basketball court into three native learning gardens. Brackett students will learn how to grow...
Brackett Alumni Scholarships
Congratulations to our very own Brackett alumni Nicholas Rudolph and Anthony Uy on graduating from Arlington High School! We are honored to award Nicholas & Anthony with Brackett PTO Scholarships of $1000. Best of luck to these worthy students!
Hoppington’s Highlights
Brackett’s favorite cricket recaps recent PTO events.
See what’s happening at Brackett!
Popsicles with the Principals
Popsicles with the Principals: Tuesday, August 26 Dr. Gretchen Vice, principal, and Mr. Michael Vanderlaine, assistant principal, were at the ready with popsicles for the Brackett community at the annual Popsicles with the Principals. The weather was perfect...
Attention Incoming Kindergarteners
Come meet your future classmates before the first day of school! The PTO will be hosting two meet-ups at Robbins Farm Park in late August.
Sunday, August 25, 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, August 28, 5:00 p.m.
More information can be found here.
Brackett News
Upcoming Events
August 25 – Incoming Kindergartener Meet-up
(1:00 p.m., Robbins Farm Park)
August 28 – Incoming Kindergartener Meet-up
(5:00 p.m., Robbins Farm Park)
September 4 – First Day of School
Pick Up @ Pickup: Thurs, Dec. 18
Help Clean up Trash in a Flash!
Join the Brackett PTO Green Team on Thursday, December 18 at 2:30 p.m. school pickup and help pick up trash on the Brackett schoolground.
The Green Team will provide grabbers, gloves, and bags — you just bring your Pick-up Pep.
We’ll be playing music and having a blast — let’s see how much we can clean up in just 10 minutes!
K-1 Family Math Night – Monday, Jan 12
Kindergarteners and first graders and their parents/guardians are invited to a free, hands-on evening of mathematical exploration!
Enjoy dozens of engaging, logic-based puzzles, games, and activities designed to be fun for everyone, no matter their math background.
No sign-up is required—just come and enjoy between 6:00-7:30 p.m. in the Brackett Cafeteria!
Click “read more” for appetizer brainteasers!
Spirit Day: Backwards Day – Fri, Jan 9
The first Spirit Day of 2026 is happening on Friday, January 9 with Backwards Day!
Show your Brackett spirit by being backwards! Wear your clothes backwards, write your name backwards — use your creativity to think of all things backwards!
Thanks to the the Brackett 5th Grade Student Council for coming up with this awesome theme!
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