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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 12Family 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 20Brackett 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

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!

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Spirit Day: Backwards Day – Fri, Jan 9

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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Pick Up @ Pickup: Thurs, Dec. 18

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!

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Interested in a Brackett LEGO Expo?

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!

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Author Visit Preorder: Jerry Pallotta

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.

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Helping Hands Hub

 

Contribute to Brackett!

 

Check out current

Volunteer Opportunities

and our teachers’

Wish Lists

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

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...

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Brackett Alumni Scholarships

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!

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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

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...

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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

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!

read more
K-1 Family Math Night – Monday, Jan 12

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!

read more
Spirit Day: Backwards Day – Fri, Jan 9

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!

read more

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