Parents, Guardians, Families, and Community Stakeholders of all backgrounds are invited to join the Warwick Neck Leadership Team, Faculty, Staff, and Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) to help continuously drive improvement at our school in 2024-2025!
Time Commitment: The amount of time you commit is, not necessarily based upon the roles selected, but based largely at your own discretion. No one is bound by a particular schedule or time frame and every effort is made to accommodate the busy schedules of parents, families, and other members --- Every member, and every little bit, helps our children and our school!
We have two separate routes for those interested in helping to drive school improvement and positive change in 2024-25. Please reach out to the respective representatives below if you have any questions!
1.) Consider joining the School Improvement Team (SIT)!
-- Meetings are very helpful to our school leadership team in getting various perspectives and forming action plans together on how we can move Warwick Neck School forward. Items range from Attendance Data, RICAS and District Diagnostic Test Scores (Math and English Language Arts) to Survey Works (Student and Family Quality of life at WNS Results), Classroom Instructional Initiatives (approaches to new or ongoing curricula, etc), our PTA, community engagement - and many other factors to consider.
-- The School Improvement Team continuously adds to or revises the Warwick Neck Elementary School Improvement Plan (a plan required of all RI Public Schools; please note the link has a plan noted for ‘2023-‘2023 due to a formatting glitch when downloaded off the RIDE platform. The contents of the plan are current and correct, however.) The ‘Plan’ is considered to be a "living document" and the foundation for agreed upon areas in need of improvement, followed by measurable action plans and initiatives to drive positive change at Warwick Neck School.
-- Meetings are held monthly online and involve member from all different sectors of the school community.
-- If you are interested in joining, please email Mr. Galligan here. As always, our children are the beneficiaries of whatever we accomplish together.
2.) Consider supporting the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA)!
-- The PTA is need of insight, support, and planning across many events and initiatives: From the new Fall-favorite "Pumpkin Palooza," to a holiday event, Scholastic Book Fairs, Teacher Appreciation Week, and the upcoming renewal of our "School of Excellence" designation, we need all of the help we can get - even if just for a few minutes a week!
-- Meetings are held at various intervals, based upon the needs of certain initiatives, and may be online, in-person, or a hybrid of both. Time commitment can be explained up-front by the PTA based upon your interest in certain things and, in some cases, can be largely accommodating to your personal schedule.
-- Please see the attached sign up form for committees, events, and initiatives in 2024-25. If you are interested in joining anything, but have questions, please email the PTA here. Like the previous opportunity to support our school above with the School Improvement Team, our children are the beneficiaries of whatever we accomplish together.
[Pictured: From the '21-'22 school year archives, Kindergarteners get ready to put Mr. Galligan in a dunk tank following the school population exceeding educational goals on district diagnostics that year. Goals were also exceeded on district diagnostics in '22-'23.]
Click here to return to the home screen -- Or, stay 'in the know' with our complete calendar of events for the 2023-2024 year at Warwick Neck here.