Communication Help

List of 4 items.

• SchoolPass Alerts

  New for 2024, you will receive two notifications from SchoolPass during emergencies and urgent communication scenarios (as well as during the mid-September test): one when the emergency begins and a second when it ends. We have chosen this method to ensure that urgent messages are delivered to families using all possible methods: SMS/text message, email, and SchoolPass app push notifications (if turned on).
  
  The message is from the number 56674 and starts with "This is a test of Ancona's emergency notifier."
  
  A notification will go out via email notifying you to expect the test of the system in  mid-September.

  
  

  If you feel you did not receive a message you expected, please email registrar@anconaschool.org with details.

• Newsletters and Email Blasts

  Our Newsletter/Email Blast lists are generated using the information on file in My Ancona as the school year begins. If you changed your email address mid-year, please email registrar@ancoanschool.org to make sure you continue to receive the newsletters.
  
  These emails come from MailChimp, which provides an 'opt-out" option and sometimes unsubscribes people who do not open the emails. To re-subscribe, please fill out the form at this link. 

• Google Group Email Alerts

  Google Groups is the way that teachers communicate directly with parents and caregivers. Preprimary and primary parents are automatically added to a group for their child's classroom and grade level. In addition, all preprimary parents are part of the preprimary parent group. In middle school, groups are divided by grade level only.
  
  September Test:
  A "heads up" for the test is sent via the MailChimp email system the day before test messages are sent.
  
  You should receive a test message from registrar@anconaschool.org  to each Google Group you are a part of on the day of the test with the subject line "Test Message to Ancona [name of group] Parent Email Group."

   

  For example: 

  • If you have a P4 student in Room 103 and 1st grade student in Room 110, you should expect to receive five test messages, sent to: Preprimary parents, P4 parents, 103 parents, 110 parents, and 1st grade parents.
  • If you have a 7th grade student, you should expect to receive one test message 

• Communications to Expect

  • Summer welcome email from teachers with supply list (early July).
  • Your child’s homeroom/advisory assignment and class roster (emailed early August, 2024).
  • The 2024-25 Hopes and Expectations Form, to be reviewed by your child’s teachers before the school year begins (emailed early August, 2024; available through September)
  • Occasional summer updates or announcements
  • Weekly all-school newsletters, starting on the first Thursday of September. Recent newsletters and other communications can be found on the My Ancona News Recent Activity page. If your spam filter is blocking messages from Ancona, please add these addresses to your email contacts:
    • registrar@anconaschool.org,
    • info@anconaschool.org,
    • feedback@anconaschool.org,
    • anconaschool@myschoolapp.com, 
    • anconaschool@myschoolemails.com, and
    • your child’s teacher email address which can be found on the grade level group pages in My Ancona.
  • A test of Ancona’s emergency notification system, along with an accompanying email. (September)
  • Weekly emails from your child's teacher. (Beginning in September).