George Watts Montessori Elementary

This Week's Update

Week of September 8, 2025

Good Evening Families,

Primary students have settled in with their first full week, and both Upper El and Lower El are doing AWESOME. This week, we will transition to all of our students showing independence by saying goodbye outside of our building. I recognize there are times when students are carrying a heavy load and need assistance. For these instances, we offer two options–option one, parents can hand off the load to a staff member and we’ll ensure delivery to the appropriate place, or option two, parents can park and sign in at the office during morning arrival to deliver the load. If deliveries occur after 7:45 AM, our staff will happily deliver to the classroom during a break in instructional time.

This past week, North Carolina released the 2025 school data reports, and we are proud to share that during a year of transition, we maintained a “B” school letter grade AND demonstrated growth. To learn more about our school’s report card for 2025, I invite you to attend our first School Improvement Team meeting on Thursday at 4PM.  During our meeting, we will review all of the released data and explain the different components of the school letter grade. 

We are excited that several parents were (self-) nominated to serve on our School Improvement Team. Please take a moment to vote your support or non-support of their nomination. You can cast your vote HERE.

Have a great week and we hope to see you around George Watts Montessori soon!

Principal Jenn

Happening this week:

  • Thursday, 4PM School Improvement Team (GWM media center)

Specials Rotation:

  • Monday: E

  • Tuesday: A

  • Wednesday: B

  • Thursday: C

  • Friday: D

Playground usage after school:

We recognize the GWM playground is a great place to connect with other families after school, and we invite you to do so on Wednesday afternoons until 3PM. For the remainder of the week, we do need to reserve our playground for the afterschool program use. As a licensed childcare program, they are not permitted to have public usage while they are using the space. 

Quarter 1 Family Nights coming soon…

Mark your calendars for our first quarter family nights–time within your child’s classroom followed by a class community dinner on our playground–it will be a great night of connection!

  • Upper El, Tuesday, September 16

  • Lower El, Thursday, September 18

  • Primary, Thursday, September 25