It’s standardized testing time.

Students at Salisbury Elementary School will continue the Pennsylvania System School Assessment’s with math May 1-2 and fourth graders will take the science portion May 4.

Students at Salisbury Middle School will complete the math portion May 1-2 and eighth graders will take the science portion May 4-5. Those students taking Algebra 1 will also take the Keystone tests May 16-17.

Salisbury High School will administer the Keystone assessments to students in Algebra 1 May 15-16, biology May 17-18 and literature May 22-23.

Please remember to encourage your students to have a good night’s rest, a healthy breakfast and to focus on just doing their best on these assessments.

SHS will hold its annual Spring Choral and Instrumental Concert 7 p.m. May 2 in the auditorium.

The next operations committee meeting will be 7 p.m. May 3 in the administration building, immediately followed by the finance committee meeting.

I cannot believe I’m writing this but May 4 is the mid-marking period for those at SMS and SHS. We are officially in the home stretch of the school year.

Planning ahead, all Salisbury Township schools will dismiss early May 12. SMS and SHS students will dismiss 12:15 p.m. with SES students dismissing 1:15 p.m. Please remember if there are any pickup changes for those at SES, let the school know.

Looking forward, the Salisbury Athletic Booster Club is holding a clothing drive June 3 at SHS. The drop off location will be the high school auxiliary gym entrance 9 a.m. to noon. The truck will pick up donations between noon and 1 p.m. For more information, visit www.clothingdrive.net.

The Devonshire site will be open April 27 and 29 and the Franko site will be open May 1, 4 and 6. Hours will remain the same, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and Thursday and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.

“Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not we get back up.” Jackie Chan