Weather Postings for Pakachoag
With regard to class and lesson weather cancellations, please read “How Weather Cancellations Work” below . This will help you understand what to expect when we have bad weather.
Thursday, December 5th
We are monitoring possible inclement weather conditions for Thursday. Updates will be posted here.
Sturbridge Music Together class update will be posted here by 8:30 AM.
Private Lessons update will be posted here by 1 PM.
Please check your email for a Zoom link in the event that your lesson or class is being transferred to remote session.
If visiting the office, please call ahead to check that someone is available. Thank you.
How Weather Cancellations Work
We Do Not Call You
We are unable to routinely e-mail or call families to inform you of weather cancellations, but ask, whenever questionable weather conditions are anticipated at any time during the day of your lesson or class, that you check the web site here or call the office for an update.
We DO Call You When...
We do e-mail (sometimes call or text) families when odd cancellations occur which are related to teacher sickness or a weather cancellation is specific to an individual teacher (due to their living out of area).
Private Lessons & Theater Cancellations: We do not necessarily follow Public School Closures
In general, private lesson and musical theater cancellations are made according to weather conditions anticipated after noon time and proceeding into the evening, not necessarily according to public school closures.
Please note that we need to take into consideration travel conditions both at the onset of a teacher’s schedule and at the close of the teacher’s schedule. That means, while it might be calm/dry at the time of your lesson or theater class, if bad weather is anticipated anytime during the duration of a teacher’s schedule, all lessons for the day may be cancelled, not just those lessons or classes that occur during the onset or at the end point of inclement weather.
Please check the top of this page after 1:00 pm for confirmation of any cancellations.
If you have a lesson scheduled prior to 2:00 p.m. and you do not see a message posted above, please call the office.
Music Together Cancellations
Classes are automatically cancelled when public schools in the town in which a class is scheduled are cancelled.
In the event of a delay in public school start times, we may choose to either cancel class, hold class as usual or delay Music Together class start time by one hour. We’ll make those decisions on a case by case basis and will post class status at the top of this weather page.
Please check at the top of this page after 8:00 a.m. for confirmation of any cancellations or delays for Music Together.
We Respect that you may wish to make your own travel decision in the event we remain open.
Because Pakachoag serves a wide radius of communities around Worcester, if the school is open but conditions in your community prohibit safe travel, we respect that you may choose not to attend a lesson or class based on your own needs with travel safety as the first priority.
We appreciate notification of absence, when possible. Because most teachers rely on knowing they have a regular income from teaching, we can only provide one make-up for each half of the year for private instruction student absences. This includes if you choose not to attend a scheduled lesson because of weather related circumstances.
Music Together families are always welcome to schedule a make-up in another weekly MT class. Please call the office at least 24 hours in advance to review available classes and book a make-up slot.