LS Weekly Memo Week 42, June 20-24, 2016

Congratulations on a great 2015-16. Best of luck finishing up reports.  On to launching our new year on Tuesday and celebrating the year as a whole school on Wednesday.

CONSTRUCTION UPDATES

• Packing Up Boxes - Pack them up and keep them in your classroom.  Movers want to go from room to room. Common spaces and offices, keep boxes there
• Furniture - initial order is in.  There will be more orders in our future.  I would rather start a little lean on furnishings, find out what we really need and want before purchasing more.
• June 30 deadline for packing rooms
• Rod has packing materials. Here is the plan, The Big Re-Move. Contact Rod for labels and boxes. Confirm your new room number.
• Put full boxes in closets until school is out.
• The Plan - subject to change
• August 1st - teachers move in
• August 8 - furniture swap begins in each of current LS Common areas
• August 22nd -  the official move in week with the LS Cafe open each morning
• August 22nd - MS/ US faculty moving help day

US Student Moving Help - Thanks you Austin for coordinating.

There are still opportunities. The link to the volunteer spreadsheet:

1) Please click on the tab for the day(s) that you would like packing help. If you would like help on a day not listed, please click on the tab marked, "Other."

2) Please input your name, room number, and desired time(s) for the given day. Please note that the, "Time(s) Needed," column is intentionally short, so that each subsequent time period will wrap around and be easier for me to see. Please input the time as: #:##-#:##

3) All student volunteers will email Austin their availability. He will then input them depending on the schedule. Though he will mostly put them in on a first come, first serve basis, Austin’s goal is to get everyone at least one student helper if possible.

4) Please feel free to check on the schedule regularly. Austin will try to send an email the night before to let you know who to expect.

MS and US Faculty Help with Moving

MS and US faculty are eager to know how they can help with our move.  I am going to offer August 22nd as help day.  

COMMUNITY

New Teachers to Lower School

With contracts signed and returned I can announce our new teachers.

Katherine McCall Petke - 1st Grade

Natalie Simms - 2nd Grade

Look for their bios in August.

Chaplain Search

We begin the Chaplain search on Monday.

Students not Returning in 2016-17

The following students will not be returning to OES next year.  Treat this information confidentially, as we do not know which students have been told nor how comfortable they are with the decision.

Students Not Returning 2016-17 as of 6/16/16

1st

Scarlet Ganes - relocation

Brooke Gilson

Rebecca Laakman - relo

Elsa Swanson - relo

2nd

Sadie Walsh

Lucca Lyon - relo

Mako Jindai - relo

Kianna Meyer

3rd

Ben Blumenthal - relo

Lincoln Weiler

4th

Zorian Chakraborty - relo

Hanako Jindai - relo

5th

Simon Walsh

Andrew Reveno - relo

6th

Andrew Kashiwagi

Will Owen

Ashley Schroeder

Hannah Swanson - relo

PROGRAM

Promotion Ceremony

Thank you Alysa, Tina and Tasha for your student’s reflections.  What an inspiring way to end the year.  

Closing Faculty Meetings

• Friday, June 19 - Monday, June 20 - report writing and proofing, lunch available on Friday and Monday, if you are on campus
• Tuesday, June 21
• 8:00am - Reports Due in PCR, Continental Breakfast at 8am
• 8:30am - 12:00pm - Looking ahead to 2016-17
• 2:00 - 5:00pm, LS Building Tours
• Wednesday, June 22, 9:00 - 1:00 pm - Closing AS Meeting, Recognitions, Lunch

New Lower School Schedule

Intermediate Years Schedules

Beginning Years Schedules

Schedule Feedback Form

We will spend digging into the schedules at the closing meeting.

Sign Up for a Tour of the New Lower School

Tour of the New Lower School, Tues., June 21st - Sign Up List

David and Jon will take three 45-minute tours. Click on the link to sign up!

Playground Design

We had our first exploratory conversation with Michelle Mathis of Learning Landscapes about playground design.  On to budget discussions with Jon to see what our funding looks like.

Progress Report Timeline

• Friday, June 17th Complete half of your reports, pass along to your proofreader
• Monday, June 20th Complete last half of your reports, pass along to your proofreader
• Tuesday, June 21st Upload all to PCR by 8:00am, before our LS Faculty Meeting
• David to read Jane’s Reports
• Chris to read Kelola’s Spanish and Margaret’s Art
• Kelola reads Alfredo’s reports

Jeffrey and others will review all reports on PCR. Lyn will send out an email to parents notifying them when reports are available on PCR. Our aim is to go out some time on Friday, June 24th.  Jeffrey will let us know when that can realistically be done. Beginning School will send out their reports as PDF via email simultaneously, coordinated with the rest of the Lower School.

Artifacts to Pass Along to Next Year’s Teachers, Pre-K Through Fourth Grades

As in the past, please gather the following items and place them (well labeled  and alphabetized)  in a boxes in Ari’s office before you leave.

• DRA or F & P Reading Assessments
• Copy of Final Math Assessment(s)
• Student’s Letter of Introduction to Next Year’s Teacher

Summer Stipends

Stipends have been sent out.  See David if you have questions.

Class Placement

The spring sessions are for the most part complete. We will do one final check of First Grade next week.  One final check in August to go.

OPERATIONS

LS Office

We are closing at the end of this week to begin packing.  We will let you know one we are open in our new space come August.

2016-17 Calendar

OES All School Calendar and it is updated.  

We will begin drafting the 2016-17 LS Faculty Calendar at the closing faculty meeting

Your Announcements

Send any announcements you have for faculty to Chris or me by Thursday each week and we will include them in the Weekly Memo.  This should help reduce the number of emails we are receiving, and to maximize our time to collaborate during meetings.