What’s for Advisory?

Dear LREI Families:

At our most recent Middle School Parent Rep meeting, we talked a bit about some of the projects taking place during our Thursday advisory meetings. Each Thursday afternoon, students and their advisor meet in a group with the advisor and advisees from another grade level group. These mixed grade groups of fifth and sixth graders and groups of seventh and eighth graders engage in community-building and goal-setting activities, have discussions about school issues and issues taking place outside of the school community, and develop and implement a range of service projects. Here are some highlights of the projects that are underway and in development. Advisory groups are:

  • responding to the lack of a crossing guard at the Sixth Avenue and Houston Street intersection with the a letter writing and signature collecting campaign. The letter and signatures will be sent to a number of local officials.
  • planning for field trips around the theme of sustainability
  • planning monthly visits to meet with seniors at the Fulton Senior Center of the Hudson Guild. At their first visit, students shared letters of introduction and then listened to some of the experiences recounted by their new senior “buddies.”
  • visiting first grade classes in the lower school school and using these meetings to think about what it means to be a mentor or role model
  • exploring a variety of games played by children around the world
  • learning about media literacy and how to be a more informed consumer in the digital age
  • planning a sustainability-themed art project
  • producing a movie about the school, which would be a complement to the movie that was made for the school’s seventy-fifth anniversary
  • engaging in a range of community-building activities to better understand what it means to be a seventh grader or an eighth grader

Quite a range of offerings. While these projects are varied in their focus, they all seek to provide opportunities for students and teachers to learn from each other, for students to learn important leadership skills, and for advisors to gain additional insights into the lives of their advisees. Each in their own way, helps to establish an important foundation for the LREI Middle School program.

MS Boy’s Basketball Team Wins Winter Holiday Tournament
The MS Boy’s basketball team played the first game of the the St. Hugh’s/LREI Holiday Invitational Tournament against St. Hugh’s last Thursday, December 6th. The game started out strong for the boys, who hit their first couple of shots and took an 8 point lead. St. Hugh’s three big men and defensive aggressiveness kept them in the game and started to disrupt the up-tempo style of the LREI Knights. As the game started to slip away, Quinn Hood hit a number of big shots to keep LREI in the game. Jack Irving and Cole Kitchen took turns defending the leading scorer from St. Hugh’s. LREI let a 6 point lead slip away in the last 2 minutes and the two teams headed to overtime to decide the outcome. Jimmy Hall had a big game for the Knights on both sides of the court and out muscled St. Hugh’s big men for most of the game. In overtime, he took control and scored the decisive basket. Malcolm Staso hit a huge free throw to clinch the game and send the team to the championship game. On Saturday, December 8th, the team took on Epiphany in the championship game. LREI got off to a great start and never looked back as they won 48-28. Quinn Hood was named Tournament MVP, and Cole Kitchen and Jimmy Hall were named to the All-Tournament team. LREI had contributions from all players who played very unselfish basketball. Congratulations!

Please check the home game schedule for the boys and for the girls and we hope to see you at the Thompson Street Athletic Center.

Also, please check out pictures from the recent robotics team competition, which can be accessed at http://lrei.org/photos/0708/ms/.

Best,
Mark

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