Exam Week, Dec. 3-7
Dear Families, After the Thanksgiving holiday, students will return for one more week of classes, with the following week, beginning Dec. 3, being their Trimester I Exam Week. Below, please find what exam week will look like in case you have any questions, or need to make particular arrangements.
Monday, Dec. 3: Regular school day. Classes will review material or complete work. All students are expected.
Tuesday, Dec. 4: Reading Day. School open regular hours. This is a day for students to prepare for exams, final papers and exhibitions. This is also an opportunity to catch up with outstanding work, work with groups for final presentations, use the Tech Center and printers around the school, etc. This is a quiet work day. Students may choose to work at school or at home. Students are not required to report to school, and it is not counted as an absence if they are not here. However, you may prefer your child to come to school for the full day to work. Please send him or her. School will be open. The Library will be open all day. All teachers will be at school regular school hours to provide the opportunity to meet with students. No classes will meet so that all teachers are available. If a student is in crisis, teachers may encourage that student to make a mandatory appointment.
Wednesday-Friday, Dec. 5-7: Exams. Exam periods are 9 AM-11 AM and 1 PM-3 PM. Each day, students should come in plenty of time for their morning exam, and students may leave after their exams are complete.
Please take a look at the following link for helpful tips for Ninth Graders preparing for high school exams for the first time. Pay particular attention to “How to Prepare for Essay Exams,” “How to Manage your Study Time,” and “How to Study for Math Tests.” Our Academic Support staff, Pat Carter and Jerry Cascio, put these documents together for a workshop last year.
Again, please let me know if you have any questions. Once the exam schedule is complete, I will send it to families.
All the best,
Ruth
Calendar:
• The school’s calendar can be accessed by clicking here.
• For general LREI Athletics news go to this link . This page will provide general announcements, game summaries, league standings and season recaps.
• November 29, 6:30 PM, Parents of students who receive academic support will be meeting in Room 13. I will attend this meeting to address specific things that have come up over the first trimester, including foreign language exemption and applying to college.
Updates and announcements:
We remind families to only take vacations during LREI breaks and that your child’s time away from school does not begin before the school break does or end afterwards. Teachers use each scheduled day to support their classroom program goals and the School’s mission. Students who miss days adjacent to breaks, or who take vacations outside of our break times, miss work and can disrupt planned activities. This affects the learning of the absent students and her/his classmates. In addition, divisional or all-school assemblies often precede our longer vacations. These gatherings are essential for creating the sort of community that drew you to LREI. Students sing, listen to speakers, applaud their schoolmates, meet students in other divisions and generally strengthen community ties.We will not honor families’ requests to receive work their children will miss due to family vacation plans. Families that are presented with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to make an extended visit to another city, country, etc. should speak to their child’s principal.In general, we are focused on making sure that we are using each moment of each school day as effectively as possible. Part of being able to do this is to have each student in school each of these days. Thank you for your support of these efforts.
1. Save the date for Literary Evening: Thursday, Dec. 6, 7 PM in the Charlton St. PAC. This year’s event is entitled “Kinfolk and Other Strangers,” featuring authors A.M. Homes, Marthe Jocelyn, Bliss Broyard, Porochista Khakpour, and Dominic Carter. Please plan to join the Literary Committee for an evening of literature, plus great food and drink.
2. From the Community Service Committee: Please view the calendar of events, including:
• Saturday, November 17th, 11AM-1PM — LREI Arts Project at Hudson Guild. Please read the attached flyer for additional information about this annual event.
Nov 19 –21 Dollar for Thanks. We will be collecting in the Sixth Avenue lobby and the Charlton Street lobby. All proceeds will go towards purchasing a Thanksgiving turkey for a soup kitchen. LREI contact: Tatjana Kalinin – 917 371 6591
3. Please take a look at the following letter from the LREI Lesbian Gay Straight alliance (LGSA) announcing the upcoming Visibility show.
4. Would you like to contribute to a great cause and get in a good run or walk at the same time? Join the LREI Race to Deliver team! God’s Love We Deliver will hold their annual 4-mile run/walk called the Race to Deliver on Sun., Nov. 18; this year will be the first time there is an LREI team! To join, visit http://www.racetodeliver.org, click on Join a Team, and choose LREI from the list of teams. Prior to the main race, there are Fun Runs for kids, at manageable distances. It is lots of fun, the kids get goody bags, you can run, walk or cheer on the participants. Even if you don’t run, your children can participate in the kids’ runs, and any running friends you may have can sign up to be on our team as well.
5. Many of you have read the reports in the news about MRSA, a methicillin resistant Staphlococcus aureus. MRSA is a strain of bacteria that does not respond to the penicillin family of antibiotics although it is treatable with other types of antibiotics. Please read the attached letter from School Nurse Kitty Highstein about this health issue.
6. For updates on faculty performances, openings, presentations, and publications visit the Faculty in the News page on the school web site.
7. LREI is a member of NYC-Parents in Action (NYC-PIA). NYC-PIA provides parenting education, information and a communications network to help parents prepare their children and teenagers to cope with social pressures and to make sound choices towards a future free of alcohol and drug abuse. Please read the attached flyer to view their 2007-2008 calendar. You can also access their website at http://www.parentsinaction.org/.