2010-2011 Electives

Dear Families,

This blog post is particularly important for current 10th and 11th grade families, but will be of interest to 9th grade families as well.  Yesterday, we gave students moving up to 11th and 12th grades in the coming school year History, English and Art electives for 10th, 11th and 12th grade course descriptions and sign up sheets.  Please take the time to look it over with your student if you are interested.  There are many wonderful choices for the next school year.  The sign-up sheets are due next Wednesday, May 26, by 3PM.  If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to ask me, Sarvjit, advisors and grade level deans.

Also out this week, NYU College Preview Courses available to us for Fall 2010.  Please click here for the list of classes and the requirements for applying for this opportunity.  Applications for NYU are due on Monday, May 24.

While we are sad to say goodbye to a few of our colleagues, we are thrilled to welcome our new faculty and staff members for the 2010-2011 school year.  More information about our new colleagues will be shared in the summer letter, sent mid-August, but I wanted to introduce our new folks by name now:

  • Carey Socol, our new Director of College Guidance beginning July 1, comes to us from Hunter College High School, where she was a college counselor for ten years.  She is thrilled to be joining our community.
  • Analisa Cipriano, a graduate of LREI’s Class of 2004, and Connecticut College Class of 2009, will be joining the community as the high school College Guidance Associate.  She has already started working with our current college office to begin the transition.
  • James French, who has been a member of our community for two years, filling in for Janet in the studio art room on Fridays, will be starting full time in the position of Studio Art Teacher in the fall.  The students are so excited to have him as a teacher five days a week!  James is excited to bring woodshop to the high school, in addition to studio classes.
  • Amy Chang will be our new Mandarin Chinese Teacher beginning in the fall.  She comes to us from Hunter College, where she taught college level Mandarin classes and from Hunter College High School, where she participated as an instructor in their after school Mandarin program.

Finally, on Friday, May 28th, we will hold our annual Field Day at Pier 40. Prior to beginning the Field Day festivities, we will convene as a community on Charlton Street to celebrate the completion of the most recent phase of renovations/expansion at the Charlton Street campus. Here, we will also celebrate our senior class and hear what each senior’s plans are for after graduation.  We are looking forward to an exciting day! School will close at 1:00PM on this day. Some additional information follows:

  • It is important for all students to arrive on time.
  • To celebrate the importance of the day, LREI will be providing each student with a Ribbon Cutting/Field Day T-shirt. T-shirts will be distributed on Friday morning. Students do not need to wear any special color shirt to school on Field Day.
  • Students will spend the first part of Field Day in activities with their buddies. The younger lower school classes will return to the school after lunch while the third through twelfth grades will participate in a variety of activities in mixed age groups.
  • Students will need to bring their own lunch along with a container of water. (No nuts or seeds, please.)  Plastic bottles are fine, but please no glass containers!  Clothing should be comfortable and easy to move in, shorts or sweatpants and athletic shoes.  No sandals.  Sunscreen, sunglasses and a hat are strongly recommended.
  • We will return to school in time for 1:00PM dismissal, 12:45PM for the Fours, Fours/K and K.

Lots to look forward to!

All the best,

Ruth

Updates and Announcements:

1.  Urinetown, the DVD, is now on sale!!  Please email Musical Director Joanne Magee, jmagee@lrei.org, for more details.

2.  Dear Parents,

Spring is here, so we are starting to plan for the next school year.  The PA would like to let you know the many ways you can participate. Becoming a parent rep is a great way to get involved. If you have not been a parent rep before but would like to try it or find out more about it, please let us know.  We would be happy to talk to you more about what the job entails.  In the meantime, you can look at the Family Handbook, page 36 (link on our website www.LREI.org) for the Parent Rep Guidelines. Of course, until the classes are actually made up for next year (mid-August or so), we cannot match parent reps to classes.  If you’re looking for other ways to get involved, you could consider volunteering for any of our PA committees; a list is attached. Also in the Family Handbook (p.38), is a list of the co-chairs of the PA committees if you would like to contact them for more information.  Please email us at PA-Presidents@lrei.org if you would like to get involved.

3.  Save the Date:  The 17th Annual LREI Camping Trip will take place June 4-6 this year at the Riverbend Group Campground along the Delaware River.  All LREI families and their children — from all grades pre-K through high school — are invited to participate.  Watch for details and sign-up tables coming soon.  If you have any questions or would like to volunteer to help organize, please contact Larry White at LWhite@stern.nyu.edu or (212) 533-1966

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