Spring Has Sprung, a message from Phil

Dear LREI Families,

Welcome back. I hope that you had a relaxing Spring Break, whether here in NYC or away. It was such a pleasure to welcome your children back to school on Monday and to see how relaxed and rested they were. We are expecting great things from them in the months to come.

So here it is, the first day of April (I am writing this note on Wednesday so that the blog gets out on time) and as advertised we are having April showers. Whether or not these sprinkles bring May flowers remains to be seen. However, one thing that is definitely growing and blooming is our college list. Over the past couple of weeks, and continuing for a few weeks more, our seniors are, and will be, receiving affirmation of four years of hard work and success. The acceptances received this month are the culmination of a college process that lasts for over two years. Working with our college counselor, Amy Shapiro, students identify their interests, investigate options, plan their application process and get to work. Juniors spend two trimesters in a class devoted to the college process and seniors spend considerable time during the first half of their twelfth grade year moving ever closer to the day when they will decide where they will spend the next four years.

Our seniors apply to a wide variety of schools and make choices based on academic interests, distance from home and financial concerns to name but a few of a tremendous number of variables. Some students choose to apply to small liberal arts schools similar to the high school where they spent the past four years, colleges such as Bard, Oberlin, Wesleyan, Gettysburg, Williams, Vassar, Hamilton and Occidental. Other students apply to schools that match their specific interests-the Art Institute of Chicago, Polytechnic University of NYU and Rochester Institute of Technology. Foreign universities call out to some students with their promise of cultural challenges along with the academic ones. This year, these schools include, St. Andrew’s in Scotland, Montreal’s McGill University and American University in Paris. Still other students decide that they need larger universities, public and private, in New York and beyond—NYU, SUNY New Paltz, Georgetown, Boston University, the University of Indiana at Bloomington, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Duke, Harvard, Brown and Cornell. Each of the schools named here has accepted at least one member of our twelfth grade. This list is quite incomplete and does not represent our pride in each senior. I look forward to sending home an initial acceptance list very soon and a complete list of acceptances in the next few weeks. You will be thrilled when you see the complete list. I know you join me in congratulating the members of the class of 2009. Seniors, we are so proud of you!

One final note, at the same time that we are celebrating the seniors’ successes, the juniors are preparing to leave on their first group college visit tomorrow morning. The process begins again.

 

– Phil

 

 

 

LOWER SCHOOL NOTES & ATTACHMENTS
(click on the links below to view and print information from teachers and specialists.)

  • All grades: Please click here for the ‘at a glance’ calendar for the 2008-09 school year. Click here for the 2009-10 school calendar. To view photo galleries from all divisions of the school, click here.
  • Kindergarten:

UPCOMING PARENT MEETINGS & EVENTS

  • Monday, 4/6 – 8:45AM: Bring the Conversation Home
  • Tuesday, 4/7 – 6:30PM: High School Preview Night
  • Thursday, 4/9: School Closed for Passover
  • Friday, 4/10: School Closed for Good Friday
  • For the most up-to-date, searchable all school calendar, please visit www.lrei.org/calendar. Click here for the 2009-10 school calendar.

 

 

WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS

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A message from Chap, Director of Diversity and Community
Bring The Conversation Home: Strategies for addressing challenging diversity topics your child brings home, Socioeconomic Class Part III
Join us for the last parent diversity discussion of the year. Monday April 6, 8:45-10:00 AM in the Sixth Avenue Cafeteria. Click here for a PDF flyer.

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Join us for the High School Preview Night on Tuesday, April 7th at 6:30pm in the Charlton Street Library. This is a wonderful opportunity for Middle School and Lower School parents to learn more about the High School program from parents and students. We hope to see you there! Click here for a PDF flyer. RSVP to Samantha Caruth, Director of Admissions, at 212-477-5316 ext. 305, scaruth@lrei.org.

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Hall Auction: Don’t miss out–you still have a chance to bid on great auction items! You can choose from: a week-long vacation in Oaxaca, Mexico; cupcakes and conversation with Atoosa Rubinstein, former editor-in-chief of Cosmo Girl and Seventeen magazines for your child and up to 19 of her/his friends; 4 VIP tickets to the 2009 Great Night in Harlem Concert at the Apollo Theater; fashionable apparel for women and men; and much more. Head over to the bulletin boards in the lobby of the Sixth Avenue building to start bidding!

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