High School Happenings
Dear Families,
The benefit coffeehouse last Saturday raised over $1300 for GEMS, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services. Now, it is my pleasure to invite you to to the opening reception for an exhibit about female photographers who use technology and digital culture to showcase their work at a pop-up gallery on 22nd Street, from October 28-November 2. One of our seniors, Emily Wilson, who is an exceptional photographer, has a piece in the exhibit; a few more of her pieces are being sold online.
The details:
G/IRL: Women Photographers Emerging in Digital Culture brings internet stars and emerging talent to Chelsea for a pop-up exhibition showcasing artists using social media sites like Flickr, Tumblr, and blogs to explore and establish a life in photography.
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, October 28th from 6-9pm
G/IRL Pop-Up Gallery, 300 West 22nd St. at 8th Ave., New York, NY 10011
VIRTUAL SALES GALLERY: http://aceditions.com/institutions/g-slash-irl
We are very proud of Emily’s achievement!
In other high school news, this afternoon students enjoyed a visit from Nuclear Scientist, Peggy Norris, who works at DUSEL, Deep Underground Science and Engineering Lab – an 8000ft gold mine converted into a science lab. She met with members of the 12th grade Advanced Physics class and several other interested students. Her visit can be included in the several days of visits from experts in their fields, including the Director of the film “Catfish,” Ariel Shulman, who met with our 11th grade Media class, and Art History professors from Bard College who presented their China artifacts program to the 11th and 12th grade East Asia Class. All of this and we just finished a successful minimester! Finally, as part of minimester, students in the Fierce and Fabulous Feminist Literature class attended a conference on the sexualization of girls and women in media and as a result created a fantastic blog worth bookmarking: http://fiercefeminists.wordpress.com/ This blog demonstrates how high school students can talk about gender and gender stereotypes and images in the media in a relevant and notable way.
All the best, Ruth
Updates and Announcements:
GO LREI !!!
Wednesday was a huge night for LREI Athletics! The middle school volleyball team defeated the Churchill School 2-0 to become the Independent School Athletic League Champions. Thompson Street Gym was packed with LREI students and families (even red pom-pom shakers on the sidelines!) rooting the team to victory. Uptown at Van Cortlandt Park, the middle and high school cross-country teams took home two first-place finishes in the AIPSL Big Apple Championship meet. Eighth grader Will Yarinsky is the middle school boys champion with a time of 11:14, and junior Sasha Stomberg is the high school girls champion winning the competition in 22:24. Both high school teams scored second place overall. Notable finishes on the boys’ side include junior Niles Diggs (6th), freshman Lenny Weissman (8th) and senior Monty Hill (9th). Seniors Margret Wiggins, Claire Hart and Sonrisa Murray-Fox crossed the girls race finish line in seventh, ninth and tenth place, respectively. Congrats to all our Knights for outstanding season finishes!
From our Academic Support Center team: *Important Message from Patricia Carter and Jerry Cascio, High School Learning Specialists: If your child is eligible to receive specific accommodations in testing or in the classroom, please submit a copy of this documentation to the Academic Support Center at LREI if you have not already done so. Click here to download a copy of the Documentation Request.
1. Go Green to School Day is this Wednesday, November 3rd and will continue throughout the year on the first Wednesday of every month. Please make every effort to take a green mode of transportation to school – walk, bike, scoot, take public transportation or car pool.
Also, to celebrate America Recycles Day (November 15) we will have a DVD/CD Swap. Starting on Monday, November 15 and continuing through Wednesday, November 17 tables will be set up outside of the Sixth Avenue building for the swap. You can drop off DVDs/CDs ahead of time in a bin located in the lobby, beginning November 1. Students/faculty/parents can swap all forms of CDs and DVDs, including computer, film, music, game and video. Any unwanted CDs and DVDs at the end of the week of November 17th will be sent to Back Thru the Future Technology Disposal who will safely recycle them.
2. Applications for 2011-2012 Tuition Remission
Please be on the look-out for an e-mail from Michel de Konkoly Thege, Associate Director, which was transmitted on October 26, 2010 and contains information about applying for tuition remission for the 2011-2012 school year. This year for the first time we are communicating with families that receive tuition remission by e-mail only and are urging these families to use the online option for completing the necessary forms. If you received tuition remission in the current school year and did not get this e-mail, a copy may be accessed by clicking here. Please note that the online system for filing tuition remission materials will now open on November 8, not November 1 as stated in Michel’s e-mail of October 26.
3. The School Store will be open this month on Wednesday 3rd and Wednesday 17th from 8am – 9am at the Sixth Avenue entrance ( or in case of bad weather, inside the lobby). Show your Spirit and start your holiday shopping now!