Portfolio Week
(2:15pm dismissal all week).
Students at each grade level have some form of final reflection presentation, and we invite parents to join these. Please contact your child's advisor, or call the office to sign up for a time slot. See details below for each grade level.
Grade 7 -- Presentations of Learning (15 minute slots) are being scheduled throughout the school day on Thursday 5/25. Parents are invited, in-person or remote.
Grade 8 -- Roundtables (1 hour slots) are scheduled Thursday 5/25 and Friday 5/26. Parents strongly encouraged to attend in person.
Grade 9 -- "YEAR" meetings (30 minute slots) are scheduled Wednesday 5/24 through the school day. Parents are invited, in-person or remote.
Grade 10 -- Roundtables (1 hour slots) are scheduled Thursday 5/25 and Friday 5/26. Parents strongly encouraged to attend in person.
Grade 11 -- "YEAR" meetings (30 minute slots) are scheduled Wednesday 5/24 through the school day. Parents are invited, in-person or remote.
Grade 12 -- Roundtables (1.5 hour slots) are scheduled all week at 3pm and 5pm slots. Parents strongly encouraged to attend in person.
This time of reflection, celebration, and goal setting is a valuable part of our learning and growth.
What’s ahead?
May 30-June 5 -- Project Week
As is our tradition, we end the school year with Project Week, where students engage in individually designed projects, with a few group projects also offered. Project week is a chance for students to do something fun and meaningful for their own learning. Students need to complete a project proposal form (copy attached). With parental permission and signature, students may engage in a project at home or at a site in the community-- for that, they need to put those details in their proposal.
The group projects offered this year were:
--Trail Maintenance with Ron
--Court Sports Development with Ann
--American Sign Language (Whistle facilitates)
--Painting Wall Hangings with Cynthia Parker-Houghton
But students were also encouraged to create their own individual project.
Ideas for projects have included things such as: Arts: Create a mural, movie, dance, poems, short stories; Immersion: Try being an artist, or a poet, or a scientist; Learn a skill: Fix a car, build a cabinet, cook Chinese food; Academic Discovery: Research an animal species, read about WWII, conduct a science experiment; Community Service: Do yard work for an elderly neighbor, volunteer at a farm, connect with an activist organization, do a job shadow, assist your parent’s business.
For those students working at school, dismissal is 2:15 during project week.