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I think my son feels really good about making good grades.
-Seabury Parent
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THE WEEK AHEAD: |
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Fri 5th: |
Upper School Performance of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), 7 pm End of the 3rd Quarter |
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Sat 6th: |
Upper School Performance of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), 7 pm Blood Drive, 9 am to 2 pm Forensics @ Paola |
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Sun 7th: |
Spring Open House, 2-4 pm |
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Mon 8th: |
Boys Basketball Awards, 6:30 pm |
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Tues 9th: |
Auditions for spring show, You Can’t Take It with You, 3:30-5 pm. 9th grade college meeting, 7:30 pm |
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Thurs 11th: |
Greece Trip Meeting, 7:30 pm |
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March 5, 2010 Dear Parents: This week, I actually heard students wish for no more snow. Clearly, our winter has been overlong. Course enrollment forms are going home with students today so parents can approve and sign forms and return them. Please make sure these enrollment forms are back to Mr. Patterson by Wednesday. (If there is any question about your student’s cognitive GPS, you might consider handing off these forms yourself!) Tonight is the first performance of the Upper School show, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)! Please come out to see a hilarious script performed by talented actors tonight or tomorrow at 7:30 pm. Also, thank you to the cast of the touring show Cinderella for their great work this week. Also, on Tuesday, 9th, Mr. Weaver will be holding auditions for the spring production of You Can’t Take It with You. Once more, thank you to everyone who attended last week’s auction and to everyone (parents, staff, and students) who worked so hard to put it together. You would have been amazed at the industry of the parents who helped put the school back together on Sunday. And, on behalf of the school, I want to thank Juli Warren-Ward and Sara Oliver for pulling off this important event. We have to wait several weeks before announcing the final results of the auction (as we sort out final invoices), but our first estimates are very heartening. Thank you! We will host our spring Open House this weekend from 2-4 pm, and this is the perfect opportunity to invite friends, colleagues, and neighbors to come see the school. Hopefully, we will have a full house. We also will be having the Blood Drive on Saturday from 9-2. With one week left before spring break, we enter into a week of desperate and vicious competition: the Spring Fever Grudge Match. As is traditional each year, the faculty and students will compete at five different challenges:
Mr. Nelson was the founder of this 5-day Grudge Match as a sports fund-raiser, and he is once again bringing his evil genius to the table. Each match will occur after lunch, except the Battle of the Bands, which will occur at 2 pm on Friday—and you are invited. On behalf of the faculty, I wish the students luck. Staff members spoke to younger students this morning about developing a sense of decorum and appropriate personal boundaries in public spaces. In some respects this was a discussion about propriety and sexual harassment, but it was also about how students address one another with technology, especially in texting and on the internet. We explained that becoming an adult involves a crucial shift of attention from one’s own desires and intentions to an awareness of and a respect for the value of others. The result is a more developed and richer sense of respect for one’s self. I hope students will feel free to speak further on the subject with you. Have a very good weekend!
Dr. Schawang
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