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IMPORTANT JOURNEY SCHOOL NEWS
News Bulletin
October 9, 2012
NEW ALLERGY POLICY - PLEASE READ

The Journey School Community works hard to create a safe and supportive learning environment for all students. In keeping with this top priority, our school has recently committed to protecting students with life-threatening allergies more attentively.

Specifically, the Journey School Board adopted a new policy intended to keep Journey children with life-threatening allergies physically and emotionally safe. Please click here to read the board policy. Administration is now in the process of revising its procedures to ensure the new board policy is implemented effectively. The revised procedures will be published to the whole community soon.

In the meantime, it is important for everyone to take special note of 3 key points:

  1. If a child has a life-threatening nut allergy, his/her classroom will become a "nut free" classroom and signs indicating this will be posted. In a Journey School "nut-free" classroom, the teacher and administration will ensure the students and their parents follow the school's nut-free guidelines. Students in these designated classrooms must refrain from bringing for lunch or snack, any item containing any peanut or tree-nut products including peanut and nut butters, oils, extracts and flours. Currently, the 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, and Dandelion Kindergarten classrooms are designated "Nut-Free."
  2. Parents and the school will not provide any food for a "nut-free" classroom that contains nuts or nut oils.
  3. Parents and the school will only provide foods that are nut-free for school-wide celebrations, bake sales, and other events.

Until more detailed Administrative Procedures are published, please click here for important information on life-threatening allergies and how you can help keep our children safe.

Finally, I want to thank you for your compassion, understanding, and unity on this issue. We've always 'stated' that classrooms attended by students with life-threatening allergies are "nut-free." The difference is we are now walking our talk, and adding the expectation that no foods containing any nuts or oils enter campus for school-wide events. This is an appropriate, and balanced, measure to implement so all children are safe both physically and emotionally.

Onwards and Upwards,

Shaheer

ASSEMBLY DRESS CODE & HALLOWEEN

Decorum and Dress for Class Presentations at Assemblies and Public Offerings

Students need markers to remind them that they are "ambassadors for their education." Journey School seeks to honor the work of the classes by setting a dress code especially for presentation of class work. When a class assembles on a stage and "as one"--showing their peers or the public the beauty of their work--we ask that they dress in white shirts/blouses and dark pants/skirts. In addition to making an effort to adhere to a strict dress code for these occasions, we ask that students observe a conservative decorum. 

Halloween is an opportunity to display the value expressed in the main themes of the Waldorf Curriculum.

Halloween offers an opportunity to honor a tradition enjoyed in many Waldorf Schools where students dress in the costumes that feature grade-level curriculum themes. Thus, when students parade in front of each other, the older students remember their past and the younger ones wonder about the future. Here are the themes to guide you in assembling simple, homemade costumes:

First grade: Fairies, elves, princes, princesses, and other characters from fairy tales

Second grade: animals, and noble human beings (king, queen, knight, princess etc.)

Third Grade: farmers, builders, gardeners, tailors, bakers, (the trades)

Fourth Grade: Odin, Thor, Loki, Sif, Idun, blacksmith, gods, giants (not scarey!) or a veterinarian, or animal, Lion, Eagle... etc.

Fifth grade: Represent the beauty of a culture, Indian, Persian, Greek god or athelete, or a botanist,

Sixth grade: Represent beauty of Chinese culture, Roman culture (centurion, soldier, orator etc.) Scientist (acoustics, heat, etc,)

Seventh grade: Represent the beauty of the Renaissance, a painter, a poet, a dancer, or a scientist (physics, etc.) a mathematician, actor

Eighth Grade: a figure of a known and revered person (Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Curie, Barton, Emerson... etc.)

These are just ideas, try your best to honor the opportunity this holiday offers to our community!  

Thanks from your Co-Education Director,  

Bonnie River  

P.S. Read more about Journey School's dress code on our website's dress code policy page. 
KINDY EVENT REMINDER - ALL ARE WELCOME

Media and Nutrition: How too much of one and too little of the other can impact your child's development

 

Dear Kindergarten Families and all interested adults,

 

We invite you to join us for our first Kindergarten Community Parent Education Evening this Thursday, October 11th beginning at 5:45pm.

Your Kindergarten teachers request that at least one parent from each family attend, yet we would love to see both parents come if possible.   

  • Make it a date night!   
  • Very limited childcare for the Kindergarten families will be available for a fee, $5.00 per child, $10.00 per family with more than one child. RSVP to your K teacher. 
  • Of course, home is the best place for the children in the evening, so if you can arrange care at home, we highly encourage you to do so.
  • All the best meetings begin with food, more to follow about that soon!

Looking forward to seeing you there!  We are all available for inquiries.

 

Miss Hellene, Miss Jennifer, Miss B, and Miss Jill

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