Grandparents' and Special Friends' Day will take place Wednesday, October 15. The event will start at 9 a.m. in the auditorium with coffee/pastries and a short presentation/video. 

Our special guests will go to the classrooms around 9:20 a.m. for about 40 minutes. The theme this year is "Fond Memories of Summer Vacation." 

A few important reminders for the safety of all students

To help with morning traffic, it's extremely important to do a quick drop-off in front of school. If you need to go onto campus or talk with another parent, do not park on the yellow curb in front of the school, please park your car in a parking spot.

Please make an effort to arrive a little early or on time.

After school, all parents, including parents of middle school students, have to go to the gate to pick up their child.
 

Parents: please stay in the allocated parent area by the front gate. It is very important for the security of our students. It is difficult for staff members to know who the parents are or to determine if there is an unwanted visitor taking the opportunity to walk freely among the students. After drop-off, for the security of your child, please report to the front desk.

Study hall: to avoid disrupting the students at work, parents are requested to wait until the end of study hall to pick up their child or if you want to pick your child up early please go through the office and ask the office manager to call the classroom. Do not walk directly to the classroom. The same rule applies during the school day.

Finally, I have to insist on NO U-turn at Windemere: it is illegal and we wish to remain good neighbors. Please go to the next traffic light to make a U-turn (on Soledad Mountain Road, driving down from the school).

I wish to thank all parents for their support in reinforcing these rules.

Christian Jarlov,

Head of School

Various breads are available every Tuesday at pick-up time on the school playground.

What: Baguette and other specialty breads from Bread and Cie. will be sold at SDFAS every Tuesday afternoon. Baguettes will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

Why: To raise money for the families participating in the Dallas Theater Festival.

When: Every Tuesday afternoon from 2:45-4:00 (if you are unable to pick it up at this time, please ask Valérie for special arrangements).

Where: SDFAS K-8th blacktop.

Please fill out the Order Form if you would like to order specialty breads or large quantities of baguettes! 

You can also email your order to Valérie before 4 p.m. on Fridays. Cash or check only (payable to SDFAS). 

THANK YOU.

Questions can be directed to: Valérie, vasensio@sdfrenchschool.org

 Each school year, SDFAS administers various forms of standardized testing to students across a number of grade levels.  Over the course of the past few years, we have been in the process of evaluating the value each standardized testing measure has offered to our students, our teachers, and our families.  Our goal has been to find and administer a standardized testing measure that will effectively and efficiently allow us to gauge students' academic growth, retain and track comparative data from year to year, compare our students' achievement with the achievement of students from other schools, report data clearly and effectively to teachers and parents, help us to identify areas in which students must be offered additional support or enrichment, and provide meaningful feedback on the efficacy with which we are executing our dynamic program.   For the past two years, we have been piloting a relatively well-known standardized exam called the SAT-10 Online, and we feel that this exam has offered us many of the benefits we have been looking for.

Firstly, the new SAT-10 Online exam is much more comprehensive in scope than previous models, and is designed to guide teaching and learning toward high achievement standards, which is very much in line with the SDFAS educational mission. 

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