September 13, 2015

Greetings!

As we start the new school year, we thought we'd acquaint you with all the many ways we share news of the Swain community.

Most of these can be reached by going to the Swain website and clicking on the appropriate link in the upper right hand corner. Of course the website itself has a lot of news and information, which we hope you will check out on a regular basis.

This weekly e-newsletter is sent out by 7 p.m. (most) Sunday evenings, to share news and activities of the previous week - although sometimes we will focus on just one aspect of Swain.

We have a lot of fun with Swain's Facebook page,

This Kindergarten student's summer reading paper chain was our most active post of this previous week.

and use it as a 'window to our world' for those who are not on campus. We love to share photos and videos - sometimes as things are happening - and appreciate it when you like, share, and/or comment so others learn more about Swain.

We also use Facebook to share information about our alumni, what our students and faculty/staff are up to 'off campus', and articles and news of interest to the Swain community.

You do not need your own Facebook account to join in - simply click on the "Facebook" link on the Swain website, or visit facebook.com/theswainschool.

For those of you in the Twitter world, Swain has two Twitter accounts - @TheSwainSchool and @SwainSchoolEDU.

The first one includes all the info we share on Facebook along with some retweets from other schools and friends. The second one includes interesting articles, photos and comments related to education and parenting.

We are currently using a website called "Vimeo" to post videos of our school in action. Sometimes we also post them on Facebook and Twitter.

If you shoot a video of a school event, please consider sharing it with us - you can contact us at info@swain.org.

Mrs. Scerbo posted photos of her 2nd graders presenting items from their "Me" bags.

Have you heard the fun name "SmugMug"? That is the name of the service we use to share photo galleries on our Swain website.

You can see hundreds of photos in our "Events", "Sports" and "Theatre" galleries - these go back several years.

Our classroom teachers and specialists also have their own galleries - they love to take photos of their students 'in action' and share them. We encourage you to check your children's teachers' galleries often!

This special initiative is the work of talented photographer Theo Anderson, who captures the magic of Swain on his frequent rounds through our school.

He has gathered many of his images into a microsite called "Art of Teaching", and in his blog of the same name, he interviews Swain teachers for more insight into why - and how - they teach.

We encourage you to subscribe to the blog; you can find a link on the Swain website homepage, in the "News" section.