Tomorrow (April 17) is a Professional Development Day for faculty and staff. There will be no school and no Vacation Program.

Join Head of Middle School John Turner, Assistant Head of Middle School Liam Considine and ninth grade advisers Drew Sweet and Megan Williams to discuss the end-of-year calendar and details about graduation and the "mystery trip."

To raise environmental awareness, the Middle School will try to go a day without power on Tuesday, April 21. The "Dark Day of Enlightenment" is a student-led initiative being organized by the Environmental Action Group.

The designated non-power buildings are: The Milikowsky Building, the North Building, and the top floor of the Middle School building. The fourth and fifth graders are not participating in the day.

Note: There will be no microwave use on this day, so please pack a non-microwavable lunch.

The following electronic devices will be off-limits for the day:

• Laptops
• Desktops
• iPads & iPods
• Smartboards
• Pencil sharpeners
• Microwaves
• Lights
• Cell phones
• Speakers
• Printers
• TVs
• Projectors
• Cameras
• E-Readers
• Copiers
• Scanners

If you have questions, please contact EAG co-advisers Kim Birge-Liberman
(kbirgeliberman@footeschool.org), John Cunningham (jcunningham@footeschool.org) or Kelly Small (ksmall@footeschool.org).

Please join Head of Lower School Beth Mello ...

8:15 a.m. in the Twichell Room

A presentation on next year's first grade program

8:15 a.m. in the Twichell Room

A presentation on next year's second grade program

RSVP to Erika Villa at evilla@footeschool.org, or 203-777-3464 ext.208.

A fundraiser golf tournament

for the Foote community & friends

Sunday, May 31
The Golf Club at Oxford Greens
Oxford, CT

A shotgun golf tournament for 18 foursomes.
All proceeds will benefit educational programs at Foote
Sponsored by the PTC

Click here for more information. Questions? Email Mark Anestis at markanestis@gmail.com

Fourth graders are learning about air pressure in John Cunningham's science class and got a hands-on demonstration of how it works Thursday by building 'lungs.' Using recycled Gatorade bottles as the chest cavity and balloons for the lung and diaphragm, the students worked in pairs to build models. Many were surprised to find that both the lungs and diaphragm are responsible for pushing air in and out, and that compressing the diaphragm balloon quickly caused the other balloon to pop out of the top of the bottle - the same action at work in the Heimlich maneuver.