Dear SDFAS Community,
Thank you to all the grandparents who participated in Grandparents Day from all around the world! It was a great success. The students (and teachers) took a real pleasure meeting you, and learning about your childhood and about the world you were living in when you were their age.
Enjoy some pictures and videos in this Google Photos Album
An exemple of Grandparents Day presentation in elementary school: L’école de Mamie et Papy Victor by Victor Saget (1st grade)
PK-Grade 2: Testing on Monday 11/30 with results Tuesday 12/1 and back on campus Wednesday 12/2 (= 2 days of DL)
Grade 3-8:Testing on Tuesday 12/1 with results Wednesday 12/2 and back on campus Thursday 12/3 (= 3 days of DL)
Covid Screen Testing Schedule by Grade & Class for 11/30 & 12/1
Communication from Mark Rosenblum - Thursday, November 26th November 26, 2020 (Thanksgiving Day) Dear SDFAS Community, I would like to sincerely wish each of you and your network of extended family and friends a peaceful and meaningful Thanksgiving Day and long weekend. We certainly do all have much to be grateful for. Among other things to give thanks for, I read the following piece of information in a recent La Jolla Light article from November 14, 2020. Reading it gave me a moment of pause and reflection: “Out of 462,752 public and private school students [in San Diego] reporting, about two-thirds are learning online only while 6 percent are attending school in person full time.” (Click HERE to read the full article). We are fortunate at our school, for those families who are interested in on-campus learning, to count ourselves among those 6 percent. Let’s work hard together to keep things that way. I am also writing to share more information with you about our school’s Return-to-Campus Plan for the period time following Thanksgiving Break until December Break. •Click HERE for the slide deck about our plan ( including rationale and decision-making process behind it). Please review it carefully and note there are numerous important links within these 10 slides. •Click HERE for this past Monday’s Zoom Webinar with a panel featuring Dr. Francesca Torriani MD, Infectious Disease Prevention Specialist @ UCSD, members of the executive committee of our Board of Trustees, and members of our school’s academic leadership team. With admiration and respect for all of our teachers and staff members, and for each of you our students and their parents, I wish for each of us a peaceful and meaningful Thanksgiving afternoon. Mark Slide Deck – Return to Campus Plan after Thanksgiving
On December 1st, SDFAS will host its first Giving Tuesday! Please click here and donate to unlock generous matching gifts from the Board of Trustees and the Head of School. This Day of Giving is an opportunity for our community to come together. Thank you for supporting the Annual Fund and showing your gratitude for the commitment and the dedication of our faculty and staff to put children first and deliver the education they deserve.
Thank you to Mendy Hoppel, proud mom of Graham in PK2, for being at the origin of this project and taking the lead in its implementation.
Parents will receive a schedule for Monday and Tuesday directly from the teachers. Please note that your child will connect with their teachers via a Zoom link. Students will need help to connect and end the session.
The activities will be assigned every day via seesaw. Some activities will require the help of an adult. More resources may be available on a Padlet.
Guidelines for online sessions of Distance Learning As a parent and now co-educator, we need your help. FOR PK2/ K students : To help develop your child’s autonomy, let them interact on their own with the teachers, while being available if needed. Distance Learning will start on Monday, November 30th at 8:30 am. Teachers will contact families with Zoom links and schedules. The end of the day will be at 2:45 pm. We would like to remind all families of the risks associated with internet use. Please make sure that your child is working only on school websites presented by the teachers. If your child has a school email address, it should be used exclusively for school related work and communications. We appreciate your support in informing us of any activities that may be of concern so that we can proactively ensure the safety of all students. For questions about Elementary School, please contact Francis Carlier, Director of Elementary School, fcarlier@sdfrenchschool.org. Hardware Mathematics Continuity Our French Math teacher Mr Giot is away on paternity leave and will return shortly (December 3rd). We are grateful to Teresa Sekiguchi and Fabienne Debrand for overseeing Mr Giot’s classes during his leave. Mr Giot left extremely detailed lesson plans and assignments with us prior to his temporary absence – these are also viewable on Google Classroom. We wish him and his growing family our very best! Citizenship Grades As citizen-members of the SDFAS Middle School Community, students are expected to demonstrate self-awareness and self-regulation in their behavior, engagement, and interactions inside and outside of the classroom, including in online activities. Students are expected to act and speak with respect for self and others and to model the school’s core values of Open-Mindedness, Intellectual Curiosity, Integrity, Empathy, and Resilience, which include being safe, being an upstander, and being inclusive. Distance Learning after Thanksgiving weekend Thank you note from Tom Faure, Director of Middle School Middle School Academic Newsletters 7th graders and the Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair For questions about Middle School, please contact Tom Faure, Director of Middle School, tfaure@sdfrenchschool.org. FACTS | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Vimeo | Middle School Blog | Elementary School Blog | Preschool Blog | Podcast | Preschool Portal | Elementary School Portal | Middle School Portal |
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