Summer Newsletter- June Edition

Congratulations to our Graduates!

We had a wonderful graduation and promotion ceremony on June 9, 2017. Thirteen graduates were lauded for their hard work and success at Peabody School. A special thank you to Alison Teweles for putting together a memorable movie, the Catchings/Bradford family for hosting the wonderful Middle School Reception, and all of our room parents for organizing classroom celebrations.

The Class of 2017

Opeyemi Balogun Will Owens

William Bradford Talia Sherman

Connor Cross Lexie Stadler

Walker Davis Brian Teweles

Kiran Klubock-Shukla Tim Weissman

Anya Le Kathryn Zimnick

Julia Nagel

Parent Information Center

During the summer, main office hours will be 9:00-2:30. The school is closed the week of July 3rd. If you need to visit the school during the summer, please call ahead to ensure someone is here!
There will be two more summer newsletters which will contain information about next year. Please be on the look-out!

Summer Reading

Bodacious! Magnificent! Diverting! It's almost time to kick-off the first-ever Peabody School Summer Reading Bingo Adventure! Informational letters and bingo boards are coming home in your rising K - 5th graders' Friday folders today.

This is is an engaging way for students to expand their reading into unfamiliar genres while experiencing the enjoyment of reading all summer. The Summer Reading Bingo Adventure is completely optional, but we encourage all of our voracious readers to participate!

Here are links to the grade 4-5 letter and board:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ua-0Bl2bvjz56yHVuA5EjV-2-KNO3z6NrTYxcCF4MUI/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dev6y4HBmqFjiqJGABl5jZy4hVi-iIX0H3cbxqfm8KY/edit?usp=sharing

Here are links to the K-3 letter and board:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CLB0MAGGB9Tz5n2PfhpKafiUlKLZH3WlQM1isnG7WDE/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sl5PlnDStwT_NY-QXdsAeFtDOwwQf0JjaGu-bht7tl4/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks to everyone for participating and have fun reading!

Happy summer!
Mrs. Funk

Please Vote by Friday!

Best of C-Ville Finalist

Thanks to our wonderful Peabody community for nominating us! Peabody School is a finalist in this year's Best of C-VILLE in two categories:

Best Private School

Best Preschool

Peabody Preschool is currently ranked 3rd behind Mountaintop Montessori and Bright Beginnings, and Peabody School is competing against Tandem, STAB, Covenant and Fork Union. Since these are much bigger schools, we need everyone to vote - thanks for your help! We hope you will vote for us again!

Voting ends this Friday, 6/23 at: www.c-ville.com/vote/

Thank you for your support of Peabody School!

News from Middle School...

8th Grade Legacy Project

This year, the 8th grade class raised funds for their Legacy Project by hosting a fall car wash, a Valentine's Day stuffed animal delivery, a bake sale, and the annual Film Festival. Through their efforts they raised over $2000 for their project!

The eighth grade chose to focus on ways to improve the student life experience for future Peabody students. They ordered (and assembled!) furniture to create two student study spaces in the middle school and a new student lounge area in the Atrium. They also purchased a ping pong table for middle school students (and Coach Fargo) to use during flex times.

We are so proud of their dedication to this project. The Class of 2017 would like to thank everyone who supported their fundraising efforts this year! You made this possible!

Middle School Award Winners

During our graduation ceremony, the following Middle School students were recognized for their contributions to the school:

Renee Henslee Leadership Award: Julianne Grunden and Len Colley

Scholarship: Claire Newman, Sam Funk, Katharina Ravichandran, Venetia Smith, and Anya Le

Citizenship: Julianne Grunden, Sasha Rinkevich, San Vigilante, Connor Cross

Penguin: Maggie Tewles, Katharina Ravichandran, Angus Leone, Opeyemi Balogun, Connor Cross

Congratulations!

Young Filmmakers Academy

This fall, we are very excited to bring the Young Filmmakers Academy 2017: "Creating Peace" to Peabody and offer a new after school filmmaking program for students in grades 4-8. The program will begin in late August and culminate with a red carpet premiere at the Virginia Film Festival in early November!

Designed to engage youth in authentic film production, Young Filmmakers Academy (YFA) is a collaboration between the Virginia Film Festival and Light House Studio that introduces students to the challenges of filmmaking. Students work in teams to write, produce, and edit short films around a common structure. After the writing, directing, filming, and editing are complete, the YFA honors the Young Filmmakers with a red carpet premiere of the films.

As part of the program, will offer workshops at Peabody presented by Light House Studio mentors and additional sessions facilitated by our staff. Keep an eye out for more information about our workshop schedule. Because of the very tight timetable and early YFA start date, this opportunity will be offered separately from the autumn PEP programs. We will create filming teams who are eager to work collaboratively and able to commit to attending workshop sessions for the duration of the project.

If your child(ren) will be in grades 4-8 and potentially interested in participating, please complete the short questionnaire below related to scheduling and availability. Thanks and see you at the movies!!

https://goo.gl/forms/WZe25MRSvhxNptvp2

Support Peabody School!

Thank you to everyone (donor roll) who has already made a gift! We are aiming for 100% participation from our families!

For more information about the Annual Fund, please contact Vaughan Clark at vaughan.clark@peabodyschool.org.

Have a Great Summer Break!!

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Phone: 434-296-6901
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