Good Afternoon Pine Lane Crew,
We review the Kurt Hahn quote, “We are Crew, not passengers.” frequently at Pine Lane. Today, I would like to say a huge thank you to our Pine Lane PTO and School Accountability Committee (SAC) for living out this quote. Throughout this last year your contribution and support for Pine Lane has been strongly felt by myself, our students, and our entire staff.
We are so grateful for your efforts to raise funds for technology, our playground, and our library. Your $10,000 donation toward technology needs and $10,000 dollars toward our school libraries is incredibly generous and supportive of our Crew. We want you all to know that we are still earmarking money toward getting turf on our south campus to eliminate our mud holes. We are hopeful that we can achieve that in the near future.
SAC and those of you who have tuned in to our meetings, your feedback has been so helpful as we adjust to our various modes of teaching and learning and continue to ratchet our way back to normalcy as safely as possible. Thank you for faithful service to our school and community.
Next year, we will have several opportunities available on these parent led committees. If you are interested in PTO or SAC, please reach out to me at cdstairs@dcsdk12.org or visit our SAC and PTO pages on our school website.
This last week, we have also been working with our staff to reestablish some of our traditional Rights of Passage. Our 4th grade team next week will be bring last years 3rd graders over to our south building to leave their hand print on the wall. Our 6th grade team is also working hard with Stone Canyon Outdoor Education Center to create multiple plans to ensure our 6th grade Crew gets an outdoor education experience of some sort.
Each time we reestablish one of these traditions there is a feeling of relief. Again, I am so thankful for your support and collaboration as we safely work our school system and society through this pandemic and back to normalcy.
Remember, we are Pine Lane! And, we are Crew!
Chris Stairs
Principal
Pine Lane Elementary