Hello Families!
Welcome back! I hope you had a restful and rejuvenating winter break. I was able to spend much of my time visiting family and friends.
It was wonderful to see our students’ faces last Thursday as they returned to Aquila. As I was in and out of classrooms, I saw students and teachers picking up right where they had left off. I saw fifth grade students showing their knowledge in math as they were calculating averages. I heard students having conversations about their break and saw them giving hugs to friends as they “reunited". I saw teachers collaborating around lesson planning and discussing how to best meet the needs of all their learners. As I reflect about that first day back, I see that our Aquila students and staff are living and breathing the IB mission and learner profile attributes. We are striving to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who work together to make our world a better and more peaceful place; thank you for partnering with us in this work.
I would like to share a quote with you and your family about the new year.
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
– Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Cheers to new opportunities!
Olivia Tolzin
Aquila Elementary, Assistant Principal
