It's been really wonderful to be back for the new school year. My name is Jessica Greenfield. I'm the interim co-principal this year for the Secondary department. I will be working with the entire Secondary department and primarily supporting the high school. We have another interim co-principal, Luisa Soboleski, who was introduced through our newsletter earlier this week. Louisa and I will be working closely together and she will primarily be supporting the middle school. We will be taking turns doing newsletters this year for all of you, so you'll get to see different faces from time to time.
The TLC and MPS school educational programs have a theme this year, a sense of community. Community is a wonderful way to start the new school year, and we kicked it off this week by having a variety of different activities for students to do in their classrooms, all focused on building a sense of community within the classes and within the Secondary department. I've really enjoyed visiting classes this week, seeing the different ways that students and staff are getting to know each other and building a strong positive relationship. I encourage you to ask your children what they did in their classes this week connected to community. Today the entire middle school had a community day with different activities throughout the day to help with that connection.
High school students also had a variety of activities throughout the day. Louisa and I are looking forward to connecting with all of you as well, parents and families, and engaging you in our community this year.
This week, we've been experiencing old routines and new routines. We have routines related to COVID safety and COVID procedures, and routines related with the class schedule. This year, we're bringing back the rotating schedule from two years ago.
We're bringing back the lunch routine from two years ago where middle school students have recess first and then eat lunch. High school students eat lunch and then have some time to be active. See schedules below. We're reviewing routines for morning and afternoon arrival and dismissal, and really spending this week to get back into the swing of things as a community together.
