Dear Middle School Families:
I am pleased to share with you our revised schedule for the coming year, which achieves all three of these goals while maintaining the health and safety of all members of our community.
2. Community: We know certain aspects of the school experience will simply be more challenging due to the required protocols. For example, the important tradition of gathering regularly as one middle school community in the Forum will need to be reimagined as we maintain physical distancing.
3. Academic Classes: I've included the structure of the schedule below (as well as a sample for Remote Learning if we need to transition to that mode at some point).
Schedule On-Campus (Fifth Grade) I also wanted to let you know about some administrative structure changes designed to better serve your students. Meghan Chew and Kathleen Nicholson, who have provided such outstanding leadership over the past two years, will now be Assistant Head of Middle School for Academics and Assistant Head of Middle School for Student Life, respectively. This addition will allow for better coordination of the experience across the middle school for our students. We have also added Grade Coordinator positions for each grade level to further enhance connections within the grade. Fran Denote will serve in this role for the fifth grade, Wenqing Zhang for the sixth, Kristen Dee for the seventh, and Iman Rasti for the eighth grade.
I will follow with further communications in the coming weeks about arrival and dismissal, lunch and snack, arts, and athletics, amongst other elements. If your child is a returning sixth- through eighth-grader, then they do not need to be on campus until Tuesday, September 1, which is the first day of classes for all students.
Sincerely,
Drew Meyer Head of Middle School Greens Farms Academy | 35 Beachside Avenue | Westport, CT 06880 |