Weekly Email April 7, 2005

Dear all,

Welcome back from what I hope was a restful break. The third trimester has begun, and the Charlton Street building is quickly back to its usual buzz. Some important announcements:

1) Music on Saturday, Part I: This Saturday is our annual " Family Sing," a terrific Community Event starting at 1:00 PM in the 6th Avenue auditorium. This year we will be remembering the life and legacy of legendary LREI music teacher named Charity Bailey. For more about this remarkable person and the event, please go to Nick O'Han's message at http://lrei-ed-news.blogspot.com.

2) Music on Saturday, Part II: The Coffeehouse has been moved back 1/2 hour to 6:30 PM on Saturday at Charlton Street - all are welcome!

3) The New York City Stock Market Game program is pleased to announce that a two-person team of LREI 12th graders (members of the Data Analysis class) was the first place finisher in the High School division of the 1/24-4/01 Stock Market Game (SMG) session. The team has been invited to attend the SMG Awards Ceremony held in late May 2005 at the New York Stock Exchange. The ceremony will recognize the top teams of both the Fall 2004 and Spring 2005 sessions. (It should be noted that a different LREI two-person team came in third in the Fall 2004 session!)

4) From the members of the High School Lesbian Gay Straight Alliance (LGSA): On Wednesday, April 13th, students in the high school will be participating in a national Day of Silence organized by the High School LGSA. The Day of Silence, a project of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network ([ http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/home.html ]GLSEN) in collaboration with the United States Student Association ([ http://www.usstudents.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=7 ]USSA), is a student-led day of action where those who support making anti-LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) bias unacceptable in schools take a day-long vow of silence to recognize and protest the discrimination and harassment -- in effect, the silencing -- experienced by LGBT students and their allies.

5) From School Nurses Kitty Highstein and Joanne Gouge: Welcome back to spring! Thank you for everything you’ve done to keep our students with nut/seed allergies safe. Please continue to remember to be especially careful when preparing or buying food to bring into school for special occasions such as potlucks, intermission snacks for plays, publishing parties, etcetera, that none of it contains nuts or seeds of any kind. Meals packed for field trips should also be nut and seed free. The same goes for off-site spring picnics. We hope you all had a wonderful break. It’s good to see everyone again!

As always, please browse the web site at www.lrei.org for updates and information about goings on around the school.

All the best,

Tony


UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, April 9, 7:00 PM - COFFEEHOUSE AT CHARLTON STREET!!

Friday, April 15 - School closed - High School Professional/Planning Day

Tuesday, April 19, 6:30 PM - High School Parent Reps Meeting, Charlton Street

Wednesday, May 4, 6:30 PM - The Big Auction


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