Transcript Strategic Planning Update

Fernway
School
In February, Fernway was evaluated for verification.
Only great things were expressed about our school.
A report was filed with IB in Bethesda and a recommendation
was sent to IB Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
On March 19th, 2013 we heard from IB that
we had been named an IB World School!
Congratulations Fernway!
Fernway School
“Welcome to the Fernway Family”
• One of five K-4 Buildings:
Boulevard, Fernway, Mercer, Lomond, Onaway
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Built in 1927
15 Classrooms, 3 per grade level
Over 350 students
37 staff members
The Mission of the Schools
The District will nurture, educate, and graduate
students who are civic-minded
and prepared to make ethical decisions;
who are confident, competent communicators,
skillful in problem solving, capable of creative thinking;
who have a career motivation and a knowledge of our
global and multicultural society.
Our Mission:
Civic-minded, ethical students
• Student Mediation
• Student Group on Race
Relations (SGORR)
makes annual visits to
the 4th grade
• Family Service Projects
Our Mission:
Confident, competent communicators
• Curriculum centered on effective
and varied expression
• Readers Theater
• Reading groups
• Writers Workshop
• Kindergarten Journaling
• Performances
Our Mission:
Skilled Problem Solvers
• Curriculum-centered problem
solving
• Chess Club
• Enrichment Programs
• International Baccalaureate
programme
• Successmaker computer program
• Science Lab field trips
Our Mission:
Creative Thinkers
• Curriculum centered on
creative outcomes of
learning
• Music and Art classes
• Art Club
• 3rd grade Musical
• 4th grade Poetry Play
Our Mission:
Career Motivated Students
• Scientist in the
schools
• Parent career
visits and
volunteerism
Our Mission:
Global and Multicultural
Knowledge
• Mandarin Chinese
taught weekly
• International
mindedness a
focus of IB
The Mission of the International
Baccalaureate Organization (IB)
“The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring,
knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better
and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and
respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and
international organizations to develop challenging programmes of
international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become
active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that
other people, with their differences, can also be right."
Transdisciplinary Themes
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Who we are
Where we are in place and time
How we express ourselves
How the world works
How we organize ourselves
Sharing the planet
Learner attitudes and attributes
Attribute of the week:
I think about my learning.
I think about what I do
and how I can improve.
Some of our essential agreements
Some of our
wonder walls
Featured Country:
Slovenia
• Many people come to visit Slovenia each year for the
mountain skiing and the beautiful lakes.
• Mountains make up much of Slovenia, and thick forests
cover about half the land.
• Slovenia has many caves and underground channels
that cause rainwater and even lakes to appear and
disappear.
• A grapevine in the town of Maribor is said to be more
than four hundred years old!
Resources:
Current Kindergarten IB Unit
Who We Are
New places, New Faces!
Central Idea:
People learn about themselves
and others trying new things
and making new friends.
Current 1st Grade IB Unit
Who We Are
Dude!
Central Idea:
Learner profile
attributes help people
build relationships.
Current 2nd grade IB Unit
Who We Are
Choose, Act,
Reflect
Central Idea:
Actions create
consequences.
Current 3rd Grade IB Unit
How We Organize Ourselves
TEAM: Together Everyone
Achieves More
Central Idea:
Collaborative systems
strengthen communities.
Current 4th Grade IB Unit
How We Express Ourselves
Digging for Information
Central Idea:
Artifacts reveal cultural values,
struggles and advancement.
Inquiry ~ a driving force to our learning!
Action
Fernway
School…
changing the
world one action
at a time!
September Birthdays
Carmel Akins
Loghanne Ash
Amari Boles
James Boyd
Madison Boyd
Jacob Clellen
Bree Collier
Sophia Cook
Za’riyah Davis
Brianna Dido
Sarah Dillenbeck
George Dixon
Logan Duffett
Abigail Hahnenberg
Tomas Halldorsson
Mia Hart
Idunn Herder-Augestad
Francesca Iversen
Oumou Kaba
Jack Lamb
Claire Leland
Jordan Levert
Nadiyah Marshall
Christopher Moyer
Michael Ratcliffe
Brendan Robinson
Jai’ahna Robinson
Casey Tyus
Nathan Wrubel
Sofia Zucca
Upcoming and recent fieldtrips!
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9/23
9/24
9/24
9/25
9/25
9/26
9/27
9/30
10/1
10/2
3rd grade to Mayor’s office
Battle to Science Lab
Harden to Nature Center
Hassell to Nature Center
Harden to Science Lab
Hassell to Planetarium
Hayduk to Nature Center
Haney to Science Lab
Harden to Planetarium
Hayduk to Planetarium
Shaker Library Salutes Fernway School’s
Summer Readers
Kindergarten
Sarah Dillenbeck
Abby Hahnenberg
Kennedy Hinkle
Eva Jones
Claire Leland
Clara Persson
Sophie Shaw
Loukas White
Fiona Zucca
Shaker Library Salutes Fernway School’s
Summer Readers
First Grade
Nathan Ballman
Joe Berglund
Ava Brown
Simon Bruening-Wright
Ryan Byrnes
Jenna Englander
Julianna Gentile
Natalie Konrad
Liam MacGilvray
Tre Martin
Evan Mears
Elisa Moulthrop
Amber Perkins
Matilda Spadoni
Braden White
Lauren Young
Sofia Zucca
Shaker Library Salutes Fernway School’s
Summer Readers
Second Grade
Thomas Barrett
Will Berglund
Joe Brancato
Quinn Bruening-Wright
Andrew Burleigh
Claudia Cullen
Dominic Harrison
Samantha Jalics
Hudson Jones
Chloe Khayat
Jack Lamb
Mira Martin
Catherine Monroe
Jake Pernsteiner
Noah Rusnak
Eva Shaw
Audrey Stein
Tywan Thompson
Shaker Library Salutes Fernway School’s
Summer Readers
Third Grade
Marcus Bertsch
Russell Besson
Eva Bishop
Josh Brown
Sophia Cook
Audrey Cullen
Samuel Dillenbeck
Claire Dunn
Brian Fox
Meg Hahnenberg
Aiden Hartzler
Liam Kaiser
George McGuinness
Marissa Morris-Garrett
Nico Moulthrop
Wrenna Pai
Liesel Prude
Sophia Rose
Amanda Senti
Gideon Shaw
Armen Taheri
Athan White
Jaiyana Wilson
Eric Worthy
Matthew Young
Shaker Library Salutes Fernway School’s
Summer Readers
Fourth Grade
Lissan Aklog
Julian Anderson
Patrick Barrett
Colin Burleigh
Anna Carpenter
Cody Englander
Millie Fredricks
Margaux Girard
Ellen Keefe
Emma Khayat
Nora Konrad
Evelyn Lewicki
Anthony Luo
Alex markland
Dash Pai
Katie Rusnak
Samantha Sekeres
Mac Stewart
Andrea Yasinsky
John Yasinsky
Fernway Important Dates!
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10/8
10/9
10/14
10/19
10/24
10/25
10/31
Board of Education Meeting 6:00pm, Admin Building
Fernway PTO Meeting, 7:00pm
Tour Your Schools Day, 9:30am-noon, 1:00-2:30pm
Fernway’s Fall Festival 1:00pm
Conference Day
Conference Day
Halloween Activities, 2:30pm
PTO News!
2013-2014 Shopping Rewards Programs
Heinens & 1% to Fernway!
Visit www.heinensrewards.com and register
Fernway for the ABC School Program.
Heinens will donate 1% of qualified purchases
between September - April to Fernway.
Cards that have been registered
need to be registered every school year.
PTO News!
2013-2014 Shopping Rewards Programs
Target & 1% to Fernway!
Have a Target card? If so you could be earning 1% for
Fernway and saving 5% on every purchase made
at Target and Target.com.
Visit the Take Charge of Education link on the
Target website and register your REDcard.
PTO News!
Earn box tops for Fernway by shopping online!
Target, Gap, Crate & Barrel, and hundreds of other online
retailers offer box tops with every purchase when you shop
through the Box Tops Marketplace.
Sign up to support Fernway at www.btfe.com
PTO News!
Show Your Fernway Spirit!
Fernway car magnets now available!
Want another way to show your Fernway pride?
Fernway car magnets are now available for $2.
The magnets will be available for purchase at PTO
events, along with your favorite Fernway spirit wear.
Front
$10 kids
Back
$12 adults