Dear West Wing parents, By now, we’ve seen your children on playdates, on Zoom, and at your home. We are so excited to welcome them to school on Monday, August 31. We teachers have been busy all month preparing for their arrival: setting up environments, choosing materials, and planning provocations that will bring joy, inspire…
Week 2 documentation: Aug 24-28 The East Wing children are returning to school with memories of their West Wing schedule. We are now working on learning a new routine and, with this in mind, we asked the children, “What is the same and what’s different about our return to school?” Aloe Veras: Presley: We used…
Dear WW Families, We wanted to say how wonderful it was to welcome everyone to New School-West this week for our playdates. We were so excited to see our classroom environments truly come alive with your children in them to explore, discover, wonder, and play. We also wanted to say thank you to all of…
We are so happy to share some of the magical moments we are experiencing this first week of our return. The children are acclimating to the new environment, new routines, and the new way of being at school together. This week our main focus is supporting the children in navigating their return and finding unique…
It was lovely to see some familiar faces on the EW first day Coffee via Zoom. Whew! It’s a whole new world! That said. . . with all the things that are different, there really are so many things that remain the same and I find great comfort in reminding myself to stay focused on…
Distance learning on Zoom challenges us to connect in other ways. With a lot of pre-planning on how to create a group from a small sample of our large school, we settled on Zoom games, show and tell, recognizing our names and playing with Zoom tools. The books we read are meant to embrace different…
Every year the teachers set up their environments to honor the developmental stages and interests of the children. With all the changes that surround us right now, this constant ritual that guides our work is keeping us focused as we design spaces that reflect the new mandates of physical distancing and cleaning routines. It will…
With impassioned introductions, our alumni x3 and legacy parent, Melinda Tsapatsaris (Theo, Dot, Ephy), shared the exquisite views into the children’s work from this year. The fun and lively participating families (some by proxy) raised $5250 last night for the school which is much needed and appreciated. Thanks, Ashley (Santiago new EW) for all your…
While keeping up with changes happening in a ‘Covid Minute’ Roleen, Kris and Katy reached out to new New School-Westers to help visualize their first days and prepare them for pods, masks, online content and drop-offs. We will be making a video for the whole school when the teachers are back on site to show…
Welcome back to our NSW Parent Portal.. We are grateful to the Growing Place for hosting our trial run on ParentSquare while we were working online upon our onsite closing on March13th. When they reached out to say they were starting fresh for their school year, we needed to decide how to best move forward…