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September 26, 2008
Dear Parents and Guardians,
The new school year began with 1,050 students. You can imagine the “joyful noise” during recess! Your children are amazing! In just a few short weeks they have adjusted to classroom routines, happily working and sharing purposeful conversations with one another, which leads to student achievement. The classroom teachers practiced routines with the children for the first two weeks, and now our second graders, sometimes known as “new friends” or “olders,” gladly assist the “youngers” or “new friends,” also known as first graders and the Kindergarten students.
This September has brought “Back to School Nights,” Picture Day, Constitution Day, and MAP assessments. Our first general, PTA meeting was most successful, with many new parents in attendance, and we look forward to Fire Prevention Week in October . Our next general PTA meeting is on Tuesday, October 21 at 7 PM.
Please keep in touch with PLE through our weekly school newsletter, individual teacher letters, our web page, and Newsflash.
Please remember that in order to volunteer at Penn London, all adults need criminal background and child abuse clearances prior to serving, on file in the principal’s office, as per the District School Board Policy #916, effective as of July 1, 2005. As of 9/19 we have 396 parents with completed clearances. These volunteers began on Monday, September 22.
Thank you for sharing your children with the staff of Penn London Elementary.
Sincerely,
Marie DiGiulio ,
Principal |
Pdf version
of the Constitution letter sent home to parents the week of
September 5-8th, 2006.
Lunch Rules and Recess
Rules for PLE. These are part of the letter sent home
about the Constitution. Posted September 5, 2006.
ABOUT
OUR SCHOOL
Located at the
intersection of Route 896 and Route 796 across from the new
Avon Grove Intermediate School, Penn London's central core
houses administrative offices, two instructional support teachers,
two school nurses, a school psychologist, the Title I Coordinator,
a small theatre, a library, individual art and music rooms,
a gymnasium, a computer lab and a cafeteria.
The central core
is flanked on either side by thirty-three classrooms arranged
in two stories with a maximum capacity of 900. In 2001, we
added a Kindergarten Center, which presently hosts thirteen
sessions in the A.M. and P.M., serving 275 children.
The Penn
London Elementary School exists to create and implement
experiences for children that will prepare them to interact
and function confidently and responsibly in their world. The
elementary schools' vision is to embrace a holistic approach
in all areas of development, in order to create an environment,
in which all children achieve to their potential. During their
primary school experience, the students are placed in a family
structure for grades one and two, in order to provide them
with familiar faces and spaces. The children attending kindergarten
are also placed on families, and they will continue with those
families when they enter grade one.
The primary
beliefs of the Penn London School staff are that every
child deserves excellence; everyone has the potential to be
a successful learner, and it is the school's responsibility
to discover what the learners already know and help them make
connections with what we believe they need to know. The school
must provide a literacy-enriched environment where learners
have the opportunity to develop and use language and literacy
routines associated with authentic, everyday activities.
It is essential
to maintain open lines of communication among school, family,
and community. Open communication, mutual respect, and active
involvement by school, family, and community will enhance
a child's school experiences and help to establish the environment
needed for a child to become a more successful learner. Parents
are an integral part of their children's school experience,
and we have had an active PTA that has worked
to extend and support the educational programs at Penn London.
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