Dear PS 107 Families,
What a wonderful first full week of school! We all got to experience the complete weekly schedule, which was helpful to us as a school to work out any kinks and ensure that our transitions from class to class were going smoothly.It also allowed your children to meet all of their specialty teachers – Mr DiFranco in Music; Ms Julie in Art; Ms Diane in PE; Ms Galella in Library; and Ms Abby in Science – and start to learn the routines and expectations for their classes. This last week, you were also able to meet your children’s teachers during Curriculum Night on Thursday, which we hope was informative and left you excited about the year to come.
We are working on ways to bring families into classrooms in ways that feel safe and inclusive. Our School Leadership Team, a team made up of equal parts staff and parents, will be meeting for the first time this Wednesday, and one of our first orders of business will be to discuss this very topic. Stay tuned for details! We know that you are eager to see your children’s classrooms in person and meet your children’s teachers IRL. We are excited for this too.
One thing that we have learned over the last two-and-a-half years is that Zoom is no substitute for spending time in-person with the people who matter to us. In the coming school year, we hope to have many opportunities for all of you to spend time together with the members of your children’s classroom community.
Here’s to another great week!
Warmly,
Ms Joanna