October 19, 2006 Issue
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Education Section 102
Penn Charter Students and Teachers Lend a Hand William Penn Charter School students and teachers dispersed across the Philadelphia area on October 6 for the school’s ninth annual Upper School Day of Service. More than 500 volunteers pitched in at more than 20 sites, painting, cleaning up parks and trails and play areas, tutoring and serving meals at soup kitchens.
Farm to (Snack) Table at OMC Parish School Our Mother of Consolation Parish School is a veritable cornucopia of locally grown produce these days. A handful of cherry tomatoes (yesterday’s treat) await nibbling on the principal’s desk, a bowl of fresh pears tempts staff and visitors in the school office, and paper plates of sliced red peppers with cucumber salsa sit at each kindergartener’s place, ready for snack time. After a prayer of blessing, many of Ms.Gallagher’s 5-and-six--year old charges dig in enthusiastically. Others are a little more cautious. “I don’t like red peppers,” complains one little girl. And while children will always have individual preferences, OMC’s new principal, Bruce Hagy, has invited the Food Trust’s Kindergarten Initiative into the school this year to ensure that students are educated about healthy food choices from a tender age.
Philadelphia University Offers Accelerated Degree Completion Program for Adults Looking for enhanced career options? Admission into a master’s program? A real sense of personal achievement? For adults with some college credits, but without their degree, Philadelphia University’s Accelerated Degree Completion Program can help them receive their degree and realize their dream.
Hallahan continues tradition of all-girl education “There is an urgent need for the establishment in the City of Philadelphia of a Catholic High School for girls,” stated Father John W. Shanahan as found in the First Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for the year ending June 30, 1895.
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SATs, preparation is everything Over the last few weeks, many parents have attended back to school nights for one or more of their children. Thank goodness for back to school programs, because without it, I may not have known about the important PSAT and SAT testing dates that are just around the corner (10/14, 11/4, 12/2/, 1/27 and 3/10/07). As the Mother of a sophomore high school student, I realize the time is now for him to start preparing, not only for the entrance exams, but also maintaining a B or better average in his major subjects.
Waldorf School of Philadelphia adds woodwork program for middle school students
Children in the Waldorf School of Philadelphia’s grade school are used to using their hands to create objects that are both practical and beautiful as part of a rich curriculum in which arts and practical subjects complement and enhance academics. By the end of second grade, their school desks are full of objects – pencil cases, recorder cases, bags for their indoor shoes – that they have knitted, crocheted or stitched and embroidered themselves. In third grade, they crochet their own hats; in fifth grade they knit their own socks and mittens, and by eighth grade, design and machine-sew their own clothing. A sculpture program complements the handwork curriculum from fourth grade on, and woodworking in seventh and eighth grade.
GFS welcomes new lower school dean of faculty
Germantown Friends School is proud to welcome Kimberly Lewis of Mount Airy as the school’s new Lower School Dean of Faculty. She will be responsible for faculty support and curriculum development in grades K-5, helping teachers with professional development and with keeping GFS teaching at the forefront of education.
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