Dear Trinity Families and Friends,
Homework is the opportunity for your child to put to use new information taught in class, to practice and synthesize, and to form questions for the next day of school. Homework is also the number one school/home connection. As a parent, your job is to offer support, encouragement, and assistance as needed. These are the precious moments when you get to glimpse into your child’s day. Often times we ask our child, “What did you do in school today?” only to get the answer of, “NOTHING.” To have better dialogue with your children and to find out what actually happened in school, it is better to ask directed questions vs. open-ended questions. For example: “What did you read today?” Or even better, “Tell me about a character in you reading book?” “What math challenge did you have today?” “What friend did you sit with at lunch?” Engaging your child in these kinds of questions foster a meaningful home-school connection and get your child talking about their day.
Children need help in learning how to set priorities and maintain schedules. Creating a routine, setting goals and meeting expectations are necessary learning experiences whose benefits far outweigh any struggles you may experience as you facilitate to establish them; however, do not fall into the trap of doing the work for your child. This will be tempting, especially when you are tired, your child is tired, and it is late. At these times, it might become necessary to allow your child to experience failure. As you know, sometimes we learn best from our mistakes. This is certainly true for children, if only we allow this to happen. Turning in an assignment that is incomplete or late allows a student the opportunity to recognize the consequence of poor planning. Your role is to assist, support, encourage; but stop short of “doing.” As hard as it might seem, you will be doing your child a huge favor in the years ahead, as well as facilitating his/her teacher to understand that there are still difficulties in mastery of the subject matter at hand.
I am proud to announce the
2017-2018 Trinity Episcopal School Student Council:
President- Maddy Pattillo
Vice President- Austin Gabriel
Secretary- Sara Gabriel
Treasurer- Leo Clark
Dance Chairman- Megan Maxwell
DASH chairman- Sasha Jaworski
Environmental Chairman- Noa Seigel
Pride Chairman- Evelyn Gault
Class Representatives:
Mr. Wheeler- Jane Charpentier Mrs. Higgins- Maggie Cragar
Mrs. Charpentier- Ariel Golan Mrs. Neblett– Grayson Root
Mrs. Cucco- Ella Sullivan
Mrs. Miller- Annie Boeh Mrs. Shaffner- Olivia Geller
Mrs. Kelemen- Julian Gant Mrs. Funston- Sara Jolin
Mrs. Rushing- Caroline Livanec Mrs. Wisner– Cora Buck
With warm regards,
Mark J. Ravelli
Head of School