Dear Parents,
What a wonderful week we have had at Ivy Hall School! Our future 1st graders from Willow Grove visited our school and had an excellent visit and tour! Our 1st and 2nd graders participated in field trips. Our 3rd graders hosted a Wax Museum. Our Adaptive Physical Education Team hosted the End-of-year APE celebration. All of these wonderful activities in addition to our WILDCATS Countdown are helping students and staff end the school year on a positive note.
Please note the upcoming schedule for our final week of school.
Have a terrific weekend,
Mike Senatore
NEW *Upcoming Dates*
May 29 - No School
June 2 - Last Day of School & Half Day
NEW *PTO Blog*
Our PTO maintains a weekly blog that has useful information for opportunities to get involved in the Ivy Hall School community. Their latest blog post can be found here, below are this week’s highlights.
- End of the School Year Gifting Made Easy
- 5th Grade - Blade, Skate, & Celebrate with Prairie School
- Culver’s Fundraiser on May 26th
- Mabel’s Labels Fundraiser
REPEAT *Summer Reading*
This summer, we want students to experience the pure joy of reading. Since the purpose of summer reading is to help foster a love of reading, we strongly feel that students should read a book that is of high interest to them and close to the difficulty level of text they would encounter during the school year.
To support our elementary students in continuing to read over the summer, each grade level has a recommended reading list, as well as optional reading lessons that can be completed independently by students. Both the lists and the summer reading lessons can be found on our district website.
REPEAT *Technology Update*
Aside from a few exceptions (defined below) all students will KEEP their District 96 technology (iPad, iPad Case, Charging Cable, Charging Brick, and Logitech Crayon) over the summer and will be expected to return with it at the beginning of the 23-24 school year. It will be the student’s responsibility to come to school next year with all of their technology items. Should parents have technology-related questions over the summer, they can get a hold of us at [email protected].
Exceptions:
All EC student iPads at Willow Grove will be collected at the end of the school year. We will redeploy class sets at the start of the 23-24 school year.
All 8th-grade student iPads will be collected on the morning of Wednesday, May 24th at both middle schools.