Dear Terrace Road Families, 

We are thrilled to welcome everyone back into the Terrace Road School building for the 2024-25 school year. Although we were only able to work with your children for 1.5 days this week, things are already rolling along across the grades as classroom communities start to take shape. It was so nice to see everyone on Thursday morning for our Annual Welcome Back Coffee. If we did not get a chance to chat, and you would like to, please know that my open door policy continues!  

Communication

At Terrace Road School, we are committed to strong and clear communication with students and families. This communication needs to be timely, relevant and concise. We want to ensure that we are utilizing teaching and learning time to the best of our abilities as well while students are in our care. It is with these tenents that we have made some decisions to slightly alter our processes. Students have each been designated a "communication folder" that they will use to bring home newsletters and artifacts of learning. We will work through the growing pains of this process as a community. When artifacts of learning come home, there should be a place for parents to sign to indicate they have seen their child's work. We have also switched from agendas to a one-click digital blog for each teacher. In that blog, there will be important dates to remember, as well as an in-depth snapshot of an artifact of  student learning. Our goal is to provide a deeper, relevant understanding of children are doing inside of classrooms each week. These will be sent to parents on Friday afternoons, but I suggest you bookmark this blog, and that of your child's teacher, in order to visit frequently. 

To highlight the great things happening at our Terrace Road School, we will also host monthly Celebrations of learning, in which different classes will take the lead to showcase their current learning to the rest of the school. The goal is to highlight student work and shed light on the great things happening in our community. These Celebrations of Learning will be in-house gatherings. 

Continued Structures That We LOVE at TRS

• Buddies
• Sharing Circles 
• Familiy Fridays!
• Clubs
• Green Team
• Grade 5/6 Lunch Leaders in grades 1-3 classrooms
• School Learning Teams focused on the Whole Student
• Professional Learning Opportunities with our partner schools

Events!!!

We will be highlighting three important events for our school in September. 

September 12 - Corn Roast. The corn roast will be starting at 4:30 on September 12, and is open to all Terrace Road Families. We can't wait to gather as a community and ring in the new school year!

September 19 - Terrace Road School Open House. This Open House is an opportunity for students and families to come and meet their child's teacher and their learning context! The Open House will  be in a relaxed atmosphere, and will be come and go as you please between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on the 19th. 

Apple Fundraiser - Fundraising is a vital component of our community that has a direct impact on student learning, programming, and resources. Please consider supporting our fundraising efforts in this initial Davidson Orchards Apple Fundraiser. Please read the Apple Orchard Fundraiser Flyer.

Some snapshots into our professional learning from the first three days back and what we are grounding our work in this year!