Discovery Academy Families,
STEM Night was a huge success. Thank you to all who were able to attend. We were so excited to build (and break) with you. We had families from every grade enjoying projects across our school. A special thank you goes out to our resident deconstruction specialist Charlie Baumgartner and the UConn engineering student ambassadors. Below are some pictures from the evening.
-Mr. Reed-Swale
Parents,
Thank you for your wonderful support of STEM Night. As a follow up to our evening, we are sending home “Inquiry Science Diplomas” with each child who attended. As we print the nearly 200 diplomas, I am sure we may miss a student, or misspell a name. If this happens for your student, please accept my deepest apologies in advance. You can expect the diplomas to come home this week. If for any reason your child attended STEM Night and his or her diploma is either non-existent or incorrect, please email me directly at treedswale@crec.org and I will take care of it as quickly as I can.
If you are looking for the diploma in a backpack or folder, it will look like THIS.
Have a great week and enjoy the time with friends and family Thursday.
All the best,
Mr. Reed-Swale
Tonight I handed out about 500 high fives and took about 100 pictures of smiling faces. There were experiments and predictions happening. We had students building towers and bridges. There were musical instruments of all kinds playing through the halls. Countless dead appliance met a gruesome fate in the cafeteria. It was a night of rich exploration and near unending smiles. We even had some students who left in tears because they wanted to stay longer. It took a lot of planning and effort from a great deal of people to make tonight a reality. So with that I would like to say thank you.
Thank you to the students who came with eyes wide and minds ready for exploration. They are the reason we get out of bed in the morning.
Thank you to the parents who support the work we do every day. We could not make this journey of learning possible without your support and partnership.
Thank you to the teachers who gave up their evening, missing dinners, bedtimes, goodnight stories, and more.
Thank you to the administration who support and expect this type of learning on a regular basis.
Thank you to the volunteers who gave up their time willingly to be with us this evening.
Thank you to everyone involved. You make Discovery Academy a truly special place to work and learn. I am in awe of your dedication, your energy, and your support. I come to work each and every day not thinking of it as a “job,” but rather as an adventure of learning and excitement. This is a night that many children will probably remember for a long time. Each and every one of you had a part in that. And that’s something pretty special.
I’ve attached a few pictures. There are tons more taken by myself and the Discovery staff. I will continue to post them in the coming days. Enjoy the few I have to share tonight.
Thank you!
-Mr. Reed-Swale
Dear Parents,
Today was a historic milestone for our young school. In Wethersfield, at the future home of our school, town leaders, CREC leadership, elected officials, teachers, parents, students, and supporters of education came together to officially start the process of transforming our new school’s framework into the state of the art learning institution it will become.
As an educator, this was a first for me. I have experienced many special moments in my career, but this was a first on so many levels. Words can’t express how proud I am of our community for making this project a reality. Our new school will be a place where your children will continue the amazing journey they have begun at our current facility. To see what we have accomplished so far and to imagine what we will with this new facility is unfathomable to me. I have included some pictures from the day below. I hope they are as inspirational for you to view as they were for me to experience. Here’s to the years of exceptional learning ahead of us!
-Mr. Reed-Swale
