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Fernway School
On March 19th, 2013 we heard from IB that we had been named an IB
World School!
Congratulations Fernway!
In February, Fernway was evaluated for verification. Only great things were expressed about our school.
A report was filed with IB in Bethesda and a recommendation was sent to IB Headquarters in
Geneva, Switzerland.
Fernway School“Welcome to the Fernway Family”
• One of five K-4 Buildings: Boulevard, Fernway, Mercer, Lomond, Onaway
• Built in 1927• 15 Classrooms, 3 per grade level• Over 350 students • 37 staff members
The Mission of the Schools
The District will nurture, educate, and graduate
students who are civic-minded
and prepared to make ethical decisions;
who are confident, competent communicators,
skillful in problem solving, capable of creative thinking;
who have a career motivation and a knowledge of our
global and multicultural society.
Our Mission: Civic-minded, ethical students
• Student Mediation• Student Group on Race
Relations (SGORR) makes annual visits to the 4th grade
• Family Service Projects
Our Mission: Confident, competent communicators
• Curriculum centered on effective and varied expression
• Readers Theater• Reading groups• Writers Workshop• Kindergarten Journaling• Performances
Our Mission:Skilled Problem Solvers
• Curriculum-centered problem solving
• Chess Club• Enrichment Programs • International Baccalaureate
programme• Successmaker computer program• Science Lab field trips
Our Mission:Creative Thinkers• Curriculum centered on
creative outcomes of learning
• Music and Art classes• Art Club• 3rd grade Musical • 4th grade Poetry Play
Our Mission:Career Motivated Students
• Scientist in the schools
• Parent career visits and volunteerism
Our Mission:Global and Multicultural Knowledge
• Mandarin Chinese taught weekly
• International mindedness a focus of IB
The Mission of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IB)
“The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right."
Transdisciplinary Themes • Who we are• Where we are in place and time• How we express ourselves• How the world works• How we organize ourselves• Sharing the planet
Learner attitudes and attributes
Attribute of the week:
Balanced!
I am healthy. I am organized. I take good
care of myself.
Some of our essential agreements
Some of our wonder walls
Featured Country:
• Norway was one of the first countries to allow women to vote. Women are very involved in Norwegian politics.
• The United Nations consistently ranks Norway as having the highest standard of living in the world. As a people, Norwegians are well-educated, earn high incomes, and have long life expectancies.
Norway• Norway is known as the Land of the Midnight Sun because from
mid-May to the end of June, the sun never sets in the north.
• Norway hosts the Nobel Peace Prize.
Resources:
Current Kindergarten IB UnitWho We AreNew places, New Faces!
Central Idea: People learn about themselves and others trying new things and making new friends.
Current 1st Grade IB Unit
Who We AreDude!
Central Idea: Learner profile attributes help people build relationships.
Current 2nd grade IB UnitWho We AreChoose, Act,Reflect
Central Idea: Actions create consequences.
Current 3rd Grade IB Unit
How We Organize OurselvesTEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More
Central Idea: Collaborative systems strengthen communities.
Current 4th Grade IB Unit
How We Express OurselvesDigging for Information
Central Idea: Artifacts reveal cultural values, struggles and advancement.
Inquiry ~ a driving force to our learning!
Action
Fernway School…
changing the world one action
at a time!
Action Fernway School…
changing the world one action at a time!
St. Baldrick's “Conquer Childhood Cancer” head-shaving event.Thanks to donations, team
Fernway raised $3588!
September BirthdaysCarmel Akins Sarah Dillenbeck Claire LelandLoghanne Ash George Dixon Jordan LevertAmari Boles Logan Duffett Nadiyah MarshallJames Boyd Abigail Hahnenberg Christopher MoyerMadison Boyd Tomas Halldorsson Michael RatcliffeJacob Clellen Mia Hart Brendan RobinsonBree Collier Idunn Herder-Augestad Jai’ahna RobinsonSophia Cook Francesca Iversen Casey TyusZa’riyah Davis Oumou Kaba Nathan WrubelBrianna Dido Jack Lamb Sofia Zucca
Upcoming and recent fieldtrips!
• To be posted soon!
Shaker Library Salutes Fernway School’s Summer Readers
Sarah DillenbeckAbby HahnenbergKennedy HinkleEva JonesClaire Leland
Clara PerssonSophie ShawLoukas WhiteFiona Zucca
Kindergarten
Shaker Library Salutes Fernway School’s Summer Readers
Nathan BallmanJoe BerglundAva BrownSimon Bruening-WrightRyan ByrnesJenna EnglanderJulianna GentileNatalie KonradLiam MacGilvray
Tre MartinEvan MearsElisa MoulthropAmber PerkinsMatilda SpadoniBraden WhiteLauren YoungSofia Zucca
First Grade
Shaker Library Salutes Fernway School’s Summer Readers
Thomas BarrettWill BerglundJoe BrancatoQuinn Bruening-WrightAndrew BurleighClaudia CullenDominic HarrisonSamantha JalicsHudson Jones
Chloe KhayatJack LambMira MartinCatherine MonroeJake PernsteinerNoah RusnakEva ShawAudrey SteinTywan Thompson
Second Grade
Shaker Library Salutes Fernway School’s Summer Readers
Marcus BertschRussell BessonEva BishopJosh BrownSophia CookAudrey CullenSamuel DillenbeckClaire DunnBrian FoxMeg HahnenbergAiden HartzlerLiam Kaiser
George McGuinnessMarissa Morris-GarrettNico MoulthropWrenna PaiLiesel PrudeSophia RoseAmanda SentiGideon ShawArmen TaheriAthan WhiteJaiyana WilsonEric WorthyMatthew Young
Third Grade
Shaker Library Salutes Fernway School’s Summer Readers
Lissan AklogJulian AndersonPatrick BarrettColin BurleighAnna CarpenterCody EnglanderMillie FredricksMargaux GirardEllen KeefeEmma Khayat
Nora KonradEvelyn LewickiAnthony LuoAlex marklandDash PaiKatie RusnakSamantha SekeresMac StewartAndrea YasinskyJohn Yasinsky
Fourth Grade
Fernway Important Dates!
•9/11 Fernway PTO Meeting 7:00-8:00pm •9/17 Kindergarten Open House/Curriculum Night 6:30pm•9/19 Curriculum Night for grades 3 & 4, 7:00pm•9/20 Back to School Bash, 6:30pm•9/21 Raider Day Football Game at High School, 1:00pm•10/14 Tour Your Schools Day, 9:30am-noon, 1:00-2:30pm•10/19 Fernway’s Fall Festival 1:00pm
PTO News!ABC School Donation Program
Support Fernway School While You Shop!
Sign up for a Heinen’s Preferred Customer Card and register for the Tasteful Rewards program.
Select (or reselect) FERNWAY as the school of choice at www.heinensrewards.com!
Heinen’s will make a donation of 1% of your purchase to PTO.
PTO News!
Earn box tops for Fernway by shopping online!
Target, Gap, Crate & Barrel, and hundreds of other online retailers offer box tops with every purchase when you shop
through the Box Tops Marketplace.
Sign up to support Fernway at www.btfe.com
PTO News!Show Your Fernway Spirit!Fernway car magnets now
available!
Want another way to show your Fernway pride?
Fernway car magnets are now available for $2.
The magnets will be available for purchase at PTO events, along with your favorite Fernway spirit
wear.
Front Back
$10 kids $12 adults
