Please come and enjoy an evening getting to know other Holmes School families, dancing and pizza at our Back to School picnic on Thursday, September 15, at 5-7pm. Details and payment information is included in the attached flyer. If you can, please try and walk or carpool. See you there!
Three math workshops are being offered by the Darien School District for parents (as posted on www.darienps.org): PK-1 Math Parent Workshop September 15, 2016, 7pm to 8:30pm, Central Office, 35 Leroy Avenue, BOE Room Presenter: Deb Armitage, Math Consultant from Exemplars Please join in learning how you can support your child’s understanding of number sense. Leave […]
Lifetouch will be visiting Holmes School on Wednesday, September 7 for picture day. Individual and class photos will be taken for each grade. Lifetouch flyers have been distributed to students in their backpacks. Online orders can also be made at mylifetouch.com. The Holmes Picture Day ID is EJ516004Q0.
Please see the attached letter from Principal Paula Bleakley regarding the Safetalk Program and an upcoming Safetalk Parent Meeting at the Tokeneke School Cafeteria (7 Old Farm Road) on Wednesday, September 7th at 1:45 PM.
Welcome to the 2016-2017 school year! Please be sure to mark you calendars for the upcoming parent coffees with Principal Paula Bleakley and the Holmes PTO. The coffees will be from 9:15 – 10:15am in the Common Room as follows: Grades 3-5 Thursday, September 8th. Grades K-2 Friday, September 9th.
School is out, but our garden is in full swing. Thank you to Marianne, Heather and all our garden volunteers (including students) for their hard work this year. To help tend the garden during the summer please see our previous post: Gardeners Needed. Here is a slideshow of activity and growth in our Little Buds Garden.
Gardeners Needed! Little Buds would love a helping hand over the summer taking care of all the fruits, veggies and herbs that were planted over the past few weeks. If your family would like to take on the garden for a week, please sign up via the attached link. No heavy lifting required…just a little […]
Twice Exceptional: Understanding Students with both Disabilities and High Abilities. Monday, June 6, 7:15 PM in the Darien Library Community Room. Please join us for a presentation by Susan Baum, Ph.D., on raising and educating twice-exceptional (2E) students — those with high abilities combined with learning challenges. Dr. Baum will discuss the importance of recognizing […]
Get your kids excited for summer reading! Registration for Darien Library’s Summer Reading Program starts Monday, June 6th! Darien Library writes, “This year’s Summer Reading theme is DARIEN OLYMPIANS. If children register for Summer Reading within the first ten days (from June 6 – June 16), they’ll automatically be entered into a raffle to win a BB-8™ robot. […]
The Holmes School Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast will be held on Wednesday, June 1st at 8:45am in the Common Room. It’s time for EVERYONE who pitches in to help a little or a lot to come together, give and get a pat on the back in gratitude as well as enjoy each other’s company before the year comes […]
