Wheels on the Bus Safety Program for Incoming Kindergarten Students
Students' last day (including 2 make-up days) Early dismissal - HS at 10:45, MS at 11:10, Elem at N
Wheels on the Bus Safety Program for Incoming Kindergarten Students
Kindergarten Transition Day (Early release for kindergarten students only.)
Welcome to the Paul R. Hanlon School, a K-5 elementary school where we strive to foster the best possible environment for teaching and learning. At Hanlon, we celebrate and honor the similarities and differences of individual students while building a learning community where children feel safe, known, and challenged. The Hanlon staff is committed to seeking continuous improvement, supporting high expectations, and providing challenging learning experiences that facilitate each child's cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth. We value collaboration, perseverance, and risk-taking. We encourage all children to give their best, and to view their mistakes as learning experiences that build character and resiliency. Our core values guide how the Hanlon community learns, works, and plays together.
THE HANLON SCHOOL’S CORE VALUES
Achieve academic success in a safe and nurturing environment
Develop knowledge and understanding through exploration and discovery
Demonstrate effort, pride, respect and responsibility
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Over the course of each month, I try to collect pictures of students and their learning. Having these pictures helps me demonstrate to parents the incredible work that goes on at Hanlon. As I scrolled through this past month, I kept coming back to one picture:
This is a structure that students have built on the edge of the wooded area during their free time at recess. Throughout their building process, I have watched students across the grades collaborate to create the largest structure they could. They had to work together to gather materials (logs are heavy!), hoist them, and problem solve when their creation fell (this happened very frequently).
While it may not initially seem it, this student only project embodies the district’s core values:
Since students were the originators of the idea, they were highly invested in its successful outcome. The students used aspects of geometry, measurement, estimation, and reasoning during this creation.
The students encountered many, many failures during the construction. As individual sticks or entire sides fell, students studied what happened and rebuilt it in a way to respond to the structural collapse. The students showed determination and persistence as encountered problems.
The students had to work together to achieve their goal. There were many instances of competing ideas, differing opinions, and frustration. This allowed the students to practice life skills like self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.
While there are incredible things going on in classrooms all day long, I wanted to highlight the students' application of those skills in a fun way.
Matt
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