SA Families,

Starting November 1, Salisbury Academy is conducting a brief survey that will take approximately ten minutes of your time to complete. Your participation in this survey will yield meaningful results about our school’s culture and programming.

The survey is being conducted through a third party, SAIS (our independent school accrediting agency) and you will receive a link to the survey via email on November 1. The subject line will be “An invitation from Salisbury Academy” and it will come from either [email protected] or [email protected] as the sender.

Please add [email protected] and [email protected] to your email contacts to avoid having the message go to your spam folder.

Thank you in advance for your participation in this survey!

Grandpersons Day Details

JK-8 Families are invited to join us for

Grandpersons Day 2023

on Friday, Nov. 10 in the SA gym

RSVP to Polly Lewis at [email protected]

Doors open 9:30 a.m.

Veterans Day Chapel 10 a.m.

Classroom visits to follow

Noon dismissal (ASK offered - RSVP for ASK here)

Volunteer for Grandpersons Day

Salisbury Academy’s Grandpersons Day is made possible by parent volunteers who assist in a variety of ways. Sign up to volunteer for set-up, to volunteer day-of, or to contribute items by visiting with sign-up link: 

Grandpersons Day Volunteer Sign-Up

SA Travel is heading out West, June 8-14, 2024. Deposits are due Nov. 30. Is your family interested in joining but still on the fence? Hear below from the Yost-Schupp family on what makes SA Travel trips fantastic and why they've already registered for the 2024 trip!

SA Parent Paula Yost shares the reasons why her family loved the SA Travel trip to Acadia/Boston in 2023:

🦞 We both work, and someone else took on all of the emotional energy and time to plan this.

🦞 If anything went wrong with the plan from the flight to the weather, it was someone else’s problem.

🦞 Our kids didn’t have sibling fights because they had other friends on the trip to hang around. 

🦞 Safety is in numbers, and we worried less about our children with all the other adults and kids around.

🦞 We got to sit together on the bus and have some uninterrupted conversations. 

🦞 The trip involved a lot of physical activity. Plenty of hiking, biking, shopping, and our kids were tired at night. 

🦞 We learned! The trip was very educational. 

🦞 Our children still talk about this trip. We had gone to Disney earlier in the year and our kids liked this trip more. (It was cheaper than Disney.) 

🦞 The trip was engaging for our entire family, from the forty-something-year-old parents to the five-year-old. Grandparents were also on the trip, and it was perfect for any age.

🦞 The food was really good and memorable. Grand Classroom did a great job using their experience to make sure we ate well. 

Paula continues: Overall, it was one of the most stress-free trips I’ve ever had with my family because we just got to be parents! We didn’t have to be responsible for curating every detail. 

Contact Melody Lee to register and learn more about the SA Travel trip Out West in June 2024.

Annual Fund Participation by Grade Level

Thank you to all who have made your gift to the SA Annual Fund! How does your child's class stack up? Make your gift today, and help us reach our goal of $95,000!

Thank you to this week's Annual Fund Donors

Wendy and Todd Beckham

Melanie and Adam Dombrowski

Delaine and Alan Fowler

Jessica Gaither

Margaret and Artie Hattaway

Cybil and Kevin Jones

Raquel and Rod Oden

Ashley Partridge and George Billingsley

Whitney and Derek Paschal

Katelyn and Timothy Stanton

Ashley and Jeffrey Townsend

Lucy and Grey Walker

Gloria Zavarse and Elohim Palermo

Please contact Director of Annual Giving, Tracey Baird, with questions.

Learning the Importance of Feelings

Kindergarten students are focusing in their SEL (Social Emotional Learning) class on the importance of feelings and how it's important to feel, even if the feelings are not happy ones. In this week's SEL class, the class read a book about a pumpkin who lost his feelings. Students then created hand puppets expressing a range of different feelings and put their puppets into a pumpkin bucket to give the pumpkin his feelings back!

In addition to discussing feelings, the kindergarten class has learned about calming techniques and has delved deeply into our monthly school virtues. For this month's virtue of perseverance, students read The Little Engine That Could and then created their own train that could overcome an obstacle.

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