-from “The Gates of Dawn”, sung at our opening assembly this morning.

Please be sure to put a placard in your dashboard with your child(ren)'s name(s) and grade(s) clearly written or printed. If you are walking to pick up, please carry the placard with you.

This helps us at drop off as we check to ensure everyone coming to campus has completed the health screening form.

The placards also help at pick up so we can read them quickly when we call to the teacher on the walkie talkie. This helps keep traffic flowing.

Great job today! Remember to do the daily health screening in ParentSquare by 7:30am every school day...

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Please reference this map for drop off & pickup flow.

While our kitchen is still closed, we are glad to be able to partner with Wholesome Food Services for our lunch program. Menus are open for ordering a few days a week. Setup for the full week is still in process. Registration is free, and there is no obligation!

First, check ParentSquare for posts from your teachers, your departments (Children's Garden, Lower School, High School), and the administration.

If you cannot find the information you are looking for on ParentSquare, please email your department coordinator/administrator:

You can view the full calendar online either on the website , in ParentSquare , or in the BigSis portal (these 3 platforms are synced from the same calendar). 

* Current Parents can find Zoom information for meetings in ParentSquare

We will host a virtual New Parent Orientation tomorrow. This will be a great opportunity to learn more about the school and how to become an active member of the community.

Look for an invitation in ParentSquare.

All current parents are invited to join Lelia True, Interim Head of School for a Zoom lunch meeting on Friday, September 17 at noon. Look for an invitation in ParentSquare.

Send your questions for Lelia in advance.

The WWS Leadership Council for Diversity, Equity and Social Justice (LC4DESJ) offers a warm welcome to our new and returning families as we begin a new academic year together! 

We honor the strength and kindness that live in our community as well as the courage to innovate possibilities yet unseen. In these fragile times, and as we start a new year, the LC4DESJ reaffirms our steadfast commitment to the important and difficult work of diversity, equity and social justice at our school. It is a commitment grounded in anti-racist practices. We extend an invitation to our entire community to help take up this work together because we understand that the meaningful transformations we seek are not possible without this work carried as a collective act, rather than alone in a specific committee as is often the case.  With this in mind, the LC4DESJ, in conjunction with the Parent Leadership Group (PLG) and the faculty Anti-Racist Curriculum Group, will be offering ways to get involved as the year moves forward. Please look out for our notices that will be circulated via ParentSquare and/or the weekly Bulletin.  In the meantime, we wish our students, faculty, and staff a great first week!

In lieu of an in person Welcome Tea event, this morning we passed out WWS mugs with tea, honey, and cookies (one per family). If you didn't receive one and would like one, please let us know!

What was in the mug?

New students should have received a welcome bag today. (If you have more than one new student it would have come home with the eldest.) There should be a bag for each student, a bit of WWS swag, and a packet of information about various aspects of life at WWS for the family. If you didn't see one come home, please let us know!

Do you know about the Waldorf Alum Networking Platform & The Continental Waldorf Alum Business Directory? Both are centralized resources for alumni from Waldorf schools across North America and they are offered by the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA).

AWSNA also hosts periodic events for alumni and alumni families. Learn more about their next offerings below...

These conversations are bi-monthly virtual events with different topics. Over the summer there was a panel on "Sustainable and Socially Conscious Business, Finance, and Entrepreneurship" - If you were unable to attend, you can view a recording of the conversation.

AWSNA is still looking for young alum participants for the October event. Connect with current high school students! Share your experience, wisdom and insight on life after Waldorf. Contact Nita to be a panelist and inspire the next generation!

DATES: Saturdays 11:00 pm - 1:00pm EST

FEES: Sessions I, II, III: $145 per session

There are still a few shares available for the CSA! Different options are: school year only (Sept-May), winter/spring season (Dec-May) and summer. Call or email first to confirm availability--once confirmed, registration info is here (a discount is available if you pay with cash/check). 

What's the CSA? Spiritual Foods CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) provides biodynamic and organic veggies, fruit, eggs, bread and other seasonal staples, with most of it grown on land leased from the Kimberton Waldorf School in PA! Biodynamics, like Waldorf education, was founded by Rudolf Steiner and is a spiritual-ethical-ecological approach to agriculture, food production and nutrition. Choices for share options include: main share of veggies, fruit & supplements; main share w/out bread; or veggie/fruit only. Please visit the CSA website for more info, costs, and registration forms, or email or call Lakshmi at 301-654-4899 with questions and to check on availability. You can also reach out to Sunny Kaplan, WWS alumni parent and WWS/CSA coordinator. 

This group will help support parents as we navigate technology with our children. It will also help children socialize without their phones or tech. I joined this national/international group this summer to get additional support raising my teenagers in the pandemic. It is excellent and I am now a local rep for the DC area. If you would like more info see screenstrong.com , and e-mail me at [email protected] with the subject “ScreenStrong”.

Used Fitmax Therapy Pool for sale with 100% of proceeds going to the WWS OneFUND.

This pool is 7 x 7 feet wide and 4.5 feet deep and comes with a heater. Good for physical therapy, stationary swim training, and more. The pool is in good shape and has no leaks. It was used only one season and kept very clean. Sale includes metal frame and thick vinyl pool lining, pool cover, vinyl mat for under the pool, ladder to get in and out, and electric heater. NOT INCLUDED are pump and hoses (pump is $130-$350 and hoses are $20 each on the Fitmax pool website). You'll also have to fill with your own water and get chemicals and filters. Learn more: https://fitmaxipool.com/shop/fitmax-therapy-pool-without-heater-special/ 

If new, this pool would be $1999 plus another $1000 for the heater. Asking for $250 OBO which we will donate to the WWS OneFUND.

Please contact Ildi at [email protected]

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