SLT Community Goals 2011/12

Each year, in addition to hosting family workshops and our formal work on the Comprehensive Education Plan (CEP), the PS11 SLT chooses Community Goals that target specific needs within our school community. For 2011/12 school year, we have chosen the following three goals:

1. Early Childhood Literacy

During the 2011/12 School Year, the PS11 SLT is chosing to focus on an Early Childhood Literacy. The launch date for a new Family Workshop series: Storytime at PS11 is Tuesday, November 1 from 9:30-10:30 in the school's library. Reaching out to the broader community, we invite families with children aged 2-4 who reside in the PS11 zone to come to an hour-long story hour. Here, caregivers will learn how will to read together and kickstart a lifetime love of reading. At the same time, they will meet other families in the PS11 community and become more familiar with their child's future school. This free program is made possible by dedicated parent volunteers.

 For more information on this program, or to sign up for Storytime at PS11, please email PS11library@gmail.com, or call 212-929-1743 / ext.2062

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2. Health & Nutrition

PS11 SLT chose Health & Nutrition as a community goal for 2011/12 school year.

We are so fortunate to partner with Wellness in the Schools (WITS), a program which inspires healthy eating, environmental awareness and fitness as a way of life for kids in New York City’s public schools. Through meaningful public/private partnerships with school leadership, teachers, chefs, coaches, parents and kids, Wellness in the Schools creates hands-on programs such as Cook for Kids, Green for Kids and Coach for Kids.

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3. Communication (continuation from 2010/11)

The PS11 SLT continues to strive to improve communication between the school and parents, parents and parents, teachers and teachers. This is done via an improved website, targeted and clear email communication with parents, curriculum coffees, SLT workshops, etc. If you have an idea as to how we can continue to improve communicating with each other, please email us!

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Community Goals 2010/11

1. Communications
During the 2010/11 school year, we chose to focus on improving communications with parents. That lead to the development of this website, Year-In-The-Life of a PS11 Student Guides, as well as information sessions and Q&As designed to answer the many questions that arise during the school year.

2. Kind & Gentle
We also launched the  PS11 K&G Pay it Forward Initiative. During the last week of the 2010 school year, the students of PS11 took their Kind & Gentle philosophy out into the community, hoping to see how their own actions can have far-reaching effects. Each grade came up with their own PS11 K&G Pay it Forward good deeds, and asked the person who was the recipient to do something nice for someone else, paying it forward.