Moorestown Friends School E-News - June 21, 2011

Senior Fencer Named All-State | Development Office Receives National Award
Faculty and Staff Summer Professional Development | Kitchen Sink Now Online
Fox Tracks | MFS in the News | Photos

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• MFS 2011-12 Important Dates
• Summer Service Opportunities from Upper School Service Coordinator Gail Barna

Seventy-Four Graduate from Moorestown Friends School

The weather cooperated long enough for the Class of 2011 to celebrate its Commencement outside on the Oval on Saturday, June 11. Keep your eyes on your mailbox for the Commencement 2011 booklet which is currently in production.
View and order photos from Commencement 2011

Senior Fencer Named All-State

Senior fencer Claire Ponticello was named First Team All-State Women’s Foil by the New Jersey Interscholastic Fencing Association. The senior captain plans to continue her fencing career at Duke University. She finished fourth in foil at the state championships this season.

Development Office Receives CASE Fundraising Award

The Moorestown Friends School Development Office received a CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) 2011 Educational Fundraising Award for Overall Improvement in Educational Fundraising. According to the award letter sent to Director of Development Steve Zakroff, 168 independent schools were eligible for this award, and five were designated as recipients.

"Because your fundraising program was judged by a panel of your peers, this award is not only a recognition of its high value to your institution, but also an acknowledgement of its stature as a best practice that contributes to the advancement profession overall," said CASE Vice President of Advancement Programs Norma Walker.

Faculty and Staff Participate in Wide Variety
of Summer Professional Development Activities

Many Moorestown Friends School faculty and staff members are participating in a variety of professional development activities this summer. Below is a sampling:

On-campus Curriculum Development:

Andrea Robinson: devising astronomy and water units for grades 5 and 6

Paula Cunningham, Stephanie Schuetz and Kelly Goula: crafting professional development for Lower School teachers in making use of reading assessment data

Emily Traver and Tim Clarke: Designing a robotics project that will be tied to the first grade space study

Diana Day and Debra Galler: Creating InDesign templates for the journalism program

Graduate School

Master’s Degree - Rowan University in Instructional Technology: Lisa Martin

Master’s Degree - University of Pennsylvania in Environmental Science: Kaitlin Bear

Master’ Degree - Rutgers University in Teaching French: Patricia Gilbert

Master’s Degree - University of Scranton in Educational Leadership: Sarah Kelly

Workshops

Columbia University Reading and Writing Institutes: Emily Traver, Ted Quinn, Paula Cunningham, Amanda Turner

Greater Washington Suzuki Institute: Marco Lucchi

National Middle School Association Institute for Middle School Leadership: Steve Shaffer

Lego Robotics Workshop at Rowan University: Barb Kreider and Brooke Smith

Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education Course on World Religions, Oakland CA: Priscilla Taylor-Williams

The Neuroscience of Learning: Meeting the Challenges of Individual Differences, Harvard University: Kathi Bernard

Independent School Technology Exposition (ISTE): Steve Kolaris, Gail Barna, Terry Harlan, Diana Day, Pauline Jones, Lisa Martin, Teri Kaiser

Voices for Learning 2011 Summer Institute-HELP-Hill Early Literacy Program: Morgan Gandal

Travel/Service

George School Service Program Service Trip to Ecuador: Karen Washington (some MFS students are part of this group)

Kitchen Sink Now Available Online

Kitchen Sink is now available through the MFS Intranet page. INSTRUCTIONS: click on “Kitchen Sink,” then enter the enrollment code "foxes" just as you do to get into the intranet page. That will allow you to see the extraordinary variety of work students have done across the curriculum this year.

Kitchen Sink is an online journal of student work across the curriculum. Designed and edited by students, it showcases the breadth and depth of the intellectual work that goes on at MFS every year. We hope that you will take a few minutes to see what we are, collectively, up to, and that some of the pieces will inspire you to read further.

– Eliza McFeely, Upper School Social Studies Teacher, adviser

Fox Tracks

• Freshman John Leibundgut placed first in the New Jersey State Shoot Singles Class Trapshooting Event and first in the New Jersey State Shoot Doubles Class Trapshooting Event on June 3. John was also named to the NJ State Trap Shooting Team, one of only four boys from New Jersey to be selected.
• Moorestown Friends School Boys Middle School Lacrosse Coach Michael McGinn has been sharing his love for lacrosse with players and fans for the past 11 years at MFS.  For the third time in his career Coach McGinn has been selected to lead a New Jersey State Team to the National Lacrosse Festival, this year the U15s in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has also been asked to coach the U13 Tri-State All-Stars, a storied Club with select players traveling from NJ, NY and PA in order to participate in this highly touted program. He will also be accompanying a small group of elite high school lacrosse players from across NJ and PA, including MFS students Sam Madamba, Matthew Waxman, and Pierce Williams to Costa Rica for a 10-day “lax” service trip.

MFS in the News

Photos

Kathy Cook's fifth grade class provided retiring Science Teacher Chuck Blatherwick with a special farewell gift - a quilt made using Mr. Blatherwick's signature nature-themed ties. The ties were secretly provided to the class by Chuck's wife Carol.		Yes that was a hot-air balloon that landed on the athletic fields last Wednesday evening...
Middle/Upper School Art Show >>> Commencement 2011

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