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Dear Hardy Families, Highlight from the past week: |
3rd grade students showing their Hardy spirit!
Schedule this upcoming week:
- Monday – Cohort A in person (cohort B remote)
- Tuesday – Cohort B in person (cohort A remote)
- Wednesday – Half day of remote learning *Change from original calendar
- Thursday – Cohort A in person (cohort B remote)
- Friday – No School for Good Friday
Return to full in-person learning Information Session:
As a reminder, we will be transitioning to full, in-person learning schedules beginning on Monday, April 5th. As part of this full 5 days a week in-person schedule, Wednesdays will continue to be a half day, but dismissal will now be at 12 noon.
Virtual Wellesley Multicultural Festival 2021:
Saturday, April 10th at 5:30 PM
The Wellesley Multicultural Festival (WMCF) is a town-wide, annual event, organized in partnership with Wellesley Public Schools, which raises important questions for citizens, public administrators and political leaders by asking for recognition of and respect for cultural differences. The dimensions of multicultural awareness include the following: content integration, the knowledge construction process, prejudice reduction, an equity pedagogy and an empowering school culture and social structure. What do students, teachers and the community learn and gain from the process of organizing and participating in this event? Growing and learning in a multicultural environment yields (in particular for K-12th grade children), a greater understanding of others’ beliefs, attitudes and behaviors. With this knowledge of others, we will have a higher level of interpersonal and social skills. Through understanding various cultures and social groups, students are able to make connections from their own lives to the lives of their peers and thrive in a diverse world. The Wellesley Multicultural Festival is town-wide, free registration and inclusive of all Wellesley residents – multicultural and multigenerational. The WMCF is in keeping with the core values of Wellesley Public Schools and the World of Wellesley.
Registration for attendees will be up shortly on the World Of Wellesley website, while we are looking for participants to help us create programs for the event. We are planning to incorporate pre-recorded videos as well as live, interactive programing such as storytelling, demonstrating an art or craft, presenting a PowerPoint along with a Q&A, for example. For more information please contact Rama K. Ramaswamy. We rely on a community like you to sustain programming such as this. The Wellesley Multicultural Festival is brought to you by the World of Wellesley.
Have a great week!
Respectfully yours,
Grant Smith
Principal