We are so excited with our amazing start to the school year!  We are again focusing the start of the year on our Whole Child goal as part of WASD's First Choice vision.  To that end, we have worked hard to make our large school feel a little smaller by creating our school NEST, K-5 Houses, and K-2 or 3-5 family groups within each house.  We are using the Fairview Nest as our play on Mr. Roger's Neighborhood to remind our learners that we are all one community (#ItsABeautifulDayInTheFVNest).  

We then have six "Houses" within the Nest representing the Project TEAM foundations of Anti-Bullying, Helping Others, Positive Change, Problem Solving, Resiliency, and Leadership (#6Houses1FVNest). The houses have learners from all grade levels and all homerooms so learners make connections they may not make otherwise.  Houses greet each other in hallways and playground and will be participating in monthly activities around a different foundation each month.  They also wear their house color on Tuesday's to show house pride.  It's a beautiful sight throughout the building.  

To make the school even smaller and ensure tighter connections, each house is broken down further into family groups of 15-20 learners.  These families span K-2nd or 3rd-5th that meet twice a month to learn essential skills and discuss concerns and ideas for success. This also gives learners a chance to connect to more adults throughout the building as all teachers are acting as family leaders and facilitating lessons and discussions. To give our older Falcons more leadership development opportunities, our 4th and 5th graders are actually designing and leading a monthly lesson on the foundations to the rest of their 3rd-5th family and their "buddy family" of K-2nd one time a month. For the final week of the month, all learners in the House gather together to hear from a local community member about their career and how the foundations they are learning about in school apply in that job.

Combining all of this with Morning Meetings in every classroom and a focus on resiliency and trauma informed best practices truly means #ItsABeautifulDayInTheFVNest.  Please reach out and let us know what YOUR learner thinks of everything and how we can help them feel even more connected to their school, their class, and their peers. Thank you for all you do to support our Falcon Neighborhood!  

#ItsABeautifulDayInTheFVNest 

#FVFalconsRise

#6Houses1FVNest

Mrs. Megan McGuire
Principal