Bingo Night is Back – May 16
Bingo Night is back by popular demand!You can buy tickets at drop -off and pick-up on Loomis Place all week.
Entrance tickets are $2 (including a ticket for a door prize drawing)
Games cost: $7 for a book of 15 games
Raffle tickets cost: $5
Tea cup raffle costs: $1On Bingo Night, the Gym doors open at 5p.m.
Bingo begins at 6 p.m. The raffle is at 8:10 p.m.There will be lots of food and beverages for sale including pizza, grinders, wraps, Ben & Jerry's ice cream and popcorn.
1st prize – Apple Macbook
2nd prize – a wii with an extra controller
3rd prize – Razor electric scooterOther prizes:
iPod Touch, Olympus digital camera, Sony PSP, Guitar Hero, iPod Nno and Nintendo DS.Questions? please contact Kate Gillis or Christine Chiocchio. – The PTC
updated 5/15/08
May Day is Coming – Here’s What You Need to Know
Tips, DVD/VHS, Dress Code, Picnic and moreOne of Foote’s oldest traditions, May Day will be held on Rike Field (off Highland Street) on Friday, May 23, beginning at 11:00 a.m. Don’t miss it. Each grade performs American folk dances, including Rigs O’Marlow and Sleights Sword Dance. Kindergarten will perform a dance called Chimes of Dunkirk.
Third graders will, as usual, dance the May Pole.
Students in grades four – nine will dance the Virginia Reel with a partner of their choice from the spectators!
More notes About May Day:
• Familes, relatives and friends are welcome. Dogs are not!
ª Sunscreen – Please make sure your child wears sunscreen on May Day. We will be outside for an extended period of time. Water bottles are also recommended.• Kindergarten and MAG parents: May Day is very exciting. To help us help the children remain as calm as possible, we ask that you leave the classroom after you drop them off that morning. You are welcome in the Perrine Library.
• Third grade parents: Our third grade boys traditionally wear boutineers and third grade girls (and music teachers) are adormed with crowns of flowers. We need volunteers to bring flowers as well as to make headpieces on May Day – no experience necessary! Please contact Lisa Totman if you would like to help.
Dress Code
May Day is a dressy occasion at Foote School. The children are working very hard at acting like ladies and gentlemen. It makes them feel even more special to be dressed up.Boys:
Dress pants in white or light khaki.
No grass stains, holes in the knee.
No jeans, sweatpants or warmup pants.Solid “spring” color dress shirt, such as green, yellow or blue.
Can be long or short sleeve. Can be a “golf” shirt or polo.
No T-shirts, sweatshirts, jeans or warm-up pantsSneakers with tread on the bottom. (Students in grades three – nine may bring alternate shoes to wear when not dancing.)Girls: Spring pastel dress or pantsuit
Sneakers (Students in grades three – nine may bring alternate shoes to wear when not dancing.)May Day Video
The PTC is once again hiring a professional videographer who will tape and edit a video that we hope will capture all the special memories of May Day 2008.Each grade from K through 9th will be included, with special 3rd, 8th and 9th grade highlights, as well as unique behind-the-scenes footage and exclusive interviews with various Foote School personalities!
• Cost: $25 for VHS; $40 for DVD (This makes a great gift for grandparents and special remembrance for Foote students!)
• To Order: Click here to download an order form. Or pick one up at the Front Desk.
Place the Order Form with your check in the May Day Box at the Front Desk.
The deadline for all orders is Wednesday, May 28!• Delivery: The VHS tapes and DVDs will be sent home via your child before the last day of school.
May Day Picnic . . .
. . . on the Upper Field immediately following May Day festivities. Bring a blanket and a picnic lunch (or purchase pizza, wraps, chips, cookies and bevereages from the Foote School PTC.)• The new Foote Family Cookbook will be on saleat the picnic for $20 a copy.
Updated 5/15/08
Foote Family Cookbook Debuts
The book, with an introduction by Jacques Pépin, is filled with recipes submitted by Foote students, teachers, staff, parents and grandparents. Several recipes have been cooked in Foote classrooms with the children, so the cookbook should bring back wonderfulmemories. Illustrations include food drawings by Foote students.
Pépin, cookbook author and celebrity chef, submitted three recipes and wrote a lovely introduction about the pleasures of sharing meals and the comforts of kitchens.
The Foote Family Cookbook makes a terrific keepsake as well as a thoughtful gift for bridal showers, birthdays, anniversaries, or any special occasion.
Copies are $20 each and are avaiable at the Front Desk. Colpies also will be sold at May Day.
Posed 5/9/08
Annual Field Day – May 7
A long-standing Foote tradition in which the Maroon teams compete againt the Grey on Rike Field (Highland St.) for the year's bragging rights took place May 7. The Grey team won and everybody had a great day.Click here to view the Field Day photo gallery.
Note: Families at Field Day, thank you for leaving your dogs at home!
Field Day events:
Session I - 10:45 and 11:00 - 12:15
* Warm up with the Chicken Dance
* Baton Shuttle relay (K, MAG, 3)
* Scoop Relay (K-MAG)
* Fireman’s Carry Relay (4-9)
* Fun Run and 60 yd. dash (K-9)
* Tug-O-War (3-5)
Session II 1:00-2:45
* Obstacle Course Relay (9-MAG)
* Field Events:
-3 Legged Race (MAG-9)
-Sack Race (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, MAG, 3, 4)
* Tug-O-War (6-9
* Final Baton Relay -
A Maroon and Grey girl and boy in
each grade (1–9) who placed first in
the 60 yd.dash will be placed in
this event.Updated 5/9/08
FSA/PTC Annual meeting
was May 14
– Akhil Reed Amar, Foote parent, Yale professor, and specialist in the US Constitution, spoke about the Constitution and the upcoming Presidential election.For details about the meeting and biographies of those elected to be Directors, click here.
For a list of PTC Representatives click here.
Updated 5/14/08
Student Excel in Statewide
Foreign Language
Poetry Recitation ContestThis year's COLT (Connecticut Organization of Language Teachers) 27th Annual Foreign Language Poetry Recitation Contest was held Wednesday, April 9 at East Haven High School. More than 1,000 students from over 100 public and independent schools competed in 14 world languages.
Foote students garnered medals in 11 out of the 15 categories* they entered. The prize winners are:French:
7th grade (MS 1) Maggie Peard – 3rd place
8th grade (HS 1) Natasha Flath – 1st
9th grade (HS 2) Kate Reilly-Yurkovsky – 2nd
9th grade (HS 3) Maggie Bogardus – 1stLatin:
8th grade (MS 2) Audrey Milazzo – 3rd place
8th grade (HS 1) Giuliana Gearty – 1st
9th grade (HS 2) Zoe Goetzman – 3rdSpanish:
8th grade (MS 2) Tiara Tompkins – 3rd place
8th grade (HS 1) Ben Rosenbluth – 1st
9th grade (HS 2) Ally Zoreiqi – 1st
9th grade (HS 3) Evan Horwitz – 3rdThe competition at this event is always fierce, with more languages added and more schools entering every year. Our students really rose to the occasion.
* Our 9th grade honors classes are level HS 3, and our 9th graders compete against juniors and seniors in high school.
Our 7th grade class is equivalent to a Middle School 1 class; our8th grade standard class is the equivalent of Middle School 2; 8th grade honors is High School 1; 9th grade standard is High School 2; 9th honors is High School 3.
Posted 4/10/ 08
Foote Cookbook Coming Soon
The new cookbook is going to be terrific and will be out just in time for Mother’s Day. There are delicious recipes submitted by Foote parents, children, graduates, faculty and staff and include ones made by kids in Foote classrooms. Illustrations will include artwork by Foote students. And, chef and cookbook author Jacques Pepin has written a fabulous introduction to the book and has submitted a couple of his own masterpieces.
Updated 4/1/08
Students, Faculty Visit Foote's Sister School in Changsha, China
On March 3, the day after the ninth grade play closed, teachers Deb Riding, Lynne Valentine, John Climie and Shelia Lavey, and nearly the entire ninth grade embarked on a 12-day China expedition. The photo shows head of school Dary Dunahm addressing the group just before they boarded their bus to JFK Airport. This marked the fourth consecutive year that ninth graders have visited China. Foote has had a teacher exchange program with China since 1998.
For details of the adventure, as well as links to the photo gallery, visit the Foote-China Exchange pages.
Updated 4/1/08
The Man Who Came to Dinner
February 28 & 29 and March 1“You asked me a little while ago what I wanted for a Christmas present. All that I want … is the memory of you in that mummy-case!”
This year’s ninth grade play was the Broadway favorite and extremely popular The Man Who Came to Dinner. The Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman work opened on Broadway in 1939 and has been playing to delighted audiences ever since. The three performances at Foote were no exception.
The plot: Sheriden Whiteside, a famous New York radio/showbiz personality, slips and breaks his hip while dining at the Ohio home of the Stanley family, initiating sixtumultuous weeks of his confinement in their home.
This leads to hilarious events from expensive transatlantic telephone calls to the unexpected arrival of strange gifts including a mummy case, penguins, and 10,000 cockroaches -- and a splendid array of characters, from ex-convicts to a glamorous actress -- all of which disrupt the Stanley family ’sdomestic tranquility.Click here for photo gallery of performances.
Updated 41/08
Book Swap 2008: Feb. 25 – 29
Volunteers Needed to Make It HappenThe Bookswap, a popular Foote tradition, runs Monday, Feb. 25 through Friday, February 29in the Sturley Room, which is below the Library. The swap is a favorite event for many kids.
Here’s how it works:
Gently used baby books, picture books, chapter books, and young adult and content-appropriate adult (for teens) – fiction, non-fiction, reference – may be dropped off Monday through Thursday in the Sturley Room.
Books may be “purchased” Wednesday though Friday with with money or with chits received for donating books. One chit is given foreach paperback and Golden Books and two for each hardcover.Books must be appropriate for children up to age 14. The Book Swap won't take books for adults, Marvel comic books, textbooks, coloring or activity books.
Hours are: Monday and Tuesday, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday, 8 a.m. through 5:30 p.m.; and Friday, 8 a.m. through 12:30 p.m.
Many volunteers are needed. Whether you have an hour or a day, your help will be greatly appreciated. It’s a nice chance to watch kids’ excitement as they discover literary treasures as well as a wonderful opportunity to meet other Foote parents.
Please sign up in the Main Office or just click here for our new on-line sign up.
Posted 2/14/08
Questions:
Coleen Hellerman or 777-2761 Deborah Isenstadt or 865-0077.
Community Service Group Game Night
The event – for all students in grades four through nine – offers the chance to play a variety of games – Apple to Apple, Octi, Cranium, Monopoly, Password, Checkers, Soduko, Battleship, Clue and other child-appropriate games are welcome and needed.
The PTC co-sponsored the event with donations of pizzas, snacks, drinks and baked goods that will sold individually.
It's a great event, Community Service's major fund-raiser of the year, run by students in Community Service with their advisors Lynne Valentine and Polly Fiddler, all for a very worthwhile cause.
Proceeds went to support the Diaper Bank. Formerly the New Haven Diaper Bank, and founded by Foote parent Joanne Goldblum, the Diaper Bank has been renamed as it has expanded beyond New Haven.
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Earlier in the year, Foote's Community Service group participated in the annual Cook & Care Walk-a-thon. The event is sponsored by the Interfaith Cooperative Ministries of New Haven.Last year Foote walkers raised $1,590 to benefit the Community Soup Kitchen, the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, FISH of Greater New Haven and the Interfaith Volunteer Care Givers of Greater New Haven.
Updated 2/14/08
Students Participate in Substance Abuse Prevention Education Program.
Educators from the Newton, Massachusetts-based FCD (Freedom from Chemical Dependency) were on campus January 7 - 10 working with all 5th, 7th, and 9th Grade students. FCD educators, who have worked with Foote for more than a decade, are highly trained health professionals who have achieved long-term recovery from alcohol and/or other drug addictions. Having experienced the destructive effects of chemical dependency, they bring an effective level of honesty, compassion and care to their classes. FCD’s mission is to:
• Provide students, parents, teachers and school administrators with up-to-date information on the physiological and psychological effects of alcohol and other drugs.
• Empower young people to make healthy, responsible choices regarding alcohol and other drug use.
• Encourage and support the non-use of alcohol and other drugs during adolescence.
• Teach students and adults how to recognize the early warning signs of chemical dependency and to intervene appropriately.
Foote faculty and administrators hope that the community’s interaction with FCD this year will foster further communication between our students and the adults in their lives regarding adolescent drug use and healthy lifestyle choices.
Click here for more information.
Posted 1/2/08
Foote Theater Fall and Winter Productions
updated 1/3/08The Man Who Came to Dinner
February 28, 29, March 1, 2008
by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman“You asked me a little while ago what I wanted for a Christmas present. All that I want … is the memory of you in that mummy-case!”
This year’s ninth grade play is the Broadway favorite and extremely popular The Man Who Came to Dinner. Sheriden Whiteside, a famous radio/showbiz personality, slips and breaks his hip while dining at the home of the Stanley family, initiating six tumultuous weeks of his confinement in their home. This leads to hilarious events (expensive transatlantic telephone calls, the unexpected arrival of strange gifts including a mummy case, penguins, and 10,000 cockroaches) -- and a splendid array of characters, from ex-convicts to a glamorous actress -- all of which disrupt the Stanley’s domestic tranquility.
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Performed on December 6, 7, 8, & 9To view photo galleries of the production click here.
“Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf…you incarnate insult to the English language. I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba.”
Pygmalion is George Bernard Shaw’s famous play
(upon which the musical My Fair Lady is based) in which he reworks the classical Greek tale of a sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue. Updated to early 1914, Professor of Phonetics Henry Higgin takes on the Pygmalion role as he attempts to transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess. Eliza, however, surprises Higgins as she surpasses all expectations and becomes a strong and independent person with a mind of her own. The performers are seventh and eighth graders.
The Belle of Amherst by William Luce November 17 & 18“Those times seems far off now … as things we did when children. I wish we were children now, and the nails hung full of coats again, and the chairs hung full of hats, the umbrellas all in a row, and I could count the slippers under the kitchen chair. I wish we were always children. How to grow up, I don’t know.”
This poignant one-woman play about the life of poet Emily Dickinson was performed as an independent study project by ninth grader Maggie Bogardus. Both moving and funny, the play provides a window into the soul of this famous poet, from age 15, when her life was filled with hope and success, until her death at age 56, a virtual recluse from society.
Faculty, parents and students all enjoyed and were moved by Maggie's outstanding performance. She benefited from letters, memoribilia and even some telephone conversations with famed actress Julie Harris, who played the role on Broadway.
Another theater event with thanks to the Foote School PTC:
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
October 19, 2007The Puppet Tree, a Vermont-based troupe whose mission is to promote an appreciation of the performing arts with an emphasis on children’s theater and puppets, brought an exciting production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to Foote. Nearly 150 shadow puppets were used to tell this famous Halloween tale. There were three performances during the day, two for the Lower School and one for the Middle School.
Posted 11/211/07
Book Fair Included In-Store and
On-Campus Sales, Book SigningsThe Foote Book Fair ran Nov. 2 through Nov. 7. and was a great success. On Nov. 14 the winners of the Book Fair door prizes were announced: Julia McCarthy, Grade 7, $100 Barnes & Noble gift card; and Clara Wencker, grade 5, autographed
children's book. Congratulations!
Well-timed for holiday shopping, this year’s Fair again opened at Barnes and Noble in North Haven and moved to the Twichell Room on campus.
There was an in-store reception on Nov. 3 and a Foote Authors reception on campus on Nov. 7.
Click here for a list of Foote alum, faculty and parent authors and their works.
updated 11/14/07
Building Relationships with China
Yali Middle School Visits Foote
From September 20 to October 3 a delegation of 22 students from Foote's sister school, Yali Middle School in Chanagsha, China visited Foote, attending classes and getting to know the school. The students all stayted with Foote families, just as Foote students have stayed with Yali familes in China. Click here for the New Haven Register's story on the visit. And click here to view photo galleries of the viist.Updated 11/20/07
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Here’s What You Need to KnowFSA/PTC Annual Meeting – May 14
Starry, Starry Night
Cabaret & SIlent AuctionStudents Excel In Foreign Language Poetry Contest
Foote Theater Fall and Winter Productions
Grandparents Day – Oct. 5
Giving to Foote in 2006-07 Demonstrates SupportNews Archive 2006-07
School Closings
Grandparents Day – October 5
Grandparents Day is a very special occasion at Foote. More than 400 grandparents and special friends spent the morning on campus, attending classes with their grandchild or grandchildren, taking campus tours and mini-courses to get a sense of the Foote experience, and enjoying an all-school assembly. For a flavor of the day visit the Grandparents Day Photo Gallery
Updated 10/9/07
Giving to Foote Up Again in 2006-07Foote alumnae/i, families, and friends strongly supported the 2006-07 Annual Fund with gifts totaling $433,000. This represents an 11 percent increase over 2005-6 and is the largest Annual Fund total in Foote’s history. In addition, contributions of $486,000 were made to a variety of Endowed Funds and $200,000 for other restricted purposes. The total of $1,102,00 represents the first year Foote has received more thna $1 million outside of a capital campaign.
Posted 9.27.07The Foote School Goes Green
Foote was featured in an article in the New Haven Independent that describes the school's increasing organic approach to campus maintenance and how that effort is part of the curriculum. Click here for the entire article.Posted 5/15/07
School Delay and Closing Information
TeleFoote Calls All Families
In the event of a school closing or early dismissal, or when important information needs to be conveyed to parents quickly, parents will receive an automated telephone message from InfoExchange, the Fort Myers, FL, company that powers our TeleFoote system. If the automated call is placed during the class day, the call will go to the parents’ work number(s). If the call is placed in the early morning (regarding a school cancellation, for instance) or after the workday, the call will go to home telephone number(s).Parents are asked to notifiy the school of any changes in work or home telephone numbers.
Note: The TeleFoote system is about 90 percent effective, which means it does not always work for about 10 percent of Foote families. So if you have any doubts at all please check:
• Website – We will post a notice on the homepage of the Foote School website.Foote Answering Machine – We will have a recorded message at 777-3464.
Weather and School Closing WTNH Information
The following local radio stations will also announce school closings and/or school delays.
WTIC Hartford 1080 AM
WMMW Meriden 1470 AM
WELI New Haven 960 AMNote: In general, Foote School follows the New Haven Public Schools. With rare exceptions, if New Haven cancels, Foote will cancel, and if New Haven has a delayed opening, so will Foote.
Updated 1/2/08
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