Fernway School

Fernway School“Welcome to the Fernway Family”

– One of five K-4 Buildings: Boulevard, Fernway, Mercer, Lomond, Onaway

– Built in 1927– 15 Classrooms, 3 per grade level– Over 350 students – 37 staff members

The Mission of the Schools

The District will nurture, educate, and graduate

students who are civic-minded

and prepared to make ethical decisions;

who are confident, competent communicators,

skillful in problem solving, capable of creative thinking;

who have a career motivation and a knowledge of our

global and multicultural society.

Our Mission: Civic-minded, ethical students

• Student Mediation• Student Group on Race

Relations (SGORR) makes annual visits to the 4th grade

• Family Service Projects

Our Mission: Confident, competent communicators

• Curriculum centered on effective and varied expression

• Readers Theater• Reading groups• Writers Workshop• Kindergarten Journaling• Performances

Our Mission:Skilled Problem Solvers• Curriculum-centered

problem solving• Chess Club• Enrichment Programs • International

Baccalaureate programme

• Successmaker computer program

• Science Lab field trips

Our Mission:Creative Thinkers• Curriculum centered on

creative outcomes of learning

• Music and Art classes• Art Club• 3rd grade Musical • 4th grade Poetry Play

Our Mission:Career Motivated Students

• Scientist in the schools

• Parent career visits and volunteerism

Our Mission:Global and Multicultural Knowledge

• Mandarin Chinese taught weekly

• International mindedness a focus of IB

The Mission of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IB)

“The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.

These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right."

Transdisciplinary Themes

• Who we are• Where we are in place and time• How we express ourselves• How the world works• How we organize ourselves• Sharing the planet

Learner attitudes and attributes

Attribute of the week:

Balanced!

I am healthy. I am organized. I take good care of myself.

Some of our essential agreements

Some of our wonder walls

Featured Country:

• About the same size as California, Madagascar is the world's fourth largest island.

• The country is sometimes referred to as the Red Island, because of the red color of its soil.

• Because of its separation from the African mainland millions of years ago, the majority of the species of plants and animals found on the island cannot be seen anywhere else in the world.

• Nearly half of the land of Madagascar is covered with forest.Resource:

Madagascar

Previous Kindergarten IB planners

• Who we arePeople discover who they are by learning, working, playing and having new experiences

• How we organizePeople use signs and tools to communicate, organize and stay safe.

• Sharing the PlanetConflicts can be solved peacefully.

Current Kindergarten IB planner

• How we express ourselvesExploring and responding to literature helps peoplediscover and express ideas and feelings.

Previous 1st Grade IB planners • Who we are

People build relationships by living, working, playing and learning with other people

• Sharing the planetPeople protect natural resources through careful conservation.

• How we organizePeople fulfill their needs and wants by selecting different goods and services.

Current 1st Grade IB planner

•How we express ourselvesLiterature informs, unites, and entertains individuals and groups.

Graphic courtesy of Ellen Seguin, Fernway parent

Previous 2nd Grade IB planners • Who we are

People make choices in various settings and their actions have a consequences

• How the world worksMany events in the natural world occur with predictable changes.

• How we organizePeople make, buy, sell and use goods and services to survive and enjoy life.

Current 2nd Grade IB planner

• Sharing the planetLiving things impact the environment in which they live; the environment also impacts living things.

Previous 3rd Grade IB planners • How we organize

Members of communities collaborate to establish and implement organizational systems

• How we organizeCultures exhibit both change and continuity across time and place.

• Who we arePeople develop and acquire skills to solve problems.

Current 3rd Grade IB planner

• How we express ourselves Authors and illustrators communicate ideas by using a variety of techniques and styles.

Previous 4th Grade IB planners • Who we are

How people respond to technologies and innovations impacts their well-being

• How we express ourselvesArtifacts give insights into the habits and behaviors of cultures throughout time.Where we are in place and timePeople immigrate and migrate because of challenges and opportunities .

Current 4th Grade IB planner

• How we organizeDecisions promote or deny equal opportunities and social justice.

Inquiry !

PTO IB/Arts Integration • The 2-4 grade

students saw Susan Weber perform “Buckeye Picnic,” about regional history, then the 4th grade had afternoon workshops about economics.

THANKS, PTO!

Happy birthday to…January 30 – February 24

KindergartenAnnie CallAryn HarrisColin RichardCaroline Connell

Grade 1Marissa Garrett-MorrisNa’Torya BeasonKaden Pulley

Grade 2Lissan AklogJackson Wiebe

Grade 3William GlasperKyalonii GambrellHannah PerssonAlexis AkinsSamuel SmolskyAnna DillenbeckPeter Khayat

Grade 4Alexander HalliburtonAmani ShabazzCalvin HellesenJade Dixon

Fernway staff

Upcoming and recent fieldtrips!• 2/8 Mrs. Paskewitz to planetarium

• 2/9 Ms. Hayduk to planetarium

• 2/13 Mrs. Paskewitz to science lab

• 2/16 Mr. Zucca to planetarium

• 2/17 Ms. Hayduk to science lab

• 2/21 Mrs. Rubin to planetarium

• 2/21 Mrs. Hassell to science lab

• 2/21 Ms. Vail to Shaker Heights Library

• 2/23 Ms. Cachat to science lab

• 2/24 Mrs. Hannah to planetarium

Fernway Important Dates!

•1/30 Kevin Maury, Fernway Parent, works with grade 3 doing an IB/Arts integration sponsored by the PTO!•2/3 COSI 9:00•2/11 Pancake Breakfast•2/14 Valentine’s Day Activities 2:30•2/20 Presidents’ Day (no school)•2/22 Third Grade Musical 2:00 & 7:00•3/15 Night for the Red & White

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AWARDS WON BY FERNWAY CHESS CLUBS

2004 Grade Level Championship Tourney/Grade 1 Division – 2nd Place

2004 Shaker Schools Chess League/3rd Grade Division – 2nd Place 2005 State Chess League Tournament/4th Grade Division – 2nd Place 2005 – Shaker Elementary League /Grade 3-4 Division – 2nd Place 2005-06 Scholastic Chess League/K-5 Division – 2nd Place 2006 Shaker Schools Chess League/K-2 Division – 1st Place 2007 Shaker Schools Chess League/K-2 Division – 1st Place 2007 Shaker Chess Tourney – Grade 3-4 Division – 2nd Place 2008 Northeast Ohio Team Championships/Grade K-5 Division – 2nd

Place 2010 Greater Cleveland Chess League/K-5 Division – 1st Place 2011 Shaker Chess League/K-5 Division – 1st Place

A Record 159 Students are Named AP Scholars

The Shaker Heights High School students and June 2011 graduates have been named AP Scholars by The College Board in recognition of their outstanding performance on three or more Advanced Placement (AP) examinations.

Former Fernway students honored include 2011 & 2012 graduates:

Anna Baerman, Zachary Findling, Christopher Hearey, Spencer Murray, Daniel Urban, Joseph Becker, Anamaria Boyd, Kelsey Sullivan, James Berick, Adam Cohen, Kelsey Desmond, Gabriel Gordon, Nathan Immerman, Leo A. Katz, Nia Morgan, Sabrina Paskewitz Drew, Zofia Prochoroff, Erica Schoonover, and Spencer Seballos.

National Scholars to be Honored

36 Shaker Heights High School seniors have been recognized by one or more of the national Merit, National Achievement, and National Hispanic scholar programs.

Former Fernway students honored include:Nia Morgan, Anamaria Boyd, and Spencer Seballos.

Spencer Seballos has also been selected to receive the 2012 gold Medallion Hispanic Heritage Youth Award for Science.