Simple Gifts: Apr 24
Title: Simple Gifts
Location: auditorium
Description: Join us in the auditorium for Simple Gifts.
Date: Friday, April 24
Time: 8:45 am
Join us in the auditorium for Simple Gifts.
The whole school comes together for singing and dancing.
Friends and families are welcome to come watch.
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Spring Campout: Apr 17-18
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Title: Spring Campout The Fall and Spring campouts are a great time for families, children, staff and friends to come together and enjoy the fantastic weather and beautiful outdoors. |
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Science Fair: Apr 17
Title: Science Fair
Location: Parkside
Description: Science Fair
Date: Friday, April 17
Time: 12:30 – 1:30 pm
The children will soon be choosing a science concept to be exhibited by an experiment, model or collection.
Science Fair presentations will be held in the classrooms.
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Good Friday: Apr 10
Title: Good Friday – No School
Description: School will be closed due to Good Friday – Enjoy!
Date: Friday, April 10
Good Friday – No School
Boone Parvin, Alumni
Hello, everyone! Hope 2006 is a good year so far. 2005 was quite a year for me. I finished junior high school at Santa Susana Academy (where my Mom was teaching) during the course of my 8th grade year, I read Moby- Dick for English and, according to the test I took on the novel, I have a comprehension level of 85% (better than my Mom who said it took her “forever to get through that book”). I also got a medal for being the school’s winner of the National Geographic Bee. I’ve developed an interest in photography (and, of course, learn more about it every time I visit my dad in Texas) and took a lot of photos as Student Council Historian.
Memorable Teacher
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Joe Bruno is a tall man of about six feet with kindly features and sandy-blond hair. As a young man, he enjoyed swimming and boating in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., where he spend careless hours in the water. As Joe grew older, he developed Multiple Sclerosis, damaging his legs — and ailment his doctor partially attributes to hi ingestion of the Mercury in the River during his youth. So my image is of Joe Bruno, walking around Parkside Community School, the school he founded in Austin, Texas, barefoot, too dignified to let a cane impede his “hustle and bustle.” I remember sitting on the circle at Joe’s room with fifteen or so other wide- eyed students, listening to stores from his big book of “D’Auleire’s Greek Myths.” Joe was an excellent and compassionate teacher. He made learning extra enjoyable. Joe gave me a good foundation for my future education, and he helped me understand that a physical challenge like Multiple Sclerosis doesn’t stop a man.
