March News (March 18th, 2022)

Re-Enrollment for 2022/2023 for Current Families Closes Tonight, March 18th!

Enrollment for the 2022-23 year is booming! Many of our classes are filling up or are already filled. Starting tomorrow March 19th, the re-enrollment fee increases to $350 per family. But more importantly, we want to ensure that we hold spaces for returning students. If you haven't re-enrolled, the time is now!

Our commitment is not to lose any families due to financial reasons. If your family has questions, concerns or hesitations, please contact our Business Administrator, Larry Smith to engage in further conversation.

Summer 2022 Programs at WSRF are here & filling up very quickly!

If you are hoping to secure spots, don’t wait, space is extremely limited, spots are filling quickly and we will be opening registrations to the broader community this weekend. *A camp for ages 6-9 years has been added in week 4, explore!

From Sopris Circus Camp for older students to Nature Stewards and much more, discover a range of dynamic programs for students ages 2.5 years to 14 years. Programs run June 13th - July 29th and sign up is by week.

Explore all programs and registration on our website here. Starting this weekend, please feel free to share with friends and connections who might enjoy joining these programs with your children!

School News

Congratulations to **Ms. Noll, Mr, Johnson, the 7th and 8th graders** and all the countless parents involved in a spectacular production of Mary Poppins!
Live theater was welcomed back to the stage at WSRF with a truly supercalifragilisticexpialidocious event and we are so proud of all the cast members and grateful to the countless volunteers who brought such an incredible performance to life.

Congratulations to the Class of 2022 on their 8th Grade Project presentations!
Eighth Grade Projects are a capstone element of our curriculum in which each student pursues a topic they are personally passionate about, often for a year to 18 months and their work culminates in community wide presentations.
This year’s class presented their incredible work this last week and the presentations can now be viewed **here**. A huge round of applause the the Class of 2022!

Seeking Mayfaire King or Queen

Seeking parent leads to help with Mayfaire crafts and decorations for our May 7th event. No experience necessary. Please contact morgan@waldorfschoolrf.org

School Calendar 2022-2023

We recently conducted a survey for preference at Winter Break for 2 or 3 weeks. Thank you to those to participated. Filtering out duplicate entries, the results were exactly 50% in favor of returning to 2 weeks and 50% in favor of continuing 3 weeks. Ultimately, we decided to follow the RE-1 school district, which is right in the middle at 2.5 weeks.

Other changes include moving spring break to align with RE-1 and creating more time for parent-teacher conferences.

Simplicity Parenting Book Club

With Holly Richardson & Kerrie Schur February 28th 2022

Still room to join! Thursdays, 8:45am-10am (March 31, April 14, 28, May 12, 26)

Hosted in the Parent Child room at WSRF or outdoors when possible.

Join fellow parents for conversation, coffee, tea and treats to learn, grow and explore approaches to parenting based on Kim John Payne’s Simplicity Parenting. Books will be provided to the first 10 registrants. All parents, parent child to 8th grade welcome.

Register here: https://bit.ly/WSRFbookclub

Alumni News

Congratulations to WSRF alums Lola Villafranco, Ben Oldham, Kate Oldham, and the entire AVSC team!

In the 1.3km classic sprint, Ms. Villafranco qualified for heats and raced her way into the A final, finishing 6th overall for U20 women and earning her the All-American title!