In this issue:

Thanks and celebration for our Kathy

The Moomins return

Alumni News

Lots of hugs for Nancy

Our new sign is up!! Check it out when you drive by on Route 7 or on Exchange Street.

Bridge School continues to incorporate many exciting and unusual events into our schooldays as we explore our year-long Asia theme. During a recent celebration of Chinese New Year, students helped a Chinese dragon, a large-scale puppet loaned by the University of Vermont, dance through the gym! We devoted several arts and explorations classes to Chinese New Year.

We are truly grateful to have such a successful, collaborative Bridge School community. Many parents and alumni parents are contributing significant volunteer hours. Some volunteer during the school day, attending classes and recess, or teaching arts and explorations classes, such as recent classes on animation and oil painting. Others complete a wide variety of off-hours tasks including changing the air filters on the furnace, serving on committees, snowblowing the ice rink, working on fundraising, and keeping the computers and database up to date. Bridge School simply would not function without all this dedication and hard work.

We are also thankful for the tremendous response to our recent fundraising efforts. The flowers you purchased through our bulb sale will be blooming for your enjoyment this spring. Bridge School’s annual appeal letter, written by alumnus Julian Kesner, helped us generate many large and small donations to meet our fall goal. Still other donors have made significant pledges and gifts. All of this financial generosity has helped us to reach half of our fundraising goal as we approach the halfway point in the year.

While the winter of 2011-12 so far has been strangely snowless and warm, recent cold weather allowed Gerry to finally open the ice rink…much to the students’ delight.

Here are pictures of some current classes:

Introduction to Animation

Dissecting an Owl Pellet

Spontaneous Play