Welcome to this new school year 2018 – 2019!
It has been wonderful seeing everyone again, refreshed and ready for the new school year! Our students are of course being welcomed back by so many of our favorite teachers and familiar faces, and we are happy to include 25 new teachers among the faculty! Not only do we have so many new staff on board, we also have some important movements within the school.
As you know, Camille Casses has moved from SWAS to become our new Middle School Principal, replacing Robert Callahan who is now taking on the challenges of High School as the new Principal. Jessica Woll moves in to the role of SWAS Coordinator. At the “Back to School” meetings, each principal will explain all the changes and appointments happening in their own sections; so please do not miss these important meetings and opportunities to meet everyone! Beyond the classrooms, we also welcome Kareem Cyrus as Technology Director, Fernando López as Sports Coordinator, Mariana Hijuelos, Human Resources Manager and Alejandra Carrillo as Financial Analyst.
We have made some broad and important changes to the school to provide a strong and professional structure to carry us forward at this important time. With so many new staff, new students and families from a total of 29 nationalities on campus our community continues to grow and diversify. I know that everyone new to JFK this week will already be feeling the warmth and friendship of our great community. Welcome everyone!
Our campus looks as beautiful as ever, and we are all refreshed from the summer recess to start again with all our new plans. This is the school’s 55th anniversary, and to make the year special we have a new Mission and Vision and an updated Model of Education to support them. This will be a busy year for all of us as we work hard to implement all of these new ideas and to obtain final authorization for the IB PYP program. We received more support than ever from across the community last year and this year we will see a great many of our projects coming to fruition to provide a better education for our students than ever before.
It is always wonderful to see the faces of the little ones discovering places to run and play, and the returning students feeling bigger and excited to rejoin their friends in new places together. Even the 12th grade are celebrating their ‘last ever first day’! There is nothing quite like a school in these first days of the year!
I look forward to seeing you all in the coming days and weeks, especially in the “Back to School” meetings.
Study hard, play hard and keep smiling, what a blessing it is to be able to spend our days in such an incredible place!
I wish you all a very happy and successful school year!
“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.”
B. F. Skinner (1904 – 1990)
As you know, Camille Casses has moved from SWAS to become our new Middle School Principal, replacing Robert Callahan who is now taking on the challenges of High School as the new Principal. Jessica Woll moves in to the role of SWAS Coordinator. At the “Back to School” meetings, each principal will explain all the changes and appointments happening in their own sections; so please do not miss these important meetings and opportunities to meet everyone! Beyond the classrooms, we also welcome Kareem Cyrus as Technology Director, Fernando López as Sports Coordinator, Mariana Hijuelos, Human Resources Manager and Alejandra Carrillo as Financial Analyst.
We have made some broad and important changes to the school to provide a strong and professional structure to carry us forward at this important time. With so many new staff, new students and families from a total of 29 nationalities on campus our community continues to grow and diversify. I know that everyone new to JFK this week will already be feeling the warmth and friendship of our great community. Welcome everyone!
Our campus looks as beautiful as ever, and we are all refreshed from the summer recess to start again with all our new plans. This is the school’s 55th anniversary, and to make the year special we have a new Mission and Vision and an updated Model of Education to support them. This will be a busy year for all of us as we work hard to implement all of these new ideas and to obtain final authorization for the IB PYP program. We received more support than ever from across the community last year and this year we will see a great many of our projects coming to fruition to provide a better education for our students than ever before.
It is always wonderful to see the faces of the little ones discovering places to run and play, and the returning students feeling bigger and excited to rejoin their friends in new places together. Even the 12th grade are celebrating their ‘last ever first day’! There is nothing quite like a school in these first days of the year!
I look forward to seeing you all in the coming days and weeks, especially in the “Back to School” meetings.
Study hard, play hard and keep smiling, what a blessing it is to be able to spend our days in such an incredible place!
I wish you all a very happy and successful school year!
“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.”
B. F. Skinner (1904 – 1990)
Adrian Leece
General Director
Welcome to Preschool
We are excited to start off another great year here at JFK Preschool. This week you are welcome to accompany your child to his or her classroom in the mornings. Next week, we will be receiving students at the Pinos Gate. We look forward to inviting you to “Back to School Night” in a couple weeks.
Sept. 3, 2018 K1
Sept. 4, 2018 K2
Sept. 5, 2018 K3
Toddler Time
We are inviting future JFK students (born in 2016) and their parents to a special class through our Extended Learning Program with the intention of introducing English and creating a love of reading for your family. We will have a demonstration class on Wednesday, August 29th at 3:45p.m. in the JFK Library.
Preschool Principal
It has been a great start to the year!
It is very nice to see children happy to end their vacations because they miss the JFK. We are almost ready to launch Power school system. In the meantime, teachers will have students write down the homework.
Let the beginning of this school year be the start of something new and amazing.
All the best wishes to all the JFK family.
Let the beginning of this school year be the start of something new and amazing.
All the best wishes to all the JFK family.
Toddler Time
We are inviting future JFK students (born in 2016) and their parents to a special class through our Extended Learning Program with the intention of introducing English and creating a love of reading for your family. We will have a demonstration class on Wednesday, August 29th at 3:45p.m. in the JFK Library.
Mark Dunn
Elementary School Principal
Elementary School Principal
Back to school
Hello JFK Community!
I am so delighted with the successful Back-to-School meetings we have had this year. On Monday, the sixth grade students learned how to read their schedules, open their lockers, and had a chance to experience some fun team building with their teachers. On Tuesday and Wednesday, seventh and eighth graders were in true MYP form: very attentive, respectful, and inquisitive!
The parents’ Back-to-School presentations were also very successful; I feel so welcome in my new role as Middle School Principal. None of the success we have had in Middle School this would have been possible if not for the hard work and collaborative spirit of the Middle School teachers, psychologists, and staff.
I wish all of you a wonderful school year, full of inquiry, hard work, and beauty!
I am so delighted with the successful Back-to-School meetings we have had this year. On Monday, the sixth grade students learned how to read their schedules, open their lockers, and had a chance to experience some fun team building with their teachers. On Tuesday and Wednesday, seventh and eighth graders were in true MYP form: very attentive, respectful, and inquisitive!
The parents’ Back-to-School presentations were also very successful; I feel so welcome in my new role as Middle School Principal. None of the success we have had in Middle School this would have been possible if not for the hard work and collaborative spirit of the Middle School teachers, psychologists, and staff.
I wish all of you a wonderful school year, full of inquiry, hard work, and beauty!
Camille Casses
Middle School Principal
Welcome back High School!
To lead, serve, and create beauty.
This unique and beautiful school mission drives the way we look at the high school experience. It is an intense period of self-discovery where teenagers test limits to find boundaries; challenge authority to discover legitimacy; think of “me” to establish identity, live in the moment to learn how to feel emotion, and rebel to form principles. During this time, we set firm limits for students while also giving them the freedom they need to explore the world through their own developing perspective.
It is our purpose and passion in high school to design meaningful experiences with leadership, service, and creating beauty for teenagers based on IB pedagogy where our students co-create publishable content with teachers for local, national, and international audiences. And we do this so our students become positive agents for change upon graduation with a powerful sense of responsibility, respect, and honesty.
This is our contribution - our granito de arena - to a more peaceful and prosperous México.
Bob Callahan
High School Principal
Welcome back!
We want to give you a warm welcome to this 2018-2019 school year, we hope this year is full of challenges and positive experiences.
We have been working hard to update our program and connect every school section from preschool through high school. It makes us very happy to welcome back our students and we are ready to carry out all the projects set for this year.
We have been working hard to update our program and connect every school section from preschool through high school. It makes us very happy to welcome back our students and we are ready to carry out all the projects set for this year.
Ballet
Ballet is not only an art, but it is also a form of exercise with several benefits, both physical and psychological:
• Stimulates blood flow and the respiratory system.
• Contributes to postural correction.
• Helps develop elasticity and strength,
• Improves coordination and agility.
• Promotes the muscle development and the shape of the spine, (it can help correct problems such as “flat foot”).
• Helps acquire psychomotricity.
• Improves balance and reflexes.
• Develops body language hearing and memory.
• Requires and teaches discipline, both physical and mental, and it helps evolve children’s personalities.
• Encourages sensibility, by allowing the free flow of children’s feelings.
• Stimulates imagination by teaching them to express themselves and tell a story through their body movements.
• Relaxes and releases adrenaline.
• Stimulates blood flow and the respiratory system.
• Contributes to postural correction.
• Helps develop elasticity and strength,
• Improves coordination and agility.
• Promotes the muscle development and the shape of the spine, (it can help correct problems such as “flat foot”).
• Helps acquire psychomotricity.
• Improves balance and reflexes.
• Develops body language hearing and memory.
• Requires and teaches discipline, both physical and mental, and it helps evolve children’s personalities.
• Encourages sensibility, by allowing the free flow of children’s feelings.
• Stimulates imagination by teaching them to express themselves and tell a story through their body movements.
• Relaxes and releases adrenaline.
Sports coordination
Library News
There are some new changes in the library this year. We are now reserving the main floor for preschool and elementary school students and their lessons. We have created three teachable spaces, and we expect them to be very busy with inquiry lessons.
Middle and high school students will be restricted to the upstairs. We are rearranging and slowly remodeling to make it just as inviting as the downstairs. We have added 2 study carrels so students can have a quiet place to study undisturbed, and we hope that our older students see the library as a place of study, reflection and learning so they are prepared for their life after school.
We hope parents will support our efforts, and help us to model proper library etiquette and use.
Jake Pettit
Head Librarian
6th certification as a sustainable school
Dear Kennedy Community,
With the support of you all, the 6th Certification as a Sustainable School in the State of Qro was possible. This annual certification was endorsed by SEMARNAT. We have many challenges yet to take on, and I invite you to participate in this project so that we continue our goal of SUSTAINABILITY.
No plastic bags!
We are celebrating, by law, that our municipality is free of plastic bags in commercial establishments, but remember that the law must be adopted by ALL for there to be a true change of culture towards sustainability.
In our cafeteria we will no longer have plastic bags, but if you need them, they will be selling recycled bags. These bags are made with waste materials from crops that when discarded are composted.
I joined with enthusiasm!
Registration for ECOCLUB JFK:
This year, as always, we are starting our registration period at Ecoclub-JFK 2018-2019. This space is open to all students from PF up to 12 ° where they can work with students from different grades, learning from each other through the work that is proposed to be developed by the group. The meetings will be at recess time once a week.
These members will be our environmental representatives before municipal or state events. In addition, we will have the opportunity to partake in educational outings where your parents and siblings are invited.
The students will need to show their interest in order to participate.
To register, please go during recess time, to the social service office (Miss Luz A.) which is next to the MS building.
I wait for you with a GREEN heart!
Volunteering JFK
Dear parents,
Be attentive to the call for VOLUNTEERING JFK 2018-2019
It is a great group that contributes invaluably to our educational process. We await your participation!
It is a great group that contributes invaluably to our educational process. We await your participation!
Luz Arredondo
Environmental program coordinator
Download our new JFK app
We invite you to know and download our new app in 4 simple steps. You will be able to read the bulletins, newsletters, school calendar and receive important school notifications.
Mónica Duarte
Marketing and Communications Coordinator
Marketing and Communications Coordinator
One more route!
Improving traffic in our school
Thanks to the success obtained with the school transport on our first route to the Campanario, we have a new route this school year, route #2, Juriquilla. These actions allow us to reduce the number of cars and make the arrival and departure of students to school more expedient. We remain committed to achieving our goal. If you arrive by school bus, bicycle, walking or share a vehicle with your friends, it not only helps reduce traffic, it also helps the planet.
For more information, contact the Institutional Development department or email Arturo Rodriguez [email protected]
Thanks to the success obtained with the school transport on our first route to the Campanario, we have a new route this school year, route #2, Juriquilla. These actions allow us to reduce the number of cars and make the arrival and departure of students to school more expedient. We remain committed to achieving our goal. If you arrive by school bus, bicycle, walking or share a vehicle with your friends, it not only helps reduce traffic, it also helps the planet.
For more information, contact the Institutional Development department or email Arturo Rodriguez [email protected]
Sports sponsorships
For parents who are interested in sponsoring our sports teams, please contact with Marlene Cruz Lopez or Arturo Rodríguez Arregui from the Institutional Development department, at the ext. 1003 and 2018.
Plaza de las banderas (Flag Square)
We invite you to continue to support the remodeling of the Plaza de las Banderas by attending some of our upcoming events. As of this time, the events include a Thanksgiving dinner, the Kermesse, and our annual race: XTREME Challenge.
Gaby Platas
Institutional Advancement
Institutional Advancement