Machote Bulletin

On Monday March 9th, while the school was closed, we hosted a special World Café in the auditorium.

It was a great pleasure to see more than 130 people show up…. Students, staff and parents, to participate in this 2-hour dialogue on the issue of Respect between boys and girls at JFK.

 

The High School girls who feel that putting respect between boys and girls at school higher on the agenda will help build more awareness and make school and their social space safer and more secure for everyone, inspired the idea for this.

 

It is not often that we see boys from Elementary, Middle and High schools sitting with parents, staff and teachers to discuss an issue of such importance to us all. We collected the outcomes and notes from all of the discussion tables and these were displayed at the main entrance this morning.

On Tuesday, with the girls and female staff back at school, we have mass dialogues and events in each section to reflect upon March 9th, ‘Un dia sin nosotras’, all that it means. In each section, from Preschool to High School, time will be dedicated to this subject.

 

We will not be letting these messages of hope, and the great ideas collected from both days, go to waste. We will be forming a group, composed initially of High School girls, called ‘Beyond the 9th’ to make sure the great effort and determination of all the girls at JFK, inspired by this extraordinary historical day in Mexico, will not be forgotten. This week has been a week in which we have all learned, as a community, at JFK.

 

I thank all of you, especially the fathers and mothers, who took the time on Monday to join us to make this event something unique and special, and to show the importance of uniting with respect.

 

 

• • Lost and Found is located in the Elementary School ground floor between the main office and the Art/Music classrooms.
    Lost and Found hours are:
    
    Beginning of day: 7:30-8am (students)
    Recess time: 11-11:30am (students)
    End of day: 2:20 to 3pm (students and parents)
    
    
• Please come by and take a look, there might be items that belong to your child.
  I also recommend to parents that if you deliver a lost item to your child, that they take a small symbolic amount of money out of their allowance to donate to AMANC. This is to say “thank you” to you for helping them, and it may help build a bit more responsibility and consciousness to take care of belongings.
  
  
• High value items without names are left with Miss Ana Paula in the ES office and after two months if they are still unclaimed will be donated to a civil association. Remember that you can post pictures of lost or found items here: http://bit.ly/ES-TPC
  
  
• Piggy backing on Say Something Week, please remember that if you find an item that doesn 't belong to you SAY SOMETHING and turn it in to the Elementary office.