It's New Year!

It is the start of the school year so it is also time to renew my blog.  This year I am going to try to write every week…didn’t I say that last year? Well, it just goes to show that practice makes perfect, and that if at first you don’t succeed try, try again! (Let me see if I can think of any other cliché phrases…I don’t think, “it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game” seems to apply here). Anyway, let this be an inspiration, or perhaps lesson, to any students out there reading this blog, it is never too late to reform. If you haven’t been writing your homework down every day or been doing all of the math problems every night start now, it’s not too late…you can try, try again.


We have been in classes for four weeks now and already the new students have been absorbed into the rhythm of school life. I feel sure that I am one of the few people who knows who is new and who is not at this point (and I admit there are moments when I second guess myself) because the returning students have so warmly welcomed the new students and the new students have jumped into life at Wakefield with such zeal that is just hard to tell. That is one of the things I love most about Wakefield, it is a warm, welcoming place where it is easy to feel at home.

As I make the turn from enrolling students for the current school year to meeting families who will enroll in a year from now I am filled with a sense of anticipation, wondering what new and interesting students I will have the chance to meet. I also feel excited by the prospect of watching another wonderful group of new students integrate into the community and begin to make their mark on our school.

Those of you who are already owls, I look forward to seeing you soon. To those who I have not yet met, I am eager to introduce you to our school.

Happy Fall!

Sarah