| Congratulations Class of 2015
The Class of 2015 and their friends and relatives packed the upper school quad for Commencement on Friday, May 29th. The largest graduating class in school history at 67, they fulfilled the measure of one of their classmate’s insights: “The perfect story prepares the soul for mystery.” Across their time at Prep, this year’s graduates have put us in a posture of anticipation and wonder. They have not been perfect in everything they have embraced across their years at Prep...but that would not make for a perfect story. They have been, instead, authentic and flawed, aspiring and loud. By all measures, they have been larger-than-life. Best wishes moving forward, and thank you.
- Jim Leonard, Head of School
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Where We Are And What's Next
Right now, our annual sustaining fund feels like almond butter: so nutritious, so important for our school, so delicious, really, when you see its benefits…but sometimes sticky and hard to swallow.
As this school and fiscal year come to a close, and you look at the incredible growth of your child, or grandchild, or graduate thanks to a Prep education, please click here and make a donation of any size to our school and our kids (think of honey if you’re allergic to nuts). The faculty and staff have done it, the Board has done it, and now we need you, too—$50,700 more to go for the growth of our kids. Thank you.
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What a great year and spring season for Griffin Athletics!
The Girls Lacrosse Team won their 4th consecutive State Championship with a 19-9 victory over Rio Rancho. The Boys joined them as repeat State Champs with a 14-7 victory over Los Alamos.
The Boys Tennis Team tied for 3rd and Sophie Bennett '18 and Samantha Whitegeese '16 took 2nd in the state doubles competition.
Baseball also capped their season with a strong showing in the State Tournament against the heavily favored Eunice Cardinals. Although they lost the game, they moved the program forward with a state berth.
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| Track & Field finished the small school state meet at UNM with an amazing State Championship earned by the Blue Griffin Girls Team and a 5th place finish for the Boys Team. There were many individual highlights, including Courtney Rose Timlen '15 winning the 300 meter hurdles and placing 2nd in the 100 meter hurdles. On the Boys side, congratulations to Ian Andersson '15 who finished first in the high jump and Patrick Boyd '17 who was 3rd in the 100 meter sprint. The success of the whole team for achieving the title came down to the strength of its relay teams, as evidenced by the 2nd place finish in the 800 meter relay and the finalé of winning the 1600 meter relay.
This caps a year where we won 4 State Championships...way to go Blue Griffins!
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THANK YOU TO OUR EXTRAORDINARY PA
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| We send a massive thank you to each and every parent at Prep, all of whom are members of the Parents’ Association. Throughout the year you volunteered for events, helped with our community service programs, connected us, and helped raise close to $60,000 for our school and our kids. Your time and donations have an immeasurable impact on the success of the education we provide. We just met with the PA Executive Committee, who decided the funds you raised will be used in the following ways:
• $32,000 for Tuition Assistance
• $10,000 for Breakthrough Santa Fe
• $6,000 for Technology Upgrades
(this is part of $140,000 we spent on improving technology this year)
• $11,000 for a Prep van to safely transport our kids.
Leading the success of the PA this year were Executive Committee Members President Margaret Hennessey (who baked for our meetings all year and Co-Chaired Dancing with the Santa Fe Stars), Vice President Julie Murray, Secretary Mitch Koolpe, and Treasurer Chriss O’Neill—thank you all for your phenomenal commitment.
We would also like to thank Christine Lehman for her fantastic work as Dancing with the Santa Fe Stars Co-Chair, Krista Tyra for creating an unforgettable Prom 2015, Jill Gerber for leading the largest Rummage Sale in Prep’s history, and Michelle Barliant and Chewy Borden for organizing Graduation.
Finally we thank our Grade Level Reps for uniting our community, grade by grade. Looking forward to working with you all next year!
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It is hard to believe that summer vacation is here! Parents, if you see any Prep library books around your house, please return them to the library. The library will be open the first two weeks of June for book returns.
Copies of the summer reading lists for rising 7th, 8th and 9th graders have been mailed home, and we have posted the lists to the Prep Library page.
In collaboration with the Language department, the library has updated our Spanish fiction collection, purchasing over 114 new books for the students and faculty. The new titles include: Donde Viven Los Monstruos, El Lorax, La Oruga Muy Hambrienta, and Huevos Verdes Con Jamon, Calvin and Hobbes Paginas Dominicales, Dracula, La Casa En Mango Street, Cinder, El Principe de la Niebla, and El Bosque de los Pigmeos.
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Each summer, Santa Fe Prep offers exciting summer programming options. The theme varies from year to year, but our goal is to provide an engaging, stimulating summer program that lets kids learn while having fun.
This year, we are pleased to announce:
- Think Ahead CHESS CAMP
- Discovery Summer Camp: Pics, Rocks, and Frocks!
- 6th Grade Math Review Class with Prep Tutor Laura McClure
- Pre-Algebra Review Class with Prep Tutor Laura McClure
- Algebra 1 Review Class with Prep Teacher Joey Reich
- Independent Math Study
- Independent Work with Private Tutor or Coach
Please click here for detailed information about each of these programs.
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| On Tuesday, May 12 we welcomed our 55 new middle school students and families to Prep. Students met their advisors, played games, and had an opportunity to begin cultivating new friendships. We wish you all a great summer. We are already looking forward to the 2015-2016 school year!
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| Congratulations, Sam!
Associate Director of Breakthrough Santa Fe Sam Ritter received the Rising Star Award from the Rocky Mountain Association of College Admissions Counselors for outstanding work in college counseling for someone who has been counseling for less than 5 years.
Sam was choosen by the board members of RMACAC. This is a huge honor and speaks to the outstanding work Sam has done with Breakthrough Santa Fe. Sam has created and implemented a highly effective college counseling program for Breakthrough students. Sam has shared what he has learned about effectively counseling first generation students with not only other Breakthrough collaboratives, but also with college admissions reps and counselors across the west.
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| Nepal Fundraising A Success—Thank You Prep Community
Our generous Prep Community raised $2064 in less than a month through donations and a raffle. The students who traveled to Nepal last summer sent the donations through Journeys International. We would like to sincerely thank everyone who contributed. A HUGE THANKS to the following restaurants who donated gift certificates: Zia Diner, Harry's Roadhouse, Tomasitas, Pizza Centro, Counter Culture and Café Pascuals.If you would still like to donate, please contact Aiyana Pendleton. Contributions will be accepted through the end of June, when we will send another lump sum.
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| Spring Sports Tweeted By Dedicated
Griffin Fans
Thank you Carol Laposata and Deirdre Jackson for tweeting Track and Field, Carolyn Lee and Carol Romero-Wirth for tweeting LAX and Greg Duran for tweeting Baseball. You brought great prosperity to our teams and kept us current on Prep sports.
We bid farewell to graduating moms Deirdre Jackson, Carolyn Lee and Carol Romero-Wirth and thank you for multiple years and sports!
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| Know of a great rental—or own a living space yourself that you are looking to rent? We have two incoming faculty members moving to Santa Fe from the East Coast who are looking for affordable rental housing convenient to Santa Fe Prep. If you have something that might be appropriate and are interested in helping to create a 'soft' landing for our new faculty, please contact Jim Leonard.
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| Santa Fe Prep has enabled access to the school "Student / Parent Directory" via a smartphone app. You can find the Senior Systems Advantage App in the IOS App store, or the Google Play store for Android. Once the app is installed, use your MyBackpack username and password, as well as the school code “sfprep” to log in. You can also view your student's grades and attendance. Any questions can be directed to mbpsupport@sfprep.org
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