COMMUNITY SERVICE DAY! Thank you to all of our families for supporting our first Student Initiated and Run Community Service Day! Several organizations benefited from East School’s generosity and elbow grease. The New Canaan Food Bank is very appreciative of our Souper Canned Food Drive. Norwalk Hospital is thrilled with all the books and letters. [...]

Congratulations to last month’s winner…4th grader Connor Cloud! Guess who’s up next in Fact or Fiction?  Our fabulous feelings teacher, Mrs. Beall-Gomes! The book she has chosen this month is a feelings book titled One by Kathryn Otoshi.  A winner will be selected from correct entries at the end of February. Identify the FALSE statement to [...]

  Optimize Your Health Build Your Family’s Defenses   Victoria Kobliner, MS, RD Tuesday, MARCH 13th at 9:30 a.m.   EAST SCHOOL GALLEY   More and more of our children experience chronic and repeated illness including allergies, asthma and more. Growing evidence suggests a common cause — WEAK IMMUNE SYSTEMS — the total effect of [...]

New Canaan Tech Night 2012  New Canaan, CT – Six years since its inception, New Canaan Public School’s Tech Night is once again bringing together students and technology.  Students from grades 2-12 created more than 50 extracurricular projects outside and inside of the classroom showing exceptional uses of technology. Teachers K-12 will also be showcasing [...]

We would like to invite all Parents of Special Education Students, PreK through Grade 12, to attend a presentation by the Special Education Administration on the 2012 Extended School Year (ESY) Program in New Canaan.   Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:30AM – 10:30AM, East School Galley   Planning ESY is an integral part of the [...]

NCEA Summer Scholarship Forms The New Canaan Educators Association (NCEA) Scholarship Fund has been in existence for over 26 years.  The fund was established to help New Canaan Public School students, in financial need, attend summer camps and academic summer programs.  Each year, teachers from the various schools in New Canaan organize fundraisers to support [...]

2012 CMT Testing for Grades 3 & 4 We will be administering Connecticut Mastery Tests (CMT) to all students in grades three and four beginning Thursday, March 1st.  A Practice Test will be administered on this day, followed on subsequent days by the state required subtests.  We are asking for your full support and cooperation [...]

Thanks East Parents – we’ve earned over $650 in rewards dollars from this program this school year to date…please keep showing your card or register yours if you have yet to do so…those dollars add up to money for our PTC! Local grocery store Stop & Shop is giving money back to local schools through [...]

Recreation News- Time to register for Recreation Spring Soccer including new programs like Pre-K Start Smart Soccer, STAR Soccer now for first and second grades!, and all new Last Defender Goaltending for grades 1-8.  Watch carefully for registration deadlines on each of these programs.  Lots of other spring programs for all ages and adults available [...]