SCHOOL NOTES
The Board of Education is seeking adults to serve on the Family Life and Development Advisory Committee. The committee provides guidance to the board in the development and review of new and revised policies.
Members serve two-year terms without compensation. Members are restricted to two consecutive terms.
Applications are on the board’s website, www.mcps.k12.md.us/boe. The deadline for applications is Nov. 21. Call 301-279-3059.
The Woods Academy in Bethesda is preparing 250 lunches on Friday, Nov. 7, and will donate them to McKenna’s Wagon in Washington, D.C. McKenna’s Wagon is a mobile soup kitchen that delivers food throughout Washington, D.C.
Each grade has been assigned a specific ingredient to donate and contribute. Ingredients include juice boxes, fruit cups, bread, turkey, cheese, peanut butter and jelly, potato chips, cookies, sandwich bags, brown paper bags and napkins.
The Board of Education has tentatively approved a revised policy on travel study programs and field trips.
The revised Policy IPD, “Travel Study Programs, Field Trips and Student Organization Trips,” affirms the Board of Education’s position that classroom instruction is the foundation of the educational process and that maximizing instructional time is a primary goal of the Board of Education.
The policy provides guidance for planning, approving, implementing and evaluating various types of school trips, and the revisions reflect a strengthened emphasis on the relationship between the purpose of the proposed trip and instruction.
Public response to the revised policy should be sent in writing by Dec. 8 to the Office of the Superintendent of Schools, 850 Hungerford Drive, Rockville, MD 20850.
To view the policy, visit www.mcps.k12.md.us/info/pdf/ipd.
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Peter C. Hughes, a Dartmouth College student in the class of 2006 from Potomac, studied German in Berlin during the Fall 2003 term as part of the college’s Foreign Study Program. Hughes is the son of Peter C. Hughes and Mary R. Hughes of Potomac.
Patrick J. Keeley, a Dartmouth College student in the class of 2005 from Potomac, studied Spanish in Barcelona during the Fall 2003 term as part of the college’s Language Study Abroad Program. Keeley is the son of Patrick J. Keeley and Regina C. Keeley.