Dear 5R Families,

As I unloaded all of your lovely and thoughtful gifts at home this evening (don’t worry, I got a drive! :), I reflected on how kind and generous you had all been.

This has truly been, as I said this morning, a wonderfully warm welcome to a fantastic community. My thanks go out to you, the parents, to your exceptionally warm, playful and supportive children and, for the organizational efforts today and throughout the year to Catharina and Kathryn. Thank you.

This afternoon we celebrated the publication of our personal narrative stories. These have been a remarkable process of collecting and developing ideas, drafting, revising and editing and each story has been a real journey of growth. We shared our stories, offered each other compliments and enjoyed some (deliciously alcohol-free) celebratory bubbly.

Enjoy the photos:

These stories will come home, along with a recent math assessment, in January for you to share, comment upon and return.

In the meantime, I wish you all a wonderful holiday season, and a very happy new year.

See you in 2016!