End-of-Year Thoughts
The end of the school year for Trinity Prep staff is incredibly busy, incredibly heartwarming, incredibly nostalgic, incredibly fulfilling.
We are wrapping up SO much - teachers are receiving final projects and exams from students, and feverishly grading them so all grades can be entered by one week from the last day of school. (We do try!) Admins and general staff are busy preparing for and hosting Award Ceremonies, class parties, class productions, and all the 'final' activities of the school year. (This includes ordering about 20 dozen cookies and gallons and gallons of lemonade and tea, just for the Award Ceremonies!) Hiring new staff. Reviewing all curricula and making those decisions. Making lists of the work that needs to be completed over the summer. Incredibly busy.
But, it is incredibly heartwarming to look at the students and think about how very much we have enjoyed them over the year . . . if you were at the Elementary Award Ceremony, you watched Mrs. Maughan struggle to read through a poem dedicated to her students. And that struggle was not because she needed reading glasses. 😊 Our teachers sow so much into our students that their hearts are full at the end of the school year, and they are a bit nostalgic thinking about everything they have done together since August.
And it is fulfilling. It's another good year in the books. It's a summer of preparation for the next year ahead. It's a strong sense of God's purpose in this ministry.
And this school IS first and foremost a ministry, a partnership with parents that we see God bless. Parents get to remain a primary source of influence in their children's lives, yet not go it alone in educating them. We are here to offer parents and students the talents of our dedicated teachers, who specialize and train in their age group or subject area.
We are blessed. But this time of year is a mix of walking down memory lane, retracing our adventures over the last year, and looking ahead with full hearts for the new year we will spend the summer preparing for.
What a blessing. I thank God for these things, every day.
Leslie
We are wrapping up SO much - teachers are receiving final projects and exams from students, and feverishly grading them so all grades can be entered by one week from the last day of school. (We do try!) Admins and general staff are busy preparing for and hosting Award Ceremonies, class parties, class productions, and all the 'final' activities of the school year. (This includes ordering about 20 dozen cookies and gallons and gallons of lemonade and tea, just for the Award Ceremonies!) Hiring new staff. Reviewing all curricula and making those decisions. Making lists of the work that needs to be completed over the summer. Incredibly busy.
But, it is incredibly heartwarming to look at the students and think about how very much we have enjoyed them over the year . . . if you were at the Elementary Award Ceremony, you watched Mrs. Maughan struggle to read through a poem dedicated to her students. And that struggle was not because she needed reading glasses. 😊 Our teachers sow so much into our students that their hearts are full at the end of the school year, and they are a bit nostalgic thinking about everything they have done together since August.
And it is fulfilling. It's another good year in the books. It's a summer of preparation for the next year ahead. It's a strong sense of God's purpose in this ministry.
And this school IS first and foremost a ministry, a partnership with parents that we see God bless. Parents get to remain a primary source of influence in their children's lives, yet not go it alone in educating them. We are here to offer parents and students the talents of our dedicated teachers, who specialize and train in their age group or subject area.
We are blessed. But this time of year is a mix of walking down memory lane, retracing our adventures over the last year, and looking ahead with full hearts for the new year we will spend the summer preparing for.
What a blessing. I thank God for these things, every day.
Leslie
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