Parent Council

For those of you who have not attended a Parent Council meeting, it is a group of Walker Parents that meet once a month with the Upper School administration. The group is open to any and all Upper School parents who want to attend and is led by Mary Jo Walker.

Our discussions have been very positive and productive all year. To provide an example, this morning, we discussed:

• the plan for the Inside the Upper School program, taking place Tuesday evening, November 18th. This program is for middle school parents to learn more about the Upper School, and the transition from 8th to 9th grades.
• the long-range facilities plan for Walker. Don Robertson visited the meeting and gave a detailed talk about our campus plan and the construction that has already taken place along with the exciting facilities plan for the years to come. Don then led a tour of the Coles gymnasium expansion.
• possible dates for the Spring Break-out celebration this spring.

The next Parent Council meeting will be on Monday, January 12th at 8am in the Leithead Boardroom. Past Parent Council meetings have led to valuable discussion of our exam policies and a new policy on senior exam exemptions, and the use of an additional traffic officer at the intersection of Damar and Allgood, among other initiatives.

Operation Convoy Kit

As you may know, we have WOW groups that help connect our students across the entire school (the group includes students from each division, and they get together several times a year for activities). Our next WOW activity will involve making care packages for our troops serving overseas. Students should bring in materials for these care packages, and what they should bring in depends on which advisory they are in.

Here is a link to the list of items that each advisory should bring in. They should be brought into their advisor before Thursday, November 13th.

On November 13th, our Upper School students will be joining the members of their WOW group to write thank you notes to the troops and assemble the care packages as part of a project called "Operation Convoy Kit."