First Day School Calendar

Younger Children and Middle School Together

Chestnut Hill Meeting Religious Society of Friends

This summer, the religious education committee (RE) is inviting adults who have been involved in the life of our meeting for at least 6 months to share a gift or skill with our first-day school for one week.   Those gifts might be drawing, sewing, knitting, building, story telling or other things appropriate to children ages 6 through 14.   The gift must be confined to a one-time 30-minute presentation unless approved in advance by an RE member.

The RE member assigned to the week (see the calendar below) will be responsible for the age-appropriate first-day program that day, for being present to see that new people are greeted and that only appropriate adults are present with the children, and for making sure that parents know the activity each week.

We are also hoping to include middle school students (grades 4 through 8 last school year) in helping adults conduct the program.   We will be calling on middle school students and their parents to see if the parent/child team might be willing to assist.

If you have a gift   or skill that you would like to share, please contact one of the RE members below by phone, email, in person at meeting (the committee members’ full names and phone numbers/email addresses are in the meeting’s directory), or by signing the clipboard in the gathering room.

If you are new to our meeting or are planning to visit, please read the following documents on our website (www.quaker.org/chestnuthill/ReligEd):

We look forward to seeing all of you at first-day school this summer at Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting.

Inclement Weather Policy:   If the weather is harsh (i.e. snow, ice, flooding), making it dangerous for Friends to come to meeting, please assume that there will be no first day school or child care that morning.