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into scrumptious offerings that bring more kids back into the food service line to ask for seconds. If you are in doubt about the taste, diversity, or healthfulness of the new menu, Peter invites you to come to school and enjoy a meal in the cafeteria with your son, daughter, or alumni cadre.
And finally: Earth Week is fast approaching. This year, the school will pilot a new activity that is unlike anything we have ever done before. On April 27, the entire Priory Middle School will be hikingupWindyHill. Thegoalisforstudentstogetanauthenticsense
of place. It is easy – for students, teachers, and parents -- to lose
sight of the school’s idyllic and bucolic setting. Caught up as we might be in the crush of exams, accreditation visits, lesson planning, homework, lost sleep, sports and drama practice, and freeway commutes through tech-studded Silicon Valley – it is easy to forget that we occupy a very special location on the SF peninsula. The school’s Earth Day celebration will be a pilot effort in what we hope will be an ongoing and more inclusive tradition -- to get kids into the
local environment during the Earthweek celebrations. The reward for this effort will be the view from Windy Hill – a view that shows our special campus as it is nestled among the redwoods and industrial development of the Bay Area.
Best Wishes for a Happy and Healthy Spring, Sincerely,
Hovey Clark Sustainability Coordinator