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Dear Lafayette families, The HSA Board is presenting a Bear Fund Equity Pledge to the parent community. In short, we hope to pledge 10% of funds raised during Lafayette’s annual fundraising campaign (known as our Bear Fund campaign) to be donated to the DC Public Education Fund (DC Ed Fund). The DC Ed Fund is a local non-profit that directly …
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Reminder: Join Us Tonight for the HSA Meeting
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We hope that you will join us for the first HSA General Meeting on TONIGHT at 6:30 pm via Zoom. First, we will be holding a vote on a proposed fundraising equity pledge passed by the Board at our last meeting. While we will be providing much more detailed communication about the pledge in advance of the meeting, essentially, we …
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Monetary Donations Needed for School Supply Boxes
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Many thanks to several families who have already donated toward purchasing school tool boxes for Lafayette families needing assistance. The school has been purchasing grade-specific boxes with the funds collected, but we could still use additional support. If you are interested in donating towards the purchase of school tool boxes, please visit here make a donation. Thanks for helping to …
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Save the Date for Dot Day: Tuesday, September 15
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On Tuesday, September 15th, our school community will be celebrating "International Dot Day." Based on the story, "The Dot", by Peter H. Reynolds, Dot Day is a global celebration of creativity, courage, and collaboration. We encourage everyone to wear their dots, or wear something creative that expresses your courage and your individuality. Show your uniqueness and celebrate! This Thursday's …
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Welcome to a new school year! I’m Ms. Leese, your librarian. This is my fifth year at Lafayette, and it’s such a joy to be starting another year with our students. This is certainly a different sort of learning than we’re used to, but we’re committed as a school to nurturing our community of readers, no matter the setting! In many ways, my role during virtual learning is …
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Schedules for September 14th - November 6th
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The first week of school was incredible! Thank you for your support, patience and encouragement. It feels great to see all of our students back on line with us. Below are the links for the schedules for grades KDG – 5th that will begin Monday, September 14th. PreK teachers will continue to ease our youngest learners into their new setting …
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Community Notices
A Note from Ms. Ryden about an Upcoming Event
Last year historians from Historic Chevy Chase visited our school to talk to our older students about the racist history of the land that Lafayette and the Rec Center were built on. Some of our students were so moved that they wrote letters to the Council and the Mayor asking them to rename the Rec Center after the original owner of the land, Capt. George Pointer. The Council will be holding hearings on this on 9/15. If you and your older students are interested in learning more about this history please consider attending the Zoom Webinar "Jim Crow Came to Chevy Chase" below. This is some ugly history about this lovely neighborhood, but as James Baldwin said, "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." Thanks for supporting our kids in learning about how they can make the world a better place! - Ms. Ryden
Join Historic Chevy Chase DC for a free Zoom Webinar on Wednesday, September 16, at 7:30 p.m. about the fascinating, little-known history of racism in Chevy Chase DC that forced Black landowners from property they had owned for generations along Broad Branch Road. The webinar, “Jim Crow Came to Chevy Chase,” covers how their 1928 eviction enabled the building of the then-Whites-only Lafayette Elementary School and Park. Research has traced the ancestry of those landowners to freed slave George Pointer, born in 1773, who had been hired out to work for George Washington. In the Webinar, HCCDC board member Tim Hannapel will engage Pointer’s eighth-generation direct descendant James Fisher as they discuss the unfurling of this history and talk about what it means to have the history recognized through an HCCDC effort to rename the park Lafayette-Pointer Park and Recreation Center.
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The one-hour Zoom presentation will include maps and photos and discussion of a book Georgetown University Press will publish next spring about the Pointer family history entitled, "Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African-American Family in the District of Columbia," by Barbara Boyle Torrey and Clara Myrick Green. The Webinar will also report on the September 15 DC City Council hearing on the bill to officially rename the park. Register for the Zoom event at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jim-crow-came-to-chevy-chase-dc-broad-branch-rd-black-community-evicted-registration-117103272039. Registration is free but donations are gladly welcomed!
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Calling all Tennis Pods to Action Starting September 14
The Lafayette Tennis Association will be offering some outdoor tennis exercise to Lafayette students and friends in the afternoons. We will have virus safe classes of 4-6 players on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 3:00PM, 4:00PM and 5:00PM on the two upper courts at Lafayette Park. If you have a pod of family, friends and/or classmates, you can register for the same class and play tennis with them. Go to https://lafayettetennisdmv.jumbula.com/#/lta-home to register for the same class time on your own, or contact Paul Rosenbaum at rosenbaumpaul@msn.com or text at 202 441-0925 and he can reserve a class time by day, time, age and skill level that you and your pod-mates can secure with password access.
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The classes are smaller that in the past so they will be filling up quickly. You can waitlist for a particular class. We will be using all appropriate safety measures to ensure that we are enjoying tennis in a safe mode.
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There are a few classes for older kids too. If you have Deal or Blessed Sacrament siblings that want to play with their friends, they can join one of those classes. Contact Paul Rosenbaum if you have any additional questions or need help getting through the registration.
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Submissions for next week's issue should be emailed to news@lafayettehsa.org. Submissions are due by 9:00 p.m. on Sundays. Submissions received after this time will be included in the following issue, unless instructed otherwise.
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