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Show EDUCATION Editor: Douglas Greenwood education@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.124 : ECKER HILL STUDENTS NEED IMMUNIZATIONS Prior to completion of 7th grade regis. tration, Ecker Hill families must provide ! the school with proof of the DPT boost;-er. Please see your health care provider J.for documentation and bring your ['papers to the Ecker Hill front office. By • Utah law, students will not be allowed i to pick up their class schedules or locker ^combination until shot records are on ! file at the school. frMEET AND GREET AT •: PARK CITY DAY SCHOOL j > Parents and students are invited to stop • J - by their classrooms between 4-6 p.m. |J*on Thursday, Aug. 19 for an informal i*."meet & greet" with their teachers. j j j * Check in at the Front Desk for directions *X$to your child's classroom. TREASURE MOUNTAIN TO HOST ICE CREAM SOCIAL Treasure Mountain International School will be hosting a community ice cream social for new students Monday Aug. ; 23 from 1 p.m.-2 p.m. Teachers and ; administrators will be at the school for ;the first teacher contract day. 'LOCAL STUDENT WINS •WRITING CONTEST •Anne Fosburg, a student in the Park /City School District, won first place in /the Ayn Rand Institute's annual Anthem ; essay contest and pocketed $2,000 in I prize money. More than 16,000 essays ;-were submitted. Fosburg submitted her 1 essay as a ninth grader at Treasure • Mountain International Middle School •^and will be attending Park City High •School this fall. A-10 New school starts inaugural year School." Parents came together to ensure the union of the two schools went smoothly. With a focus on communication, parents and teachers addressed the issues surrounding the merger. "When we stripped away the veneer and the rhetoric that the two schools had been promoting over the By DOUGLAS GREENWOOD years in their competition," Sachs of the Record Staff said, "We found a core of values and virtues that everybody could buy Excited chatter filled the hallway into." The combined faculties had as staff members from Park City their first meeting Monday, and Sachs Academy and The Colby School felt that Park City Day School is shared lunch after their first joint fac- ready to start a strong year. "Colby ulty meeting. The two schools have parents looked to the teachers." merged to become Park City Day Scardilli said. ' "We wanted reassurSchool. Classes begin Monday Aug. ance from them that everything would be OK." 23. With a common purpose that In 1989, Park City Academy startwould help to unite the two schools, ed as an independent school. The the union of faculty members also Colby School began offering classes came without much difficulty Sachs in 1998. From that time, the two said. The new school will incorporate schools have competed with each teachers from both previous campusother for enrollment and financial es. self-sufficiency. Until last school year, Teaching contracts must be both schools were seeking full accredrenewed each year and are based on itation with the Pacific Northwest the teachers' performance during the Association of Independent Schools previous year. Each teacher who in the spring of 2009. would have been offered a renewed Through the accreditation process, contract at either school was offered a similar goals and a united purpose position at the Park City Day School. came to the attention of school Eleven teachers from The Colby administrators. "Both schools were School and 15 from Park City swimming along just fine before the Academy have transferred to the new economic downturn," Head of School school. "I'm optimistic," Scardilli Charles Sachs said. "It became clear said. "Many of our Colby teachers that we would thrive as one entity and we would continue to sort of bash will be at Park City Day School. I'm heads independently." The merge happy we will have the teachers we came largely due to the desire of both know." Only one teacher was hired from schools to be financially self-supportoutside the two schools. ing. Administrators announced the The merging of the student body decision combine forces at the end of was also relatively effortless, adminislast school year. When administrators announced trators said. Park City Academy had the merger, some parents and faculty 130 enrolled students last school year, members responded with skepticism. while The Colby School had 108. "I was really upset," said Diana Park City Day School has about 175 Scardilli, whose daughter will be in students currently enrolled. Sachs fourth grade this year. "I love Colby expects to have more than 180 stu- Park City Day School combines Colby and Park City Academy Head of School Charles Sachs and Tess Miner-Farra, Assistant t o the Head of School, are enthusiastic about the first day of class at Park City Day School. The school year begins Aug. 23. dents enrolled by September. Park City Day School offers classes from preschool through ninth grade. "The student-teacher ratio is fundamentally important," Sachs said. With 25 teachers and three aides, class sizes will remain small, administrators say. Average class size will be about 14 students and each class will have no more than 20 students. Team-teachers and teacher aides help keep student-to-teacher ratio low. Teachers are able to give close attention to each child, according to Tess Miner-Farra, the assistant to the head of school. Merging the two schools also offers more to students by way of co-curricular and extracurricular activities. "You need a critical mass of kids to be able to offer an athletics program," Sachs said. For financial and logistical reasons, administrators decided not to use both campuses for the new school. Physically consolidating two campuses into one was among the most difficult aspects of the merge, Farra said. Administrators worked hard to ensure each teacher had enough space for his or her students' needs. Park City Day School will use the Park City Academy campus in Pinebrook. The Colby School campus has been vacated and is now for sale. Sachs hopes to be able to continue to expand the campus over the course of the next few years. The next steps for Park City Day School include strengthening the school's reputation in the community. Both The Colby School and Park City Academy were evaluated for full accreditation from PNAJS. "When the two schools independently went through that process, it was clear that both wanted to be same sort of school when it grew up," Sachs said. 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