Lower School Division News

Show Your Eagle Spirit Friday!

This Friday is a spirit dress day and the All School Convocation and Pep Rally, which is scheduled from 9:30-10:30 a.m. These events are for students, faculty, and staff.

We hope you will join us Friday night at the All School Picnic and CommUNITY celebration and special lower school pre-game activities: 

  • 6:40 p.m.  Line up for Homecoming Pregame Spirit Parade to the stadium from the CommUNITY Picnic
  • 6:45 p.m.  Eagle Walk Spirit Parade
    • With the help of JV Cheer and staff members, students will form the parade route and then follow the drum line, football and cheer teams from the Swann through Stoffel Commons to the stadium.
  • Megan Schroeder '09 will lead the cheerleaders, football players, and a drumline in a procession to the stadium. 
  • Lower school students have the option to participate and carry a mini flag in honor of the CommUNITY Celebration’s global theme.  If interested in joining the procession, students will pick up a flag from the cheerleader table, and follow the pack.  
  • IMPORTANT: First - Fourth Grade students may process with or without an adult, but those in Primer and younger must be accompanied by an adult. 
  • After the parade, our early childhood students will go directly to the south end zone to meet their parents, guided by faculty and staff. Parents are welcome to join, too.
  • First through fourth graders will form a tunnel in the north end zone for the football team, cheerleaders, and wingmen to run through prior to the start of the game. After the tunnel, students will be led to the south end zone area.
abcdESD Parent Enrichment: RSVP for October 19
Join us on October 19 and learn how we're building strong math foundations with Everyday Math 4 for our first - fourth-grade students. Learn more about this new series and RSVP to attend here.
All Division Choir Concert October 23

Join us in Stoffel Commons on Monday, October 23, at 5:00 p.m. for our fall outdoor choir concert featuring lower, middle, and upper school students. Don't forget your chairs and picnic blankets!

RSVP for ESDPA's Speaker Series on November 15
We hope you will join us for our upcoming ESDPA Speaker Series event with Mary Ann Little, PhD, LMFT, on Wednesday, November 15, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. in Bray Performance Hall. This event is open to all parents and guardians, but the material is most relevant to K-8. More information is available here.
 
Topic: Childhood Narcissism: Strategies to Raise Unselfish, Unentitled, and Empathetic Children. Please RSVP to attend.
Get Some of Your Holiday Shopping Done Early and Support the Junior Class

Get your Christmas shopping done early! The ESD class of 2025 is raising money for the Junior/Senior Prom by selling poinsettias and wreaths. These make wonderful gifts for neighbors, co-workers, family members, coaches, and teachers, as well as beautiful decorations for home and office.
If you are gifting to teachers and coaches, we will deliver them to the teachers for you with a personalized enclosure card.

Poinsettias and wreaths will be picked up from the ESD Tennis Center parking lot during the first week of December. Place your orders here.

Don't Miss Our ESDPA Auction Kick-Off
Join us as we officially kick off "Saturday Night Lights" at the home of Jennifer and Greg Duncan on Thursday, October 26. 
 
While this event is open to the entire ESD community, the purchase of a raffle ticket(s) is required to attend. Purchase your raffle ticket(s) here for your Kick-Off Party Invitation and a chance to win a $10,000 VISA Gift Card generously donated by Tolleson Wealth Management. Your raffle ticket purchase will also guarantee early access to the 2023-2024 Buy The Experience ("BTE") events. Kick-Off Party guests will have the opportunity to purchase BTE tickets on the evening of October 26th prior to the official BTE opening on October 27. All remaining BTE tickets will become available to the ESD Community on Friday, October 27.  
 
Be on the lookout for the official "Buy the Experience" auction catalog arriving in your mailbox this week! Click here to preview the "All-Star" Buy the Experience Events. 
Join the Asian Family Affinity Group for a Meet and Greet on October 29
The Asian Family Affinity group is having a gathering on Sunday, October 29, 2023, from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. at Preston Hollow Park Pavilion. Click here for details.
Thank You to All Who Have Helped The ESD Fund Off to a Great Start! 
Many thanks to all who have participated already! Every gift, no matter the size, benefits today's teaching and learning. Our goal is 100% participation. Please click here to make your gift. 
 
Other Notes

Moms In Prayer meets each Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. in the South Dining Room. On October 11, moms will pray for the eighth grade. All are welcome to attend!


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Reminder: All School Picnic, CommUNITY Celebration, and Homecoming are this week!

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