We’re ALL IN!

It’s the day we’ve been waiting for since March! Boarding and day students are back on campus and hybrid, in person classes began today! “It’s honestly super exciting!,” said Student Council President Soleil Saint-Cyr ’21. “I feel like a first grader on the first day of school.” Yangyang Daniell, Chinese language coordinator and director of international students shared her excitement, saying, “Today is the day.  We are ready.  Let the magic begin.”

Here’s what other students and teachers had to say about finally being “All In.”

Rex Brodie, Director of Design & Fabrication
Hands on experiential learning really does work best with students in the classroom/studio. VERY glad to have everyone back on campus!

 

John Clark, Science Teacher
I can’t wait to start our hands-on and field-based unit for Field Botany. We will explore the Lawrenceville campus with each class member carrying a foam pool noodle to ensure that we maintain social-distancing while trekking through nature.

Daniel Concepcion ’02, Science Teacher
It feels like something familiar and completely new at the same time. It feels like that moment you are about to hit the stage. Most of all it makes me feel happy.

 

Charise Hall, Mathematics Teacher
It is nice to see us as a community again. We all MUST do what we have to do, so we can do what we want to do freely and within reason, of course!

Maia Hawkins-Litvin ’21, Student Council Sustainability Representative
I’m so excited to see everyone back on campus and feel the Lawrenceville energy once again! 

 

Bernice Hightower ’21, Co-Head Tour Guide
It feels exhilarating to have everyone back! We haven’t seen each other in so long and I think that makes starting in-person classes today all the more special.

Enithie Hunter, English Teacher
Though I'm teaching virtually this term, rendering all of my courses remote, my students have been most gracious in accommodating my need to remain quarantined, and they have been patiently awaiting the day when they can venture freely from their rooms and meet with teachers, classmates, and friends face-to-face (but socially-distanced, of course). While I envy my colleagues ability to enjoy students' enthusiasm in person, I benefit indirectly, as my students bring with them to our Zoom-Room positive energies that allow for more productive virtual teaching and learning.

 

Pier Kooistra, English Teacher, Second Form Director
Feels great! Zoom is amazing technology. Obviously, had such a pandemic erupted when I was in high school, it would have been game off--period. Here's to all the contemporary tech fixes that have held us together! But having so many of us together again--while being able to maintain warm connections with all our students and colleagues who are working hard to stay in the loop online--is a godsend. In-person, shared experience--properly distanced , of course!, -does so much to build optimally productive relationships, to help us to discover, and then to enjoy and capitalize on, even more of the dimensions of one another's humanity. 

Laura McKinnon ’21, Student Council Community Service Representative
I’m so excited for the first day! Being back on campus and seeing all the students is the best feeling! 

 

Fiona Pando ‘21, L10 Anchor & Executive Director of Production
It feels great to be back on campus! It has obviously been an adjustment transitioning to hybrid learning but I am so grateful to have the opportunity to return to campus and to be reunited with my friends for senior year.

Federica Sagebien ’22, L10 News Senior Specialty Producer
I am so excited to be back on campus and to see all of the familiar faces, even under the masks. 

Visit Lawrenceville’s Fall Reopening webpage and Best for All Agreement to learn more about the School’s pandemic protocols.

For additional information, please contact Lisa M. Gillard Hanson, director of Public Relations, at lgillard@lawrenceville.org.