Posted May 28, 2024
Dear Swigert Community,
I can’t believe we are approaching the end of the school year. We have so many events happening in the next few days including student led conferences, volunteer thank you breakfast, exhibition presentations and continuations. Please see the list below of the events and reach out with any questions. 
May 30th: Volunteer Thank-You Breakfast 7:45 – 8:15
May 30th 2:50-Second Annual Swigert Alumni Walk Through:
Celebrate our High School Graduates- Swigert alums from different schools across the metro area will walk through the school with their caps/gowns and celebrated with a clap through. Families welcome.
June 4th: ECE Continuation
2:00-3:00pm in the Library
June 4th: 5th Grade Exhibition and Continuation
Swigert Fifth grade students will share their culminating IB exhibition projects to the community and then we will have a continuation ceremony to honor fifth grade students.
June 5th: 5th Grade Clap Out
All ECE-4th grade students and 5th grade parents will join us to clap the 5th graders out of Swigert and on to middle school- It’s a pretty emotional event. The clap out will begin around 11:50 am.
June 5th: ½ Day Last Day of School
The last day of school is a noon dismissal. No lunch is served. ECE not in session.
Sincerely,
Shelby Dennis
shelby_dennis@dpsk12.net
WHAT IS EXHIBITION?
Exhibition is the culminating project for all 5th graders in IB elementary schools. The ultimate goal of Exhibition is to inquire into something they are passionate about and then take action! Using the central idea of Inquiry Empowers Us To Act, they spend 6 weeks developing a complete IB unit around their topic. They research and then add these components to their unit:
Here are ways some groups are engaging our school community and asking for help with their action portions of exhibition!
SCHOOLPOOL
Project by Luke, Reese, and Aahana
This group is focused on pollution. As a great alternative to everyone driving to school, they are teaming up with Way to Go to offer Schoolpool, a safe carpool matching service. Schoolpool connects neighboring families who may be a good fit for driving, walking or biking to school together. Look for more details coming this week on how to get signed up!
FOOD/CLOTHING DRIVE
Project by Julian, Emmett, Blake, Amaniah, Neveah, Campbell, Greyson, Mariana, and Michael
They are starting a food drive for their exhibition project! The drive will start on May 8th and end on May 31st. All the contents will be donated to the Denver Rescue Mission.
We would like:
There will be boxes designated in the front office area.
BOOKS FOR THE SUMMER
Project by: Teddy Baumann and Risa Greene
They are working on a project to help support immigrant children from Venezuela, now living in Denver. Their project will help supply 1st grade students at Ashley Elementary with Spanish books for the summer. Please consider helping support their fundraising efforts to purchase these books (see attached flyer for Venmo information).
From Mrs. Baker! Calling all musicians! Any student is welcome to sing or play a song for their classmates during music class on these days. These optional performances are a great time for kids to play music for each other in a pressure-free environment.
Here is a more detailed schedule:
Wednesday, May 29 (A day): Aggarwal, Hopper, Ms. Aarti, Mosley, Burdett
Thursday, May 30 (B day): Marijke, Page Edge, Kline
Friday May 31 (C Day): Ms. Shannon, Ziegler, Colter, Ross, Adler
Monday, June 3 (D day): Marisol, Margulies, Capozza, Jones, Appleman
Tuesday, June 4 (E day): Draper, Ms. Susan, Ramos, Lavezzo
Thank you for supporting your child’s creativity in the arts!
To everyone who has volunteered at Swigert this year we are hosting a breakfast to say thank you! We appreciate all you have contributed to our school community, this is a small way for us to share our appreciation.
When: Thursday, May 30th from 7:45-8:15
Where: Swigert Library
Get a head start on next year and order your school supplies! Please visit SwigertSchoolSupplies.com to place your order. If you need it, our school ID is SWI028
The garden team NEEDS your help over the summer to keep our amazing garden flourishing. They need help with things like weeding, deheading dead flowers, and helping train the peas, etc! Time commitments range from 3 minutes/week and up. The sign-up can be found in column F. The link outlines the commitments, offers instructions in purple, and includes a garden map. Volunteers can sign up for a commitment for the summer, or one week (on the second tab). Questions? Reach out to Allison Owens!
The Swigert Summer Reading Challenge Is Here!
· Want to motivate your student to keep reading throughout the summer?
· Want to help prevent the “summer slide” in knowledge?
· Want to help support the school through a fun summer program?
· Does your child want to win cool prizes?
Then, it’s time to check out the Swigert Summer Reading Challenge!
Head over to https://www.swigertpta.com/summer-reading for more information and to sign up.
Do you have a vacuum that doesn’t work as perfectly for your home needs but might still be ok for us? We’d love to get at least one more vacuum in our office space, so let us know if you were going to donate yours and well take it. I promise it’s better than the one we have right now that doesn’t pick up much. 😉
Check out the Summer programming at Redline Denver East, including summer camps, daily skills sessions and more!
https://redlineathletics.com/denver-east/
We’d love to connect with you as much as possible. You will be automatically added to our weekly Swigert Eagle newsletter that comes out every Tuesday during the school year. Please also visit our website at www.swigert.dpsk12.org to learn more about Swigert and events that are coming up. You can also join our “Friends of Swigert International School” private Facebook page – www.facebook.com/groups/friendsofswigert. When requesting to join, please include a note to say you are a new family. We post pictures of events at school, interact as a school family, and you can see friendly reminders of upcoming events. Who to contact if you have questions about:
| ROLE | NAME | |
| Instruction, Programing, etc | Shelby Dennis Amber Holthus-Pera | Shelby_Dennis@dpsk12.net Amber_Holthus-Pera@dpsk12.net |
| Daily School Life | Emily Pool | Emily_Pool@dpsk12.net |
| Registration | Daphne Jolley | Djolley@dpsk12.net |
| Technology and events | Richard Fisher | Richard_Fisher@dpsk12.net |
| Health | Nurse Hoang Tran | Hoang_Tran@dpsk12.net |
| IB Program, Service Learning | Caroline Dane | Caroline_Dane@dpsk12.net |
| Swigert PTA | Cortney Dickey | president@swigertpta.com |