Dear Hope Families, Congratulations to Jennifer Neafcy who has been promoted to serve as Hope Lutheran School’s assistant principal for the upcoming 2021/22 school year. Mrs. Neafcy has taught for 26 years, teaching in every grade from preschool through grade 8, including the past six years as the kindergarten teacher and department head at Hope…. Read more »
The Wisdom of Teens by Sara Kunkel, Hope Middle School Teacher As adults, we have all been asked the age-old question, “What do you do?” I consider it a bit of a social experiment to note what response I get when I proclaim, “I am a middle school teacher.” Without a doubt, the most common response is something… Read more »
2020: A Year We Won’t Soon Forget by Sally Heit Welcome to Fall 2020! What a crazy spring and summer our community and nation have experienced. I don’t think that any of us could have predicted or even imagined in our wildest dreams a year such as this. We hope this newsletter finds you and… Read more »
K-4 New Learning Opportunities by Kristen Okabayashi, Hope Principal When we kicked off the new school year almost two months ago, we were thrilled to be opening in person! At the same time, opening up school during a pandemic felt a bit scary and intense. Now that we have been open for two months and… Read more »
What’s Your Story? By Shari Wallace, Hope Office Manager Sunday’s Hope Church messages recently have been on the ministry of Jesus called The Story. This message series has me thinking of God’s ministry at Hope and my part of His story through my time here. I was raised Lutheran so when the question is asked,… Read more »
Seeing all our students yesterday and today, whether it is in person or online, has brought us so much joy. Even the middle school students, who stereotypically can be grumpy about school, have expressed that they are so happy to be back! Day 1 is under our belts and as I write this, we are… Read more »
Hope Back to School Events See & Be Seen Are you missing seeing the faces of Hope? Join Hope Church staff us on Thursday, August 20th, between 6:00-8:00 pm for our “See and Be Seen” encouragement parade through the Lower Parking Lot! Listen to live worship music, knock Jonathan Kopecky into the dunk tank, do… Read more »
Re-Opening Hope School – July 23, 2020 update by Kristen Okabayashi, Hope Principal On Wednesday, Seattle Public Schools shared the news of Superintendent Denise Juneau’s recommendation to start schools in remote learning this fall. As noted in our June 16, 2020 newsletter, while Hope values the decisions made by SPS, we are under no obligation… Read more »
Hope School Re-Opening Update – Begin the Transition Thank you to the many of you who filled out the survey from last week’s newsletter on the three learning models we are contemplating as we look to begin school, which starts six weeks from tomorrow! We appreciate hearing your opinions and thoughts. We are still planning… Read more »
Re-Opening Hope School – Potential Learning Models by Kristen Okabayashi, Hope Principal Welcome to Hope School’s first newsletter of the 2020/2021 school year! This summer, we have spent many hours researching and analyzing articles, data, recommendations, and legal requirements as we determine our plan to re-open school in the fall. One challenge is that the… Read more »
