The theme for this year’s family write night is “Telling your Family Stories”. Make a family coat of arms, a family history game, a memory box, a family time capsule or other fun things!  $2 slice pizza will be available to make it easy to come straight from work. Encourage your child to interview their parents or grandparents or aunts or uncles.  SUN can provide family oral history questions if you request them at dmeisenhelter@impactnw.org.

Your child can write up a family story and turn it in and it may be selected to be read on-stage.  Prizes will be awarded for K-2 and 3-5 categories. There will also be a number of writing prompts that evening if your child with your support would prefer to come up with a spontaneous contribution. Family Story Night will be April 14 from 6:30-8 pm.

Buckman will host a screening of the movie “Screenagers: Growing up in the digital age.”

From the film’s website:

Are you watching kids scroll through life, with their rapid-fire thumbs and a six-second attention span? Physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston saw that with her own kids and learned that the average kid spends 6.5 hours a day looking at screens. She wondered about the impact of all this time and about the friction occurring in homes and schools around negotiating screen time—friction she knew all too well.

In SCREENAGERS, as with her award-winning documentaries on mental health, Delaney takes a deeply personal approach as she probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including her own, to explore struggles over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Through poignant, and unexpectedly funny stories, along with surprising insights from authors, psychologists, and brain scientists, SCREENAGERS reveals how tech time impacts kids’ development and offers solutions on how adults can empower kids to best navigate the digital world and find balance.

Watch the trailer or learn more about the film here.

Mark your calendars for a night of live music, food & drink, and bidding! This year, Buckman will celebrate its annual auction at a new venue: the Hinson Baptist Church. As Buckman’s biggest fundraiser, this is the chance for Buckman families and friends to support our amazing school at a fun and festive event! Bookmark www.buckmanauction.org for tickets and updates.

Please join us May 10 at 6:15pm to hear from a teacher at Lewis Elementary and her daughter, a Cleveland high school student, on how to create the foundation for healthy relationships. They will discuss how to address “the talk” with your children, what a healthy relationship looks like, building a support system, creating a safe space for your children, how to open up communication channels, characteristics of what an unhealthy relationship looks like, and how to instill personal responsibility. If you have any questions or want further information please contact Sada Dewey in the counseling office.

The Buckman pool is in danger of being closed, and we need voices to speak up in support of keeping it open! Please consider attending the final budget hearing regarding the pool on May 12, 6:30-8:30 pm at City Hall. Wear Buckman blue, bring your kids, and testify!

We are so grateful to the many volunteers that make Buckman a special place for our students and families. Please join us in celebrating all of our collective efforts. There will be a special performance by our very own Buckman chorus and snacks and refreshments will be served. See you there!

Buckman Community, it’s that time of year! Come celebrate at our End of Year School Picnic! Friday, June 3 from 5:30 – 7:30pm. Bring a blanket and food or purchase food there. There will be music, face painting, arts and crafts and acrobatics!