Alumni of The Foote School

Foote Alumni! Please join us 🌟in person🌟 for Alumni Weekend on May 6 & 7: Friday happy hour 🍸 116 Crown and on Saturday we honor two-time Olympic medalist Caitlin Cahow ‘00 🏒🥈🥉with the Alumni Achievement Award 🏆
RSVP 💌: https://www.footeschool.org/alumni/reunions

We are excited to share the Winter-Spring issue of Life on Loomis, our alumni (& friends) e-newsletter! Please enjoy and send in suggestions for future issues. Sending our best from Loomis Place!

www.footeschool.org How fortunate we have been this year to be on campus five days a week! Students have been enjoying outdoor learning and play, classroom projects, field trips, coastal cleanups, drama productions, the Halloween Parade and Fair, community gatherings, sports (and games with other schools!), maple tree....

Foote alum Colin Caplan '94, owner of Taste of New Haven, was on Good Morning America this morning sharing his love for New Haven apizza!

Connecticut residents battle over the state's best pizza A handful of restaurants are putting New Haven, Connecticut, on the map as a go-to destination for pizza.

The most recent issue of Foote Prints, a "short takes" version, is in the mail! If you'd like a head start on reading it, click here:

Foote Prints Spring 2021 Foote Prints is the official magazine of The Foote School, an independent school for Grades K–9 in New Haven, Connecticut. Learn more at www.footeschool.org.

Today, , has been a chance to celebrate the Foote spirit and come together in support of our mission to provide child-centered learning in a diverse and inclusive community. We have already received almost 250 donations from parents, grandparents, alumni, teachers, and friends —a terrific show of support—and we still have several hours to go! If we reach 350 donations or more, the Board will collectively donate $15,000! Thank you for supporting, participating, volunteering, and donating!! footeschool.org/give

It's Foote Giving Day! Thanks to the Foote alums who have already donated today! Please consider making a gift to support our wonderful school! Head of School Aléwa Cooper can't wait to meet you! footeschool.org/give

If you are still waiting for your copy of Foote Prints, we invite you to read the issue digitally. This edition features a Q&A with our new Head of School, Aléwa Cooper, as well as a terrific article by Jack Dickey '06 about Foote alumni making a difference in the fight against COVID-19. You'll also find updates from classmates and a dispatch from Loomis Place about how Foote is teaching and learning through the pandemic. We wish all our alums well!

Foote Prints Fall 2020 Foote Prints is the official magazine of The Foote School, an independent school for Grades K–9 in New Haven, Connecticut whose motto is "Gladly will I learn and gladly teach."

These Foote parents, who co-founded an incredible organization here in New Haven called NXTHVN, were just featured on the recent edition of CBS Sunday Morning: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artist-titus-kaphar-on-depicting-loss-and-finding-purpose/

We were especially proud to see Foote parents and NXTHVN co-founders, Titus Kaphar and Jason Price, featured on CBS Sunday Morning to talk about how they support emerging artists and high school apprentices in the New Haven area.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artist-titus-kaphar-on-depicting-loss-and-finding-purpose/

Alums! Looking for holiday gifts? Look no further than Foote's virtual book fair through RJ Julia Booksellers: https://www.rjjulia.com/bookfairs - 10% of each purchase will support Foote! Don’t forget to include “Foote School” in the Order Comments field at checkout.

We are thrilled to be able to partner with RJ Julia Booksellers and the Foote PTC to promote a love of books and reading at our first ever Virtual Book Fair! This week (November 16 to 20), 10% of each purchase made at R.J. Julia or through their website* (https://www.rjjulia.com/bookfairs) will go to support Foote! Parents are not limited to the choices on the Book Fair page. *Don’t forget to include “Foote School” in the Order Comments field at checkout.

A touching and beautiful tribute today in TIME magazine written by Annie Sklaver Orenstein '99 about her brother, Capt. Ben Sklaver '92, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2009. We thank him and all of our veterans for their service.

How My Brother Who Was Killed in Action Became Real to Me Again The further our country got from the ideals that Ben held so close, the more I was drawn to his diaries

Foote Alums: please join new Head of School Alewa Cooper for a virtual town hall this Sunday 10/4 at 6:30 p.m. EST!
RSVP: https://forms.gle/UaZ6xnvoHjyEfKLGA