As the school year at Torit comes to a close, please accept my thanks and appreciation for entrusting your children to us. It’s been a pleasure to share the year with you, and we look forward to seeing you this summer or in September.

The last week of school went by in a flash, and even though about half of the Torit student body will be with us in our Summer Session, the focus and program in summer are inherently different. Maybe that has to do with the hot and humid weather, but it’s important that we allow ourselves to take a breather and proceed at a different pace. To that end, I hope you’ll get outside (with sunscreen) as often as possible. Explore something new every week, whether a cultural center (The Museum of African American History on Joy Street) or a place (Crane Beach in Ipswich). Read a book, and read to your child. Get outside and sleep under the stars. Those are my summer to-do’s, about as ambitious as I want to be for now.

For those of you who are heading out for the summer, we’ll see you in September. Safe travels! For those of you who are with us in the Summer Session, we’ll see you on Monday, June 24. Remember, our summer hours are 8:00 AM - 2:45 PM (5:30 PM for those enrolled in Extended Day).