Report
The Ridge
September 2013
Our Girls Deserve This Opportunity – FR Future is Bright! Welcome to the 2013–2014 school year! As a Sacred Heart school, one that reflects everything that encompasses the Heart of Christ, we are called to a higher level of engagement and deeper sense of commitment to the school community. While learning, our primary activity, is at the center of our daily work together, we know that the way we work together to form our girls will make all the difference in the values they take with them to college and beyond. Many times it is more than what we say that influences them — it is what we do. I look forward to a positive year of working with our girls and with the community so that the lessons we teach in the classroom are reinforced by our actions outside the classroom. Thanks for joining all of us at Forest Ridge on this sacred journey this school year!
As we begin the new school year together, I want to bring you up to date on some plans for our campus. Although much of the momentum is contingent on both final Board approval and successful fundraising, I would like to convey part of the process so you can share the excitement many of us feel about Forest Ridge’s future. When you walk through our campus, you cannot escape the reality that we are a community of new and old — and by that I am talking about our physical plant and not our people! Many of our buildings (including those housing middle school classrooms) are original from our move here in the early ’70s and showing their age in expensive ways. We are routinely addressing facility concerns relative to the original campus structures that range from $800,000 to $1 million for upkeep and upgrading. continued on page 2
Architectural rendering of the new campus buildings.