Brand New Playground
All the students were very excited to have a new school, but our elementary students in Room 1 loved the new playground the most! Fun play structures, new basketball courts, and plenty of room to run!
Winter Dance 2023
HRA is excited to announce our Winter Dance 2023 will be held on Thursday, Feb. 16th. The dance will occur during regular school hours, with Lower School students attending from 9:30-10:30am and Upper School students attending from 10:30-11:30am. In addition to music, dancing and games, refreshments will be provided. Alternate activities will also be available for any students preferring not to attend the dance. Learn more about our school today.
Sierra Chefs Program Makes Learning Life Skills Sweet
Students at the Sierra School of Sacramento don’t mind getting their hands dirty when it comes to learning. After a significant amount of interest from the students, staff launched Sierra Chefs, a food-focused program, aimed at teaching life skills – like food handling, money management and shopping – in a fun, engaging and hands-on way. “These life skills are critically important for our students to master,” said Kim Guzman, a Sierra School of Sacramento special education teacher. “The Sierra Chefs program provides an entertaining method for our students to practice key skills they will need throughout their lives.” A bi-monthly [...]
SESI’s Behavior Tip of the Month: Building Relationships
One of the most important aspects of a positive school community is relationships—those between staff and students and between the students themselves. Building strong relationships helps us be proactive and preventative in how we approach student behavior; the better we know our students, the more we know how to help them be successful. Let’s talk about relationships within a school community, why they’re so important to the success of students, and how these relationships can be modeled in day-to-day interactions. Student-Staff Relationships Relationships between staff and students are at the core of a school’s community and culture. In fact, research [...]